Super Fun Activities with Musicplay!
Presented by Denise Gagne, April 2015
Vocal Warm-ups for Singers or Choir - by Kerry Heisler The warm-ups in this collection are
organized into five sets. Each set includes a physical warm-up, breath awareness, then five minutes
of a variety of mid-range warm-ups. There is a vocal model to accompany the vocalist(s) for the first
exercises, then you or your group continue until the end of the exercise.
I Love to Sing - G, C’ G E C up by 1/2 step
Lip trills - C-G-C up by 1/2 step
7 Es - Eyes, Ears, Effort, Energy, Expression, Extra Big Breath, Exceptionally Open Mouth
Posture: 2, 4, 6, 8 Everybody sit up straight. Put your feet on the floor. Sit ahead a little more.
Body Moves - from Stories and Nursery Rhymes
. Eyebrows 2. Nose 3. Mouth 4. Tongue 5. Chin 6. Head. etc.
Alligator Song - from Stories and Nursery Rhymes
Swing
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was
an
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li - ga
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∑
Downright Upright - Action 2 2
&4
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j
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adagio~moderato~allegro
good
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I'm down - right,
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down - right,
& œ.
∑
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na na
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na.
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up - right,
j œ.
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know
œ
A
bun - ny,
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∑
u - tan,
an
j
¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
a
bea - ver, and
in - right,
made
& œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
down -only
right, up - right,
in - right,
out - right
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was
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cra - zy
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Traditional
Arr. C. Noble and T. Stener
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all
œ
of
all
the
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the
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friends.
time!
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time.
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a
Fine
..
j
œ
Traditional
I'm
j
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It's
j
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I'm
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all
the
time!
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A Pizza Hut - Action 2 (Musicplay 2)
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1.
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A
&b œ œ œ
œ
Piz - za Hut,
&b ˙
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Piz - za Hut,
˙
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˙
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2.
œ œ œ œ
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a Ken - tuck - y Fried Chick-en and
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Don - ald's, Mc - Don - ald's,
Piz - za Hut. A
Piz - za Hut. Mc -
&
Piz - za Hut. Mc -
&
Piz - za Hut!
&
a Ken - tuck - y Fried Chick-en and a
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Don - ald's, Mc - Don - ald's,
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a
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a Ken - tuck - y Fried Chick-en and
a
# 6
& 8 œ œ œ œ œ œ
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œ
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Piz - za Hut, a Ken - tuck - y Fried Chick-en and a
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a
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Piz - za Hut, a
We Come From Pluto - Action 2 (Musicplay 3)
Camp Song
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&
Tony Chestnut - Action 1 (Musicplay 2)
C
&c œ
C
To - ny
Chest - nut
knows
C
G7
I
love
C
F
C
Chest - nut
knows
I
love
To - ny
G7
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you.
That's what
C
˙
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you.
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To - ny
C
œ œ œ œ
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F
knows.
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œ
To - ny
œ
œ
&
Traditional
To - ny
˙
knows.
#
#
#
#
#
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We come from Plu - to and
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sev - en feet tall!
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The
we are the Green team. We
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earth - lings may eat
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sing a- long.
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us
but
fly
and
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bloom bleep bleep bleep.
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bloom bleep bleep bloom bleep bleep
bloom bleep bleep bloom bleep bleep
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beat
us 'cause
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sing a - long,
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bloom bleep bleep bloom bleep bleep
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bloom bleep bleep bloom bleep bleep
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we're num - ber one!
Bloom bleep bleep bloom bleep bleep
Camp Song
œ
in our space - ships. We're
they'll nev - er
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we come from Plu - to
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Bloom bleep bleep bloom bleep bleep
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œ.
bloom bleep bleep bleep!
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w
knows.
Developing Part Singing
- be sure students are very secure in unison before trying parts
- teacher sings 1 part, all the students sing the other ---- then divide students into groups
- echo songs are easiest (My Aunt Came Back, I am a Pizza) - then ostinato with simple reading song
- continue the sequence with rounds, canons, partner songs, two part SA
See Saw - Musicplay or Kindergarten
& 24 œ
œ
See
œ œ œ œ
œ œ œ
saw
up
and
down.
In
the
air
and
on
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Traditional
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Coming soon!
Interactive activities
the ground.
