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Rock Around the Clock!

YMI Making Music for P3- P7

This week’s Making Music lesson by Mrs Rowan is based on the song Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley. Start with a warm for your voice and then we will lean the song. Afterward there is a short quiz and some fascinating facts about the song.

Warm Up 

Let’s start by preparing to sing with a fun Voice Warm Up video. Once you have learnt the warm up  its best to practice it two times.

The ​Song 

Rock Around the Clock! 


Learning Resources

To download files right click on the links and then select either:‘

  • Save Target As’ (PC)
  • ‘Download Linked File’ (Mac

Eeny Meeny Maca Raca – Words 

Rock Around the Clock Wordsheet

Fascinating Facts & Quiz

Fascinating Facts – Lesson 3

Quiz – Lesson 3

Good Luck and have fun!

Rock Around the Clock!

One, Two, Three O’clock, Four O’clock rock
Five, Six, Seven O’clock, Eight O’clock rock
Nine, Ten, Eleven O’clock, Twelve O’clock rock
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight

Put your glad rags on and join me hon’
We’ll have some fun when the clock strikes one
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight

When the clock strikes two, three and four
If the band slows down we’ll yell for more
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight

When the chimes ring five, six and seven
We’ll be right in seventh heaven

We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight

When it’s eight, nine, ten, eleven too
I’ll be goin’ strong and so will you
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight

When the clock strikes twelve we’ll cool off then
Start rockin’ around the clock again
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight

 

 

 

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The Yellow Bird Song

Introduction

This popular song comes for the Caribbean and was originally a Haitian Creole song that was rewritten with English lyrics in the 20th century as Yellow Bird.

YMI Tutor Kaela Rowan has made two videos to sing along too and some learning resources looking at the song, where it came from and exploring flags of the Caribbean and surrounding countries.

Below are the song words for you.

Yellow Bird Song

Yellow Bird
Up high in banana tree
Yellow bird
You sit all alone like me
Did your lady friend
Leave the nest again?
That is very sad
Makes me feel so bad
You can fly away
In the sky away
You’re more lucky than me.

You’re more lucky than me.

 

Learning Resources

To download files right click on the links and then select either:‘

  • Save Target As’ (PC)
  • ‘Download Linked File’ (Mac) 

Fascinating Facts Yellow Bird Song & The Caribbean..

Things to Do & Quiz – Lesson 2 – P3 – P7..

Here is a link to an animated version of the song on the BBC Teach website.

 

 

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Scottish Opera Tour

The Scottish Opera Primary School tour has been happening for 50 years . Each year, once we get our funding,  we apply for 3 or 4 schools to take part across the region and there is always a high demand for spaces . This year’s workshop and performance, Warriors! The Emperor’s Incredible Army, is based upon  the true story of Emperor Qin’s incredible 2,000 year old terracotta army.

This year we have managed to combine a number of smaller schools to work together on one show, that will be performed in the bigger school.  The project will be delivered to  5 or 6 schools and will take place between April and May 2020.

The pupils learning the songs with their teacher in class,  using the resources provided by Scottish Opera. There is a practice morning, led by a SO singing coach,  two weeks before the workshop day.  Then the performance day it is all pulled together by a team of SO staff, with a morning of practice, a dress rehearsal to the rest of the school, followed by a final performance to the parents. it is amazing what the pupils achieve in such a short space of time.

The story line for this years workhop is below.

ll hail Qin Shi Huang – the first Emperor of China, destined to rule his Empire forever. After all, didn’t he drink the Elixir of Life, a potion that promises immortality? Not such a great promise when that elixir turns out to be a deadly poison. Now the afterlife awaits, but even a dead Emperor needs an army. So, over many years, he’s gathered a vast hoard to watch over him after death – 8,000 soldiers, horses and chariots, all armoured and armed to the teeth. And every one of them moulded from clay…

Music:  Alan Penman
Lyrics:  Ross Stenhouse
Commissioned with the five Scottish Confucius Institutes

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