Stepping down the staff while singing the major scale. Upper grades transfer reading skills to keyboard and recorder.
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- Grade: First
- Origin: Traditional
- Key: C Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: rhythm: ABAB - pitches: ABCD
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta (ta ta/a) |
- Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter; rests: half, quarter; stepping down the descending major scale
- Key Words: Hanukkah, holiday, menorah, candles, flames, dance, play, growing, smaller, melt, watch
- Recorder: intermediate: excellent sixth (6th) tune for upper grades, following the Beginning Recorder Songs, challenge students to perform the tune: forwards and backwards
- Keyboard: advanced: upper grades, excellent tune after completing the C Major Scale Fingering Chart
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"We Are Little Candles"
We are little candles,
See our flames that dance and play.
Watch us growing smaller
'til we slowly melt away.
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