Do a Rhythm Erase

Do the rhythm erase.

Can your students identify the song?

Review “Someone’s Tapping”

“Someone’s Tapping” is a guessing game. Depending on the reading abilities of your students, teach the song by rote or have the students read the solfa and the rhythms.

Ask the students to tell you how they can guess who is singing. They can tell who is singing because every person’s voice has a different “timbre.” Tell them that adult and children’s voices have different timbres.

Have the students show the phrases with arm motions. Each phrase is one measure. Ask the students which phrases are the same and which are different. Label the phrase form with shapes or with letters: a b a' c.

Review the game for “Someone’s Tapping”

This is a guessing game with two guessers. Guessers sit with backs to the class. The teacher must select two soloists to sing the solos. Each guesser gets one guess. The students who sing the solos become the new guessers. Sometimes the guessers get confused and listen to the wrong solo. To avoid confusion have them face the blackboard and in front of them print:
Solo 1: Who could it be?
Solo 2: Just try stopping me.

Play the game and sing “Someone’s Tapping”

Option 1: Play “Someone’s Tapping” on Boomwhackers

Option 2: Teach the Orff arrangement for “Someone’s Tapping”

Playing and Creating: Have the students create a new melody for the song in F pentatonic.

Learn about the song “La pulga”

Learn about the song “La pulga”.

Play along with “La pulga”

Clap or use instruments to play along with "La pulga".

Teach “La pulga”

To learn the Spanish words, use the pause button. Play a short phrase and pause the recording. Have the students repeat. Play another short phrase and pause the recording. Repeat. Continue until they have learned the entire song.

A rhythm play along is given for students to play along with the song. If the language is too difficult for the students, play along instead of singing. Choose unpitched instruments such as shakers, claves, rhythm sticks or drums to play along with the music.

Review the instruments and instrument families of the orchestra using the Orchestra Unit on MusicplayOnline.

Play poison rhythm

Review “Chicken in the Barnyard”

This song replaces the song "Chicken on a Fencepost" which had a verse that was outdated. This is a reading song. Read the rhythms and the melody of the song. This song uses low so and low la. Teach the movement activity or game.
Students really love the game.

Sort the rhythms for “Chicken in the Barnyard”

Review the game with “Chicken in the Barnyard”

This demo is for a similar song. (words are a little different)

Form two circles - an inside and an outside circle. Choose two racers who leave the circles and hide somewhere in the classroom. Place a rubber chicken in the middle of the inside circle. The teacher now creates a hole in the outside circle, and a hole in the inside circle, by moving two students apart. Sing verse one. At the end of verse one, the two racers have to try to be the first to find and get through the opening in the outside circle, and find and get through the opening in the inside circle to pick up the rubber chicken. The racer who gets to the chicken first wins. It’s kind of like racing through a maze.

Play the game and sing “Chicken in the Barnyard”