All the while I'm working on my 4th grade bundle. When I made my song list for the set I asked my good friend, Karla Cherwinski, for her favorite tam-ti songs and she introduced me to Chumbara.
It's a French Canadian folk song. We used it in 5th grade today and they ATE IT UP!!!
Here's the song notation:
And here's the game:
GAME:
In a sitting circle,
beats:
1-2: tap own legs
3-4: right hand on left leg, left hand on neighbor's right leg
5-6: tap own legs
7-8: left hand on right leg, right hand on neighbor's left leg
9-10: tap own legs
11-12: right hand on left leg, left hand on neighbor's right leg
13: tap own legs
14: left hand on right leg, right hand on neighbor's left leg
15: tap own legs
16: right hand on left leg, left hand on neighbor's right leg
17-36: repeat above, extending last part and clap own hands above head on beat 36.
My 5th graders and I added to this original motion that I got from Karla. Before we did the above actions we did this:
beats:
1-2: tap own legs
3-4: right hand on left leg, left hand on neighbor's right leg
Repeat above to the end.
Then. .. . .
1-2: tap own legs
3-4: right hand on left leg, left hand on neighbor's right leg
5-6: tap own legs
7-8: left hand on right leg, right hand on neighbor's left leg
Repeat above to the end.
Then AFTER the original action we changed it to this:
beats:
1-2: tap own legs
3-4: right hand on left leg, left hand on neighbor's right leg
5-6: tap own legs
7-8: pat the floor.
9-10: tap own legs
11-12: left hand on right leg, right hand on neighbor's left leg
13-14: tap own legs
15-16: pat the floor.
Repeat above to the end
I hope your kiddos have as much fun with it as mine did!
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