- high / low game
- fast/slow game
Hot Cross Buns - April - Musicplay 2
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Johnny One HammerApril - Musicplay 2
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John - ny
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plays with
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John - ny
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plays
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with
one
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Ap - ple
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won't
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tree,
cry,
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I
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one
œ
ap - ple
œ
one
tree,
œ
won't shout,
Will
œ
If
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ham - mer,
Œ
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ham - mer, one
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then
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ham - mer,
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Apple Tree- April - Musicplay 1
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your
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fall
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on
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knocks me
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me?
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Traditional
Beat/Rhythm Activities
- point to the beat
- clap the words (rhythm)
- is it beat or rhythm?
- how many sounds on each beat?
- create a 4 beat ostinato
Note Naming:
- name the solfa notes
- play the song and hear the solfa
- name the letter names
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for schools that have purchased the
digital resources for 3-8 years.
Visit now and try out the games!!!
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Donkeys Love Carrots - Musicplay 3
# 2
& # 4 œ
1.
œ
Don - keys love
# 3.
& # œ
Hee
to
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-
œ
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œ
haw!
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œ
œ
munch on
Hee
2.
car - rots.
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œ
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don't
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Lis - ten
like
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to
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Car - rots
4.
haw!
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Whoopee cushion - Musicplay 3
that
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the
at
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traditional
all.
& ˙.
1.
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Big
2.
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clocks
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Lit - tle
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tick
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clocks
3.
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Watch - es
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slow - ly,
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er,
so
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tick
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fast
wrist tick fast - er,
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tock,
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tock - a,
tock - a, tick - a
tock.
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on my teach - er's chair.
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cried.
3
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tock - a.
Mu - sic
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tock - a,
She
˙
whoo - pee cush - ion
All things shall
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tick - a
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tick - a
Danish
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tick,
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tick - a
a
3.
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cried.
4.
-
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2.
adapted D.G.
She
did - n't see
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She
did- n't see
it
w
it
there.
Music Alone Shall Live - Musicplay 5, Singing Games 4
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tick,
œ
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on your
œ
œ
put
œ
there.
call.
Clock Round - Musicplay 4, Singing Games 4
2
&4
1.
Some - one
œ
don - key's
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a - lone
j
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œ.
per - ish from
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J
un - der the
Mu - sic
j
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sky.
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shall live,
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˙.
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œ.
a - lone
Mu - sic
shall live,
œ.
Traditional
a - lone
shall live,
˙.
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nev - er
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J
to
die.
tick - a tock - a, tick.
More Sensational Singing Games for Spring!
Frog in the Middle - Musicplay 2, Singing Games 3
Bee Bee Bumblebee - Musicplay 1, Singing Games 3
œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ œ
œ
& b 24 œ
Bee
bee
&b œ œ œ œ
Stung
a
pig
œ
bum - ble - bee,
œ
up - on
œ
œ
his
snout.
stung
œ
I
a
man
œ
up - on
œ
œ
œ
de - clare that
you
his
œ
are
œ
Traditional
knee.
œ
out!
A Sailor- Musicplay 3, Singing Games 3
A
œ œ œ œ
sail - or went to
&œ œ œ œ
all
that
he could
œ
Dis,
Dis, Dis, Dis,
œ
Dis,
to
see what
Dis,
was the
Camp Song
œ œ œ œ
he could
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
œ
bot - tom of the deep
Dis, Dis, Dis.
œ
blue
But
œ
œ
œ
Dis,
Dis,
Dis.
Directions: clap game; own right, own left, add actions:
Dis - circle ears knee - pat knees
land - pat floor
Tick Tock - Musicplay 1, Singing Games 3
& b 24 œ
&b œ
Tick,
Tick,
œ
œ
tock,
œ
tock,
œ
tick,
tick,
œ
tock,
œ
tock,
œ
œ
Lis - ten
œ
Up
œ
œ œ œ œ œ
can't get him out.
Take a big stick and
œ œ œœ œ œ
traditional
stir him all a - bout.
Directions: Frog in the middle holds hands out, chooses 2
racers. First to clap the “frog’s” hands wins.
John the Rabbit - Musicplay Preschool, Singing Games 3
œ œ œ #œ
œ œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ œ
Frog in the mid - dle,
Directions: Pass a big bee around the circle. Last one passed
to is out. Then switch to small bee.
&c œ
&c œ œ œ œ œ
œ
now
œ
be - fore
œ
and
œ
it's
œ
œ
Traditional Children's Rhyme
hear
œ
eight
the
œ
œ
clock.
œ
o' - clock.
#
& Cœ
j
œ. œ œ œ
#
& œ œ œ œ
Oh,
&
#
in
œ.
