Songs
- Acka Backa
- A la lata al latero
- Angel Band
- Ball Passing Game
- Camptown Races
- Cat’s Got the Measles
- Chick-a-Li-Lee-O
- Ching-a-Ring Chaw
- Clap Your Hands
- 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
- Gallop
- Grandma Moses
- Great Big Clocks
- 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
- Kapulu Kane
- Land of the Silver Birch
- Le joli tambour
- Little Drummer
- Mulberry Bush
- My Big Bass Drum
- O Lebisibiyo
- Old Man Daisy
- Okki Tokki Unga
- Oliver Twist
- Old Sister Phoebe
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Rattlin’ Bog
- Sandy Land
- Santy Maloney
- Sarasponda
- Shake Them ‘Simmons Down
- Si me dan pasteles
- Ten Little Monkeys
- Three Cheers for the Red White and Blue
- Train
- Walk Along John
- Walk and Stop
- 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.
- I also use this sheet for students to point to the hearts as we sing or chant various songs.
Links
- beat vs. no beat
- beat vs. rhythm
- Kindergarten Rhythm Lessons & Resources
- 1st Grade Rhythm Lessons & Resources
- recording: march medley
- rhythm resources
- more elements of music
- transportation songs
Printable pdfs below
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