Move to Body Percussion Fun!

Do the body percussion as shown in the video.

Teachers: if the video is too fast, slow it down with the gear wheel tool.

Echo sing (m sl in F Major)

Teach “Tick Tock”

Read the rhythm for song "Tick Tock”. Divide the class into two groups. Have one group read the words. Have the other group read the rhythms at the same time. Switch.

Sing the song for the students, or watch the lyric highlights video. As you sing or listen, point to the notes and have the students point as well so that they learn that the note that sounds higher is written in a higher space on the staff. The note that sounds lower is written in a lower space on the staff. Use the Tone Ladder (next procedure) to help illustrate this motion. Sing the song all the way through and teach them the game. Play the game.

Optional: Show how the notes go higher and lower on the tone ladder

Play the “Tick Tock” game

Line students up on one side of the room. Designate a finish line (e.g., board, back of chairs). Sing the song. At the end of the song, wave a green flag to begin the race. Students can race different ways: hopping on one foot, walking backwards, on tiptoes, baby steps, etc.

Read the rhythms for “Tick Tock”

Optional: Play the melody for “Tick Tock” on Boomwhackers

Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Tick Tock”

Playing and Creating: Have the students choose different instruments to create clock sounds as an introduction to the song. Have groups of students create clock movement to perform while they sing and play the song.

Optional: Draw the notes for “Tick Tock”

Review “Aikendrum”

Teach song by rote. Add unpitched instruments as suggested in the lyrics of the song.

Denise Tip: When I teach this song, I have all the students who are playing one instrument sit in a line together. At the end of the song, I have all the students set their instruments down on the floor in front of them, step over their instruments and sit down in front of a new instrument. The front line steps over their instrument and walks to an instrument in the back row. This way, the students get experience playing more of a variety of instruments.

Create actions to go with the other verses of the song.

Invite the children to make new verses.
For example: His toes were made of ice-cream...
His knees were made of chocolate...
His arms were made of ribs...

Sort unpitched instruments into families

Teach “Haul Away Joe”

Create movements like sailors might have done on a ship.

This song is a traditional sea shanty. Listen to the song and ask the students to think about who might have sung this song. (sailors) Ask the students to think of jobs that people might do today that would be similar to the jobs that sailors did. (cruise ship workers, fishermen, etc.) To help the students learn the lyrics, ask them to count how many times they hear the phrase, "'Way haul away." (10 times) Play the song again with the video and have them sing, "'Way haul away," each time they hear it. Now ask them to listen and count how many times they hear the phrase, "'Way haul away, we’ll haul away Joe." (6 times) Play the song again with the video and have them sing, "'Way haul away, we’ll haul away Joe," each time they hear it. Ask them questions about the song. This will help them to learn the lyrics, and will help them to understand the text of the song.

For example:
- What did Joe’s mother tell him when he was a little boy?
- What kind of things are they doing on the boat?
- What is the “packet”? (another word for the boat)

Learn About Sea Shanties

Teach “Wishy Washy Wee”

This is an excellent singing game to help the students develop steady beat. Have the students read the words to the song. The objectives of this song are:

1. Perform simple action songs and singing games.
2. Move to the beat in music through walking, running, hopping, galloping and skipping, as appropriate to the psychomotor development of the students

Play the singing game for “Wishy Washy Wee”

Watch the kids demo, then play the game, "Wishy Washy Wee."

Have the class form a circle. Choose two students to be the sailors. The sailors march around the inside of the circle. At the end of the second phrase, the sailors stop in front of a student, they join hands and they “jig”--left heel out, right heel out--for two phrases. The students in the circle should do a “sailors horn pipe” at the same time (fold arms and jig in place). Now four students march in the inside circle. They choose four partners and jig. Then there are 8, then 16, then the whole class is chosen.

Sing “The Music Time is Over”

Sing "The Music Time is Over."