Day in the Park: Mixolydian song and movement activity

A new Mixolydian song and movement activity!  

Sing the song on a neutral syllable as students walk to macrobeats, then microbeats.

Have students audiate the resting tone of the song.  Then have them breathe, jump, and sing the resting tone when they land (feel free to add some story imagery here related to what they're jumping on at the park!). 

Have the students do the walking activity again, this time giving a high 5 the person they're closest to at the end of each phrase (the second half note in m. 4 and m. 8). 

Then, during the last repetition, have the students sing the resting tone as they high-5 the person they're closest to at the ends of phrases.


In other days with the song, let the kids use their imaginations to create park related movements to do!  Perhaps they can pretend to walk a dog on microbeats, swing their arms as if they're on the swings on macrobeats, alternate beats with their hands in high space as if they're on the monkey bars, perform vocal exploration like they're going down the slide...sky's the limit!