• Grade: Kindergarten
• Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme, Children’s Playground Song*
• Key: C Major
• Time: 6/8
• Form: AaBC
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | ta/ ta ti | syncopation, | ta/ ta/ |
• Pitches: beginners: do mi so la
• Intervals: beginners: so\mi, mi/la, mi\do
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: eighth, dotted quarter; 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8
• Key Words: world geography: England; playground game song, posies, ashes, fall, down, pocketful, mother, jump, up, upstairs, downstairs, pail water, sea, water, cows, meadow, buttercups, fishes, one, two, three

* While holding hands, children walk in a circle singing the song, until the last word (down) when they all fall to the floor. The last child to fall is out of the game and the game continues.

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