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Tape des Mains
Excerpt Info What a super-fun rhythm piece from the Congo! The best way to experience this is to play the YouTube video (below) and have the students play along. (You could also play any 4/4 rhythm track and say the ...
Bow-Wow Says the Dog
Lyrics (Traditional Nursery Rhyme) Bow-wow, says the dog,Meow, meow, says the cat,Grunt, grunt, goes the frog,And a-squeak goes the rat.Tu-whu, says the owl,Caw, caw, says the crow,Quack, quack, says the duck,And what sparrows say, you know. So with sparrows and ...
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. ...
Great Big Cat
Lyrics (Traditional chant) A great big cat and a wee little mouseWent round and round in a high, high houseBut that wee little mouse got caught at last‘Cause the great big cat ran around so fast! Motions “great big cat” ...
Rhythmic Dictation
Visuals & Assessment (See downloads at bottom of page. Each number has a corresponding button.) 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Other Worksheets / Assessments (Available on other pages. Click each image ...
Dance Like a Butterfly
Lyrics (Folk song from Cameroon) CallIf you look at me, I will dance like a butterflyResponseDance like a butterfly, dance like a butterfly CallIf you look at me, I will fly like an aeroplaneResponseFly like an aeroplane, fly like an ...
Peas and the Rice
Lyrics (Traditional chant) Peas and the rice, peas and the rice,Peas and the rice, done, done, done, done,Peas and the rice, Peas and the rice, done, done, done, done,New rice and okra, eat some and left some,New rice and okra, eat ...
Tick-tock
Lyrics (Clara Belle Baker, 1921) 1. Upon the staircase landing,Tick-tock, tick-tock, tock-tock, tock-tock,Upon the staircase landing,There stands a big hall clock, tick-tock.There stands a big hall clock. 2. We wake up in the morning,Tick-tock, tick-tock, tock-tock, tock-tock,We wake up in ...
Buy a Penny Ginger
Lyrics (Jamaican folk song) Buy a penny gingerPung it in the mortar,Buy a penny gingerPung it in the mortar,Doon-ak-a, doon-ak-a, doo-kay. Game (Adapted) Formation: Students sit or stand in a circle of 3-5 students. On the steady beat, students pile ...
Witches’ Night
Lyrics (Melody by Ambrose Thomas, 1924, adapted by Beth Thompson, Lyrics by Charles Harvey) Out where the autumn night winds blow,Hark! There’s a footfall, stealthy slow.Hush! Do you hear that soft tip-tap?Oh, such a ghostly rap.See, there’s a blue flame ...
