What Songs Do You Sing?

[Hunni Bee]

...at circle time, etc.?

My guys have about 7 songs that they want to sing everyday, and I just can't sing "Baby Bumblebee" anymore...or "The Monkeys and the Alligator", "The Itsy Bitsy Spider", or "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" for that matter. I can tell my older ones and my kids that have been with me for a long time are getting tired of the same songs.

We sing "Open and Shut Them" as the opener to Circle Time, and I'm kinda getting sick of that, too...

What are your favorite songs?

[laundrymom]

Doe a deer a female deer,
Cuppycake
You are my sunshine
There was a daycare had a dog and rascal was his name o
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C
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( bingo)

Do you know the muffin man?

We do our highschool fight song, .

Happy birthday
Hakuna matata

[GretasLittleFriends]

The Wheels on the Bus
Old MacDonald had a farm
The Alphabet Song
Down by the Bay
If you're happy and you know it
Kookaburra
The Farmer in the Dell
Ten in the Bed (or however many I have that day)
Days of the week (Sung to Clementine)

[Hunni Bee]

Doe a deer a female deer,
Cuppycake
You are my sunshine
There was a daycare had a dog and rascal was his name o
R
A
S
C
A
L
( bingo)

Do you know the muffin man?

We do our highschool fight song, .

Happy birthday
Hakuna matata

we have GOT to learn the cuppycake song...so cute!

[pappyny]

I have this http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/pro...viewOnly=false.

I copied the song listing, cut them out and put them on popsicle sticks. The kids each get to pick 1 or 2 a day. This helps to not get so bored with singing the same songs over and over.

[Crystal]

we always start with "the more we get together"
then music and movement- chicken dance, shake my sillies out, freeze dance, etc.
Goin on a bear hunt, looking for dracula, where is thumbkin, etc.

[sharlan]

I have this http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/pro...viewOnly=false.

I copied the song listing, cut them out and put them on popsicle sticks. The kids each get to pick 1 or 2 a day. This helps to not get so bored with singing the same songs over and over.

I am going to Lakeshore tomorrow and buying that. I keep buying CDs, but I haven't found one that I really like. I play kids' CDs in the car most of the time.

[beachgrl]

As a pre k teacher, I would find songs online that went along with our themes and my classes always liked: bear hunt, 5 little monkeys, the freeze, bop till u drop best! I love many of dr jeans songs if you haven't checked out her stuff before. She also has great ideas,activities and printouts on her website as well as some really fun cheers to do with kids for circle time activities and transitions.

[blueclouds29]

I have kids under 2, they love the normal songs but what really gets them excited is our welcome song to open up circle time. 'child's name' is here today, 'child's name' is here today, everybody clap their hands cause 'child's name' is here today! They all start clapping and no matter where they are playing they all come to sit with me I love it!

[SilverSabre25]

Thanks for this thread! I was wanting to ask the very same thing a few weeks ago but didn't, because I thought I would get chewed out. Don't ask me why I thought that...I get anxious about weird things sometimes!

We sing:
The alphabet
5 green and speckled frogs
the Cookie Jar song
twinkle twinkle
baa baa black sheep
if you're happy and you know it
The Rainbow Song (From Signing Time)
The Wheels on the bus
Old MacDonald
Row row row your boat
Itsy Bitsy Spider
and plenty of others I'm sure, but that's what's coming to mind at the moment

[AnythingsPossible]

For those of you who don't do a "circle time" when do you sing songs with them? Do you just sing at random times throughout the day?
This is what I am struggling with right now. I don't do a circle time for a couple of different reasons, but then have a hard time figuring out when to do things during the day. Usually I just start singing at some point. I would love to know what others do.

We sing the monkeys and alligator song, I sing name songs, we do a counting song, twinkle twinkle, mary had a little lamb, i'm a little tea pot, and others. A lot of our songs I just make up, but then I never end up singing the same thing twice! The kids will say "sing the such and such song" and I can't remember how I sang it!!

[daycare]

One of my personal favortie children musicans of all times is frank leto. He sings great songs that involve movement from the children. Listen and do.

We sing so many songs I could not list them all.

But our favorites are:

what can we do today , frank leto
you can tell how I feel, frank leto
shake your Craziez out, sung by us....

If your happy and you know it
days of the week
Months of the year
This land is your land

I also have the MGT circle time music CD and we love to do all the songs on there. It has each song twice. Once with the words and once without....

[laundrymom]

Cookie jar song???
I googled and it brought up a song about turning on a tv and something with a gun????
THAT can't be right. Lol. Help?

[youretooloud]

Arizona Cowboy.

Five monkeys jumping on a bed

Five monkeys swinging in a tree.

Wheels on the bus

Twinkle Twinkle


Five little Pumpkins sitting on a gate

[youretooloud]

Double post.