A beat tapping rhyme encouraging children to use percussion instruments to demonstrate a steady beat.
FOCUS AREAS: [coordination] [active listening] [inhibitory control]
Source: Nursery rhyme
One song, many ways:
- What are the different ways you can use tapping sticks/any percussion instruments to demonstrate a steady beat while chanting this song?
- Can the children tap/chant at the same time? This is a wonderful indication of their ability to keep a steady beat. For children who are not demonstrating a steady beat, this is a perfect opportunity to use the feedback of you chanting/them tapping to hear that their beat may be too fast/slow/unsteady.
- Can you invite a child out to tap the beat on your own shoe? Can they do the same to another peer?
- If you have drums, can they drum the beat bilaterally using both hands?
- Toddlers: Can you tap their shoes or their feet and say the rhyme with them?
Lyrics:
Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe.
Have it done by half past two.
Half past two is much too late,
Have it done by half past eight!
