Preschool Songs | Imamother

↑ abmom ↓

Sun, Nov 27 2011, 5:59 pm

I wanna start teaching about Chanukah this week. I'd love to have one song for each topic in the Chanukah story. Can you please post any and every Chanukah song you know? I don't know any Sad

Thanks in advance!

↑ imasinger ↓

Sun, Nov 27 2011, 6:29 pm

That's great because I'm doing Chanukah for the next month, so wouldn't have much to offer for parsha songs. Let's see... you're talking about 2-3 year olds, right?

Menorah: to the tune of "10 Little Indians"
One little, 2 little, 3 little neiros
4 little, 5 little, 6 little neiros
7 little, 8 little chanukah neiros, and the shamash too!

Ner li (Israeli song)
Ner li, ner li, ner li dakik, bachanukah ani adlik.
Bachanukah neri yair, bachanukah shiri ashir.

I wrote the words and tune for this one for a class that was learning and practicing colors, so they could put the different colored toy candles into their menorah:

CHORUS: I love my menorah, shining bright
I'll put in a new candle every night.

Here comes a green candle, green candle green candle;
Here comes a red candle, yellow candle too.
Here comes an orange candle, orange candle, orange candle;
Here comes a pink candle, here comes a blue.

CHORUS

Here comes a white candle, white candle, white candle
Here comes a brown candle, brown candle too.
Here comes a purple shamash, purple shamash, purple shamash;
Here comes a spinning dreidel, spinning dreidel too.

CHORUS
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Of course, you should teach them the brachos, too.

Dreidel:
"I have a little dreidel"
"Sevivon, sov sov sov"

Latkes:
(to tune of Yiddish "latkele latkele")
Latkele, latkele, hop in the pan;
Jump and dance as fast as you can;
Fry and sizzle merrily
'Cause you'll be the one I'll eat, you see!

(to tune of "frere jacques)
Chanukah latkes, chanukah latkes
They're so good, they're so good
I could eat a million, I could eat a million
Yum yum yum, yum yum yum.

(Song or finger play)
Five little latkes frying in a pan
One jumped up and said "Catch me if you can."
So he ran and he ran all around the kitchen floor
And when I looked up (gasp), he ran right out the door

(Repeat for 4, 3, 2, 1)

For all 3 of the above:

(to tune of "wheels on the bus")
The candles in the menorah go flicker flicker flicker
Flicker flicker flicker, flicker flicker flicker
The candles in the menorah go flicker flicker flicker
All chanukah long. (Fingers open and close on "flicker")

The latkes in the pan go sizzle sizzle sizzle... (hold pan and shake it)

The dreidel on chanukah goes spin spin spin (pretend to turn dreidel, or let kids spin themselves)

Story:

(to tune of "adon olam - may be too wordy for your kids)

Antiochus the wicked king
He did to the yidden a terrible thing
He made the bais hamikdash unclean
And besides, he was so mean!
"Mi lashem eilai", the Maccabees did say
And with Hashem's help, they chased Antiochus away
They found a little shemen; it was a sight.
Hashem made it burn 8 days and nights.

Let me know if you need any more!

↑ Chanala1 ↓

Sun, Nov 27 2011, 8:58 pm

oh wow, thank you!

can I ask what kind of projects you will be doing for chanukah? are you making a menorah, out of what?

↑ imasinger ↓

Sun, Nov 27 2011, 10:18 pm

It is so easy to be creative about a menorah! In the different preschools I work in, I've seen: a bulletin board where each candle is decorated with a different material (buttons, stickers, string, etc); the one in the song I mentioned was a cardboard box with holes, and cardboard tubes covered with different colored paper. You can do a big Duplo project; you can make a menorah cake or make a menorah out of other food items. You can do the classic block of wood that gets painted, and then glue the right size bolt onto it. The candles can fit in the bolts.

You can have kids make their own dreidels in the same way (craft project, food, whatever). If they are old enough to learn alef-beis, you can help them with the letters for the dreidel.

You can make maccabi costumes with shields and swords (may not be such a good idea if you have any kids who would use them inappropriately).

You can make a book of the story, and come up with something to do on every page.

Check out chinuch.org for more.

↑ de_goldy ↓

Sun, Nov 27 2011, 10:41 pm

Just a more detailed version of a song mentioned already:

One little, two little, three little candles,
four little, five little, six little candles,
seven little, eight little chanukah candles,
and the shamash on top.

The shamash lights, all the other candles,
the shamash lights, all the other candles,
The shamash lights, all the other candles,
on my chanukah menorah.

to the tune of sevivon, sov sov sov.
Spin little dreidel, spin spin spin,
fall down and let me win.

spin little dreidel, spin spin spin,
fall down and let me win.

nes gadol haya sham, chanukah is so much fun,
chanukah is so much fun, nes gadol haya sham.

hadasa ↓

Sun, Nov 27 2011, 10:42 pm

Maybe check out Malkali in English. She has Parsha and Chanuka songs. I thought her songs in Hebrew were a bit hard... Until I heard some really little kids singing them over and over. The kids love them. I've never heard the English versions, but they may be worth a try.

↑ de_goldy

Sun, Nov 27 2011, 10:43 pm

hadasa wrote:

Her English songs are horrendous. They can hardly be called 'English'.

↑ abmom ↓

Sun, Nov 27 2011, 11:54 pm

Any songs on vayetzei? About Yaakov working and Lavan tricking...?

