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.

Little Dog, Little Dog: Phrygian song + Rhythmic improv

Here's a Phrygian song I used with 1st grade this year on a concert. Here was the format I used:

-All students sang verse 1 (Little dog...), 

-2 kids each did 4 bars of rhythmic improv using "roof." For example, "Roof roof-roof roof roof, roof roof!"

-All students sang verse 2 (Kitty cat...)

-2 kids did 4 bars each of rhythmic improv using "meow"

-All students sang verse 3 (Bunny rabbit...)

-2 kids did 4 bars each of rhythmic improv using "hop" (one soloist chose to say "hoppity")

-All students sang verse 1 again

Lesson Idea:

As the kids were first learning the song, they would be assigned rhythm stick partners -- meaning they and a partner would be given 1 rhythm stick, and each kid held one end of the stick. Together, they would move back and forth to the beat, connected by the stick. This actually helps kids with weaker rhythm abilities to develop that sense of beat, because they're connected to a kid with a strong sense of beat!  So cool!

Then after the verse is over, the partners have a rhythm conversation.  One person improvises a 4-measure rhythm using "roof," "meow," or "hop," depending on what verse we're on, and the other person improvises 4 different measures right after them!