Showing posts with label Game/Partner/Hand-Clapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Game/Partner/Hand-Clapping. Show all posts

10.7.12

Rocky Mountain

This song seems to call out for students to create new verses describing places they are learning about.  It also can be sung with a partner hand-clapping game.
Source: Ed. by Erdei, Peter.  150 American Folk Songs to Sing, Read, and Play p. 19

Long-Legged Sailor

My students especially like to sing this song either as a chance to act out all the types of legs the sailors have or as a partner hand-clapping game.
Source: Ed. by Bacon, Denise; Erdei, Ida; and Knowles, Faith.  My Singing Bird: 150 Folk Songs

Bow Wow Wow

I like to teach this song as a partner hand-clapping game.  It can become a mixer when partners switch places and jump to face a new partner on the rest.  It is good for preparing and presenting re.
Source: Ed. Erdei, Peter. 150 American Folk Songs to Sing, Read, and Play p. 18