Choose body percussion, instruments or found sounds to play along.

Compose your own 16-beat body percussion sequence.

Use a different track!

Echo sing drm sl patterns

If the students can read drm sl in the key of C, they may be able to read the song using solfa notes.

Alternatively, teach the song by rote.
• Sing or play a phrase and have students echo.
• Combine phrases.
• Sing or play the whole song and have students echo.œ

Game Directions:
Contra-dance formation, with pairs in a line facing one another.
Verse 1: Pairs join hands and jive back and forth.
Verse 2: All step back making space in the alley.
Verse 3: The first student in the head pair “struts” down the alley, making any movements they wish.
Verse 4: The second student in the head pair copies the movement the first student made.

Read the note names and rhythms for “Tulip Round.” Sing the song in unison. When students can sing it successfully in unison, try the round in two parts. The round is recorded in two parts but may be sung in four parts.

This song is in common time.

Create a ball bouncing routine. Try bouncing, tossing the ball back and forth in your hands, and tossing it in the air.

In the video, this is what Mrs. Gagne did:
"Skip to my Lou" - bounced to the beat
Chorus: "Lou Lou, skip to my loo" - tossed the ball back and forth
spoken part: - tossed the ball in the air
"Where oh where?" - bounced to the beat
"Pickin up paw paws" - tossed the ball back and forth quickly
spoken part: - tossed the ball in the air
ending - bounced, then caught