Showing posts with label body percussion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label body percussion. Show all posts
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Using iconic or rhythmic notation, various voices, elemental forms, movement, non-pitched percussion, barred percussion, movement, and improvisation, this is a "kitchen sink" lesson using everything in the classroom you CHOOSE to use. You can use this with your first graders to upper elementary, varying the complexity included in the lesson. You can get the full slide set with all of the visuals on my Patreon community. Add your favorite book about winter and voila! A lesson with no prep!
Spring is one of my favorite times of year - each morning on my walk I hear birds singing and see rabbits hopping on fresh sprigs of green grass. And the flowers! Well, if you know me at all, you know how much I love flowers and especially irises. I have so many flowers planted around my house and particularly love the 20-something varieties of iris I currently have!
This is a perfect rhyme and fingerplay for spring.
Fingerplays are so underrated! Teach them to younger students as a fingerplay but bring them back to teach or reinforce rhythmic elements in first grade and as a canon experience for second grade, or add a So Mi or So La Mi melody, eventually adding in an ostinato or two. Transfer the rhyme and ostinati to non-pitched percussion, add timbre changes for each line and allow the students to decide how to perform it. For older students, use these as a basis for melodic improvisation or to walk the beat while clapping the rhythm or add a B Section with the names of egg layers - birds, fish, insects, turtles, platypus, echidna, reptiles, and lizards. Or have small groups of students create a movement story of one type of animal and perform for other groups to guess the animal. So many possibilities!
An auspicious day to be sure - February 22nd, 2022, 2-22-2022 is also happening on a TUEsday!
One of the most wonderful things that has come from the pandemic are some amazing friendships forged online. Kathy was teaching in Japan when we met and we have chatted many times about collaborating as we both love playful music making. Kathy wrote this fun song to celebrate the occasion. Many thanks to her for sharing it! Here are Kathy and I zooming Saturday!
Kathy's bio:
Kathleen Kampa specializes in working with young learners. As a PYP (Primary Years Program) teacher, she uses an inquiry-based approach to teaching through which students develop global skills. Kathleen strives to help all students feel supported, balanced, and successful in the classroom. She supports the development of English language skills by creating songs, chants, and movement activities targeted to young learners' overall needs. Kathleen and her husband Charles Vilina are co-authors of Beehive,Magic Time, Everybody Up, and the ELTon award-winning course Oxford Discover, published by Oxford University Press. Kathleen's two CDs for young learners, Kathy Kampa'sSpecial Days and Holidays and Jump Jump Everyone, build English language skills through music and movement while nurturing creativity and imagination.
This song would be perfect to have 2-3 small groups create 4 or 8-beat body percussion ostinato patterns to accompany the song! You might want to wear your tutu or have a dance party with your class at 2:22 PM!
Here is the song with a bordun pattern and percussive ostinato that could be adapted for body percussion or instruments.
Our daughter was born in China and so our family is Chinese American. We have tried to honor her culture and ensure she is involved in her culture and surrounded by people who look like her. Not always easy or comfortable, but it shouldn't be, right? SO incredibly important, and it has helped me understand on a deep level that representation matters.
My daughter loves noodles; specifically, rice noodles. And dumplings. And rice. And more noodles. Last year we bought her a shirt that said, "This girl lives on Anime and noodles". It was spot on!
I don't remember where I first heard this dumpling song but when my daughter was little and we were making dumplings I learned it and then promptly forgot about it. Fast forward to last year when I fell in love with the wonderful Miss Katie on instagram. She reminds me so much of Mr. Rogers and so thoughtfully and lovingly talks about difficult topics with littles. She works with preschool aged children and you can see how much she cares and spreads love and joy.
Here is her video on the Dumpling Song:
Simple version, this one is so cute as it is Katie doing this with her
Chao ji dan, chao ji dan, chao, chao, chao. (Fry the egg.)
Qie luo bo, qie luo bo, qie, qie, qie. (Cut the carrots/radishes.)
Bao jiao zi, bao jiao zi, nie, nie, nie. (Wrap dumplings, pinch.)
