Play poison rhythm (sixteenth notes - 8 beats). If this is too challenging go to the rhythm practice level and pick a different video.

Have your students read the rhythms and solfa/note names. If your students are not reading rhythms or solfa/note names, teach by rote. Show the melodic shape of the song with arm movements as you sing.

This is an excellent reading song and chase game that is a lot of fun to play. Depending on the reading abilities of your students, teach the song by rote or have the students read the solfa and the rhythms. When they have learned to sing the song, add a clap at the end of each phrase. This is a good song to use to the dotted quarter-eighth note rhythm.

Watch how the game "Our Old Sow" is played.

If you want to view the written directions, follow the link to the song and download the pdf of the song activities.

This game is a lot of fun to play!

Creative Ideas: Set the barred instruments up in G pentatonic. Teach all the students how to play the melody on barred instruments. When they know the melody well, invite them to improvise their own melody in bars 3-4 and 7-8.

This play along does have a ticka-ti rhythm (two sixteenth notes and an eighth notes). You could play it as two eighth notes if your students don't know how to read this rhythm yet.

Review The Brass Family

Sing "He’s Got the Whole World". This will be familiar to many students and may not need to be taught by rote.

This song uses only two chords, D and A. (I and V chords in the key of D) This would be a great song to have the students add accompaniment with a guitar, ukuleles, or Boomwhackers. Teach the students how chords are numbered. A I chord is built on the first note of the scale. The V chord is built on the fifth note of the scale.

To build chords on Boomwhackers:
I ~ C E G
V ~ G B D