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Making Music,
Literacy and Movement
Fun for the Older Ones
Presenters: Tracy Stener and Christie Noble E-mails : [email protected] and [email protected]
Books/Song Literacy Objectives To support using Stories/Activities
Music Objectives To support using Stories/Activities
Witch Doctor- David Seville
Energizer! Learning music/movement sequence
The Little Old
Lady Who Was
Not Afraid of
Anything By Linda Williams
Exploring mood and setting
Adverbs
Predicting
Sequencing/building suspense in
stories (ie. long vs. short sentences)
Exploring instruments
Creating mood using sound
effects
Three Billy Goats
Gruff story
Exploring Organization, Voice, word
choice.
Predicting and sequencing
Creating mood with instruments
and voice exploration
Keeping a steady beat
The Three Pigs Adapt. – C. Noble and
B. Kennedy
*Making Music Fun 3
Learning a traditional story
Predicting
Sequencing
Keeping a steady
Nutcracker-
Russian Dance Tchaikovsky
Learning about the story “The
Nutcracker”
Sequencing
Exploring simple instruments
Keeping steady beat
Learning Form
The Web Files By Margie
Palatini/Richard
Egielski
Reader‟s Theatre production Playing a melodic pattern on
instruments.
Mother Goose’s
Goose is Loose By Jo Ellen Moor
A Dark Dark
Tale By Ruth Brown
Exploring mood and setting
Adjectives
Predicting
Sequencing/building suspense in
stories (ie. long vs. short sentences)
Exploring instruments
Creating mood using sound
effects
IKO – The Dixie Cups
Examining how artists draw upon their
family experiences to create their art
Exploring instruments
Keeping a steady beat
Bringing the Rain
to Kapiti Plain By Verna Aardema
The Three Pigs Adapt. – C. Noble and
B. Kennedy
*Making Music Fun 3
Learning a traditional story
Predicting
Sequencing
Keeping a steady beat.
Huron Carol Learning a traditional Canadian carol Exploring Bells, harmony, form
Reading a music “score” or chart
Ghostbusters -Ray Martin Jr.
*Making Energizers
fun for Everyone
(Noble/Stener)
Energizer Learning music/movement sequence
Witch DoctorDavid Seville *Circle of Partners
A
Walk around the circle (right) with your partner 1x8 (I told the witch Dr. I was in love with you)
Trade places with your partner 1x8 (I told the witch Dr. I was in love with you)
Walk around the circle (right) with your partner then face partner 1x8 (and then the witch Dr. he told me what to do and he said,)
B CHORUS
Partner Clap pattern: (on “Ooh EE; Ooh Ah, Ah …”)
Patch , Clap,
Right (partners‟) ,Clap,
Left (partners‟) Clap
Both, Both (partners‟)
Patch , Clap,
Right (partners‟) ,Clap,
Left (partners‟) Clap
Both (partners‟)
REPEAT
A same as above in A section
B CHORUS
C Partners hook arms and swing once around (now you’ve been keeping love from me…)
Switch arms and swing the other way (so I went out and found myself…)
A
B
C
A
B
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything By Linda Williams
2 Big Shoes – “CLOMP, CLOMP” (drum) Pants - “WIGGLE, WIGGLE” (temple blocks) Shirt - “SHAKE, SHAKE” (shakers/maracas) 2 Gloves - “CLAP, CLAP” (clackers) Hat - “NOD, NOD” (flexitone) Pumpkin Head – “BOO!, BOO!” (thunder tube) Door - knock, knock (woodblock)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Once upon a time there were three billy goats. There was the
first billy goat gruff, the second billy goat gruff, and the third
billy goat gruff. They liked to go over the bridge across the
roaring river to the meadow to eat the delicious new spring grass.
But to get to the meadow, they had to cross over a bridge across
the roaring river, and under the bridge lived a mean old troll!
One day the first billy goat gruff decided he just HAD to go over
the bridge across the roaring river to eat some of that delicious
new spring grass. As he went over the bridge he sang: (first billy goat plays drum softly along with the song)
“Trip, trip, trip! Trip, trip, trip!
Over the bridge to eat some grass! Trip, trip, trip!
“Trip, trip, trip! Trip, trip, trip!
Over the bridge to eat some grass! Trip, trip, trip!”
“Who‟s that trippin‟ across my bridge?” yelled the mean old troll!
“I….I‟m the first billy goat gruff, and I..I‟m going across the
bridge over the roaring river, to eat some of that delicious new
spring grass.”
“Oh, no you‟re NOT! „Cause I‟m going to eat you up!” yelled the
mean old troll.
“Please, oh please, don‟t eat me!” cried the first billy goat gruff.
“Wait for the second billy goat gruff! He is much bigger and
juicier that I am!” said the first billy goat gruff.
“Very well then..be gone with you!” yelled the mean old troll.
Soon the second billy goat gruff decided he just HAD to go over
the bridge across the roaring river to eat some of that delicious
new spring grass. As he went over the bridge he sang: (second billy goat plays drum softly along with the song)
“Trap, trap, trap! Trap, trap, trap!
Over the bridge to eat some grass! Trap, trap, trap!
“Trap, trap, trap! Trap, trap, trap!
Over the bridge to eat some grass! Trap, trap, trap!”
“Who‟s that trappin‟ across my bridge?” yelled the mean old troll!
“I….I‟m the second billy goat gruff, and I..I‟m going across the
bridge over the roaring river, to eat some of that delicious new
spring grass.”
“Oh, no you‟re NOT! „Cause I‟m going to eat you up!” yelled the
mean old troll.
“Please, oh please, don‟t eat me!” cried the second billy goat gruff
“Wait for the third billy goat gruff! He is much bigger and
juicier that I am!” said the second billy goat gruff.
“Very well then..be gone with you!” yelled the mean old troll.
Soon the third billy goat gruff decided he just HAD to go over
the bridge across the roaring river to eat some of that delicious
new spring grass. As he went over the bridge he sang:
(third billy goat plays drum softly along with the song)
“Troop, troop, troop! Troop, troop, troop!
Over the bridge to eat some grass! Troop, troop, troop!
“Troop, troop, troop! Troop, troop, troop!
Over the bridge to eat some grass! Troop, troop, troop!”
“Who‟s that troopin‟ across my bridge?” yelled the mean old troll!
“I‟m the third billy goat gruff, I‟m the biggest and the strongest
billy goat, and I‟m going across the bridge over the roaring river,
to eat some of that delicious new spring grass.”
“Oh, no you‟re NOT! „Cause I‟m going to eat you up!” yelled the
mean old troll.
“Eat me up? Oh, no you won‟t!” cried the third billy goat gruff,
Who then butted the terrible troll into the roaring river, and he
was never heard from again!
Now each spring, the first billy goat gruff, the second billy goat
gruff, and the third billy goat gruff freely cross the bridge
across the roaring river to eat that delicious new spring grass.
For that is their favorite food you know!
First billy goat gruff: small drum (beat drum to syllables.. “first-bil-ly-goat-gruff”) Second billy goat gruff: medium drum (beat drum to syllables.. “se-cond-bil-ly-goat-gruff”) Third billy goat gruff: big drum (beat drum to syllables.. “third-bil-ly-goat-gruff”) Roaring river: barred instruments in F pentatonic..take B‟s and E‟s out playing randomly Mean Old Troll: big cymbal and wooden mallet..hit once
Nutcracker – Russian Dance
For the Older Ones: *Teach three different 4 beat rhythm patterns
A Section
Play rhythm pattern on METALS piano-soft
8 beats x 2
A Section – METALS forte -loud
8 beats x2
B Section
Play rhythm pattern on WOODS
8 beats x 2
C Section
Play rhythm pattern on SKINS
8 beats x 1
A Section – METALS piano-soft 8 beats x 2
A Section – WOODS forte –loud 8 beats x 1
METALS: triangles, tambourines, bells, jingles, finger cymbals, cabassa
WOODS: rhythm sticks, maracas, woodblocks, tick-tock blocks
SKINS: hand drums, bongos
The Web Files
(adapted from: "The Web Files", by Margie Palatini/Richard Egielski)
NOTE: GREAT IF ALL SCENES ARE WRITTEN ON BRISTOL BOARD, AND PARADED
ACROSS THE STAGE BY A "VANNA WHITE" TYPE CHARACTER BEFORE SCENE
BEGINS!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (To audience) My partner, Bill, and I
were working the barnyard shift. It was peaceful....quiet.
Then we got the call.
ALL: "Cock- a- doodle -doo!" (all students make this sound at different times)
BILL: A lot of squawking going on down in the coop area,
Ducktective Web! Looks like "fowl" play. Report says
feathers are flying. Chief says we should check out the
chicks.
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: Chicks?
BILL: Check!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: Cheerio!
(Ominous music on xylophones..see back page for instrumentation)
p1
Scene 1
6:32 a.m.
This is the farm.
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (To audience) The hen's house. We
knocked on the door. She answered.
HEN: P'awk! P-p-p-awk! P'awk! P'awk!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts.
HEN: I've been robbed! (clucks, and unruffles her feathers) Robbed, I tell you! Robbed! Robbed! Robbed!
BILL: (with notepad, writing) Sooooo.. you're saying that you
Were robbed, is that right, ma'am?
HEN: (in Bill's face, mad) Robbed! Robbed! Robbed! Robbed!
Robbed! (to audience) It's so hard to get good help these days!
