Singing echo songs
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can sing an echo and know what an echo is.
Key learning points
- We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
- We can use our voices to chant and sing together.
- We can sing together or on our own and know when it is our turn to sing.
- We know that an echo is a copy of a sound and enjoy creating different echoes.
Keywords
Sing - create musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
Chant - speaking in time to a pulse
Song - music with words
Echo - an exact copy of a musical phrase
Common misconception
Echo and call and response are the same.
An echo is an exact match of a phrase. A call and response is a question and answer structure in which the response can be different from the call.
Teacher tip
Puppets can be really helpful when singing echo songs. The children know that whoever has the puppet or prop sings first and then the rest of the class imitate.
Equipment
Optional: puppet
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What does your teacher sing or say when we are ready to begin our song or chant?
Q2.Match our two different voices.
the voice we use when we are talking to each other
when we are creating musical sounds using high and low sounds
Q3.It is important to warm up before we sing because...
Q4.In which order do we warm up so we are ready to sing?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Before we sing we should always warm up our body and voice.
Q2.When we copy exactly what the leader is singing, we are singing an...
Q3.Which one of these is not an echo song or chant?
Q4.Sometimes we sing and chant together. Sometimes we sing and chant on our own. We need to know when it is our turn to sing. Match the signal to the type of singing.
We echo the leader.
We begin the song or chant.
We echo the leader.
We listen to the leader.
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