Down by the Banks

Song:  Down by the Banks

Source:  Camp Christian

Origin: traditional clapping game

Grade level: 2+

Rhythmic elements: steady beat or increasing speed

Movement:  claping in a circle

Connection to curriculum:  where animals live, onomatopoeia 

Words:
Down by the banks of the hanky pank
where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank
say eeps 
ieps
oeps
umps
down where one fell in and went Kerplumps 

Miss Mary Mack

Song:  Miss Mary Mack

Source:  Childhood

Origin: unknown

Grade level: preK+

Rhythmic elements: major or minor key

Movement: clapping game (can be as complicated or not depending on grade/ability levels)

Connection to curriculum:  money/economics, patterns, "Miss Mary Mack" sing along story book

Words:

Miss Mary Mack (mack mack)

All dressed in black (black black)

With silver buttons (buttons buttons)

All down her back (back back)

She asked her mother (mother mother)

For 50 cents (cents cents)

To see the elephant (elephant elephant)

Jump the fence (fence fence)

They jumped so high (high high)

They touched the sky (sky sky)

And didn't come back (back back)

'Till the 4th of July (July July)

Sailor went to Sea

Song:  Sailor went to Sea

Source:  childhood
Origin:  unknown
Grade level: pre-k and up
Rhythmic elements: steady beat
Movement: clapping hands with partner, saluting
Connection to curriculum: rhythm, rhyme, homophones

Words:
a sailor went to sea, sea, sea,
to see what he could see, see, see,
but all that he could see, see, see,
was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea