CONCEPT STEADY BEAT. Verse 1 Honey you can t love two. (2x) You can t love two, and still be true. Honey, you can t love two.

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1 GRADE 2 SONGS WELCOME TO MUSIC (Purpose: singing voice) Welcome to music. Echo: Welcome to music. Glad you re here. Echo: Glad you re here. Gonna do some singing Echo: Gonna do some singing. Gonna use our ears. Echo: Gonna use our ears. Everybody: Gonna have a lot of fun, cause music time has just begun. Welcome to music. Echo: Welcome to music. Glad you re here. Echo: Glad you re here. RIDING THAT NEW RIVER TRAIN (Purposes/Concept: Singing & steady beat) Riding that new river train. (2x) It s the same old train that brought me here. Gonna take me back again. Verse 1 Honey you can t love two. (2x) You can t love two, and still be true. Honey, you can t love two. CONCEPT STEADY BEAT Baby you can t love three. (2x) You can t love three, and still have me. Baby, you can t love three. Sweetie you can t love four. (2x) You can t love four, cause there isn t anymore. Sweetie, you can t love four. LET S KEEP THE BEAT TOGETHER (Purposes/Concepts: Singing, movement, steady beat) Let s keep the beat together, let s keep the beat together, let s keep the beat together, And then we stop and copy. Hands in (1, 2) Let s keep the beat together, let s keep the beat together, let s keep the beat together, And then we stop and copy. Hands in (1, 2) Thumbs up (1, 2) Etc..(keep adding a new action each time) COOKIE JAR (concept: steady beat) Zoom, zoom, zoom, my heart goes kaboom. Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar.

2 stole the cookies from the cookie jar. Who me? YES YOU! Couldn t be! THAN WHO? APPLE PIE (song for singing) Pie, pie, apple pie. Can t find any cherries in my apple pie. No pits in the pastry, no cherries, no cheese. Just apples, more apples from great big trees. Pie, pie, apple pie. Dum diddle-ee um-dum. Clap More please! MONDAY, MONDAY (movement song) Monday, Monday, the first day is Monday. What shall we do on Monday?...We (action here) Lai, lai.. Do a different action for each day of the week. HEAD AND SHOULDERS (Purpose: Singing and practicing audiation skills) Head and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes. Head and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes. Eyes and ears and mouth and nose. Head and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes. Instructions Sing the song again, but leave out the word for the first body part and just do the action. Sing the song repeatedly, each time adding another body part that is sung in your head (only doing the action). BEAT VS. RHYTHM Beat = a steady pulse Rhythm = the combination of longer and shorter sounds/words in speech and music. ( The way the words go. ) 2, 4, 6, 8 (Purpose: Practicing the difference between beat and rhythm) 2, 4, 6, 8 Meet me at the garden gate. If I m late, do not wait. 2, 4, 6, 8. LISTEN TO THE WATER (Purpose: Singing) Listen to the water, listen to the water Rolling down the river. Listen to the water, listen to the water Rolling down the river. We saw some by the waterside. Saw some by the waterside. We saw some by the waterside. Oh, oh by the waterside. Oh, oh by the waterside.

3 Review of the following rhythms: = quarter note spoken as ta =eighth notes spoken as ti-ti = quarter rest spoken softly as rest PLAINISIES CLAPSIES (Pupose/Concept: Learning to associate the pitches soh, mi and lah with songs) Plainsies clapsies, turn around to backsies. Touch your knees, touch your toes. Touch you heel and around you go. BOUNCE HIGH, BOUNCE LOW (Purposes/Concepts: Steady beat & associated the pitches soh, mi, and lah with songs) Bounce high, bounce low. Bounce the ball to the one you know. ACKA BACKA (Song, game, instruments. Purposes: Practice steady beat, associating the pitches soh, mi and lah in music) Acka backa soda cracker. Acka backa boo. Acka backa soda cracker Out goes you! FALLING LEAVES (Song) Yellow, red and brown. Gently falling down. Autumn leaves are floating. Slowly to the ground. CHOOK, CHOOK (Song, movement, instruments, ensemble playing, the pitches soh, mi and lah) Chook, chook, chook, chook. Good morning Mrs. Hen. How many chickens have you got? Madam I ve got ten. Four of them are yellow and four of them are brown. And two of the them are speckled red, the nicest in the town! I M NOT SCARED (Song, drama) Verse 1 There s something moaning in the old oak tree. There s something groaning in the old oak tree. But I m not scared for I m safe inside. I m not scared but I think I ll hide. There s something howling on the fence out there. There s something yowling on the fence out there.

