Geography Songs - CONTINENTS
Compiled by Mary F. Higuchi

(Tune to "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands")
We've got ASIA and EUROPE in our hands,
We've got AFRICA and AUSTRALIA in our hands,
We've got NORTH and SOUTH AMERICA in our hands.
We've got the whole WORLD in our hands.

We've got six huge continents in our hands.
We've got six huge continents in our hands.
We've got six huge continents in our hands.
But where iS number seven?

It's at the south point of the globe -- yes, it is.
It's at the south point of the globe -- yes, it is.
It's at the south point of the globe -- yes, it is.
And it's called ANTARCTICA.

(Tune to "Did You Ever See a Lassie?")
Do you know the continents? the continents? the continents?
Do you know the continents. There are seven in all.
There is ASIA and EUROPE and AFRICA and AUSTRALIA
There is NORTH and SOUTH AMERICA and ANTARCTICA, too.

(Tune to "Are You Sleeping?")
Where is ASIA?
Where is EUROPE?
Where is AFRICA?
Where is AUSTRALIA?
Where is NORTH AMERICA?
Where is SOUTH AMERICA?
Where is ANTARCTICA?
Where are the continents?

Here is ASIA?
Here is EUROPE?
Here is AFRICA?
Here is AUSTRALIA?
Here is NORTH AMERICA?
Here is SOUTH AMERICA?
Here is ANTARCTICA?
Here are the continents?

(Tune to "Where is Thumpkins?" or "Are You Sleeping?")
Where is NORTH AMERICA?
Where is NORTH AMERICA?
Here I am.
Here I am.
Put me on the map.
I am on the map.
Walk away.
I am away.

I use the above song with large puzzle pieces of the continents and a floor map. Repeat singing the song with the other continents that different children are holding.

(Tune to "The Farmer in the Dell")
AFRICA says hello.
AFRICA says hello.
Every time she sees her friends.
AFRICA says hello.

Continue singing about each continent. Let child walk around the circle holding the card of the continent. Last verse: The EARTH says hello - child walks holding a globe.

(Tune to "Jingle Bells")
Continents, continents
Do you know the continents?
North and south,
East and west
And all around the world.
ASIA, AFRICA, NORTH and SOUTH AMERICA,
AUSTRALIA, ANTARCTICA and EUROPE, too.