Words and Music by Ellen Allard, www.elllenallard.com
A simple and creative way to teach or reinforce the study of the first Torah story:
First day: God separated light from darkness. (Genesis 1:3–5)
Second day: God separated the waters, creating sky. (Genesis 1:6–8)
Third day: God gathered the water below the sky, creating land and sea, and God caused vegetation to sprout from the land. (Genesis 1:9–13)
Fourth day: God set lights in the sky to separate days and years, creating the sun, the moon, and the stars. (Genesis 1:14–19)
Fifth day: God had the waters bring forth living creatures, and blessed them to be fruitful and multiply. (Genesis 1:20–23)
Sixth day: God had the earth bring forth living creatures, and made man in God’s image, male and female, giving man dominion over the animals and the earth, and blessed man to be fruitful and multiply. (Genesis 1:24–28) God gave vegetation to man and to the animals for food. (Genesis 1:29–30)
Seventh day: God ceased work and blessed the seventh day, declaring it holy. (Genesis 2:1–3)
The song's lyrics are cumulative, each day's description building on the previous one.
Lyrics:
First Day, Day and night
Second Day, Heaven and earth
Third Day, Plants and trees
Fourth Day, Sun and moon and stars
Fifth Day, Fins and wings
Sixth Day, Peace and humankind
Seventh Day, Shabbat rest
And it was good