Songs

• Acka Backa
• A la lata al latero
• Angel Band
• Ball Passing Game
• Bounce High Bounce Low
• Camptown Races
• Cat’s Got the Measles
• Chick-a-Li-Lee-O
• Ching-a-Ring Chaw
• Clap Your Hands
• Clock
• Clocks of Rondaine
• Cluck Old Hen
• Cobbler Cobbler
• Cripple Creek
• Diddle Diddle Dumpling
• Dinah
• Doctor Foster
• Do Lord
• Down By the Greenwood Sidey-o
• Down Down Baby
• Engine Engine
• Fiddle-De-Dee
• Follow the Leader
• Frog in the Meadow
• Gallop
• Good Morning
• Grandma Moses
• Great Big Clocks
• Hail, Hail! The Gang’s All Here!
• Hevenu Shalom Aleichem
• Hey Concentration
• Hey Hey Look at Me
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• Hullabaloo Belay
• I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
• If You’re Happy and You Know It
• I’s the B’y
• Jimmy Crack Corn
• Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
• Johnny Works with One Hammer
• Kapulu Kane
• Land of the Silver Birch
• Le joli tambour
• Little Bunny Foo Foo
• Little Drummer
• Mulberry Bush
• My Big Bass Drum
• O Lebisibiyo
• Old Man Daisy
• Okki Tokki Unga
• Oliver Twist
• Old Sister Phoebe
• Old Zion’s Children
• Peep Squirrel
• Pop Goes the Weasel
• Rattlin’ Bog
• Rig a Jig Jig
• Rooms for Rent
• Sandy Land
• Santy Maloney
• Sarasponda
• Shake That Little Foot Dinah-O
• Shake Them ‘Simmons Down
• Si me dan pasteles
• Sorida
• Ten Little Monkeys
• Three Cheers for the Red White and Blue
• Train
• Walk Along John
• Walk and Stop
• Welcome Song
• Yankee Doodle

Lesson ideas

• I like using hearts to represent beats. I use hearts that are laminated with magnets on the back. I stick them to the board, and students pat their knees once for every heart.
• Then I use hearts with notes and rests on them (you could print them on red paper). As I rearrange them on the board, students clap the rhythms.

Steady Beat Visuals / Handouts Available on these Pages

• Beat vs. No Beat
• Cherries Ripe
• Closet Key
• Cluck Old Hen
• Cobbler Cobbler
• Frog in the Meadow
• Jelly on a Plate
• Mulberry Bush

Steady Beat Rubric

Available for download on this page

See also

• beat vs. rhythm
• Kindergarten Rhythm Lessons & Resources
• 1st Grade Rhythm Lessons & Resources
• recording: march medley
• rhythm resources
• elements of music
• transportation songs

Extras for Plus Members

• Printable & Digital heart cards

• Point the Beats Handout