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Butterfly, Butterfly way up
high.
What’s it like to kiss the sky?
Butterfly, Butterfly where will you go?
And what shall you do when you get there?
Butterfly, Butterfly what will you do?
When wintertime is through?
Butterfly, Butterfly have a safe flight.
We’ll watch you and watch you ‘til day turns to
night.
- Speak all together in strict rhythm. Pat knees on the strong beat and clap the weak beat.
- Speak all together, but creatively change voice sounds high, low,
soft, loud – each student in his or her own way.
- Add a rhythmic ostinato (a short, repeated pattern) for the accompaniment. Example -- clap, clap-clap, clap clap-clap, stomp, stomp, snap.
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While part of the class does the ostinato, the rest of the class says the poem in rhythm. (Hint – the ostinato should be simple and a rhythm that complements, but is distinctively different than the rhythm of the poem.) Ostinatos may also be spoken – Here is an example -- “Fly, fly, fly away. Lookout for birds that come your way!”– Add body movements (For example, snap to the rhythm on the first line while swaying back and forth. Turn around on the next line with your hand on your forehead.)
- Speak in canon – One part of the class begins the poem after the first part of the class reaches the word
high.
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Create a form – Suggestion: Begin with everyone saying the poem together softly. When the poem is finished, have part of the class perform the ostinato two times through. Add the other part of the class chanting the poem with varied inflections. Close with everyone chanting the poem together very softly. This form is ABA. The canon suggestion (#4) may be used in the ostinato section as well, or a longer rondo form may be developed that would go from:
- All Chanting
- Ostinato
- All Chanting
- Canon
- All Chanting. Speak all together in strict rhythm. Pat knees on the strong beat and clap the weak beat.
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