4 But I m not scared for I m safe inside. I m not scared but I think I ll hide. There s something sitting on the porch out there. There s something grinning on the porch out there. But I m not scared for I m safe inside. I m not scared but I think I ll hide. Verse 4 There s something flying through the air. On a broomstick gliding through the air. But I m not scared for I m safe inside. I m not scared but I think I ll hide. SING FOR PEACE (Remembrance day song) Sing out around the world. Sing out around the world. Sing out around the world and let your voice be heard. Sing for peace Sing for peace Sing for peace for children everywhere. Sing for peace Sing for peace Sing for peace for children everywhere. REMEMBER FLANDER S FIELDS (Remembrance day song) VERSE 1 A Section On T.V. --- we see war.---- People cry They want-- no more. In the news---- Leaders clash.---- In store? Who knows what s B Section Do we give hope When there s despair? Do we all try to understand, do we all care? Can we keep peace, And let love flow? Can we remember Flander s Fields where poppies grow?

5 C Section In Flander s Fields Poppies blow Between cro----sses row on row. VERSE 2 A Section Shine a light.--- Say a prayer.---- Silence war-----fare e-very-where. Sing a song.--- Get along.---- To care. Take the time B Section And let s give hope When there s despair. Let us all try to understand that we should care. Uphold the peace, And let love flow. We must remember Flander s Fields where poppies grow. C Section In Flander s Fields Poppies blow Between cro----sses row on row. MAGIC WORDS (Soh, Mi and Lah, Steady beat, Orff instruments, ensemble playing) Hearts, like doors, will open with ease To very, very little keys. And don t forget that two of these Are I thank you, and if you please. RING AROUND THE ROSIE (introducing the note, low doh) Sung: Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of posies, Hush-a, hush-a, we all fall down. Spoken: The cows are in the meadow eating buttercups. Hush-a, hush-a, we all stand up. DAVEY, DAVEY DUMPLING (low doh, steady beat, Orff instruments, playing in an ensemble, audiation) A Section (sung) Davey, Davey dumpling, boil him in a pot. Butter him and sugar him, and eat him while he s hot. B Section (spoken) Mmm, mmm, good. Mmm, mmm, good. That s what Davey dumplings are. Mmm, mmm, good. JOHNNY CAUGHT A FLEA Song and game (Soh-mi-doh, steady beat) Tee hee hee. Johnny caught a flea. Flea died, Johnny cried. Tee, hee, hee.

6 MOUSE, MOUSIE (Song and game) (Doh, Mi, Soh) Mouse, mousie, little mousie. Hurry, hurry do. Or the kitty in the house. Will be chasing you! ENGINE, ENGINE (song with solo singing, game/movement, instruments) Engine, engine number nine. Going down Toronto line. When the train stops on the track. Get on board and head to the back. Soloist: Here is my ticket. Take me to. = half note (2 beats) chanted as too-oo = half rest (2 beats) whisper rest, rest WHO S THAT (Song and game with solo singing) (Introducing the half note) Class sings: Who s that, tapping at my window? Who s that, knocking at my door? Solosit #1: I am tapping at your window. Soloist #2: I am knocking at your door. WIBBLETON TO WOBBLETON (song & game with instruments; playing as part of an ensemble) Sung: Fifteen miles. Fifteen miles. From Wibbleton to Wobbleton is fifteen miles. Spoken: How many miles, how many miles, how many miles to go? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15! Doh, Re, Mi THE LONG LEGGED SAILOR (song with movement) (Doh, re, mi) Have you ever, ever, ever, in your long legged life. Met a long legged sailor, with a long legged wife. No I ve never, ever, ever in my long legged life. Met a long legged sailor, with a long legged wife. MUSIC TIME (Song and Orff instruments) (Doh, re, mi; transposition; playing & singing in different keys; C+, F+, G+) Music time, music time, we will sing at music time: Doh, doh, doh. Re, re re. Mi, re, doh. MY SPECIAL PET (Song & game with instruments) (Steady beat, the notes of the pentatonic scale) Here s my special pet, he s as friendly as can be. And when I pass on the beat, he plays this game with me. THREE BLIND MICE (Song and game) (Mi-re-doh; playing a steady beat using alternating hands) Sung: Three blind mice, three blind mice. See how they run. See how they run. They all ran after the farmer s wife. Who cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see such a thing in your life As three blind mice.

