Ame Ame: Japanese song lesson set to teach pentatonic, 6/8, orff ostinati

This lesson set is a wonderful resource to add to your music collection. Use it to teach students about pentatonic music with slides showing the solfege, teach compound meter in 6/8 through the melody and percussion accompaniment parts (including 3 Orff xylophone ostinati parts) along with lesson extension ideas, and learn the Japanese language and culture.

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This lesson set is included in the Japanese Music Lesson Set Bundle

You can get a free sample of some of the resources included in the lesson sets and instantly add a wonderful Japanese song to your collection with the Donguri: FREE sampler

The song, "Ame, Ame", is sung by children all over Japan, and is perfect for elementary age students. It is a simple, upbeat song about the joys of splashing in rain puddles and includes a comparison to the song with similar themes, "Rain, Rain, Go Away".

This set includes:

Slides to teach various musical concepts, as well as background information and lyrics translation and pronunciation in pdf and powerpoint versions (there is also a blank background version of every slide to print and use as worksheets and handouts)

Sound recordings of a native speaker speaking each word of the text, as well as a sung recording

Lesson extension ideas with printable manipulatives for composition

Because of the variety of resources available in this set, please note that it is a zipped file.

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