In honor of autumn, 1st grade students learned the song "Down, Down." We focused on musical contour in this song, listening for when the tune was high and when it was low. We used our bodies to show how the notes moved, falling gently like leaves, then gradually standing back up.
Ask your child to sing this song for you. The words are:
Down, down,
Yellow and brown,
The leaves are falling
All over town.
Up, up,
Up they fly,
Over the roof,
Up into the sky!
Hear Mrs. Tibbett's 1st grade class sing the song here:
Once students were comfortable singing the song independently, we added the Boomwhackers! These colored plastic tubes make different sounds when we hit them. Students used their science knowledge to discover that the smaller the tube, the higher the sound. We were able to play the whole song using the Boomwhackers.
