The Food Song

• About:

• The Food Song is a song from the 2nd grade general music textbook Spotlight on Music published by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill.

• In Spring of 2011, I had my 2nd graders from the private Christian academy perform this piece at our talent show, and combined with the PowerPoint slideshow presentation I created, it was a huge success!

• Note: Please do NOT attempt to make changes to any of the attached files (which are for FREE download, FYI) as believe it or not, I HAVE copyrighted my work, and if I do a search on Google or Yahoo! or find a very similar version of this on YouTube then I CAN and WILL promptly SUE for infringement!

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• Pedagogy:

• The Food Song       

• I recommend playing this version first, just so that your students get a feel for what it is...

• Then, you can go through each slide and focus on getting students to properly pronounce each food item and then briefly discuss country of origin, etc.

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• Pitch Practice:

• Vocals Only       

• Girls only (mezzo-soprano)       

• Boys only (baritone)       

• Next, try these versions which get your students' attention away from the pictures and towards the lyrics, as well as their ears trained for the pitches...
  I recommend guys sing an octave lower than the girls; therefore there are separate MIDI files for practice with just girls or boys.

• FYI, despite being written for elementary students, the singers who performed this were actually a select group of middle school students from Indiana
  (as they were from an experienced choir and their voices were more developed).

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• Performance:

• Instrumental version       

• Finally, use this for your students to sing-along with (rehearse) and have fun performing!