PE: Can Jump Off from Singing the Resting Tone of the Previous Song Into Singing Doh Re

SS3 Day Two

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PE: Can jump off from singing the resting tone of the previous song into singing doh re me fa sol – 12345 - highlighting visually the resting tone and the 5. We choose these notes specifically because they are the backbone notes of a song or the spine of a song or the north and south of a song. They also harmonize with each other so I can be singing the high note while you are singing the low note.

We constantly reinforce these two notes because these are the two notes that that the children hear most clearly, and we know that they hear them most clearly because those are the notes that they’ll tone most spontaneously. So we get you to sing them so that we let the children know that what they are hearing in their head is very musical – so musical that this big group of adults is going to sing it too! Very empowering!.

So when in doubt, sing those two notes – when you’re putting your instruments away, in between songs, if you need to say something to your while making music – use those two notes. No harm can be done when you’re singing “ba-bum!”

(For returning families, you could highlight that these moments in the class are important tonal moments so we encourage them to try and play with these notes and sing/speak to their children. They can speak the notes on pitch or they can try some harmony by singing the opposite note to what everyone else is singing. You can also start checking in to see who has heard this info before to see if this might JUST BE a completely ‘new’ PE for your class of returning families. J)

PussyCat E minor (egb)

·  Songbook Play – note to parents that this one way they can use the songbook this summer at home.

·  Hook – Shrugging shoulders like a question on 1 and then answer with cat scratches and meow on 5

·  Sing song straight

·  Sing with vocables

·  Divide group in two and have cats and questioners (you can sing with both) / Switch groups

·  Tag last phrase on meow with dramatic cat play to finish

Cue families to lap song and hook with horsey sounds

See the Pony - C

·  Riding horse bouncing and falling asleep on lap for verse

·  Roll back on Neigh! to wake up

·  Can go faster/ add other words – trotting / running/ racing etc

Old King Cole – C aeolian

·  Hook – play each instrument once – fiddle, singers, drummer, trumpets

·  Sing whole song once straight sitting – act out person in body and then use large arm actions for each instrument

·  Take it to standing and move around. Ideas:

·  Could start with king and queen non locomotor in the circle and exaggerate their character walk and then do the instrument verse. (If you have lots of people carrying kids, cue the parents to really let the children feel the different beat divisions in through their body.) You could then take the prince, princess and baby, in a train/parade format around the room with different walks for each character “Let’s make a parade!” Or take all the character in the train format and parade them around the room.

·  Could skip the characters and sing the vocable of each instrument while marching around and then add other instruments and do a big marching band– last one marching with choice of instrument.

Tingalayo w/ Shakers

·  Shaker Play

·  Set up Chorus actions first – TING - one shake two hands, LAY- arms reached out in front shaking eggs, O – bring eggs in under chin, 3 more shakes with two hands to finish chorus.

·  Walking Talking verse– walking eggs micro on floor

·  Chorus

·  Eating Sleeping verse– eating eggs on Macro

·  Chorus

·  Dance Sing verse– flick wrists up on Macro

·  Chorus

·  Vocables – Kids actions or your own action

·  Chorus

·  Spanish Verse/vocable - Kids actions or your own action

·  Spanish Chorus

·  Sing Chorus one more time

·  Then ask parents to hear the chorus in their head as you lead the shaker pattern without singing then have them sing it with the actions one more time

I had a little Froggy

·  Set up hopping frog on hand 8 counts with ribbit sound

·  Actions:

o  Hopping frog till “in the bathtub”

o  “if he could swim” open arms (frog in bath)

o  Rolling arms to mouth – ate up and drank up

o  “Then he burped” - action emphasis on burped (clap, big leg pash, pat head)

o  “From a bubble in his throat” – keep beat

·  1x straight

·  Tiny frog with high head voice

·  Big bull frog with big bass voice

·  Doggy –Her name was Little Rusty/Dusty

·  Kitty - Her name was Little Kelly/ Smelly

·  Loop ending – “she burped last night…” 3x

·  Finish with big BUUUURRRP and ‘excuse me’ in head voice

Who can make a circle? – find different ways to make circles – in the air, on the floor, on your baby’s head or tummy.

Shake those Simmons – Teacher Mix

Practice this song!! – It’s easy to get lost in the CD mix, but if you can find a way to make it flow smoothly people LOVE, love, love this song and it if FULL of JOY!!!!

·  Circle Left – circling finger in air

·  Circle Right - circling finger in air 1. Two actions sitting /shake up, shake down

·  Shake em up high - flick hands high

·  Shake em dowm how – flick hands low

·  Everybody Up

·  Circle around - around self 2. Two actions to standing/shake up, shake down

·  Shake em up high - standing

·  Shake em down Low- macro off hip with hand flick

·  Shimmy around – shoulder shimmy 3. Shimmy / Clap Break

·  Clap break 8 counts

·  Clap your hands

·  Spinning around 4. Four Actions Up

·  Bouncing up / Bouncing down

·  Wiggle around

·  La La La 5. La La La / Clap Break

·  Clap break 8 counts

·  Shake those Simmons 3x

·  Shake those simmons down/Freeze 6. Shake those Simmons Ending

·  Singing a song dancing

·  Dancing all night

FM

PAL

Apples and Cherries - E

·  1st verse

·  Dee Dee

·  Yawning and Sleeping

·  Doo Doo

·  Humming

How are you enjoying the music? Who has listened to the CD this week?!

Did you know Music Together offers make-up classes? Up to 4 per term! Pass code is on the white handout that you got with your CD and songbook

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