Songs
During each season, there will be a selection of songs appropriate for that time of year. Some songs will carry on throughout the year to guide us in our morning circle, play, mealtime, cleaning up, and saying goodbye...
Morning Circle songs
Good morning Brother Sunshine
Good morning dear Earth
Morning is come (with hand gestures)
Transition songs
Deep inside my heart, Rainbow song
“Changes are Good”, said the golden eyed frog
Come Walk With Me, Walkin Jim Stoltz
Peace like a River
Mealtime songs (light a candle)
Little candle
Candle Spirit, Candle Sprite
Blessings on the blossom
Earth who gave to us this food
The silver rain, the golden sun
Clean-up songs
Tick Tock goes the Clock
Folding song
It’s time to put our toys away
Goodbye songs
Dear Friends Goodbye
Goodbye My Friend, Sara Pirtle
Goodbye Song, Juniper Hill (with sign language)
It’s time to say goodbye
Lullabies
Lavender blue dilly dilly
Sleep my baby
Rock a bye baby
Now I lay me down to sleep
Book or anytime songs
Baa baa black sheep, Raffi (Moo, moo brown cow; Cluck, cluck, red hen…)
ABC story song
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Six little ducks, Raffi
Season song
If I were a Tree, Walkin Jim Stoltz
Four Directions (Come on and sing to the earth), Sara Pirtle
Pete Seeger
Little bird, little bird
This little light of mine
This land is your land
The water is wide
I had a rooster
Mister Rabbit (Every little soul’s gonna shine)
And many other Pete Seeger songs!
Row, row, row your boat
Seasonal Songs (Each month we will have a different song that highlights the changes in nature during that month)
Summer play songs
Inch by inch
There was a tree
Teddy Bear Picnic
Oh Mister Sun
Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley
There are lots of worms
Plant a little seed
Little Drop of Dew
and more summer songs and verses
Fall play songs
Now it is November
5 Little Pumpkins
Jack O’Lantern, Jack O’Lantern
Squirrel Nutkin
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Glimmer Lantern Glimmer
Blow Wind Blow
and more autumn songs and verses
Winter play songs
The North Wind Doth Blow
Frosty Frosty Winter
and more winter songs and verses
Spring play songs
Arise sleepy seed
I love the mountains
Daffy Down Dilly
Now at last, winter’s past
April (Sun is Shining)
Come and See
and more spring songs and verses here
Morning Circle songs
Good morning Brother Sunshine
Good morning dear Earth
Morning is come (with hand gestures)
Transition songs
Deep inside my heart, Rainbow song
“Changes are Good”, said the golden eyed frog
Come Walk With Me, Walkin Jim Stoltz
Peace like a River
Mealtime songs (light a candle)
Little candle
Candle Spirit, Candle Sprite
Blessings on the blossom
Earth who gave to us this food
The silver rain, the golden sun
Clean-up songs
Tick Tock goes the Clock
Folding song
It’s time to put our toys away
Goodbye songs
Dear Friends Goodbye
Goodbye My Friend, Sara Pirtle
Goodbye Song, Juniper Hill (with sign language)
It’s time to say goodbye
Lullabies
Lavender blue dilly dilly
Sleep my baby
Rock a bye baby
Now I lay me down to sleep
Book or anytime songs
Baa baa black sheep, Raffi (Moo, moo brown cow; Cluck, cluck, red hen…)
ABC story song
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Six little ducks, Raffi
Season song
If I were a Tree, Walkin Jim Stoltz
Four Directions (Come on and sing to the earth), Sara Pirtle
Pete Seeger
Little bird, little bird
This little light of mine
This land is your land
The water is wide
I had a rooster
Mister Rabbit (Every little soul’s gonna shine)
And many other Pete Seeger songs!
Row, row, row your boat
Seasonal Songs (Each month we will have a different song that highlights the changes in nature during that month)
Summer play songs
Inch by inch
There was a tree
Teddy Bear Picnic
Oh Mister Sun
Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley
There are lots of worms
Plant a little seed
Little Drop of Dew
and more summer songs and verses
Fall play songs
Now it is November
5 Little Pumpkins
Jack O’Lantern, Jack O’Lantern
Squirrel Nutkin
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Glimmer Lantern Glimmer
Blow Wind Blow
and more autumn songs and verses
Winter play songs
The North Wind Doth Blow
Frosty Frosty Winter
and more winter songs and verses
Spring play songs
Arise sleepy seed
I love the mountains
Daffy Down Dilly
Now at last, winter’s past
April (Sun is Shining)
Come and See
and more spring songs and verses here