John
my
the Rab - bit,
gar - den,
j
œ œ œ
&
# œ œ œ
œ
&
œ œ œ
sweet
#
I
live,
ain't
gon - na
have,
˙
(Yes, ma'am!)
œ
Cut - tin'
˙
˙
(Yes, ma'am!)
œ
œ
Got a
œ œ
(Yes, ma'am!)
œ
j œ
œ œ œ. œ œ
˙
(Yes, ma'am!)
po - ta - toes,
if
œ
œ
œ
˙
(Yes, ma'am!)
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My
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down my
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fresh
œ
œ
To
migh - ty ha - bit.
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No
see
œ
next
œ œ
cab - bage,
j
œ œ œ
to - ma - toes.
œ
fall,
œ
œ œ œ ˙
gar - den at
all.
œ
˙
œ
˙
œ
˙
œ
˙
Traditional
Jump -in'
(Yes, ma'am!)
My
(Yes, ma'am!)
(Yes, ma'am!)
œ
˙
(No, ma'am!)
œ
œ
And
œ
I
Œ
Directions: teacher is Farmer Brown. Kids are bunnies.
Each time they sing “Yes ma’am” they take 1 jump toward
farmer. At end of song, he shoos them back. Choose new
vegetables to eat and play again. (until you or the kids are
tired of it!)
Directions; race game, choosing different ways to race - tiptoe, backwards, crabwalk. Use as theme of a rondo.
Poems - Hickory Dickory, Wee Willie Winkie B and C
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œ œ
(Yes, ma'am!)
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Rain on the Green Grass - Musicplay K, Singing Games 3
&c œ œ œ œ
Rain
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Œ
œ œ œ œ Œ
œ
on the green grass,
Traditional
rain on the tree,
rain
on the roof - top but
not on me!
Pass an umbrella with rhythms in it. Child with umbrella at the end, claps the rhythm. Make a chain.
If time permits:
Juanito
A la Vibora
Gitsagakomim
- all from Musicplay and/or Singing Games 3
Chumbara - Musicplay 5, Singing Games 4
2
&4 œ œ œ
œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ
Chum - ba - ra,
chum - ba - ra,
&œ œ œ œ
œ œ œ
œ
chum-ba - ra,
& œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ
Chum - ba - ra,
Chum - ba - ra,
chum - ba - ra,
Chum - ba - ra,
œ œ œ œ
Chum - ba - ra,
œ œ œ
Chum - ba - ra,
œ œ œ
cha, cha, cha, cha,
œ œ œ
chum - ba - ra,
œ œ œ œ
œ œ œ œ
Cha, cha, cha, cha,
Camp Song
œ
œ
chum - ba - ra,
cha,
œ œ œ œ
chum-ba - ra,
cha,
Œ
œ
cha!
MAKE UP hand patterns to accompany the song. Artie Almeida - make up new words Zip - oo - da
Play on Boomwhackers - great song for teaching note reading!
If time permits:
Our Old Sow
Four White Horses
Built My Lady
- all from Musicplay and/or Singing Games 4
Four White Horses, Musicplay 5 and/or Singing Games 4
Our Old Sow, Musicplay 5 and/or Singing Games 4
#
& c œ œ œ œ
&
#
œ
Our
old sow
œ
Three foot
œ œ œ œ œ Œ
is
œ
œ
two
a
get- ting ver - y fat,
œ
-
œ
cross
the
œ
back,
œ.
j
œ œ œ
j
œ œ œ
Ki - mo, ko - mo,
Œ
œ.
Ki - mo, ko - mo,
˙
kee
˙
kee
Traditional
œ Œ
- mo.
œ Œ
#
& c œ œ œ œ
&
&
- mo.
#
#
‰ œ œj œ
œ
Hey,
a
rain - y
Come on
a
ripe
Four white hors - es
on the riv - er,
j
j
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ Œ
Up
to - mor - row is
day.
j
j
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
Shal - low Bay
is
ba - nan - a,
j
œ ‰œ œ œ
hey,
‰œ
hey,
up
j
œ œ ‰ œ œ œ
up
to the
j
j
œ œ œ œ œ œ
Up
to - mor - row is
a
j Caribbean
œ œ œ
to - mor - row,
œ œ œ Œ
shal - low bay.
œ œ œ Œ
rain - y
Built my Lady, Musicplay 4 and/or Singing Games 4
& b 24 œ œ œ œ œ
Built
my
la - dy
&b œ œ œ œ
roof
fell
in
but
a
œ
she
œ
fine
œ
jumped
œ
brick
œ
out.
