In this song each child has the opportunity to sing his or her name either alone or with a group. Procedures Invite the children to sing after you. This is a great song for guests who knock at your door or who tap at your window. Children can explore transferring a musical pattern to a musical instrument and following a symbolic representation of a song. The ideas here are gleaned from those of Barbara Andress.
Procedures Sing the entire song for the children while keeping a steady beat on both knees.
Tap fingers in the palm of the hand on the phrase tapping at the window and pat floor at knocking at the door. Make certain that children can all tap or pat the rhythm for the words, tapping at the window and knocking at my door. After the children have explored the song and discovered ways to play the patterns, introduce a puzzle picture of the song for individual play in centers. Singing a song that is different in this way provides children opportunities to discriminate the organization of sound.