New hello song! Phrygian 6/8 with individual response!

A new hello song!  Activities to do with the song:

• Change "second graders" to a name of a different student every time, and the student sings on 5-1 "I'm fine!" or "I'm great!" etc. based on how they're doing that day
• Take a walk to the beat and wave to people as you pass by, using "everyone" instead of a name or instead of "second graders", stopping at someone different every time the song ends.
• Use the song as a name game, learning the name of someone you don't know in between repetitions, and then singing the song to that person with their name in the song the next time through.
• Do a movement as a team and sing the song with 1 or 3 kids' names.
• Repeat the generic version with waving as you find a new friend, then repeat.

Holiday hello song #2: based on Sing We Now of Christmas

A 5/8, secular, hello song based on the Dorian tune "Sing We Now of Christmas."  The Noteflight notation is here if you'd like to adapt it for yourself.


Some possibilities for classroom activities with the song:

• You could do the song in duple or triple meter instead of 5/8 and use it to have students echo specific LSA patterns in between repetitions of the song.  

• You could do the song without words for early childhood or lower elementary classes.

• Olaf activity: 

• Take a snowman prop and pretend he’s Olaf from Frozen. Tell the students we have to tell Olaf with our “BAH” rhythm words that he’s going to melt in summer! Olaf will say something to you, you repeat it back to him to tell him about how snow can’t be warm. Students echo rhythms after Olaf on "BAH.

• Decorating a Christmas tree activity: 

• Have students sit and move with flow like they are putting a string of lights around a tree.  
• Explore different levels of space based on how students are decorating the tree: 
• flow high to put the star on, 
• flow low to put presents under tree, 
• flow medium-high to put ornaments on,
• do ABA to combine star and presents with motion going high when song is high and low when song is low

•  Lift hands and put them down to sing 5-1.
•  Singing 5-1, individual students sing after the teacher: 
• “touch the top of the tree, bottom of the tree” 
• “ceiling, floor” 
• “head, toes” 
• “high, low”
• Students pretend to put something on the tree and "touch the tree" as they echo a tonal or rhythm pattern after the teacher.
• Repeat the song again, pretending to put more decorations on the tree with flow or beat movement.

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Welcome song!

A hello song in Mixolydian for the beginning of the year!

Possible alternate lyrics based on what you need:

~If it's a class's first day of music, you could sing "Welcome, come follow me" instead of "Welcome, come move with me," to help them get to their spots on the circle.

~If your school is a Leader in Me school like mine, you could sing "Using 7 Habits every day" instead of "Making better music every day."

If you want to edit any of the lyrics, the Noteflight notation is here.

Holiday hello song!

based on "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen." Excellent for kids to move with flow to! Access the Noteflight notation of the song here.

Clap Your Hands! Hello song

A Dorian, triple meter hello song!  Could also be used as a non-hello song.  Students clap 3 times after they sing "hands," and stamp 3 times after they sing "stomp."  So it basically is "Clap your hands clap clap clap, stomp your feet stomp stomp stomp." Enjoy! :)

Hello Song in 10/8 meter

Another good hello song for kids to move with flow to. Access the Noteflight notation of the song here.