BILL: ( wipes hen's spit off his face) What exactly is missing
from the nest, ma'am? Eggs, ma'am? Chicks, ma'am?
HEN: P-p-peppers!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: Peppers?
p2
Scene 2
6:35 a.m.
The hen's house
HEN: My perfect purple peppers that were just about ready to
Be pickled!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: About how many perfect purple almost
pickled peppers would you say were pilfered, pinched, and
picked? A bushel, perhaps?
HEN: P'awk! P'awk! NO! A peck! A peck, I tell you! A whole
purple-pepper-picking peck!
BILL: Have you any idea WHO would pick a peck of your
Perfect purple almost-pickled peppers?
HEN: Not a clue! (starts crying..blows nose loudly in a kleenex) DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) I turned to Bill and gave a
quick quack. (Loud "QUICK QUACK" in Bill's face..Bill wipes his face again) Bill....round up the usual suspects!
(Ominous music on xylophones..) D-F-A-D’ (higher D)-Bb A-G-F-E D-F-A-D’-Bb A-G-F-E-D
(Jack Horner in a corner, Officer Quack interrogating Little Boy Blue holding a horn, Little Bo-Peep pacing looking worried, 3 kittens looking for
mittens, Miss Muffet continually falling off her stool)
p3
Scene 3
9:06 a.m.
Police Headquarters
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) Headquarters was hopping!
(have bunnies and frogs hop across the stage) A miss named Muffet had just been tossed off her tuffet,
and a gal named Peep was missing some sheep. I noticed
that three little kittens had lost their mittens. They began
to cry.
(Kittens cry noisily) I wanted to help. I couldn't. I had
pickled peppers to worry about. Jack Horner was in the
corner and Officer Featherdown was trying to make Little
Boy Blue "quack".
OFFICER FEATHERDOWN: Okay, Blue Boy! Quit blowing your
horn! Time to make hay, and tell us the truth! Suppose you
just tell me where you were this morning...hmmmmm????
LITTLE BOY BLUE: I'm innocent, I tell you! Innocent! I was
Under the haystack, fast asleep! Honest! Ask anybody!
BILL: Sure sure! I've heard THAT bedtime
story before! ( turns to Featherdown) Got any witnesses?
OFFICER FEATHERDOWN: No sir. You see, the sheep were in
the meadow, and the cows were in the corn.
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) Things looked black for the
boy in blue! And then....we got another call.
BILL: There's been some horsing around reported down near
Barn and Pen. Looks like another robbery!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) We put the blue boy out to
Pasture
(Ominous music on xylophones..)
( horse and a sheep milling about)
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to horse) Whoa! Whoa! You there! Like
to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind, sir!
HORSE: Na-a-a-ay, not at all.
BILL: What do you know about a peck of unlawfully picked
perfect purple almost pickled peppers?
HORSE: Peppers? Peppers? A peck of purple peppers? Not a
thing! And that comes straight from the horse's mouth!
But somebody just hightailed it out of here with a tub of my
tartest tasty tomahtoes!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: You mean tomatoes?
HORSE: YOU say tomatoes, I say tomahtoes.....anyways,
Somebody just hauled to whole thing off!
p5
Scene 4
10:43 a.m.
Corner of Barn and Pen
SHEEP: (big sigh) And could you please find my lettuce while you
are at it, too? Somebody just lifted a load of my luscious
leafy lettuce not ten minutes ago! this is ba-a-a-ad! Really
ba-a-a-ad!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) My partner looked at me
And scratched his head.
BILL: (scratching head vigorously) Peppers? Tomatoes?
Lettuce? What do you make of all this Detective Web?
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) There was only one thing
to make out of all of this. SALAD!
(Ominous music on xylophones..)
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) The coffee shop.
My partner and I were still trying to "QUACK" the case, but
we didn't have any suspects.
BILL: (cries out in frustration) RATS!!!
p6
Scene 5
11:47 a.m.
The Coffee Shop
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (shouts) THAT'S IT! There is only one
suspect who is sneaky enough, wily enough, and tricky
enough to pick a peck of perfect purple almost pickled
peppers, take a tub of tasty tart tomatoes, and lift a load
of luscious leafy lettuce!
Pay the bill, Bill! We must be off! Time is a -wasting!
(Ominous music on xylophones..)
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) My partner and I were hot
on the trail of ......(sinister voice) that Dirty Rat.
(Ominous music on xylophones..)
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) Rat's house. A real
hole in the wall.
BILL: We know you're holed up in there, you Dirty Rat. Let us in!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) He did.
p7
Scene 6
12:22 p.m.
On the Road Again
Scene 7
12:46 p.m.
Dirty Rat's House
DIRTY RAT: (Bugs Bunny style) Eh, what's up Duck?
