Bongos Week Three - 11

Bongos Week Three - 11

Hello E in C

Resting Tone:
This is the resting tone of this song. The resting tone- we also call it the 1- is a very important note. It is the Home Note of the song like Home Base. It is also important because it usually one of the first notes that children will sing and 99.9% of the time in Music Together it is the last note of the song. So you can play with the resting tone at home by leaving the last note of the song off. This will give your children a chance to audiate the resting tone or sing it for you. This is why we play with the resting tone in so many different ways. See if you can find the resting note of your favourite songs at home – any song! (hot tip –remember it’s almost always the same note as the last note of the song!)

Canoe Song - A in d

·  Can set up group into two canoes and then lead them from the front (could use a drum if you like too)

·  Ostinato Dip Dip and Swing while setting up rowing action

·  “Join me” Everyone on the verse/vocable 2x

·  Set up part singing with either whole group on dip dip or breaking into two groups – can have other group on verse/vocable since song is wordy (if two groups, switch side so each side can try the melody). Can also set up a round between the two groups/canoes.

·  “Join me” Everyone on the verse with words 2x

·  Dip and swing decrescendo to finish

TP’s Minor

See How I’m Jumping G in Eminor (EGB = 135)

·  See how I’m bouncing w/ roll back on “down I flop”

·  Wiggling

·  Tickling

·  ¾ verse rocking side to side

·  Bouncing

Everyday

Vocable verse with two and three section highlighted with actions

·  What do we do …….. (before going to bed, at the park – pick a theme)

·  Harvest suggestions and do all or harvest one and do etc.

·  Could finish with a verse from the song that goes with the theme like sleeping or playing.

Little Johny Brown w/ scarves - C

·  Sitting – give parents the option to set babies down on the floor in front of them so that the babies can alternate between the scarf and eye contact with the loved one.

·  A - LJB Swing that scarf - macro

·  B - La la - micro

·  A – LJB Lay that comfort down – swooshing across babies

·  B – Fold down a corner/ Peek a boo

·  A – LJB Lay that comfort down – laying scarf on the floor

·  B - Fold down a corner – corners of scarf

·  A –LJB How high can ya go? - to standing

·  A – Shake it way up high/ Shake it way down low

·  B - Vocable shaking high on high notes and low on low notes

·  A – LJB Toss that scarf around

·  B - Throw it to a friend

·  A- LJB Twirl yourself around

·  B - La la – twirling

·  B- Everybody whisper………… – hiding behind/under scarf

·  A- Shh – sneak around

·  B -Everybody sing…...

·  A – LJB Sit right on the ground

·  A – LJB Lay that comfort down

·  A – LJB Sleep now – sleeping on the scarf

·  Quiet humming verse to finish

Each person gets one bell and extras are left in the middle

Ding a Ding - start with CD and fade out or No CD - A

·  Doing the action with clap at end of phrase

·  Part 1 – action with clap at end of phrase

·  Part 2 – alternating tapping bells on floor with clap (this action will follow through to part singing next week

·  Part 1 – action with clap at end of phrase

·  Pings – action with clap at end of phrase – fade out CD (this is at about 60 secs)

·  Part 3 – action with clap (no CD)

·  Continue playing with different actions and vocables – ideas: ow on head, yum yum, up/down, rolling arms, naming body parts

RP’s and 1-8 play

Train is a Comin w/ train whistle – D

·  Start Chugga Choo’s and get your train set up sitting

·  “Join me” – Verse

·  Chugga Choo’s

·  Come along children (could keep the group on the choo choo’s)

·  All Aboard Children Here we Go - to standing, tuck the group in behind you

·  Chugga choo’s in train around the room – Slow, fast, loud, quiet, verses about where the train is going

·  Finish with a verse about dancing/moving into FM

FM

PAL

Sleepyhead F# in D (D F# A = 135) – Teacher can play two resonators (A and D)

·  Verse

·  Vocables

- I challenge you to figure out which song is Track 29 – we’ll be singing it next class! Come back and tell me next week……J

-Our Parent Presentation – Music and Your Child – will be the evenings of October 17th (Kerr) and 19th (TBA) in Vancouver and the afternoon of Nov 5th in West Van. Your experience of the class and your interactions musically with your child will be heightened after attending this presentation! J

Goodbye – A in D