Sound Off (Play CD link below.)

22.
Goodbye Song

There are no chords in this song. Just keep a ///- rhythm.

Everybody count to four.

Pretty soon I’m out the door.

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /


Sing goodbye along with me.
All you’ve got to do is count to three.
/ / / ~ / / / ~ / / / ~ / / / ~

Here’s goodbye from me to you.
But before I go let’s count to two.
/ / ~~ / / ~~ / / ~~ / / ~~

I don’t want to go.
I’ve had such fun.
One more time lets count to one.
/ ~~~ / ~~~ / ~~~ / ~~~

I will miss you. Write me mail.
Play the *coda. Play the tail.
/ / / ``` / / / ``` / / / ``` / / / ```

Key: “ / ” means to clap/stamp/tap or move one time with the beat of the music.
“ ~ ” means to rest; or refrain from moving for one beat.
*Coda literally means “tail,” as in tail ending.

Purpose: This song closes the session.

Benefits: enforcing the skill of “audiation” or hearing the sounds/music in your mind( like Bingo or John Brown's Baby). Its actually a pre-reading skill.
It can be done with or without instruments. This skill takes attention, concentration, impulse control, and motor control because of its its sequence/pattern format.

Adaptations: If the children are young or have difficulty doing this- show you their own ways of moving. My littlest ones merely follow a one step direction and clap or tap on various body parts for all four beats of the verses. I hide my hands behind my back or place them by my side with my preschoolers and chant along to help them; for example, “stamp stamp stop/now go” with verse two. I also pair movement that are easy with the timing. The order I use is clap, then tap knees, then stamp, knock on my head and add a tongue click and lastl