Call And Response Songs 2020

I have two goals for my students when they come up to my program: 1) all my students feel that they can employ their singing vocalism and 2) all students observe connection and joy through music – however that may expect. Coming dorsum from Remote teaching, where it was hard to sing, I worried near how to get my kids feeling safe and excited about singing with others in the music room. Ane of the ways I chose to address singing was through Phone call & Response songs!

Telephone call & Response songs are such a great tool for getting your students to sing together as a grade, small groups, or individually. I knew a handful of call & response songs – the usual song we use like Kye, Kye, Kule, Skin and Bones, and No More than Pie. Just as I went digging deeper into the repertoire, there are some lovely little tunes to employ at different ages and stages of evolution.

Who Fed the Chickens

1 of my favorite songs to apply with my Thousand-1 students is Ella Jenkins' song, Who Fed the Chickens. I dear to get-go the year with farm songs and chants, and vocal exploration with animal sounds. Who Fed the Chickens has an easy M-D response for kids to sing besides! Listen to Ella Jenkin'south perform the song below!

There are several ways to extend the activity. As my students get familiar with the song, we begin to brainstorm other chores we may be asked to do on the farm. We add together those verses to the song as a way to explore inventiveness and composition. You can download a re-create of the verses my students add to the song hither. I also invite students to improvise new tonal responses for "I do!"

Who's Got a Fish Pole?

Another favorite call & response song to use with second & tertiary graders is Who's Got a Fish Pole? I use this vocal with older students considering the response varies in pitch each time information technology's sung. It's a keen vocal to use to extend the range both high and low. Information technology'southward besides a great tune to have students sing responses individually. You can differentiate responses.

Verse ii: Who'southward got a fishline? … Fishline needs a hook.

Verse 3: Who's got a fish claw? …Fish hook needs some bait.

Poetry four: Who'due south got a cricket?…Cricket catch a fish.

Once again, lots of ways to extend the activity. If yous're didactics solfege, accept students sign the pitches they are singing. Invite students to audiate and perform a new tonal response. Have students write their own variation of the vocal. Could there be a school version like, "Who's Got a Pencil? or a sports version? Who's Got a Football? There are so many ways to play with this song and continue students singing both in groups and as individuals.

Downward By the Bay

Of all the call & response songs, my hands-downwardly favorite of my students is Down Past the Bay! They dearest the silliness of the rhymes and echoing each phrase of the song.

Notation for Down by the Bay

If you lot've non heard the vocal before, one person (calls) sings the song. The group responds while the call holds the whole notation. It creates a lovely harmony as well. I dear to accept students volunteer to sing a verse as a solo or duet while the class sings the response. Another fun extension is to take students create their own verses. I have an easy to utilise resource that introduces the song every bit well as has pages for extension as well. You can find it hither.

Exercise you lot have a favorite call & response song to utilise in elementary music? Share it below!