Lower KS2 Warm ups and short songs

When warming up for singing, try to choose one warm-up from each section:  Physical/focus, Primal Sounds, Articulation, Pitching/Short songs

Physical / Focus

Rubber Chicken - Quick physical warmup to energise the class

I say Hip, You say Hop

Beat Detective - info on how to play the Beat Detective Game.

HELLO - physical warmup

Hey you clappers - rhyme and physical warm up.

Poisonous Rhythm (Don't clap this one back)

Chicka Chicka Cha Cha - rhythmic vocalisation warmup

Up shake shakety shake - rhyme and physical warm up.

Primal sounds

Simple vocalisations to get the class making sounds.

Simple vocalisations to get the class making sounds.

Articulation and vowels

Itsy Bitsy - articulation warmup with layered rhythms

Apples and Bananas warm-up (changes vowels for each verse).

Diction is done with the tongue and the teeth and the lips - scalic rhyme

Booty Booty (beatboxing warm-up)

Pitching

Counting warm-up

12345 tutorial - Tune of 'Knees up Mother Brown' to words "12345"

My Hat it has Three corners - a song which uses internalisation

Gala Bingo

12345 performance

First you make your fingers click - simple song with internalisation

Chest Chest Knee Toe - simple song using physical representation of pitch

Short songs, rounds and layer songs

Swing forwards, swing backwards/love lifts us up - two songs with movement

Mango Mango is a silly layered song.
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Ooh la la lay round

A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea - a clapping song

Crazy Moose - silly action call and response song

I walked to the End of the Road - bluesy round

A Keelie - African song with harmony part

Double Double - a clapping song

My bonny lies over the ocean - with standing/sitting

Kumala Vista - a nonsense sound bluesy song (I think he pitches it a bit low!)

Oh how beautiful - very short round

Dr Knickabocka

Classroom transition songs

Everybody Line up - tutorial

Everybody Line up - complete

Everybody Sit Down