Turkey Lurkey runs so fast,
ti-ti ti-ti ti- ti ta
Turkey Lurkey's never last!
ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti ta
Turkey Lurkey, you had better
ti-ti ti-ti ti- ti ti-ti
Hurry! * * *
ti-ti rest rest rest
Turkey Lurkey is one of the songs we are learning with Thanksgiving around the corner! This is a great game for reading rhythms. Once we learn the song, I can put up the rhythms as a "Mystery Song" and have students guess the song. This is also a good song for showing melodic contour -- the way the melody goes up and down. I am making small "Turkey Lurkey's" with magnets on the back, that I can put up on the black board. The turkeys will follow the melodic line in the song. We can follow the line singing "Loo" and discuss the melodic movement. Students can also follow the melodic line using solfege:
sol-mi, so-mi, do do do
sol-mi, sol-mi, do do do
do do do mi, sol sol sol sol
sol-do
~Mrs. Caya
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