One Hand Clapping Song
Kahlil Algya
Older audiences may know this rhythm game from the movie Pitch Perfect, but long before that it was a competitive game that kids loved to play in playgrounds! Of course, one student can practise their skills and play by themselves as well.
People who are out will have to stand or sit in the centre of the circle, or leave it entirely and watch from the sides. If a player pulls their hand away fast enough not to be caught, the player who attempted the slap is out instead, making it a fun challenge to try and avoid being caught while getting other people out.
The key to this game is all in the name: concentration! While clapping with a partner, players must think of a name or a word that relates to a chosen category. To give an example, a player might have to think of different farm animals. The next player then has to say a different farm animal to the one already said without any repetition or hesitation.
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"We found that children in the first, second and third grades who sing these songs demonstrate skills absent in children who don't take part in similar activities," explains Dr. Idit Sulkin a member of BGU's Music Science Lab in the Department of the Arts. "We also found that children who spontaneously perform hand-clapping songs in the yard during recess have neater handwriting, write better and make fewer spelling errors."
Dr. Warren Brodsky, the music psychologist who supervised her doctoral dissertation, said Sulkin's findings lead to the presumption that "children who don't participate in such games may be more at risk for developmental learning problems like dyslexia and dyscalculia. There's no doubt such activities train the brain and influence development in other areas. The children's teachers also believe that social integration is better for these children than those who don't take part in these songs."
As part of the study, Sulkin went to several elementary school classrooms and engaged the children in either a board of education sanctioned music appreciation program or hand-clapping songs training -- each lasting a period of 10 weeks.
"Within a very short period of time, the children who until then hadn't taken part in such activities caught up in their cognitive abilities to those who did," she said. But this finding only surfaced for the group of children undergoing hand-clapping songs training. The result led Sulkin to conclude that hand-clapping songs should be made an integral part of education for children aged six to 10, for the purpose of motor and cognitive training.
During the study, "Impact of Hand-clapping Songs on Cognitive and Motor Tasks," Dr. Sulkin interviewed school and kindergarten teachers, visited their classrooms and joined the children in singing. Her original goal, as part of her thesis, was to figure out why children are fascinated by singing and clapping up until the end of third grade, when these pastimes are abruptly abandoned and replaced with sports.
"This fact explains a developmental process the children are going through," Dr. Sulkin observes. "The hand-clapping songs appear naturally in children's lives around the age of seven, and disappear around the age of 10. In this narrow window, these activities serve as a developmental platform to enhance children's needs -- emotional, sociological, physiological and cognitive. It's a transition stage that leads them to the next phases of growing up."
Sulkin says that no in-depth, long-term study has been conducted on the effects that hand-clapping songs have on children's motor and cognitive skills. However, the relationship between music and intellectual development in children has been studied extensively, prompting countless parents to obtain a "Baby Mozart" CD for their children.
This study also demonstrates that listening to 10 minutes of Mozart music (.i.e., the 'Mozart Effect') does not improve spatial task performance more than 10 minutes hand clapping songs training or 10 minutes exposure to silence.
Sulkin also found that hand-clapping song activity has a positive effect on adults: University students who filled out her questionnaires reported that after taking up such games, they became more focused and less tense. "These techniques are associated with childhood, and many adults treat them as a joke," she said. "But once they start clapping, they report feeling more alert and in a better mood."
Sulkin grew up in a musical home. Her father, Dr. Adi Sulkin, is a well-known music educator who, in the 1970s and 1980s, recorded and published over 50 cassettes and videos depicting Israeli children's play-songs, street-songs, holiday and seasonal songs, and singing games targeting academic skills.
