We decided that "Ding, ding, dong" was the best fit and added it to the song as a melodic ostinato. Students were tasked with finding a line of the song that we already knew that had the same rhythm as our rhythmic ostinato. Curci's class perform this rhythmic ostinato below:įinally, we turned our rhythmic ostinato into a melodic ostinato - a repeating pattern with a tune that we could sing. We know that a rest does not really look like that, but just as we use a shorthand for our "ta", we want to make drawing a rest easy for now too. We added the "sh" to our ostinato like this:
A beat without a sound is called a "rest." We will call it "sh" for now to make speaking our rhythms easier. What belonged on that last beat though? We would need to learn a new rhythm to figure this out. Given four beats, students were able to figure out the rhythm of this ostinato, shown below. Students patted on their laps, alternating hands - right, left, right. Next, we added a rhythmic ostinato (repeating pattern) to this song. Whittemore's class also performed this one for you to hear. Students were delighted to be singing in another language. When we were comfortable with the tune, students were introduced to the French version of this song, Fr è re Jacques. Whittemore's class sing this song in the video below. Morning bells are ringing, Morning bells are ringing, We started out by learning the song Are You Sleeping? in English: 2nd Graders are continuing their study of ostinatos with the song Are You Sleeping?/Fr ère Jacques.
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