Mystery Melodies

Students in Grade One have been practicing using high notes and low notes to represent melodies on a one-line staff.  We have been reading melodies, playing them on xylophones, writing our own, and of course, singing them with our hand signs.

This week, Grade One students discovered that these high and low notes can be organised into songs that they already know!  After singing the following melody, students realised that it sounded just like "Rain, rain, go away".  It also sounded like "One, two, tie my shoe".  How strange that two different songs can use the same melody!  

Together, we matched up the lyrics with the melody that we sang, writing each word below it's own note: