Explore Our Voices ~ Slide Whistle
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D.
Cut the Cake
Clap your hands together.
Give yourself a shake.
Make a happy circle.
Then you cut the cake
Introduce Yourself!
We'll be jumping in and out of hoops on the floor for this one.
Introduce yourself, Introduce yourself!
Solo: My name is Molly, Response: Uh huh
Solo: And I like hockey Response: Oh, yeah
We're here to meet you, to greet you,
jump up, jump back, stand still.
Introduce yourself, Introduce yourself!
Solo: My name is _____, Response: Uh huh
Solo: And I like _____ Response: Oh, yeah
We're here to meet you, to greet you,
jump up, jump back, stand still.
Ickle Ockle Blue Bottle
Fishes in the sea
If you want a partner
Please pick me!
We'll decode this rhythmically in 4/4 time and tonally on Do, Mi, Sol, La
Alligator Pie in 4/4 and 2/4 meter
Alligator pie alligator pie
If I don't get some I think I'm gonna die
Take away the green grass, take away the sky but
Don't take away my alligator pie!
I think I Hear the Ending Coming
and now it's time to STOP! and now it's time to POSE!
A sailor went to sea, chop, knee, tap, ooh-wachie-waw
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This is a great song to learn about chords and how to build them. We'll play along on resonnator bells.
Cut the Cake
Now that we know the song and the game, we'll learn this on PP instruments
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Begin to decode on staff
Pass the Pumpkin Rhythms - sixteenth note and syncopated combinations
Danse Macabre
The music is based on a poem written by Henri Cazalis, which tells of the gruesome goings-on in the churchyard of a French village on Halloween.
Danse Macabre is an example of programme music. Programme music tells a story or represents something such as a painting or poem. Sometimes music that was intended for one purpose can later be used for another. For example, Danse Macabre has been used for the theme music for the television programme, Jonathan Creek. The composer, Camille SaintSaens was French and he lived from 1865-1921. He also wrote `Carnival of the Animals' which is 14 short pieces each written to represent a certain animal.
Danse Macabre
Zig-a-zig-a-zig it's the Rhythm of Death!
Death at midnight playing a dance tune,
Zig-a-zig-a-zig on his violin.
The winter wind whistles and the night is dark.
The winter wind whistles and the lime trees moan.
Weird white skeletons streak across the shadows
Running and leaping wrapped in their shrouds.
Zig-a-zig-a-zig the dance grows even wilder
You can hear the eerie clatter of the dancers' bones
But wait! Suddenly they all stop dancing.
They scatter, they vanish for the cock has crowed.
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Drunken Sailor
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Begin to decode on staff
The 5th grade gets to learn the story of King Wenceslaus who took in and fed the poor on the Feast of Saint Stephen. We'll learn the song and accompany ourselves on pitched percussion instruments.
In the slide show to the right you can check out all of the songs we'll learn that we perform all together in the gym.
Sugar Fairy 1
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Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Begin to decode on staff
Sugar Fairy 1
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VERSE 1 - Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee,
God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee,
Opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;
Drive the dark of doubt away;
Giver of immortal gladness,
Fill us with the light of day!
VERSE 2 - All Thy works with joy surround Thee,
Earth and heaven reflect Thy rays,
Stars and angels sing around Thee,
Center of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain,
Flowery meadow, flashing sea,
Singing bird and flowing fountain,
Call us to rejoice in Thee.
VERSE 3 - Thou art giving and forgiving,
Ever blessing, ever blessed,
Wellspring of the joy of living,
Ocean depth of happy rest!
Thou our Father, Christ our Brother,
All who live in love are Thine;
Teach us how to love each other,
lift us to the joy divine.
VERSE 4 - Mortals, join the happy chorus,
Which the morning stars began;
Father love is reigning o'er us,
brother love binds man to man.
Ever singing, march we onward,
Victors in the midst of strife,
Joyful music leads us Sunward
In the triumph song of life.
Practice decoding melodic patterns
We'll decode rhythm & pitch in 2/4 time
We'll accompany on PP instrument
Refamiliarizing ourselves to the notes on the treble clef while practicing rhythmic decoding as a bonus.
We'll echo patterns on PP as well as on recorders
Can we manage the ins and outs of this activity using hoops on the floor?
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Perform these as partner songs! (But in the same key!!)
Song #1 - Land of the Silver Birch
Song #2 - My Paddle
Dip, dip, and swing her back, flashing with silver. Follow the wild goose track. Dip, dip, and swing.
Practice decoding melodic patterns
Review pitches/fingerings and pick up wherever you left off last year...
Echo back tonal phrases on recorders and/or PP
Jikeleza (or The Throw and Catch Song)
Throw, catch, - Throw, catch, - Throw, catch,
Jikeleza
Throw, catch, - Throw, catch, - Throw, catch,
Jikeleza
Na na na na na na na- Na na na na na na na-
Na na na na na na na- Jikeleza
Na na na na na na na- Na na na na na na na-
Na na na na na na na- Jikeleza
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Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Continue to decode on staff
Continue to work on recorder skills
From the opera "Carmen", this is Claude Bizet's Habanera
Remember to look for patterns!
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When Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson passed away on February 3rd, 1959 after a small plane crash, rock and roll lost some of its most notable early pioneers. Singer-songwriter Don McLean called this moment in music history "The Day the Music Died," in his song "American Pie."
Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Continue to decode on staff
6/8 time
We'll play the game then decode the rhythms
My bonnie lies over the ocean
My bonnie lies over the sea
My bonnie lies over the ocean
Oh bring back my bonnie to me
Bring back, bring back
Oh bring back my bonnie to me to me
Bring back, bring back
Oh bring back my bonnie to me
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Echo 4 beat melodic phrases using D, R, M, F, S, L, T, D. Continue to decode on staff
"I Have, Who Has" in 6/8 meter
Take 5 Passing Game
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2. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on. Refrain
3. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on. Refrain
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea, There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea, There’s a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea, There’s a bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a Frog on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea, There’s a Frog on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a wart on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a wart on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a fly on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a fly on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a flea on the fly, on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a flea on the fly, on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a smile on the flea, on the fly, on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a smile on the flea, on the fly, on the wart, on the frog ,on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea
There’s a hole, there’s a hole
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
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