Manitoba Singing Fun - Manitoba Music Educators Association

 Singing Fun ‘n Games Tempo: Manitoba Music Conference Clinician: Dr. Artie Almeida, Orlando, FL October 23, 2015 1. Audiation Songs (Download PPTs from artiealmeida.com) Focus: Tuneful Singing, Tonic Awareness, Audiation. • Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree • The Horse Went Around (tune of Turkey in the Straw) 2. Beat Buddies (Stuffed Toys) Focus: Steady Beat, Melody Direction. Use any poems or songs that the children enjoy. Today we are using Beat is Steady (to Frere Jacques: “Beat is steady, beat is steady. Feel the beat, feel the beat. Keep the beat so steady, keep the beat so steady. Feel the beat, feel the beat), Humpty Dumpty, Engine #9, Jack Be Nimble, To Market, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Good Night Sleep Tight, Jack and Jill, Brown Bear What Do You See? (Sample song list on my website) 3. Singing Scarf Focus: Pitch Match, Melodic Direction and Intervals. Use a canopy scarf to energize your daily warm-­‐ups with the little ones. With children holding scarf, begin echoes of Oohs/Up/Down/High/Low patterns. Then consider number or solfège patterns, finally moving into familiar songs that are easy to outline with the scarf. E.g., Starlight Starbright, Elevator Song, Hot Cross Buns, 1-­‐2-­‐3-­‐4-­‐5-­‐Once I Caught a Fish Alive. Scarf canopies are available at www.westmusic.com, or consider sheer curtains. (Sample plan on website) 4. There’s a Spider on the Floor (Book and Song by Raffi. Tune “If You’re Happy & You Know It) Focus: Rhyming Words, Blending. Add toy (or paper) spiders for engagement. Create many verses, then allow small groups of students to create their own rhyming verses and sing for their classmates. Tune is “If Youʼre Happy & Know It.” (PPT of my lyrics, as well as paper spider visuals, available on my website) 5. Bluebird, Bluebird, Through My Window -­‐ Traditional From Get to the Point! A book of Pointing Pages & Powerful Plans, p 7 (Almeida & Miller) Focus: Melodic Direction and Intervals, AB Form. Demonstrate the song for children, showing melody with hand levels. Use Birdie Responders and Melody Picture Pointing Page to continue experience. Choose a student to point to the digitally displayed poster. If age-­‐appropriate, transfer activity to a Staff Notation Pointing Page. Alternate singing phrases: teacher/students, boys/girls, soloists, etc. Teach B section in preparation for the movement game. Choose a “bluebird” and consider giving them a birdie puppet. This bluebird flies in and out the windows on the A section. On B section, all children pat lap and tap shoulders, and the Bluebird Leader taps the shoulder of the child they stopped behind on the last word of the A section. The child who was tapped joins the bluebird line behind the leader and the game repeats, picking up new bluebirds each time. Remember to make the math connections each time birdies are added (“What is 1 + 1?” What is 2 + 2?” etc.). The final time it is hilarious to see 20+ birdies tapping the few children left in the circle. Once all are tapped they follow the teacher (Mama Bluebird) around the room in a winding line. Later silly verses include (2) Curl up in your nests and take a little nappy, (3) Wake up in the morning and eat a little wormy! (4) Jump into the birdbath and take a little bathy. Return to the original lyrics and fly the birdies in a line to the door for teacher pick-­‐up. (Pointing Page located at end of handout) A
Blue - bird, blue - bird, through my win - dow. Blue - bird, blue - bird, through my win - dow. Blue - bird, blue - bird,
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Pick a lit - tle blue- bird and tap him on the shoul - der,
through my win- dow. Oh, John - ny I am ti - red!
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15 pick a lit - tle blue - bird and tap him on the shoul - der, pick a lit - tle blue - bird and tap him on the shoul - der.
Oh, John - ny I am ti - red!
6. The Long Legged Sailor Focus: Steady Beat, Singing. Sing entire song for children then ask them to join in on second singing. Have students hold both hands apart on “long.” Then add “lap drumroll” on “Have you...” Next add patting the lap on “ever” and “wife.” Then teach entire body percussion pattern. In a subsequent lesson, change the word “sailor” to a creature, food, or body part. (e.g., long-­‐legged cockroach, long-­‐
legged sandwich, long-­‐legged stomach, etc.). Change partners numerous times Have you
e - ver,e - ver,e - ver in yourlong leg - ged life, seen a long leg - ged sai - lor with a long leg - ged wife?
7. Seven Steps (source: Bonnie Shea) Focus: Steady beat, pitch match. Teach song. Demo some sample moves for the solo sections. Make a circle. Choose first soloist to go into the circle. A section: Turn to right, step to half note beat and sing. B section: Soloist sings pattern and does a motion. All students echo the singing and the motion. On subsequent verses keep adding one more student at a time. The final lyric would be “This is one . . . (echo) etc. up to “This is seven” (echo) . . . then I sing “Please sit down!” Have you e - ver heard of the
se - ven, se - ven,
have you e - ver heard of the
se - ven steps?
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Watch the lead - er and you'll see,
what the next new step will be.
This is one!
This is one!
(Soloist sings)
(Class echoes)
8. The Court of King Carraticus (Download PPT from my website, www.artiealmeida.com) Cumulative song. Court (bow), Palace (hands above head like roof), Ladies (show wide skirts out to sides), Faces (frame face with hands), Noses (touch nose), Powder (pat powder puff into powder box), Picture (click camera button). This beautiful PPT was created by Cynthia Sibitzky, and she graciously allows me to share it with you. Download it from my website. I use the recording from Share the Music, Grade 4. Oh, the court of King Car - ra - ti - cus
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About the Clinician
Dr. Artie Almeida is enjoying her 37th year of teaching and is the music specialist at Bear
Lake Elementary in the Orlando FL area, where she teaches 1150 K-5 students. Her dynamic
performing groups have performed for NAfME, AOSA, and the NBC Today Show. Her
ensemble, The Bear Lake Sound, will be featured in the upcoming music education advocacy
video called Marching Beyond Halftime.
Artie was chosen as Florida Music Educator of the Year, and was also selected as an
International Educator 2006 by the Cambridge England Biographical Society. She was a
Teacher of the Year at the school level 6 times and was recently chosen as a University of
Central Florida Alumni of the Decade. In addition to her public school teaching duties, Artie
is an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida, teaches applied saxophone
lessons and performs on historical winds with the early music ensemble Ars Antiqua.
Contact Artie at [email protected] or via her website at artiealmeida.com
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The original purchaser of Get to the Point! A Collection of Pointing Pages and Powerful Plans (30/2807H) by Artie Grace Almeida and Katie Grace Miller has
permission to reproduce this page for use in his/her classroom. © 2012 Heritage Music Press, a division of The Lorenz Corporation. All rights reserved.
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The original purchaser of Get to the Point! A Collection of Pointing Pages and Powerful Plans (30/2807H) by Artie Grace Almeida and Katie Grace Miller has
permission to reproduce this page for use in his/her classroom. © 2012 Heritage Music Press, a division of The Lorenz Corporation. All rights reserved.