↑ abmom ↓

Sun, Nov 27 2011, 11:58 pm

de_goldy wrote:

hadasa wrote:

Her English songs are horrendous. They can hardly be called 'English'.

Where can I find her songs? Maybe I can work with it.

↑ hadasa ↓

Mon, Nov 28 2011, 12:35 am

Google "Malkali".

↑ abmom ↓

Mon, Nov 28 2011, 1:01 am

I don't wanna buy it if the English is bad. Is there anywhere I can just see the lyrics?

↑ Chanala1 ↓

Thu, Dec 01 2011, 1:28 am

hi again, any ideas for next weeks parsha, Vayigash?
a project and a 2 line song?

thank you so much for keeping this thread going!

↑ abmom ↓

Thu, Dec 01 2011, 6:06 am

Isn't next week vayishlach?

↑ Chanala1 ↓

Thu, Dec 01 2011, 1:03 pm

whoops, youre right!

shnitzel ↓

Thu, Dec 01 2011, 1:13 pm

Does anyone have any Shabbos songs that are a bit more creative than "Shabbos, Shabbos Yom Menucha"?

Preferably without any Yiddish.

↑ imasinger ↓

Thu, Dec 01 2011, 3:40 pm

In English, or in Hebrew?

↑ shnitzel

Fri, Dec 02 2011, 12:10 am

Either would be appreciated

↑ hadasa

Fri, Dec 02 2011, 1:36 am

Uncle Moishy's "Shabbos is coming, we're so happy..."

↑ imasinger ↓

Sat, Dec 03 2011, 11:04 pm

OK, here are a dozen. If you need the tunes, pm me and we can make arrangements for me to either sing them via computer or for me to get my chicken scratched notations. Let me know if you need more on any particular topic -- I have more!

Going shopping:

Take one or 2 children and seat them in your lap. Tell them that you are shopping, and your lap is the shopping cart. Let them pick which food they want to be for Shabbos, and tell you/the group.

1. Oh, _____ (child's name), oh _____, you are my own;
Hop into my shopping cart and I'll take you home.
Tonight is Shabbos, we'll eat gefilte fish [*if you are doing the song before Friday, change it to "shabbos is coming, we'll eat gefilte fish]
____, oh _____, you are my favorite dish!

Making Challah --

This one is a book, but I do it as an activity rhyme:

2. Mix the sticky batter (mixing motion)
Watch it rise and grow (hands go up)
Time to do a mitzvah -- pinch off a piece of dough (pinch cheek)
Braid and braid the challa as neatly as you're able (cross arms in braiding motion)
Slide it in the oven (pushing motion)
And on the shabbos table (hands pat lap).

Making soup (I also change the words and make cholent sometimes)

Soup song (tto London Bridge)
3. Put some chicken in the pot,
Stir it up, nice and hot
Get it ready for Shabbat, for Shabbat.

Continue with other ingredients. Choose 2 or more children to be each ingredient, have them go in the middle and hold hands and jump together. Repeat till everyone has had a turn. Pretend to taste the soup together.

Washing:
(tto 1 little, 2 little...)
4. Wash, wash, wash your head - 3x
Getting ready for Shabbos.

(repeat with other body parts)

General:

5. The whole world is waiting to sing a song of Shabbos
The whole world is waiting to sing a song of Shabbos.

The _____ are waiting... (fill ins: mommies, daddies, children, babies, doggies, kitties, etc. When doing babies or animals, sing the appropriate sounds rather than "to sing a song of Shabbos")

6. To tune of "twinkle, twinkle"
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Shabbos.
Shabbos comes on Friday night
Shabbos comes with candle light
Shabbos, shabbos, may I say
That you are my favorite day.

7. Yom rishon, avodah, yom sheini, avoda...(etc).
Yom shabbat, menucha...

8. I sometimes start the next one by asking them,"Hayom yom rishon?" and letting them yell "Lo!" We continue until I sing "Hayom yom shishi?" "Ken!"
Hayom yom shish, hayom yom shishi
Machar shabbat, machar shabbat, shabbat menucha

Hayom kulam ofim, hayom kulam ofim
Machar shabbat, machar shabbat, shabbat menucha.

9. There's a cute song called "dinosaur shabbos" that I adapt for teaching in frum schools. Rather than singing about dinosaurs, I substitute the names of 2 or 3 children, and let them knock on something, and talk about how they will pretend to spend shabbos with me. Chorus changes to: Orchim for shabbos, orchim for shabbos, orchim for shabbos, yes, they'll come and spend shabbos with me, knock, knock.

10. Bim bam, bim bim bim bam, bim bim bim bim bim bam.
Shabbat shalom (hey!) 2x
Shabbat shabbat shabbat shabbat shalom.

11. The shabbos angels are peeking through my window
Ima's lighting candles and Abba's going to shul
The shabbos angels are peeking through my window
Ima's lighting candles and Abba's going to shul.
Shabbat shalom, shabbat shalom, shabbat shalom
To every one of you
Shabbat shalom, shabbat shalom, shabbat shalom
To every one of you!

12. Hakol naki, hakol muchan, neirot al hashulchan.

Repeat with challot, sakin, mapah, kos, yayin, prachim, anything else you want.

End with "kol, kol al hashulchan!"
This one is great to do with props, giving each child something to hold, and having a special place on a small table for them to put it.

↑ Chanala1 ↓

Sat, Dec 03 2011, 11:09 pm

what are you teaching in Parshas Vayishlach?

what arts n' crafts are you making?

TIA