œ œ œ œ
œ
house.
Built
œ
Fare
œ
ye
it
in
œ
well,
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œ
my
Traditional
œ œ ‰ œj
gar - den.
œ
œ
Œ
The
dar - lin'.
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Engaging Listening
Easy ways to engage students in Active Listening
Mirroring Activity - works very well with slow music!
#2 Grave, Listening Kit Vol. 2
Conductor of the Day: * provides beat keeping and instrument identification practice. One child conducts - others
mime playing #43 Rondeau (6/8)
The Listening 1 Digital Resource
provides projectable interactive
PDF files for all 40 selections in the
Listening 1 Kit. It includes composer biographies, games, movement
activities, teaches concepts, form
and expressive elements.
Copy Cat: A beat keeping game that is easy to implement
and enhances the students listening. 1-4 leaders create
movement - all copy. 1. Action Leader - from Shake it Up!
#36 Listen 1, Gigue, Handel
* In addition to providing excellent practice keeping a beat,
these games help students to recognize the form of a piece
and the students experience many styles of music.
More Listening Fun Active listening activities, plus composer biographies, listening logs, form cards and dynamics cards. Includes videos!
Lesson Plan #4 - Swan Lake Discuss texture
PART ONE 0:00 – 0:27 Wiggle/shake the paper plates during the short string tremelo introduction. Then the right plate
reaches to the left and pulls the still plate very slowly to the right. REPEAT with the other plate moving from right to left. The
unused paper plate is held behind the back. PART TWO 0:28 – 0:55 Make two small and three big/slower clockwise circles
with the right plate. REPEAT with left plate. Then make one big/slower circle with both plates, one moving clockwise and one
moving counterclockwise, crossing in front of each other. 0:56 – 1:21 Repeat ONE but wiggle plates as they are pulled across
the water. 1:22 – 1:45 Repeat TWO twice but use both plates. PART THREE 1:46 – 2:16 Both plates dip to the center in and
out of the water, as if drinking, 4 times to the beat. Hit plates together once when you hear the timpani. Continue alternating
between one dip and one timpani hit until 2:10 when you hit the timpani six times. 2:17 – 2:23 Left plate moves from right to
left in a big, dramatic arc, showing 8 strong pulses in the music. Right plate does the same when brasses enter. Both plates end
next to each other stretched to the left. 2:24 – 2:35 Wiggle both plates next to each other left to right and then right to left.
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More Listening Fun - La Rejouissance, Fireworks
Fall Leaves
A Section
beats 1-4 extend right arm and hold
beats 5-8 extend left arm and hold
8 beats wave right hand to left , back, right , left,
0:11 - 0:16 8 beats wave left hand to right , bring back wave left
hand to right (hold 2 beats), bring back (hold 2 beats)
0:15 - 0:20 8 beats wave both scarves in , out in, out
0:21 - 0:40 A section repeats
PART TWO
0:41 - 0:43 4 beats 2 big circles with right hand (to right)
0:44 - 0:46 4 beats 2 big circles with left hand (to left)
0:47 - 0:51 8 beats 4 big circles with both (in, in, in, in)
0:52 - 0:56 8 beats R up-down, L up-down, R up-down, L updown
0:57 - 1:06 16 beats wave both scarves in-out starting low and
moving overhead 1:07 - end B section repeats
* A Demo Movie is included in the collection!
Leaves are falling down.
All around the town.
Whirling, whirling in the wind
the leaves are falling down.
Minuet, Mozart
More Listening Fun - scarves
A - swoosh
B - bounce scarves
C - wave left and right
D - toss in the air
E - wiggle L-R from low to high
Parachute Activities from More Listening Fun
Waltz in D-flat major, op. 64, No. 1, Minute Waltz
by Frederic Chopin
“Hungarian Dance No. 1” by Johannes Brahms
Cup games - not so easy, but fun!
Listening Resource Kits 3, 4 and 5
- learn to perceive rondo form by playing a cup game.
In addition to providing excellent practice keeping a
beat, these games help students to recognize the form of a piece
and the students learn to listen to a different style of music.
Assess form - Form assessment cards
Cup Games: “Viennese Musical Clock” by Kodaly
- learn to perceive rondo form by playing a cup game.
