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title: Back to School Body Percussion
description: This will be a challenge for your Grade 4-6 students, but you could use just the chant with Grade 1-3 and have them make some ostinatos to perform with it.
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# Back to School Body Percussion

[Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne)

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This will be a challenge for your Grade 4-5-6 students, but you could use just the chant with Grade 1-2-3 and have them develop some ostinatos to perform with it.

![Back to School Body Percussion Notation](https://blog.musicplay.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-06-21%20at%209.18.04%20AM.png?width=1206&height=1184&name=Screenshot%202023-06-21%20at%209.18.04%20AM.png)

- For your younger students, teach them the chant while they keep a beat
- Have them create ostinato patterns using ideas from the poem For example: Back to School 
    - divide the class into two groups
    - have one group say the chant while the other performs the ostinato
    - transfer the ostinato to non-pitched instruments
- For your older students, teach the chant and the body percussion
- The patschen in the first system is done: bum, bum, thigh, thigh, chest, chest
- When the students are confident, try the body percussion without words

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