Preschoolers have been exploring their high and low voices with the poem, "Big Pig." We start every music class with a vocal exploration activity so that students can start to understand the different sounds their voices can make and can learn to access their "singing voices."This poem is really fun because we used our high squeaky voices and our low pig voices to tell a story. Once we knew it well, students could work together to tell the story, with one student speaking the high parts and one student speaking the low parts.
Here are the words:
“Where are you going, Big Pig, Big Pig?”
Spoken with a high voice.
“Out in the garden to dig, dig, dig!”
Spoken with a low voice.
“Out in the garden to dig, dig, dig?
Shame on you, Big Pig, Big Pig!”
Spoken with a high voice.
“I’m sorry, ma’am, but I’m only a pig,
And all I can do is dig, dig, dig!”
Spoken with a low voice.
Click here to hear Mrs. Mueller's class performing this rhyme: Big Pig
