This is a REALLY fun chant to do with your older kiddos for Halloween. Someone recently posted a question on the Kodály facebook page about songs to use with Dia de los Muertos and you could easily use this in conjunction with that holiday. I learned this from Carol Brown during my fourth level of Kodály at Portland State University.
Here's the chant:
1. Cuando el
reloj marca la una When the clock strikes one
La calavera
sale de su tumba. The skeleton comes out of his tomb.
Tumba, tatumba, tumba,
tumba, tumba Tumba, tatumba, tumba, tumba, tumba
2. Cuando el
reloj marca las dos When the clock strikes two
a la
calavera le pega la tos the skeleton gets a cough
3. Cuando el
reloj marca las tres When the clock strikes three
La calavera
busca a Andrés The skeleton looks for Andrew
4. Cuando el
reloj marca las cuatro When the clock strikes four
La calavera
mira su retrato The skeleton looks at his picture
5. Cuando el
reloj marca las cinco When the clock strikes five
La calavera
echa cinco brincos The skeleton jumps five times
6. Cuando el
reloj marca las sies When the clock strikes six
La calavera
juega al beis The
skeleton plays baseball
7. Cuando el
reloj marca las siete When the clock strikes seven
La calavera
cuenta sus billetes The skeleton counts his currency
8. Cuando el
reloj marca las ocho When the clock strikes eight
La calavera
busca a Pinocho The skeleton looks for Pinocchio
9. Cuando el
reloj marca las nueve When the clock strikes nine
La calavera
come su nieve The skeleton eats his ice cream
10. Cuando el
reloj marca las diez When the clock strikes ten
La calavera
se mete otro vez The skeleton goes back again.
This is a GREAT chant for ti-tika. My older students (4th and 5th) love to revisit this every year so we use it to practice ti-tika and with my 3rd graders I use it to prep ti-tika and then we bring it back for practice. This year at Target Tanya found some awesome erasers. She picked some up for me, but being the manipulative hoarder that I am, I had to make a trip to buy more. Every student will have a set of 12 and a beat chart on which they will derive the rhythm of the chorus, tumba, ta tumba, tumba, tumba, tumba. Here's how they work on the beat chart:
We will replace the erasers with rhythm cards of "what we know" to make it look like this :
Other activities we do with this include using the rhythm of the refrain as an ostinato through out the chant, having specific students act out different verses, having a "clock" that chimes, etc. The possibilities are endless!
We will replace the erasers with rhythm cards of "what we know" to make it look like this :
Other activities we do with this include using the rhythm of the refrain as an ostinato through out the chant, having specific students act out different verses, having a "clock" that chimes, etc. The possibilities are endless!
This is one of my favorites! I learned it years ago at one of Carol Brown's sessions...the kids love it. Love the skeleton eraser idea...how fun!
ReplyDeleteI know, it's one of mine too!!! I wish I knew her source. . . I'm going to have to send her a message about it now!
DeleteIt's on the handout. :-)
ReplyDeleteI love this!! Is there a recording of it anywhere?
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