Children's Music CD and Activities for Ages 3-6: Rhythm & Rhyme

Rhythm and Rhyme
Children's Music CD

with Maria Alley and Friends

Rhythm and Rhyme (listen to samples further down on this page) takes your children on a magical learning journey through rhythm and song.

Want to develop your children's understanding of music? I've created downloadable lesson plans for you to use with the songs.

Children learn through play. This action-filled CD develops basic musical concepts such as the keeping of a steady beat, rhythmic patterns using hand clapping and percussion instruments, pitch, tempo and active listening.

Play in Old MacDonald's band, learn the letters of the alphabet, make a rubber spider crawl up your body, play in The Dinosaur Band and learn to form popsicle stick rhythms. Find out how to do "The Macarena" and learn some of the Spanish words.

These activities are tested and true, and based on my many years of experience teaching music to preschool-age children.

Eighteen music lesson plans in all, 18 fun songs.

A great home school resource!

Listen to samples from the CD. Scroll down to see them all.

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List of songs on the Rhythm and Rhyme Children's Music CD

If you have any trouble with the streaming player above, click on any song title below to download the sample MP3 file which you can play on your computer. (Note: this is the slower option because the entire file must download before it will start playing.)

1. I Am A Fine Musician

2. Tideo

3. The Grand Old Duke of York

4. Pop Goes The Weasel

5. Spider On The Floor

6. Six Little Ducks

7. My Little Doggie's Name is Rags

8. Ten Little Snowmen

9. Marching Around The Alphabet

10. The Horse Went Around

11. Naughty Pussy Cat

12. Down In The Valley Two By Two