This is an other version - (Mandarin Chinese - pinyin on top, Chinese characters in the middle, and English on the bottom):
Chǎo luóbo, chǎo luóbo, qiē qiē qiē, mǒ diǎn yóu, sǎ diǎn yán, huó diǎn xiàn. 炒 萝卜，炒 萝卜，切 切 切，抹 点 油， 撒 点 盐，和 点 馅。 Stir-fry the carrots, stir-fry the carrots, and chop them up. Then add some oil and salt to make the stuffing.
Bāo jiǎozi, bāo jiǎozi, gǎn gǎn pí, gǎn hǎo miànpí zhuāng hǎo xiàn, bāo jiǎozi. 包 饺子，包 饺子，擀 擀 皮，擀 好 面皮 装 好 馅， 包 饺子。 Make dumplings, make dumplings. We roll the dough into the pieces. After that, we put the stuffing in to make the dumplings.
Bāo jiǎozi, bāo jiǎozi, niē niē niē, fàng jìn guōlǐ gài gàizi, zhǔ jiǎozi. 包 饺子，包 饺子，捏 捏 捏，放 进 锅里 盖 盖子，煮 饺子。 Make dumplings, make dumplings. Pinch them shut then put them into the pot. Close the lid and boil the dumplings.
Boil the dumplings, boil the dumplings. They smell good. Get everything ready to serve the dumplings and enjoy.Zhǔ jiǎozi, zhǔ jiǎozi, xiānɡ pēnpēn, duān shànɡ jiǎozi bèi hǎo liào, chī jiǎozi. 煮 饺子，煮 饺子，香 喷喷， 端 上 饺子 备 好 料，吃 饺子。
Por aqui paso un caballo from my Hands to Hands book. The first version is more traditional and played with a partner. Version 2 is for a group of four.
Try this version for a *little* more fun!
En le calle ventricuatro from Hands to Hands.
This lesson on Tito Puente, complete with moveable building blocks using elemental forms is a Patreon exclusive - for less than the cost of your monthly coffee - resources, webinars, children's literature resources, videos, etc. More and more is added every month - come join the community!
Hope you enjoy all of these! Happy Hispanic and LatinX Heritage Month!
As I write this, our country is grieving and angry. Emotions are high, and lives have been lost. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday is approaching and a change of leadership in our country is at hand. Impeachment proceedings are upcoming and our country has experienced a tumultuous moment of violence in the midst of a global pandemic. The times we are in are not, by anyones definition, NORMAL. I do not have answers. I do not have enough words. But I know music is a way for my students to process and acknowledge what they are hearing in their homes and classrooms. Music is a way to open conversation and empathy. I began singing a song I learned many moons ago - Seeds. I was also singing the song, "Give Light" and knew those two songs would help my students (and me) to further growth, courage, and strength during times of frustration, grief, and confusion.
1. Books
These are books I will be using in my classroom over the next many weeks. Some I will read, some will be sung (in our heads, hearts, and homes), and others will be used as jumping off points to create poetry, rhythms, melodies, and speech or body percussion work.
2. Songs
We Shall Overcome The Story of a Song (this is also a book - I HIGHLY recommend this video and have used it many times with my students).
Seeds by Gemini - One of my all-time FAVORITE songs to sing with students. It is just lovely.
Movement for this song can be found here - as well as a lovely description about planting seeds of kindness.
Sing About Martin - Echo song PERFECT for the littles.
Martin Luther King
Give Light - I have posted about this before numerous times and cannot say enough about this song in times of darkness- students and adults alike LOVE this song!
Glory with new lyrics by Franklin Willis - The new lyrics Franklin wrote are SO perfect for right now!! Check out the instagram video here!
3. Play Alongs and Body Percussion Activities
Martin Luther King Jr. Play Along
Martin Luther King Jr. Rhythm Match Up
We All Sing with the Same Voice - the book is above - here is a sing aloud:
You can also add the following body percussion - these are the scaffolded slides:
Want all this in one place? Click HERE to get all this as a Google Slide - you will be asked to make a copy and then can rearrange and edit to make it the most useful for your classes.
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I always loved this jump rope rhyme but decided it was time to give it a bit of a twist. I posted a video on facebook @o for tuna orff just moments ago with ways to play the game but you will get the idea from the pictures below. If you would like this as a pdf please email me at musicquilt@hotmail.com and I am happy to share.
