February
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Title: Down By The Bay
About: This is an echo song. One person sings the words and another person/group is the echo. We also talked about rhyming words, and you and your student can make up your own question at the end!
Words: Down By the Bay (echo)
Where the watermelons grow (echo)
Back to my home (echo)
I dare not go (echo)
For if I do (echo)
My mother would say... (echo)
Did you ever see a moose kissing a goose?
Down By The Bay!
Other questions for this song:
Did you ever see a bear combing his hair?
Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie?
Did you ever see a cat wearing a hat?
Did you ever see a bug making a rug?
Did you ever see a mouse building a house?
Title: Will you be my Valentine?
About: Students will probably remember this song as the "parachute game!" There were student solos with call and response at the end. During music class those two students got to race and switch places underneath the lifted parachute.
Words: One, two, three
Who will it be?
Will you be my valentine?
One, two, three.
(Person 1) Will you be my valentine?
(Person 2) Yes I will!
Music for Steady Beat:
Title: Bling Blang
About: Students keep the beat with their hands using their "hammer and saw." They sing this song as we pretend to build different things.
Words: Bling Blang hammer with my hammer
Zingo zango cutting with my saw (x2)
Title: Three Little Monkeys
About: We used this song to practice our steady beat and our high and low sounds. We also added instruments such as the drum, tick-tock block, and the triangle. Students should know the fingerplay/motions. Practice high/middle/low sounds by changing the doctors voice every time he/she answers the phone!
Words: Three Little Monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"
Repeat song with two little monkeys, and one little monkey.
Responding to Music
Title: Aquarium
About: We used movement with this song. See if your students remember what to do while they listen to the music!
Title: Fais Dodo
About: This song is in French. They responded to this soft lullaby by rocking their "beat buddies" to sleep.
Words: Fais Dodo and let us go dreaming
Fais Dodo come dreaming with me.
- Keeping a Steady Beat
- Proper singing/solo singing
- Call and Response
- High/Middle/Low sounds
- Responding to music
Title: Down By The Bay
About: This is an echo song. One person sings the words and another person/group is the echo. We also talked about rhyming words, and you and your student can make up your own question at the end!
Words: Down By the Bay (echo)
Where the watermelons grow (echo)
Back to my home (echo)
I dare not go (echo)
For if I do (echo)
My mother would say... (echo)
Did you ever see a moose kissing a goose?
Down By The Bay!
Other questions for this song:
Did you ever see a bear combing his hair?
Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie?
Did you ever see a cat wearing a hat?
Did you ever see a bug making a rug?
Did you ever see a mouse building a house?
Title: Will you be my Valentine?
About: Students will probably remember this song as the "parachute game!" There were student solos with call and response at the end. During music class those two students got to race and switch places underneath the lifted parachute.
Words: One, two, three
Who will it be?
Will you be my valentine?
One, two, three.
(Person 1) Will you be my valentine?
(Person 2) Yes I will!
Music for Steady Beat:
Title: Bling Blang
About: Students keep the beat with their hands using their "hammer and saw." They sing this song as we pretend to build different things.
Words: Bling Blang hammer with my hammer
Zingo zango cutting with my saw (x2)
Title: Three Little Monkeys
About: We used this song to practice our steady beat and our high and low sounds. We also added instruments such as the drum, tick-tock block, and the triangle. Students should know the fingerplay/motions. Practice high/middle/low sounds by changing the doctors voice every time he/she answers the phone!
Words: Three Little Monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"
Repeat song with two little monkeys, and one little monkey.
Responding to Music
Title: Aquarium
About: We used movement with this song. See if your students remember what to do while they listen to the music!
Title: Fais Dodo
About: This song is in French. They responded to this soft lullaby by rocking their "beat buddies" to sleep.
Words: Fais Dodo and let us go dreaming
Fais Dodo come dreaming with me.