dynamics
Can You Walk on Tiptoe
Lyrics (Traditional chant) Can you walk on tiptoe,As softly as a cat?And can you stamp along the road,Stamp, stamp, just like that? Can you take some great big strides,Just like a giant can?Or walk along so slowlyLike a poor bent ...
Jeremiah Blow the Fire
Lyrics (Folk song) Jeremiah, blow the fire,Puff, puff, puff!First you blow it very gently,Then you blow it rough! Circle Singing Game Formation: Students hold hands while standing in a circle. Measures 1-2 = Students circle around. On “fire,” stop walking. ...
Alphabet Poem
Lyrics (Traditional chant / nursery rhyme) A was an angler went out in a fog,Who fished all the day and caught only a frog. B was cook Betty a-baking a pie,With ten or twelve apples all piled up on high. ...
Jump In Jump Out
Lyrics (Traditional chant, adapted by Beth Thompson) All: Let’s go – Jump in, jump out, turn yourself about, I said, Jump in, jump out, introduce yourself.Student: My name ...
Weather Song
Lyrics (Folk song) 1. This is the way sunshine comes down,Sweetly, sweetly falling,So it chases the clouds away,So it wakes the beautiful day,This is the way sunshine comes down,Sweetly, sweetly falling. 2. This is the way the clouds come down,Darkly, ...
Jump Shamador
Lyrics (Jamaican folk song) Call: Good morning to you, daughter*.Response: Good morning to you, mother.Call: What is your intention?Response: I want to be a teacher.Call: You can’t be a teacher.Response: I must be a teacher.All: Jump shamador, me darling,Jump shamador ...
There Was a Great Big Moose
Lyrics (Folk song) 1. There was a great big moose (repeat)He liked to drink a lot of juice. (repeat)(Repeat) RefrainSinging oh way oh, (repeat)Way oh, way oh, way oh, way oh, (repeat)Way oh, way oh, (repeat)Way oh, way oh, way oh, ...
Witch Witch
Lyrics (Folk song) Witch, witch* fell in a ditch,Picked up a penny and thought she was rich.“Are you my children?”“Yes we’re your children.”“Are you my children?”“Yes we’re your children.”“Are you my children?”Shouting: “No, you old witch!” *Or “which witch” Game ...
Jack-o’-lantern (chant)
Lyrics (Traditional chant) Sometimes big and sometimes smallBut always round and yellowWhen children make my famous grinThen I’m a scary fellow Hand-clapping See ideas in the download below. See also Subject: Halloween Activities: motions Dynamics: loud & soft Melody: so-mi ...
Cold Old House
Lyrics (Traditional chant) I know a house, a cold old house,A cold old house by the sea.If I were a mouse in that cold old house,What a cold, cold mouse I would be! See also Subject: mice Dynamics: loud & ...