Here it is:
Verse 2:
Halloween, Halloween, ghosts fly high.
Halloween, Halloween, ghosts fly high.
Goblins sit on fences, weating pumpkin pie.
Halloween, Halloween, ooh, OH MY!
To be honest, I actually forgot the second verse until I looked it up tonight. And Grace Nash has the last word of the first verse as "cats". Over the course of my teaching I accidentally changed it to bats.
I do this with my 1st graders so I simplified the Orff part. In her book, Ms. Nash has a broken bordun, where as I have them play a straight bordun. I also have them add a triangle on the rests (as I'm using this to prepare rest right now.) Here's my Orff part: (The second line is the triangle and the third is a bass xylophone):
Here's the slides of the PowerPoint that I use with this song:
First, we sing it reading just the words of the song:
Second, we sing it, keeping a steady beat and reading the words (aligned to the beats of the song):
Third, we sing the song (text) while clapping the rhythm. I have replaced the text with iconic represtentation of the rhythm. As a class, we review that two small pumpkins on a beat are ti-ti and one big pumpkin on a beat is ta. We also talk about why there is a leaf (there is no sound on that beat).
Next, we read the known rhythms of the song. Again, we talk about the leaf and how that is a beat of silence. We have not yet presented quarter rest so we leave the iconic notation there:
Finally, after ta rest is presented, we revist this song and read it with the full rhythmic notation:
I've got a "double-header" concert (4th and 5th grades) on Thursday, so we'll see if I can squeeze in another post before then. In the meantime, have a GREAT week everyone!
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