Acka Backa
A Tisket A Tasket - 2nd grade lesson ideas; 4th grade lesson ideas
Blue Bird - lesson ideas
Button You Must Wander
Charlie Over the Ocean - lesson ideas
Circle Round the Zero
Players stand in a circle clapping the beat, spaced slightly apart from each other. The leader walks around the outside of the circle; at "Back, back zero," he stands back to back with one of the players; at "Side, side zero," he stands beside him; at "Front, front zero,' he stands facing the child chosen; at "Tap your lovin' zero,' he taps him on the shoulders. The game is repeated, with the first leader taking the place of the one he has chosen. (from kodaly.hnu.edu)
Closet Key
Players form a ring with hands behind them. Verses 1 - 2: One player with a key walks around the outside of the ring and places the key in someone's hands, while leading the singing. Verse 3: The player with the key leads the singing. Walker rejoins the circle and the player with the key becomes the new leader. (from kodaly.hnu.edu)
Columbus Sailed with Three Ships - visual aids
Did You Ever See a Lassie
The players form a circle and, as they sing "this was and that way," one player chooses a motion which the others imitate. At the end of the song, the child in center chooses another child to be "it." If a boy is chosen, the word "Lassie" becomes "Laddie." (from kodaly.hnu.edu)
Farmer in the Dell
Grizzly Bear - lesson ideas
Hop Old Squirrel - lesson ideas
Jolly Miller
Marching 'Round the Levee
Mister Rabbit
Children form pairs and stand facing each other while clapping partner's hands on the beat. One child hops around during song and steals a partner by "cutting in." The partner cut out becomes next "rabbit." Call is performed by leader outside the circle. (kodaly.hnu.edu)
Naughty Kitty Cat - lesson ideas
Old King Glory - lesson ideas
Se Se Se
Shake Them 'Simmons Down - lesson ideas
There's a Brown Girl in the Ring - lesson ideas
