A friend came to the music room to help preschoolers and kindergarteners with an echo song this week. Miss Dagenais's friend Echo the Owl loves to hear singing voices, but is scared of talking voices and shouting voices. The only way to get Echo to stay is if we use our very best singing voices. What a difference using our imaginations in this way made to our singing!To make Echo feel welcome, we sang him a song about an owl. Some classes decided we needed to turn out the lights, because everyone knows owls only come out at night!
Try this echo song with your children:
One of these days (one of these days)
Look up and see (look up and see)
A wise old owl (a wise old owl)
Sitting in a tree (sitting in a tree).
He'll look at you (he'll look at you)
And he'll look at me (and he'll look at me)
Those two big eyes (those two big eyes)
They don't scare me (they don't scare me).
One of these nights (one of these nights)
When raindrops fall (when raindrops fall)
He'll give a hoot (he'll give a hoot)
He'll give a call (he'll give a call).
Hear Mrs. Barlow's kindergarten class perform this echo song with Miss Dagenais in the video below.
