Echo Bunny Bobo

Echo Bunny Bobo.

Invite the children to make up new Bobo patterns for the class to echo.

Teach “Knee’s Up Mother Brown”

1. Introduce the motions that will be used in the song: knees up, twirling, hopping

2. Teach the song by rote. Perform the song with actions suggested by the words of the song. This is great practice in keeping a beat.

3. This song also provides good examples of fast-slow. You could have students demonstrate through movement that they can distinguish between fast and slow. To assess if they can independently determine when the tempo is slow and when it is fast, give them a copy of the tempo pointing page. Have them listen to the song and point to “slow” when the music is slow, and “fast” when the music is fast.

Listen and move to the drum

Listen to the drum in the movie. Follow what the drum does with your feet.
Listen carefully for how the drum changes!

Invite students to take turns playing a drum and have the class move the way the student plays.

Teach “Tingalayo”

1. Give the students egg shakers and rhythm sticks and have them play along as they listen to the song. Have the egg shakers play for one verse and rhythm sticks for the next. Ask them questions about the song. For example: What is the song about? (a donkey) What kinds of things does the donkey do?

2. Make word/picture cards of the keywords in the song. Put the keywords in the pocket chart to help the children remember the words to the four verses. For Verse 1 you might include “donkey,” “walk,” “talk” and “knife and fork.” For Verse 2 you might include “donkey,” “eats,” “sleeps” and “kicks.” For Verse 3 include “yes,” “no,” “stops.” Verse 4 include “hee,” “haw” and “sits.” Listen to the song, pointing to the picture cards.

3. Teach the chorus by rote. Sing the chorus, and play instruments for the verses. Repetition will help the students to learn the song.

Learn about the song “Tingalayo”

"Tingalayo" is a calypso song that comes from the Caribbean.

It was sung in Trinidad and other countries near there.

Sing along with or play with “Tingalayo”

Sing and play along with the song using shakers and sticks.
• In the chorus, play shakers.
• In the verses, play sticks.

Discuss what kinds of things the donkey did in the song.
Ask the students if a real donkey could do those things?

Think of other movements the donkey could do

Optional: Print and complete the worksheet and think of other things the donkey could do.

Try out some of the children's ideas as new verses in the song.

If no printer is available, draw a picture of another movement, action, or activity the donkey could do on paper.

Choose 4 leaders to create beat movements in "Action Leader"

Choose 4 leaders.
• Each leader will create movement to the beat. The class will copy.
• This is great for reinforcing beat and fast and slow.

Review “Mr. Troll”

Sing and play the game.

The teacher or a student could be the troll. Create some kind of a bridge. You could lay down two skipping ropes, you could use rubber dots, or just chalk mark a bridge on the carpet. All the children sing the question: “Mr. Troll, Mr. Troll, may we cross the bridge? May we cross to the other side?” The troll decides on a color and answers them “Only if you’re wearing yellow - If you’re not, better run and hide.” If you want to use this game to practice color identification, you could put a number of colored objects in a paper bag and have the troll draw one out. The children wearing the chosen color cross the bridge and join the troll. The game continues until all students have crossed the bridge. This game is a lot of fun, yet involves no real competition or chaos!

An alternative way to play the game is to give each student a colored egg or a colored piece of paper. Instead of singing, “Only if you’re wearing yellow,” you’d sing “Only if you have a yellow.” Those students holding yellow, come across the bridge. You can use this idea to practice shape or letter identification. Give each child a shape to hold. Then sing, “Only if you have a circle,” and those holding circles come across the bridge. If you have taught 7 or 8 letters to your students, give those letters out. Then sing, “Only if have the A,” and those students come across the bridge.

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Teach and play the game with “Easter Bunny Hops Along”

This is an Easter egg hiding game. Teach the song. Choose four or five students to be “bunnies.” They hide colored plastic eggs where they can be seen (in plain sight - not under something) in the classroom while the class sings the song. At the end of the song the class opens up their eyes and hunts down the eggs. Choose four or five new students to be “bunnies” and continue the game until all students have had a turn to hide eggs.

Teach “Easter is Here”

This song is included to provide an opportunity for the children to create movement. In verse 1, they are to move for eight beats like “bunnies.” In verse 2 they are to move for eight beats like “baby chicks,” and in verse 3 like “lambs.” Verse 4 is left blank so the children can think of something else that they can move like. In verse 4 insert something “springy” - baby bird, ladybug, tadpole, flowers. If Easter is not celebrated at your school, change the word “Easter” to “springtime.” The students move only for the eight counts and then stop and sing again.

If you wish, you could have the students play the 8 beats with instruments like jingle taps, jingle bells or squeak hammers tapping on a number strip. A number strip is available from the supporting resources.

Teach “Sleepy Bunnies”

Use this song to discuss dynamics - quiet and loud sounds with the students. Ask them to think of loud sounds. (balloon popping, rocket ship, lion’s roar) Ask them to think of some quiet sounds. (breathing, clock ticking) Have them listen to the sounds around them and list as many sounds as they can.

Learn the actions for “Sleepy Bunnies”

Part One: Have the students pretend to be sleeping bunnies. They should lay on the floor. Part Two: After the bunnies have been woken up, they should get up and hop around.

Sing and do the actions for “Sleepy Bunnies”

Sing and move to “Skinnamarink”