The Horse Stood Around

1st Graders love songs with beat motions that get their whole bodies moving, and The Horse Stood Around definitely does that!  We have been having so much fun with it that we forget we are practicing keeping the steady beat!

Students follow the spoken directions in the song to help them keep the beat with "one foot," "the other foot," "switching feet," "both feet" (jumping), and "only one foot" (hopping).  Their favorites are both feet and only one foot.

Here are the lyrics:

Oh, the horse stood around with his foot on the ground,
Oh, the horse stood around with his foot on the ground,
Oh, the horse stood around with his foot on the ground,
Oh, the horse stood around with his foot on the ground.

Spoken: Same horse, the other foot.

You can tell students are keeping the steady beat correctly when all of their feet sound the same.

Hear Mrs. Larson's class perform this song below.  We did not include jumping and hopping in their recording.