Big Bunch of Roses

Now, this is a song that I had sitting in my pile of "too be looked at in greater detail" pile for years.  I couldn't figure out how to "own" the song and in turn "sell it" to my students.  Then last year at Leigh Anne Garner's ROCKE workshop I learned some activities to do with it.

Here's the song:

Here's an easy Orff accompaniment that I made up (again, I have no Orff training, so all my "stuff" is quite simple):

Now, Leigh Anne presented a passing song using plush roses.  Last year I found these online:

They were quite the buy and they can in five different colors (red, pink, orange, blue, purple), which worked out nicely for the game that Leigh Anne taught us.   (I'm sad to report that the roses I found are no longer available.  But with Valentine's day around the corner keep your eye out when your shopping, you never know what you might find!)

Here are my kiddos singing and playing the passing game.  Sitting in a circle, every student had a rose and passed the roses to the right on the beat of the song (pass, pick-up, pass, pick-up, etc.)  When Leigh Anne taught is she didn't have a rose for everybody, so that's another way to play it.  When you didn't have a rose you kept the pattern going with your arms and when the rose was in front of you you passed it.

Here's a PowerPoint that I made for the song.  There's a lyric slide:

Melodic preparation slides:

Melodic prep on the staff:

Melodic practice slides (sans rhythm):

Melodic practice on the staff:

 Rhythm preparation slides, students must figure out where to add ties:

Rhythmic preparation slides, with ties:

Rhythm practice slides:

Rhythmic and melodic practice slides, with stick notation:

Rhythmic and melodic practice slides, staff notation:

Absolute pitch reading practice slides:

And a song sorting game:

Going back to the plush rose passing game, I use the colors of the roses to group my students and I have the above cards printed on matching paper.  That is, I have red cards, pink cards, orange cards, blue cards & purple cards.  Everyone with like colored roses work together to find the cards that they need to put the song in order.  If you notice, the first 4 cards match the song, the second 4 do not match the song.  This is to "up the ante" and make the game harder.  So to simplify the game, you could print out only the top four cards.  

This PowerPoint is available at my Teachers pay Teachers store for $1.00.  Please follow me on Teachers Pay Teachers, beginning in February I will be starting a monthly freebie, for followers only.

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Canoe Song

Some of you are "lucky" and are still on winter break. . ..  I'm not one of those "lucky" ones.  But, it's all in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?!  It was a really fun first day back.  The kiddos were really excited to share about their break and ready to get back into the swing of things.

Speaking of getting back into the swing of things, we brought this favorite back in 4th grade today.  We used it in 3rd grade for low la but are bringing it back now to prepare syn-co-pa (feels like I've been prepping this forever. . . . .).

Here's the song:

This is a fun boomwacker part that we added with it in 3rd grade: 

And here's a really EASY Orff accompaniment that my 3rd graders this year did for our Parent Engagement Night:

As I mentioned, we're prepping syn-co-pa so here's a new PowerPoint that I made:

First, we have lyric slides:

Then there are some low la  prep slides that I included for next year's 3rd grade:

After preparation comes practice, so here are a couple of the practice slides we'll use for review with 4th grade as a warm-up when prepping syn-co-pa:

Here are the rhythm preparation slides:

 And here are the practice slides:

After syn-co-pa is presented we'll sing it on solfége, using the stick rhythm and maybe even play "Remote Control" with it:

And we'll practice reading the solfa on the staff, with the rhythm.  Again, we might use an inner hearing game for this:

I mentioned in an earlier post that I know I need to do a better job practicing reading Absolute Pitch Names, so here are those slides:

Once we've read syn-co-pa in numerous songs we'll finally get to these cards.  I made them for the Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer game but never got to them.  Things happen and the kids we're prepared enough, so we "rolled with the punches" and had to change our pacing:

I'm presenting at CMEA (Colorado Music Educators Conference) at the end of the month: one session called "Upping the Ante" and another one called "Manipulative Mania".  This is for the "Manipulative Mania" session, sponsored by ROCKE (so, all you Colorado folks, you can buy this at CMEA this year!).  I LOVE the way this turned out and we'll be using this as an assessment in a  few weeks.  Here's the beat board, the oars act as barlines:

The students will have four canoes and they must put them in the correct order to match the song:

Using the back side of the canoe, they can compose their own 4-beat rhythms on each canoe using a vis-a-vis marker.

The boards can also be used with other die cutes such as fish, boats, seashells.  Here's a couple fish thrown on:

 If you would like a copy of the PowerPoint above, it's available at my Teacher Pay Teachers store and includes the non-holiday song sorting game from the Rudolph file.

I hope you all have a GREAT weekend!!

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