Action Songs!

Sunshine Pre School kids love to get up and move!

Here's how we transition from sitting & singing to our action songs.

(tune: London Bridge)

Now it's time to clap your hands
clap your hands, clap your hands,
Now it's time to clap your hands, in music class.

We will do this 3-4 times with different movements, (touch your toes, arch your back, stretch up high, blow in the wind) and by the end we should be standing around the circle.

Then it's time for:

(tune: Frere Jacques)

Walking, walking, walking walking
Hop, hop hop!
Hop, hop hop!
Running, running, running, 
Running, running, running,
Now we stop!
Now we stop!

Sometimes we might add variations to this, but it's a good warm up for the action activity  that follows.

Here are the first two Action Songs we learned this year.

"Let's All Clap Together"

Let's All Clap Together

Julia Plaut | Format: MP3 MusicFrom the Album Happy Mouse Presents: 5 Little Monkeys 16 Action Songs for young children played with Classical instruments

This one is excellent for learning to follow directions with some easy motions. It's very repetitive, (would be perfect for even younger children) so I just use the first few motions, and then we go on to another tune.

"Moving in a Circle"

Moving in a Circle (early elvis)

Eric Litwin | Format: MP3 MusicFrom the Album Smile at Your Neighbor

This is so much FUN! I encourage the kids to come up with their own silly walk, and they are just amazing. By the time we are done with this one (which ends with a lot of twirling) we are ready to sit for awhile. Whew!