55.

Put the Beat in Your Feet Rote

CD3: 1-30
Concept: beat
Objectives: The students will sing and keep the beat. I can sing and keep the beat.
Interactive: Beat No Beat Game Skills: sing, create movement, instrument substitution
December

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&b c œ œ œ œ œ.
Traditional/D. Gagné

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Put the beat in your feet and turn a - round. Put the beat in your feet and

&b œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ. œ
turn a - round. Put the beat in your feet and

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&b œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ. ˙.
Week 1

turn a - round 'cause I can keep the beat.

2. in your hands
3. on your head
4. on your back

Teaching Process/Suggested Activities: This song is included to give the students practice in keeping a beat.
Do the actions that the song suggests. Later, substitute instruments for the body percussion. For example:
1. Put the beat in the drum and play the sound...
2. Put the beat in the sticks and play the sound...
3. Put the beat on tambourines and play the sound...
4. Put the beat in shakers and play the sound...

Poems/Chants:
55a. Once I Caught a Fish Alive
One, two, three, four, five, show the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 with fingers
Once I caught a fish alive. show a fish swimming motion
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, show the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 with fingers
I let him go again! hold clasped hands in front of you - then open hands
Why did I let him go? gesture ‘why’ with palms up
Because he bit my finger so. grab a finger with the other hand
Which finger did he bite? gesture ‘why’ with palms up
The little one on the right. wiggle the baby finger on your right hand

* Keep the beat as you say the poem. Try keeping the beat on an instrument.
* Have the children tap the beat on the beat chart that is given on page xi of the introductory pages to the guide.
* Create a body percussion pattern to perform with the numbers in the poem. Use stamp, pat, clap and snap.

This poem is found in the concept slide following song 55.

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