And this hand-clapping chant:
Eeny-meany ooh ahh tumbline
Alichachi Liberace I love you
Take a peach, take a plum
Take a piece of bubble gum
No peach, no plum
Just a piece of bubble gum
I sing it like this,
Miss suzie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, miss suzie went to heaven the steamboat went to hello operator, please give me number 9 and if you disconnect me, ill kick you from behind the refrigerator there was a piece of glass miss suzie fell upon it and cut her litttle ask me no more questions tell me no more lies miss suzie told me everything before she died her hair in purple died her hair in pink died her hair in polkadots and washed it down the sink me in the ocean sink me in the sea sink me in the toilet but please dont pee on me
my friends taught me this and they said that one of their friends made this up and i just love it!
boys are made of greasy slimy gofer guts, mutilated monkey meat, chopped up parakeet, french fried eye balls, swimming in a pool of blood, eat it with out a spoon! SLURP!
mine goes:
Candy apples on a stick, makes my heart go 2 forty six not because im dirty not because im clean not because i kissed the boy behind the magazine hey girls you wanna start a fight here comes__name____ with her miniskirt on
(_name___ with his pants undone) she can wibble she can wobble she can do the splits but i bet you 5 dollars she cant do this kiss kiss _name__ on the lips
Heres another version of apples on a sticl
apples on a stick just make me sick. they make my heart beat 2, 4, 2, 6. not that Im dirty not that Im clean. cause I kissed a boy behid a magizine. you, you wanna have fun? well here comes Jilly with the short skirt on she can do all the splits but I bet you 5 bucks she cant do this now close your eyes and count to 10 and if you cant do you ot to kiss a boy again 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 you did a great job now start it again
the adam family started whaen uncle festa farted he farted through the key hole and peralised the cat miaw the cat got over excited and shouted man united and man united shouted the adam family 12345678910
i know another one . abcd hit it thats the way hu hu i like it hu hu thats the way hu hu hu ilike it, scooby dooby dooby dooby scooby doooby dooby hot chocolate scooby dooby dooby dooby scooby doooby dooby hot milk
apples on a stick just make me sick. they make my heart beat 2, 4, 6
not that Im dirty not that Im clean. cause I kissed a boy behind a magizine. you, you wanna have fun? well here comes OLLY MURS
with his pants undone he can do all the handstand but I bet you 5 dollars but he cant do this now, now close your eyes and count to 10 and if you cant do you have to kiss a OLLY MURS again and again and again on OLLY MURS lips 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 you did a great job now start it again.
Heres another version of quack dilly o so
quack dilly o so quack quack quack from san diego eggo eggo waffles delora delora potatos on the floora go 1 2 3 4 kick your brother ou the door 5 6 7 8 who do we appreciate me me american idol 1 2 3 4 end
my mummy is a teacher 123 123 my daddy is a doctor pump pump pump pump pump pump my sister is a singer (bit of song) my brother is a baby wa wa wa wa wa wa my dog he is so lazy qqqshoo qqqshoo my guinea pigs so playful (run around) my best friend is the bestest (hug)
heres another 1 of my family
my mummy is a baker mmm mmm
my daddy is a dentist aaargh aaargh
my sister is a showoff hi girls hi boys
my brother is a cowboy bang bang youre dead 50 bullets in ya head turn around touch the ground youre dead
jump up n down n turn around jump up n down n turn around
jump up n bend ya knees jump up n bend ya kneees
jump up n down n touch the ground jump up n down n touch the ground
r ya dizzy now freeze.
hey guys i got another version of apple on a stick and chinesse restrunt , heres apple on a stick : apple on a stick , makes me sick , makes my heart beat 246 , not because your dirty , not because your clean , not because you kissed a boy behind a magazine , girls , boy , lets have some fun , here comes suzy with a chicken up her bum , she can do the can can , she can do the splits but i betcha , i betcha , she cant do this , ill count to ten , etc
heres the chinnese fish shop one i went to a chinese fish shop to buy a loaf of bread bread bread he wrapped it up in a five pound note and this is wat he said said said , my name is elvis presely , girls are sexy , sitting in the back car , drinking pepsi , hows ur father? ALRIGHT!
apples on a stick,ganna make me sick,ganna make my heart go 246 246, not cause im dirty,not cause im clean,not cause ya kissed a boy behind a magizine,hey girls wannah have some fun here comes justin bieber with his pants un done,close your eyes and count to 10,when your finished, you got to kiss your boy friend
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