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

Read the rhythms used in Cristian's lesson 9.

Practice reading the body percussion score.

Option for in-person classes: a pdf is given for students to create their own body percussion sequence. Try your sequence with the 2 tracks that follow.

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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.

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.

Teach "Lost my Partner"

The students may be able to read the rhythms for "Skip to My Lou."
Teach the melody of Skip to my Lou and Paw Paw Patch by rote.

Sing part 1 of "Lost my Partner."

Go back and try part 2. Then put the parts together.

Consider slowing the video as the tempo might be a little fast for your students.

Game Directions for "Skip to My Lou": Form a single circle.
Measure 1-4: All walk forward 4 steps to the center, hands joined, and raising arms as the steps are taken. All walk backward 4 steps, lowering arms, and bringing arms back. Repeat.
Measure 5-8: Without dropping hands, the leader walks directly across the circle to the opposite side and walks under the joined hands of the arch couple. Everyone follows the leader (with hands still joined) under the arch, turning the circle inside out.
Measures 9-16: Repeat all steps backwards ending in a circle again: 4 steps back, 4 steps forward, 4 steps back, 4 steps forward. The leader walks backwards through the arch, and the circle reforms.

This is accomplished best if the students go slowly through the arch. If they go too quickly, they pull on the arms of the couple who form the arch and can hurt them. The leader should walk straight across the circle and stay in that spot, both when turning the circle inside out and back again. The students on either side of the leader will continue moving until the circle forms, but if the leader moves, the circle will end up a bizarre shape.

Game Directions for "Paw Paw Patch": Form an "alley" -- two lines facing each other, line 1 and line 2.
Verse 1: The student at the head of Line 1 skips around behind their line, around the Line 2, back into place.
Verse 2: The student at the head of Line 2 leads the whole line around Line 1, back into their places.
Verse 3: The two lines "peel the orange". The head of Line 2 leads the line around themselves. The head of Line 1 leads the line around themselves. The head of Line 1 and Line 2 meet at the foot of the set, and make an arch. The rest of the students go through the arch and back to their places. There is now a new head pair and the dance continues.

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