Wake Up Songs For Preschoolers
Posted By admin On 19.12.19
Songs and fingerplays are essential when teaching kiddos to rhyme. Here are some of our favorite fingerplays and rhyming songs for preschool children.
“Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share.” I don’t know about you, but I have simple songs for almost everything related to teaching preschool and kindergarten.
Chances are, if you’re a parent or a teacher of young kids, you do too. For that matter, chances are you also get kids’ songs stuck in your head at random points of the day. Maybe you even wake up with them in your head or sing them in the shower. Or is that just me? What’s so Great About Rhyming Songs? There’s a reason songs get stuck in our heads. The rhythm, rhyme, and repetitive structures of these songs appeal to the way our brains work.
If you’re wondering how to get an “earworm” out of your head, and had a good suggestion. Since our brains are hardwired to respond to music and rhyme, songs and poems and fingerplays help a lot when it comes to learning. Each of the favorites listed below helps expose kiddos to language and manipulating the sounds within words.
Plus, the rhythm of songs and fingerplays help kids’ brains to remember the nuances of words. And don’t forget that they’re FUN and engaging. Which means the children are much more likely to remember them. Fingerplays Preschool Children Love I feel like I need to warn you that these are how I do some of our favorite fingerplays. If you talk to twenty preschool teachers, you’ll probably get twenty different versions of these fingerplays and poems. In the end, they’re still basically the same though.
There are rhyming words, repetitive phrases, and simple movements. So don’t worry if your versions are a little different than mine. More importantly, the kiddos won’t mind one bit! Five Green and Speckled Frogs Five green and speckled frogs (hold up 5 fingers on right hand) Sat on a speckled log (place left arm parallel to the ground, with right hand above it and fingers waving) Eating some most delicious bugs.
(rub belly) One jumped into the pool (hold up 1 finger) Where it was nice and cool (pretend to swim) Then there were 4 green, speckled frogs (hold up 4 waving fingers) Glub. Repeat until there are no more “frogs” left. The Itsy Bitsy Spider The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout. (Use fingers as a climbing spider) Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
(Bring fingers down as rain, then spread hands for “out”) Out came the sun and dried up all the rain. (Hold arms above head in a sun shape) And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again. (Use fingers as a climbing spider) Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree Five little monkeys swinging in a tree. (Place an arm up like a monkey tail hanging from a tree) Teasing Mr. Alligator, “You can’t catch me!” (Make silly faces) Along comes Mr. Alligator, quiet as can be.
(Place palms together, moving them back and forth as if swimming) And SNAPS that monkey right out of that tree. (Clap hands together like an alligator’s jaws) Repeat until no more monkeys are left. Open and Shut Them This little tune is often used during transitions, especially when getting the kiddos settled for group or circle time. You can check out version here: Awesome Rhyming Songs for Preschool Kids Again, these are some of my favorite rhyming songs for preschool kiddos.
There are so many amazing artists out there, but the ones I’ve listed below are the consistent favorites with the children I’ve taught over the years. The first artist that always comes to mind is!
He has a lot of silly, fun, movable music for teaching children a variety of topics. When it comes to rhyming, though, I LOVE. They contain wonderful nursery rhymes done in different musical genres.
“Humpty Dumpty” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep” are always favorites. It has a variety of rhyming songs that my students have always loved. Each group of my students seems to love when I make up my own versions of his “Willoughby Wallaby Woo” by including their names! Jean has a ton of kids’ music available. I think is full of fun rhyming songs for preschool and kindergarten kiddos. You can check out for more information about her.
Wake Up Song For Preschoolers Dr Jean
The songs “Katalina Matalina”, “Over in the Meadow”, and “Tiny Tim the Turtle” are fun. Another album that the kids and I love is from. As with the other artists on this list, pretty much everything by this group is awesome. My absolute favorite, though, is. When it comes to songs that rhyme, I highly recommend “We Are the Dinosaurs”, “Victor Vito”, and “I’m Gonna to Catch You”. My last recommendation for rhyming music is. They feature classic songs with fun melodies that kids of all ages always seem to enjoy!
Toddler Wake Up Song
“Down By the Bay” gets the kids singing in no time. What are some of your favorite fingerplays and rhyming songs for preschool and kindergarten kiddos?