As students develop their singing voices, we sing a lot of echo songs in music class. Echo songs give students the ability to hear and remember a short piece of a song and practice singing it back in their most tuneful singing voice. We start by echoing as a class and eventually students will echo solos - all by themselves!The song "My Aunt Came Back" is fun because once we were good at singing it, we added motions for each gift the aunt brought. With each motion we added, we looked sillier and sillier. There is also a great book to go along with this song and we enjoyed looking at the pictures while singing.
Let your child be the leader. Can you echo them? Then see if you can add the motions!
Oh my aunt came back (echo: Oh my aunt came back)
From Timbuktu. (From Timbuktu.)
She brought with her, (She brought with her,)
A wooden shoe. (A wooden shoe.)
Tap one foot on the ground and keep singing!
Oh my aunt came back (keep echoing!)
From old Japan.
She brought with her,
A waving fan.
Keep tapping one foot, wave a "fan" with one hand.
Oh my aunt came back (keep echoing!)
From old Algiers.
She brought with her,
A pair of shears.
Keep tapping one foot, wave a "fan" with one hand, snip with "scissors" with the other hand.
Oh my aunt came back from Guadelupe.
She brought with her a hulu hoop.
Keep tapping one foot, wave a "fan" with one hand, snip with "scissors" with the other hand, twirl a "hulu hoop."
Oh my aunt came back from the county fair.
She brought with her a rocking chair.
Keep tapping one foot, wave a "fan" with one hand, snip with "scissors" with the other hand, twirl a "hulu hoop," rock in a "rocking chair."
Oh my aunt came back from the city zoo.
She brought with her a nut like YOU!
Stop what you are doing and point at the other person.
Hear Miss Carroll's class sing this song here: My Aunt Came Back
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