STAFF SUBSTITUTES:
General plan (no need to rush through): 

Welcome everybody. Introduce yourself (you can say that I'm out sick but don't give details). 

Stretch to start (I usually do a "reach for the sky"; "dig in the ground"; "hug the whole world"-arms straight out; "shake it off"-wiggle arms and legs.

First set: Head and Shoulders plus 3 "UP SONGS."

Second set: 3 or 4 "SEATED" songs (I sit on a chair, usually at the corner near my desk, but you can sit on the floor if you like)

THIRD SET: another 3 or 4 "SEATED" songs

FOURTH SET: "Toddler Time Band Practice" (with bucket of instruments) and "BAND" songs or whatever you like.

FIFTH SET: Three more "UP SONGS" finishing up with "The Ants Go Marching One by One" (up to four) with a parade around the room.

 

Or, just have fun doing whatever!

THANKS!

Kathy

 

OPENING:

(stretch)

Head and Shoulders

 

UP SONGS:

I'm a Little Teapot

London Bridge

Hokey Pokey

If You're Happy and You Know It

We Are Marching in the Library (Tune: Siyahamba)

This is the Way We Wash Our Clothes

Grand Old Duke of York

*Farmer in the Dell

Ring Around the Rosie

Skip to my Lew

 

SEATED:

Itsy Bitsy Spider

I stuck my head in a little skunk's hole

Row Row Row Your Boat

Wheels on the Bus

Five Little Monkeys

Bingo

Little Red Caboose

10 Little Children

Gallump Went the Little Green Frog

There Are Seven Days in a Week

Fly an Airplane in the Sky (tune: Clementine); Paddle a kyack on the lake; Ride a bicycle on the path; sail a sailboat on the sea

There are Red Leaves on the Ground (tune: Clementine); Red, Yellow, Brown

Found a Peanut

Three Blind Mice

Make New Friends

Doodly Doo

Jack and Jill

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Where is Thumpkin?

Peanut, Peanut Butter (and Jelly)

Hickory Dickory Dock

One two three four five, once I caught a fish alive

Are You Sleeping...Brother John?

Six little ducks that I once knew

 

BAND:

*Do Re Me

Down By the Bay

*Zip a Dee Doo Dah

Home on the Range

Old MacDonald

Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me

Happy Birthday

On Top of Spaghetti

She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain

ABCD

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

How Much is That Doggie in the Window

The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Kookaburra

Clementine

Mamma's Little Baby Loves Shortn'in Bread

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Jingle Bells

Did You Ever See a Lassie

The More We Get Together

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Bicycle Built for Two

This Land is Your Land

Yankee Doodle

You are My Sunshine

Down by the Station

 

PARACHUTE:

Grand Old Duke of York

Pop Goes the Weasel

Ring Around the Rosie

Skip to My Lew

She'll be coming round the mountain

Did you ever see a Lassie?

London Bridge

 

CLOSING:

Ants Go Marching

 

 

SONG NOTES:

"In the Good Old Summer Time"

In the good old summer time,

In the good old summer time,

Strolling thro' the shady lanes

With your baby mine;

You hold her hand and she holds yours,

And that's a very good sign

That she's your tootsie wootsie

In the good old summer time.

 

Okki-tokki-unga, Okki-tokki-unga,

Hey, Missa Day, Missa Doh, Missa Day,

 

Okki-tokki-unga, Okki-tokki-unga,

Hey, Missa Day, Missa Doh, Missa Day

 

Hexa cola misha wani

Hexa cola misha wani

Hexa cola misha wani