This song is available on Hap Palmer's Can Cockatoos Count by Twos?
Objectives:
· Name the months of the year
· Know your birthday month
· Understand 12 months make a year
· Create movement and act out imaginary situations.
Setting:
Participants seated in chairs or on the rug.
Activity:
This song presents movement imagery for each month of the year. When your birthday month is named, stand inside the circle (or come to the front of the room) and create motions that go with the words you hear in the song. During the last verse, select your favorite months and motions and create your own sequence of movements.
Lyrics:
January jiggles like a juggler in the cold
February falls like a fluffy flake of snow
March goes marching up a wind blown mountain
April sprinkles showers and the flowers bloom again
May meets a monkey madly climbing up a may pole
June joins a jolly group of joggers in the park
July jumps joyfully to celebrate a nation
August waves, "aloha" and sails around the world
September must remember to scamper off to school
October's rolling over like a pumpkin in the leaves
November gathers fruit and nuts then nods in thankfulness
December does a dainty dance with reindeer on the roof
Now you see the months keep moving, one by one they go
Twelve make a year when you string them in a row
Months on the move, January, February, March, April, May
Months on the move, June, July, August, September, October
November, December Months on the move!
Variation:
Do the motions for all the months in
order as they are named.
Follow Up:
Do the motions for your birthday month, and see if we can guess correctly.
Book or Product Suggestions for this Song:
See more of our Early Childhood and Circle Time Song Lyrics
Many thanks to Hap Palmer for permission to display these lyrics.
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