Echo Snowman Bobo (drm s)

Teach "Who's That?"

Review with the students that a half note is held for two beats. Have the students read the rhythm of the song.

Play the game with "Who's That?"

This is a guessing game with two guessers. Seat the guessers with their backs to the class. The teacher selects two soloists to sing the solos. Each guesser gets one guess. Choose new guessers and new soloists each round. This helps to keep students more engaged in the game. Keep track on your class list of the students who’ve had a turn to be guesser and soloist. Sometimes the guessers get confused and listen to the wrong solo.

Sort the rhythms of the song for "Who's That?"

Optional: Teach the Orff arrangement for "Who's That?"

Creative Ideas: Choose one child to be the “mommy” and one to be the “daddy.” Have them take turns improvising tapping patterns on a woodblock, rhythm sticks, cowbell or tone block. Use the improvisations as a B section between repetitions of the song.

Teach "Jolly Old St. Nicholas"

The students may be able to read the rhythms in the song. The melody of the song would be best taught by rote. Create actions to go with this song.

Note: There is a Boomwhacker and a bucket drumming arrangement of this song.

Play Instruments with "Overture" from The Nutcracker

Do you have sticks, drums and triangles in your music classroom? Divide the class into 3 groups and give each group one instrument. Play along! If you don't have instruments, substitute body percussion.
sticks=claps
drums=pats
triangles=snaps

Create your own rhythms to play along with Overture

Create your own rhythms to play along with Overture.

Divide your class into 3-4 groups.
Give each a set of the 2 beat note rhythms and invite them to create their own rhythms.
Have them choose an instrument to play.
Then have each group in the class play one section.

Optional: Request and Review Songs, Games, Activities

Ask the children to tell you their favorite songs, games or activities that they've done during the school year. List the songs/games/activities on the board, then have the student vote for their favorites. Conduct the votes with their eyes closed. As you work through the list of games/songs/activities, review the concepts that were taught in the activity. I'm often surprised at the activities that are the children's favorites!

Sing "The Music Time Is Over"

Sing "The Music Time Is Over".