An easy song to incorporate locomotion and singing simultaneously.
FOCUS AREAS: [proprioception] [crossing the midline] [coordination] [active listening] [low energy]
Source: Catch a Song, Deanna Hoermann & Doreen Bridges (1985)
Extension?
- Choose a child to sit in the middle of the circle to tap the beat; you can change the lyrics of the song to fit their name. The rest of the children march to the beat surrounding them in a circle.
- Let the children choose and incorporate movements to the song; can we march, stomp, jump, skip, walk, run?
- Incorporating instruments: Can the children walk/march and tap their tapping sticks to this beat simultaneously?
Lyrics:
Sally go ‘round the stars,
Sally go ‘round the moon.
Sally go ‘round the chimney pot
On a Sunday afternoon.
