In the Leafy Treetops

The song "In the Leafy Treetops" is a fun song that has a great rhythm and makes me feel happy. I wanted to use this song as a movement song to break up learning program songs.  So I posted the words (Camille over at Camille's Primary Ideas has a great suggestion on how to do this HERE) and we just started right in on the singing.  The children who can't read yet picked it up really quickly after singing it a few times through.  To make the song a little more fun and get the children moving I made sticks with pictures of a bird, a tree and a sun on them.  Each child got 1 picture and when we sang the part of the song that mentioned that picture they stood up and put their picture in the air.

The second verse says, "the flowers were nodding" I was in a primary once and the children thought the song said," the flowers were naughty". :) So when I taught it I quickly made sure the children understood that sometimes people "nod" as a way to greet each other before we started singing.  Then I had the children nod their heads when we sang, "the flowers are nodding" and shake hands with the person on their left when we sang, "how do you do they say" and shake hands with the person on their right when we sang, "how do you do today".  

If you want to use the same clip art images as mine you can find them at the links below. I downloaded them and then put them in a PowerPoint image to print.  I made the images about a 1/4 of a sheet each.  

Bird- Click HERE 

Tree- Click HERE

Sun- Click HERE