Learning With Music: Games and Activities for the Early Years7

Learning with Music - musical fun from the start for children

This is the 7th and final level of early years songs for young children new to singing. We’re adding more notes and rhythms, helping them to recognise the sequence of scales, and division of musical beats. And all of this, through songs and games!

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This Old Man

This old man, he played one

He played knick-knack on my drum

With a knick-knack paddy-whack

Give a dog a bone

This old man came rolling home

Twinkle Twinkle

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are

Coming Round The Mountain

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain

Coming ’round the mountain

Coming ’round the mountain when she comes

Singing aye-aye, yippee yippee aye

Singing aye-aye, yippee

Aye-aye, yippee

Aye-aye, yippee yippee aye

Farmer In The Dell

The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell

Hey-ho a-derry-oh*, the farmer in the dell

The farmer wants a wife, the farmer wants a wife

Hey-ho a-derry-oh*, the farmer wants a wife

The wife wants a child, the wife wants a child

Hey-ho a-derry-oh*, the wife wants a child

The child wants a dog, the child wants a dog

Hey-ho a-derry-oh*, the child wants a dog

The dog wants a cat, the dog wants a cat

Hey-ho a derry-oh*, the dog wants a cat

The cat wants a mouse, the cat wants a mouse

Hey-ho a-derry-oh*, the cat wants a mouse

The mouse wants some cheese, the mouse wants some cheese,

Hey-ho a-derry-oh*, the mouse wants some cheese

We all pat the cheese, we all pat the cheese

Hey-ho a-derry-oh*, we all pat the cheese

* some sing “ee-aye-endio”

I'm Gonna Walk

I’m gonna walk, walk, walk, walk

Walk, walk, walk

I’m gonna walk, walk, walk and

Stop on a spot

I’m gonna skip, skip, skip, skip

Skip, skip, skip

I’m gonna skip, skip, skip and

Stop on a spot

I’m gonna tiptoe, tiptoe

Tiptoe, tip

I’m gonna tiptoe, tip and

Stop on a spot

I’m gonna jump, jump, jump, jump

Jump, jump, jump

I’m gonna, jump, jump, jump and

Stop on a spot

Jolly Is The Miller

Jolly is the miller who

Lives on the hill

The wheel goes round with a

Right good will

One hand in the pocket and the

Other in the sack

We all step forward and we

All step back, oh we

All step forward and we

All step back

Aiken Drum

There was a man lived in the moon

Lived in the moon, lived in the moon

There was a man lived in the moon

And his name was Aiken Drum

And he played upon a ladle

A ladle, a ladle

And he played upon a ladle

And his name was Aiken Drum

Darling Clementine

In a cavern, in a tavern

Excavating for a mine

Lived a miner, forty-niner

And his daughter, Clementine

Oh, my darling, oh, my darling

Oh my darling Clementine

You are lost and gone forever

Dreadful sorry, Clementine

Skip To My Lou

Skip, skip, skip to my Lou

Skip to my Lou, my darling

Fly in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo

Skip to my Lou, my darling

Drunken Sailor

What shall we do with a drunken sailor?

What shall we do with a drunken sailor

Earlie in the morning

Way hey and up she rises

Earlie in the morning

Home On The Range

Oh give me a home

Where the buffalo roam

Where the deer and the antelope play

Where seldom is heard

A discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day

Home, home on the range

Where the deer and the antelope play

Where seldom is heard

A discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day

Pretty Little Susie

Where oh where is pretty little Susie

Way down yonder on the paw-paw patch

Come on friends, let’s go find her

Way down yonder on the paw-paw patch

Picking up paw-paws, put ’em in your pocket

Way down yonder on the paw-paw patch

What Shall We Do

What shall we do when we all go out

All go out, all go out

What shall we do when we all go out

When we all go out to play

Let’s all play on the see-saw

The see-saw, the see-saw

Let’s all play on the see-saw

When we all go out to play

Let’s all play on the jungle jim

Jungle Jim, jungle jim

Let’s all play on the jungle jim

When we all go out to play

Let’s all go down the slide

The slide, the slide

Let’s all go down the slide

When we all go out to play

Learning With Music - moving on in our musical adventure

And we are done! Many music teachers are more than willing to take on children from 6 or 7 years old, and with musical preparation in singing, rhythm and interval training, children will quickly advance through musical levels!