Singing echo songs | Music | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

What does your teacher sing or say when we are ready to begin our song or chant?

'Ready, steady, off we go' ✓
Match our two different voices.

speaking voice

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the voice we use when we are talking to each other ✓

singing voice

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when we are creating musical sounds using high and low sounds ✓
It is important to warm up before we sing because...

warming up tells us what we are going to learn in the lesson.

warming up helps to keep our voices strong and healthy. ✓

warming up makes us sing louder.
In which order do we warm up so we are ready to sing?

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We warm up our bodies through big movements and actions.

2

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We warm up our faces through stretches and by making funny faces.

3

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We warm up our chest by doing breathing exercises.

4

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We warm up our voices by doing vocal exercises.

5

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We use tongue twisters so we can sing and speak more clearly.

Before we sing we should always warm up our body and voice.

True: we should warm up to keep our voices strong and healthy. ✓

False: we only need to warm up before a big performance.
When we copy exactly what the leader is singing, we are singing an...

'echo' ✓
Which one of these is not an echo song or chant?

Kye, Kye Kule

Boom Chicka Boom

A Keelie Makolay ✓

Down by the Bay
Sometimes we sing and chant together. Sometimes we sing and chant on our own. We need to know when it is our turn to sing. Match the signal to the type of singing.

Leader puts their hand to their ear.

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We echo the leader. ✓

Ready, steady, off we go.

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We begin the song or chant. ✓

Leader puts their hands outstretched.

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We echo the leader. ✓

Leader puts their hand to their chest.

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We listen to the leader. ✓

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We warm up before singing so that our bodies, minds and voices are ready to sing.
We can use our voices to chant and sing together.
We can sing together or on our own and know when it is our turn to sing.
We know that an echo is a copy of a sound and enjoy creating different echoes.

Echo and call and response are the same.

An echo is an exact match of a phrase. A call and response is a question and answer structure in which the response can be different from the call.

Sing - create musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
Chant - speaking in time to a pulse
Song - music with words
Echo - an exact copy of a musical phrase