Submitted by Phyllis Thomas, Flower Mound, Texas
Idea posted April 26, 2007
My third grade classes performed "We're Making Music" this fall. We used body percussion (see below) on the beat of the opening and closing sections and instruments in the middle section. We started the body percussion when the singing began.
- stomp X4
- pat X4
- clap X4
- snap X4 (repeat)
- stomp X2
- pat X2
- clap X2
- snap X2 (repeat 3 times)
- stomp X1 (on "now")
- pat X1
- clap X1
- snap X1 (repeat 3 times)
For the ending, we repeated the last body percussion pattern until the final "Music."