Step 1. listen with map so student can identify the theme
OR do a Movement Activity
Step 2. play rhythm instruments with the map (optional)
Step 3. play cup game during theme
Cup Game: A pattern:
Beat 1 & 2: clap clap
Beat 3 & 4: play qr q on the cup with alternating hands
Beat: 5 clap
Beat 6 - pick up the cup
Beat 7 - pass the cup to the right
Beat 8: rest
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POP PLAY-ALONGS
An interactive Smart resource!
Vol.1
Activities for Boomwhackers, percussion,
and recorders. Includes listening activities,
rhythm reading, cup games, and video demos
as well as Smart Notebook and PDF files.
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Featuring:
Limbo Rock
YMCA
Chicken Dance
Jazzy Hokey Pokey
Locomotion
Mexican Hat Dance
Cha Cha Slide
Pop Play-Alongs - Includes howto video of cup game. Kids play
the cup game to the Locomotion!
By Linda Miller
Themes & Variations
Do the A pattern with theme each time the theme recurs. During
the variations play copycat - leader creats a body percussion
pattern and all copy.
You can create more interest and complexity by adding more
patterns. Have small groups of students create their own cup
patterns. Backporch Blues from Musicplay 6 composition unit.
Search Cup Game Denise Gagne on Youtube to view several
examples!
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Creating with Storybooks
Musicplay for Kindergarten includes “Nannygoats” this rap is another fun way to dramatize the story of
the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
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Stories and Nursery Rhymes
Includes:
Body Moves
Fairy Tale Rap
Three Bears Bop
Three Little Pigs
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Little Red Riding Hood
Nursery Rhyme Song
Silly Nursery Rhyme Song
Is There Room on the Feather Bed?
I Can’t Wait for Spring!
Ladybug, Ladybug
Alligator Song - actions, cards
Spider on the Floor
Ocean Song
Bluegrass Band
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Stories to sing and play in
Rhythm Instrument Fun
Rain Rain Story
(also an app)
Bell Horse
Mr. Frog
Suggestions for:
Mortimer
Mmm Cookies
Up Up Down
Story/Song in Musicplay for Kindergarten
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Musicplay K Digital Resources
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Musicplay Digital Resources have been available since 2010. Each song
in Musicplay is included as a PowerPoint with all the teaching concepts
illustrated! In addition, each song is given as a movie!
Grants are available to help fund the purchase of the Musicplay Digital
Resources and/or the Musicplay curriculum.
Coming soon - www.musicplayonline.com ALL of the materials in
Musicplay, along with a wealth of interactive activities are going online!
Visit now to try out some of the games and activities!
Story/Song in Musicplay for Kindergarten
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Music and Literacy: If a child can sing it, he can read it.
Predictable songs are just like predictable story books (Brown Bear) - the emerging reader can track and follow they
lyrics as they sing. Music teachers: use the predictable storybooks as material for melodic improvisation.
Singing Storybooks: Scholastic has a wealth of books that illustrate song lyrics: Little Rabbit Foo, Down by the Bay
etc. Build a library of singing storybooks.
Published Big Books are wonderful - but often are expensive. I have Tacky the Penguin and it was close to $20
Make your own Big Class Books
I’ve created templates for Big Class Books for many of the songs in Musicplay
K-1-2. These will be available at our online site, and are available now in the Musicplay Teachers Facebook Group.
Bear Hunt (1), The Cat Came Back, (2) Bought me a Cat (2), Counting Song (1), K - Months of the Year, K- Pretty
Princess, K- Moms are Special. Print the template and give each child 1 page to illustrate. Coil the books and sing/read
with the class. Add it to the library center in your classroom.
Reproducible Little Books
About 50 of the songs in Musicplay for Kindergarten and Musicplay 1-2 have been made into little reproducible stores.
Have a TA copy and assemble the books, and after you’ve taught the song, give each of thekids in the class a little book
to take home. We’ve done many of the predictable stories as reproducible books. Music teacher can teach the song from
Musicplay, classroom teacher can benefit from the extra reading/tracking practice.
Ask Me Sheets - When you teach a song in music class or in the classroom send home an Ask Me page. These are
completed for Musicplay 2 and will be done for K-1 as well, and will be posted in the online resources.
Musicplay Digital Resources - There’s a movie of every song in Musicplay included in the Digital Resources. This
serves as excellent shared reading practice!
Big Class Book Songs
Big Class Book Songs
I’d Go Dancing
Moms are Special in Musicplay for Kindergarten
Moms are special, Moms are nice.
Moms are special, Moms are nice.
Moms are special, Moms are nice.
Because they love us so.
