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🎥 Watch
🎬 Learn how this song builds rhythm, coordination, and connection through movement in our YouTube episode below!
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📄 Download the Activity
Download the free printable activity sheet for this song.
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💡 Why It Works
“Move and Groove” invites children and adults to move together in rhythm — an experience that strengthens both body and brain. Through clapping, twisting, rolling, and jumping, children develop coordination, balance, and awareness of steady beat — all foundational for language, regulation, and learning readiness.
Working musically — listening, singing, moving, or playing — activates auditory, visual, cognitive, affective, and motor networks across the brain. These connections support growth in attention, memory, communication, and self-regulation.
“Working musically, such as listening to or thinking about music, singing, playing an instrument or even moving to music involves auditory, visual, cognitive, affective and motor skills that rely on cerebral structures of the type that may have positive benefits for other areas of learning.”
— Saul, R. (1998). Today’s Music Lesson, Tomorrow’s Genius. Parents and Teachers Australia’s Education Newsletter, 1(2).
🧠 Try This!
✨ Encourage children to invent their own moves — they’ll learn patterning, sequencing, and creative expression.
✨ Emphasize different movement levels (low, middle, high) to explore space and coordination.
✨ Invite children to mirror your actions (“Copy me!”) to build imitation and attention skills.
✨ Try pausing the music and starting again — this develops auditory focus and impulse control.
🩰 Skills Strengthened
- Gross-motor coordination
- Movement sequencing (Levels 1, 2 and 3)
- Steady beat and rhythm awareness
- Listening and auditory focus
- Bilateral coordination (using both sides of the body)
- Social connection and turn-taking
- Creativity and self-expression
🎶 Activity Overview
This track is a lively dance experience — a chance for adult and child to move, play, and connect together.
The lyrics suggest actions to follow, but you can also use the song for free movement or to encourage children to create their own choreography.
Whether structured or spontaneous, the goal is joy, rhythm, and shared connection through movement.
🎵 Lyrics
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We're gonna move move move to the music
Groove groove to the music
Clap clap clap to the music
Twist twist twist to the music
Dance dance dance to the music
Clap and twist today
We're gonna jump jump jump everybody
Roll roll roll everybody
Clap clap clap everybody
Turn turn turn everybody
Twist twist twist everybody
Jump and roll and twist
We're gonna move move move to the music
Groove groove to the music
Clap clap clap to the music
Twist twist twist to the music
Dance dance dance to the music
Clap and twist today
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