Place des Arts
Musical Rainbow TOTS
With Miss Birgit
Week 1:
Hey, hey, it’s a happy day, day,
hey, hey, it’s a happy day, day, day,
Hey, hey, it’s a happy day, day,
hey, hey, it’s a happy day. (go down on heels, jump up and rollercoaster ‘up’ with your voice)
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If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands,
stomp your feet,
blow your nose,
comb your hair,
fall asleep………………………(whatever strikes your fancy and reflects your child’s experience…go for it)
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A smooth road, a smooth road, a smooth road, a smooth road,
a curvy road, …….
a bumpy road,…….
a rough road,
and a hole! (keep this one the same, the kids love the repetition of 4x the same wording and motion sitting in your lap facing them, with an exaggerated drop into the hole at the end!)
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Engine, engine number 9, going down the Coquitlam line,
if the train goes off the track, will I get my money back?
Down by the station, early in the morning, see the little puffer bellies, all in a row,
see the station master, he’s blowing on his long horn,
chaachaa, choochoo, off we go!
(Everyone loves a train, and holding on to a rope, or making a train from a row of chairs, is all you need. Parents can also be the tunnel, or lead the train under a table…)
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Finger Family
Finger family up, and finger family down,
finger family’s dancing all around the town.
Dancing on your shoulders, dancing on your head,
dancing on your knees and put them back to bed.
Tommy Thumb…
Polly Pointer…
Timmy Tall
Ruby Ring (Help your child recognize and isolate fingers by gently touching Pammy Pinky… and squeezing them. Sit opposite them or hold them in your lap while dancing with your own and their hands. Draw a face on each finger tip for extra fun!)
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Malvina Reynold’s song: The Magic Penny:
Love is something if you give it away, give it away, give it away…
(Our parade of shakers is great fun when the children are given instructions such as: Freeze-Go/Start-stop/ high-low/fast-slow/ which engages them in listening and responding!)
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Home-Made Instruments:
*Rhythm sticks made off branches from the neighbour’s beech tree!
*tomatoe tin can shakers (different sizes, different pebbles: pop corn, seeds, sand, pebbles, beans, lentils)
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Story-book:
“Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb”
We’re passing the drum around, and each child gets a improvises some free rhythm play, and after a while they may match the rhythm to the spoken rhyme. Nice turn-taking and passing there, everyone!
Add their name to the story, and they’re fascinated: What, I am in the story?!
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Place des Arts
Musical Rainbow TOTS
Week 2:
Hey, hey, it’s a happy day, day,
hey, hey, it’s a happy day, day, day,
Hey, hey, it’s a happy day, day,
hey [ voice rising…., jump!], it’s a happy day!
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Sit in a circle with your legs outstretched:
Roll the ball, roll the ball, roll the ball to ……….[name]
Adjust this song as you notice your child is listening, leading and following:
Hold high the ball, roll the ball, throw the ball to, catch the ball from………
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I can turn my body round and round
I can turn my body round and round
I can turn my body round and round
I can touch the sky
I can touch the ground!
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Head and shoulders, knees and toes………
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Bears in all corners of the room…of course they can’t stay there!
The bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain,
the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see.
What was it that he could see?
What was it that he could see?
The other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain,
the other side of the mountain, was the place that he could see!
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The bears can come along on the train, too!
Down by the station (see last week’s handout)
Engine, Engine, number 9 (see last week)
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Pease porridge hot * (blow!)
Pease porridge cold * (blow)
Pease porridge in the pot
nine days old *
Some like it hot*
some like it cold*
some like it in the pot
nine days old*
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This is the way we brush our teeth, brush our teeth, brush our teeth
This is the way we brush our teeth, so early in the morning.
Can you show us how to ….??? (wash our hands, comb our hair, blow our nose, say hello) and SING!
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a lovely little French song with 2 different actions: clapping and turning hands like windmills
Tape, tape, tape les mains,
tourne, tourne, petit moulin.
Tape, tape, tape les mains,
tourne, tourne, tous les moulins!
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May there always be sunshine,
may there always be blue skies,
may there always be mamma,
may there always be me! by RAFFI
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puppet Penguin PING visits us:
I’m a little penguin black and white.
I like the cold when the sun shines bright.
I can’t fly at all, but I like to swim,
so I waddle to the water and dive right in!
(melody of: I’m a little tea pot)
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STORY: Eugenie Fernandez: Waves in the bathtub, Scholastic Canada, 1993
(great story with a song about all the tub creatures)
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Goodbye, my friends goodbye,
goodbye my friends goodbye,
goodbye my friends, goodbye my friends,
goodbye my friends, goodbye, goodbye!
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Musical Tots
Handout Week 3, Fabruary 12, 2013
I’ve added only the NEW songs and rhymes from this week. We always repeat some, practise some, and learn something new each week.
I’m in the mood for singing, hey how about you,
I’m in the mood for singing, hey how about you,
I’m in the mood for singing, singing a song with you,
Hey, hey, what do you say, I’m in the mood for that today,
Hey, hey, what do you say, I’m in the mood for that!
I’m in the mood for dancing, clapping, stomping, stretching, running, resting……
Invite your child to suggest other moves they’re in the mood for!
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Tickling rhyme: Round and round the garden, goes the teddy bear,
One step, two step, tickle you under there
a) hold your child in lap…gently make circular motions across her/his belly and walk up to his/her armpit
b) as circle game: walk around, say verse, and give a tickle to a seated child, then invite them to join the line by holding their hand
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Squirmy, equirmy earthworm (using both hands, one hand flat as ground,
lives down underground. other hand curled pointer moving below.
But watch her wiggle out Pointer comes out between two fingers)
When rain falls all around.
Squirmy, squirmy earthworm (Finger squirms along flat hand.
squirms along the ground. Disappears below, as ground hand becomes
But watch her disappear beak of bird, snapping!)
when blackbird comes around.
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Story:
Red Truck(Kersten Hamilton, Viking/Penguin, New York: 2008)