2. My mom cooks me lots of food.
3. My mom tucks me in at night...
4. My mom reads me lots of books
in Musicplay for Kindergarten
If I were a little gray mouse
I’d tiptoe through my people’s house
And if all the cats were out of sight Wow!
I’d go dancing in the broad daylight. Chorus:
I would wear my top hat and my cane
And boogie woogie woogie on down the lane
I would do the jitterbug the jive and the twist
And then I’d do the monkey and the fish.
Na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na
And if I were a big fat cat I’d hide on the porch
by the front door mat
And if all the dogs were out of sight Wow!
I’d go dancing in the broad daylight. Chorus:
And if I were somebody’s dog
I’d take my owner for a jog
And if all the trucks were out of sight Wow!
I’d go dancing in the broad daylight. Chorus:
Five Little Ducks - singing storybook, Big Book
- add castanets on “quack, quack, quack, quack.”
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Songs in Reproducible Storybooks:
Grand Old Duke of York
Oh, the Grand old duke of York,
He had ten thousand men.
He marched them up to the top of the hill
and he marched them down again.
And when they were up they were up.
And when they were down they were down.
And when they were only half way up, they were neither up nor
down.
CD: Action Songs Children Love Vol. 2 - Musicplay 1
In Groups Brainstorm Ideas for other books:
The Little Red Hen Hiccups for Elephant
Let it Shine
Froggy Gets Dressed
Sometimes I Feel Sunny
Pout Pout Fish
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Toronto Musicplay Workshops 2015 ~ Help! I have to teach Music!
Toronto
August 27 K-3 Ideas
10:00 - 3:30 $75 / $175 with materials Rexdale Alliance
August 28 Gr. 4-6 Ideas 10:00 - 3:30 $75 / $175 with materials Rexdale Alliance
Location: Rexdale Alliance, 2459 Islington Ave, Toronto, ON
-includes snacks, pizza lunch
Day 1 - Fun Ideas for K-3 Music Classes
This day will include ideas for
- getting your students singing, keeping a beat, playing instruments and found sounds
- lessons to teach the elements of music: reading rhythms, learning about dynamics, tempo, form
- lessons to get your students creating music using ostinato, sound effects, storybooks
- listening lessons to help develop critical response to music
Day 2 - Grade 3-6 Classroom Ideas, Choir Reading Session, Fun with Ukuleles
Fun with Ukuleles: Have you ever wanted to try out a ukulele? At this session, you’ll learn to play 15-20 songs,
and will even learn to play along with some pop songs! You’ll develop enough skills to be able to accompany
your students or teach a ukulele unit.
Choral Music Reading Session: JW Pepper is providing reading packages for this session. You’ll get to read
through new music for elementary choirs, and you’ll get to keep the sample copies!
Classroom Ideas: In this session, you’ll get fun ideas for ways to get your students reading music, using the
elements of music, composing and creating, and critical listening.
Denise Gagné, clinician, has taught music at all grade levels. She has degrees in music (B. Music University of
Victoria) and education, as well as Level 3 in Kodaly and Orff. Denise has authored many elementary music publications including Musicplay K-6. Denise has been a workshop presenter in every Canadian province and territory,
at more than 39 US state conferences and Orff Chapters. She has presented at national and international conferences in Canada, the USA, Malaysia, Australia, Europe, Korea, and Singapore! Her workshops are fun, practical,
and activity based! Denise is the author of Musicplay K-6, the most widely used elementary music curriculum in
Canada.
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Musicplay K-6
For less than $2000, your school can have a new, standards based K-6 music curriculum with
songs and activities that students LOVE! Musicplay is an award winning music program for K-6
schools. Each grade level includes 40 weekly lessons that clearly outline concepts and skills taught
in each grade. Musicplay includes seasonal songs, fun songs, rounds, partner songs, folk music,
multicultural music and choral music. In the Musicplay curriculum students sing, play instruments,
move to music, listen, create and learn to read and write music. Important concepts are taught
through play. Each week in Grades 1-5 a new singing game is taught. Children love music games
making this a text that will have your students really excited about learning music!
Musicplay fits well with Orff or Kodàly methodologies, yet it is a program that is used successfully
by non-specialist teachers. Orff arrangements are found in The Orff Source Volumes 1, 2, and 3.
Students are taught to read and write music through careful sequencing of activities. Extensive
listening lessons, maps, activities, cup games and intercom scripts are included in the Listening
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solfege, beat, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, form, and cultural context. Smart notebook files are included for teachers with Smartboards. This is an excellent tool for shared reading! Sample lessons,
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