Lyrics
(Folk song)
Charlie over the ocean, (echo)
Charlie over the sea, (echo)
Charlie catch a blackbird (echo)
Can’t catch me. (echo)
Game
Leader (“It”) walks around the circle while singing. On the last word, “It” taps a student. That person becomes the next “It.”
I don’t allow the next “it” to run after the person who taps him/her – while we’re playing indoors. Instead, the student walks quickly around the circle. Outside on the grass, they can play like “Duck Duck Goose” and run.
I use this to assess pitch matching, so I make sure each student gets a turn.
See also
YouTube
(or available for purchase here)
- Melodic Contour Handout
- Pitch Matching Performance Assessment Rubric
- Song with chords, Lesson ideas for Rhythm (quarter notes & rests, eighth notes), Melody (pentatonic, low so & low la), Voices, Orff arrangement, Recorder student copies (D,E,G,A,B) (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