7 Spoken: Now wait there s more to the story, they say. The three blind mice had some fun that day. For when the farmer s wife went outside. The mice found something that they could hide! IF (Song with instruments) (playing the instruments at specific times and keeping a steady beat using alternating hands) If all the world were apple pie. And all the sea were ink. And all the trees were bread and cheese. What would we have to drink. ON TOP OF SPAGHETTI (song) Verse 1 On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball, when somebody sneezed. Verse 4 Verse 5 Verse 6 It rolled off the table, and onto the floor, And then my poor meatball, rolled out the front door. It rolled in the garden, and under a bush, And now my poor meatball is nothing but mush. The mush was as tasty, as tasty could be. And early next summer, grew into a tree. The tree was all covered with beautiful moss. It grew lovely meatballs and tomato sauce. So if you want spaghetti all covered with cheese. Hold onto your meatball, and don t ever sneeze. ACHOO! IT S MAY (song with Orff instruments) Sung: It s May! It s May! I wanna go out and play! It s May! It s May! And summers on the way. Spoken: Summer s on the way. Summer s on the way. I can hardly wait cause summer s on the way. BOOM BOOM AIN T IT GREAT TO BE CRAZY Silly and foolish all day long. Verse 1 Horse and a flea and three blind mice, Sittin on a curbstone shooting dice. The horse, he slipped and fell on a flea, Whoops, said the flea, there s a horse on me!

8 Silly and foolish all day long. Way up North where there s ice and snow, There was a penguin, his name was Joe. He got so tired of black and white, He wore pink pants to the dance last night! Silly and foolish all day long. Way down South where bananas grow, A flea stepped on an elephant s toe. The elephant cried with tears in his eyes, Why don t you pick on someone your own size! Silly and foolish all day long. Verse 4 Teacher says no gum in school. Spit it out cause that s the rule. That s no fair! little Johnny said, I can t spit it out, cause it s stuck to my head. Silly and foolish all day long. THE COLOUR SONG (song with Orff instruments) Sung: All around the paint pots 1, 2, 3. When you mix these colours an artist you will be. All around the paint pots 1, 2, 3. When you mix these colours an artist you will be. Spoken: Add red to yellow, orange you will make. Add red to blue, make purple like a grape. Add blue to yellow, make green like the leaves. Make the colours of the rainbow for the world to see. PAW PAW PATCH (song with movement) Where, oh where is poor little Ellie? (3x) Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch. Picking up paw-paws put em in the basket. (3x) Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch. There she is, let s all go with her. (3x) Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch. Loo.. Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch.

9 THE CAT CAME BACK Verse 1 Old Mr. Johnson had troubles of his own. He had a yellow cat, who wouldn t leave his home. He tried and he tried to give the cat away. He gave it to a man who was going far away. But the cat came back the very next day. The cat came back, they thought he was a goner, But the cat came back, he just couldn t stay away. He gave him to a man who was going out west. Told him to take it to the one he loved the best. First the train hit a curve, then it jumped the rail. Not a soul was left behind to tell the gruesome tale. But the cat came back the very next day. The cat came back, they thought he was a goner, But the cat came back, he just couldn t stay away. Away across the ocean, he sent the cat at last. Vessel only out a day, and taking water fast. People all began to pray, the boat begun to toss. A great big gust of wind came by, and everyone was lost. But the cat came back the very next day. The cat came back, they thought he was a goner, But the cat came back, he just couldn t stay away. Verse 4 The cat was a possessor of a family of his own. With 7 little kittens until a cyclone. Blew the houses down, and tossed the cat around. The air was full of kittens, and not a one was found. But the cat came back the very next day. The cat came back, they thought he was a goner, But the cat came back, he just couldn t stay away. MEOW!