Author: Amy Dunnett

Here are today’s musical activities from Emmeline.

Let’s Make Music Together Today

 Today’s Musical activity is called ‘Let’s Make Music Together today’. The aim of this song is to allow everyone an opportunity to do some solo playing and then all join in to play together again.

The first verse which everyone plays along with goes;

Let’s make music together today, 

What can we sing and what can we play, 

We’re making music together today. 

We can sing and we can play. 

In the next verse it is time for someone to take their turn to play on their own;

Let’s make music together today, 

What can we sing and what can we play, 

(Emmeline’s) playing the (shaker) in music today, 

Let’s all listen to Emmeline play.

After this verse everyone joins in again until it is the next person’s turn. You can finish the song by singing;

We’ve made music together today. 

We can sing and we can play!

 Touch the Sky: Part 4 – Verse 

Hello everyone, today we are going to learn Verse 3 of Touch the sky before we put the whole song together tomorrow!

I will hear their every story
Take hold of my own dream
Be as strong as the seas are stormy
And proud as an eagle’s scream.

Here are today’s musical activities with Emmeline.

Soundscape: Sky

In keeping with our Makaton song of the week, we have created our interpretation of a sky Soundscape today. We have provided this picture as a visual stimulus for the Sky but you can also choose your own picture or look at the sky from your window or garden.

Please relax, listen to the music, look at the picture, imagine different things you might find in the sky and take deep breathes. Perhaps you have some things at home that make you think of the sound of the clouds moving past or the sun shining that you could add in.

Touch The Sky: Part 3 – Verse 2

Well done so far with Touch the Sky. It is not as familiar a song to many of us as ‘Donald Far’s Yer Troosers’ is but we hope it will be by Friday! Today we are learning the second verse.

Where dark woods hide secrets
And mountains are fierce and bold
Deep waters hold reflections
Of times lost long ago.

Here are today’s musical activities from Emmeline.

Song: Five little Ducks 

 Our Five little Ducks activity is very similar to last week’s Five little monkeys. We have prepared our version of it with 5 printed ducks stuck to desk bells! Every time Mummy duck says; ‘quack, quack, quack quack’ we are going to play one of the bells and it will swim away. Again, please don’t worry if you do not have instruments like this! You could sing, clap, sign or tap the quacks instead. You could also print and cut out or draw five Little Ducks to practise counting down.

Touch the Sky : Part 2  – Verse 1 

It is time to learn the first verse of Touch the Sky today and then add it to the chorus!

When the cold wind is a-calling
And the sky is clear and bright
Misty mountains sing and beckon
Lead me out into the light.

Here are today’s musical activities with Emmeline.  We hope you enjoy them as much as we have!

Vocal Warm- up: Humming to Singing 

This week’s vocal warm-up is going to be practising humming into singing.

See if you can put your lips together and make a tickly humming sound which gradually gets louder and turns into an ‘ahh’ sound that you are singing. Try doing this along with Emmeline first at different volumes and then try it at home. It is a brilliant exercise to build confidence and you can practise it anywhere!

Touch the Sky: Part 1 – Chorus 

The Makaton song we are going to be learning this week is ‘Touch the Sky’ by Julie Fowlis from the film Brave. This was a new song recently for the Makaton Choir at Orchard Brae School, so now is the perfect opportunity to perfect it! Today we are going to learn the chorus for this song.

I will ride, I will fly

Chase the wind and touch the sky

I will fly

Chase the wind and touch the sky.