Author: Amy Dunnett

Here are today’s musical activities from Emmeline.

Vocal Warm–Up: The Big Yawn 

This week’s vocal warm-up is the perfect one for a sleepy Monday morning! We want you to have some big stretches, yawns and sighs but very vocal ones. Not only are you warming your voice up with this warm up but your body too!

Make Your Own Kind of Music: Part 1 – Chorus 

I think we have exhausted our Scottish repertoire and we would now like to start teaching one of the songs that was recently voted for in our Makaton Choir Suggestions box. It is ‘Make Your Own Kind of Music’ by Paloma Faith. Not only is it a beautiful song but we are certainly all making our own sorts of music at the moment so it is the ideal song to be learning. We are going to start today by learning the chorus;

But you gotta make your own kind of music
Sing your own special song
Make your own kind of music
Even if nobody else sings along!

Here are today’s musical activities from Emmeline.

Musical Story: The Listening Walk by Paul Showers 

This weeks musical story is the Listening Walk, we hope you enjoy it. Think about all of the sounds mentioned in the story, can you hear them from your garden or when you are out for a walk? Here is a bingo type board for you to use on your next walk or visit to your garden to see if you can hear any of the sounds mentioned in ‘The Listening Walk’.

500 Miles: Part 5 – Whole Song

Let’s see if we can now put together the whole of 500 Miles by the proclaimers and sing and sign along with it. If you are singing it with someone at home can you take turns singing the ‘y-ye-dl-et-de’s? Good luck!

Here are today’s musical activities from Emmeline.

Song: Five Little Speckled Frogs 

We are going to sing Five Little Speckled Frogs in a very similar way to how we have sung Five Little Monkeys and Five Little Ducks.

We have prepared our version of it with 5 printed frogs stuck to desk bells! Every time a frog jumps into the pool the ‘glug glug’ will be played on that bell! Again, please don’t worry if you do not have instruments like this! You could sing, clap, sign or tap the ‘yum yums’ and the ‘glug glugs’. You could also print and cut out or draw five Little speckled frogs to practise counting down.

500 Miles: Part 4 – Verse 3

This is the last part we need to learn of 500 Miles before we put the whole song together tomorrow.

When I’m lonely,
well, I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who’s lonely without you.

And when I’m dreamin’
Well I know I’m gonna dream,
I’m gonna dream about the time when I’m with you.

And when I go out,
well, I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who goes along with you.

And when I come home,
Yes, I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home to you.

Here are today’s musical activities from Emmeline.

Musical Soundscape: Space

Today we are going to be playing a space soundscape. We have provided this picture as a visual stimulus for Space but perhaps you have your own Space picture or book you would like to use at home or you would like to use your imagination.

Please relax, listen to the music, look at the picture, imagine different things you might find in outer space and take deep breaths. Perhaps you have some things at home that sound like noises you might find in space that you could play along with.

500 Miles: Part 3 – Verse 2

We are going to learn the second verse of 500 Miles. The words are;

When I’m working,
Yes, I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who’s working hard for you.

And when the money,
comes in for the work I do,
I’ll pass almost every penny on to you.

And when I come home,
Oh, I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home to you.

And if I grow old,
Well, I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who’s growing old with you.

Here are today’s musical activities from Emmeline.

Action Song: Clap Those Hands

This is a wonderful action song for everyone to join in with. It starts with clap your hands and we will then do a variety of other actions along with the music. Can you think of any more actions to do to the music at home?

500 Miles: Part 2 – Verse 1

It’s now time to learn the first verse of 500 miles together. Here are the lyrics:

When I wake up,
well I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next to you.

When I go out,
Well I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who goes along with you.

If I get drunk,
Well I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you.

And if I haver,
Well I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who’s haverin’ to you.