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: There's been some trouble down on the
farm. What do you know about a rash of recent robberies,
you Dirty Rat?
DIRTY RAT: (Innocent voice) Robberies? Robberies? What
makes you think little old me would know anything about a
robbery? I'm no cheesy snitch!
BILL: Can it, Ratzo! You've been up to no good in garbage for
years!
DIRTY RAT: (grins wickedly) Okay. Sure. Sure. Go ahead
flatfoots. Look anywhere you want! But make it quick
Quackers...you're interrupting my lunch!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: Lunch eh, rodent?
DIRTY RAT: Hey, what's going in here? You're not going to pin
this rap on me. I'm clean! Clean, I tell you! Clean!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) I picked a piece of lettuce
from under his chin. (to Rat) Not clean enough, you dirty
Rat!
BILL: I smelled his breath , boss. Just as I suspected. Garlic
mayo.
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: Book him, Ducko! His salad days are over.
p8
DIRTY RAT: (Bill handcuffs Rat and leads him away) Over?
Over? But they can't be over! I haven't had my dessert
yet!
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: Oh, you're getting your "just desserts"
right NOW, you Dirty Rat!
BILL: (Pats Ducktective on the back ) Looks like you "quacked"
another case, Web. But how did you ever figure it out?
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: Just played a hunch that he had eaten
the evidence for lunch. He forgot to use his napkin and
brush his teeth. He's a dirty rat. He never did have good
hygiene!
(Ominous music on xylophones…)
DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) That Dirty Rat was tried
and convicted on three counts of vegetable vagrancy,
offensive bad breath, and not using as napkin to wipe under
his chin.
BILL: (to audience) He was sent up the river and was sentenced
to six months of farm labor with time off for good
behaviour, better table manners, and clean teeth.
p9
Scene 8
1:12 p.m.
Epilogue
CASE CLOSED!
Mother Goose’s Goose is Loose adapted from “How to Do Plays With Children”
by Jo Ellen Moor Evan-Moor Educational Publishing 1995
Mother Goose: I‟m old Mother Goose, (looks through telescope)
And I‟m ready to wander.
But I‟ve looked high and low,
And I can‟t find my gander!
I‟ve looked in my pocket,
I‟ve looked in my shoe. (Throws shoe..others plug nose
I‟ve looked in the cupboard, and yell “PEE-U!”)
I‟ve looked through and through!
I think I need help (Page enters..with scroll)
From my good friends of rhyme.
I‟ll send out a call.
I just hope it‟s in time!
Page: Hear ye! Hear ye! (after Page stays to put up
I have a puzzle here! puzzle pieces)
Bring your rhymes and hurry!
Mother Goose needs help I fear!
Mother Goose: The hands on my watch (rotates hands on clock
Keep going around. hanging around her neck)
My goose is still gone,
And my friends can‟t be found!
…2
2
(Children all run on with their props and take their places… depending on what nursery rhyme they are in)
Page: They‟re here! They‟re here!
They‟ve come from afar!
By horse and by camel.
By train, boat, and car!
Mother Goose: My goose is loose! (Takes Kleenex..blows nose
I‟m grounded Boo Hoo! loudly..throws Kleenex on
It‟s a puzzle to me, floor..Kids say “Ewwwww..
And I need help from you! Gross!!”)
Rhyme 1: Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet (Miss Muffet yells: “ Stop!! What in the world is a tuffet?)
Eating her curds and whey (Miss Muffet yells: “ Stop!! Curds and whey? YUCK! I want a Big Mac, McNuggets and some fries, I want a Sundae, an Apple pie, a large Coke” (whole group says Big Mac rhyme)
Along came a spider (student creeps up with spider
Who sat down beside her on a string )
And frightened Miss Muffet away! (Miss Muffet runs away screaming..Page puts a puzzle piece up)
Mother Goose: Your rhyme is nice, but what‟s the use?
It cannot help bring back my goose!
….3
3
Rhyme 2: Mary had a little lamb (“Mary” walks around
Its fleece was white as snow, with a sheep on a
And everywhere that Mary went leash)
The lamb was sure to go! ( Mary says: “Well of course it goes where I go, silly! It‟s on a leash!”)
Mother Goose: Your rhyme is nice, but what‟s the use?
It cannot help bring back my goose! .(.Page puts second puzzle piece up)
Rhyme 3: Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn. ( Students hold up
The sheep‟s in the meadow, meadow..add sheep and
The cow‟s in the corn. cow.BoyBlue lays down behind
Where is the little boy that meadow.)
Looks after the sheep?
He‟s under the haystack..fast asleep! (Students lift up meadow sheet..Boy Blue snores loudly!)
Mother Goose: Your rhyme is nice, but what‟s the use?
It cannot help bring back my goose! .(.Page puts third puzzle piece up)
Rhyme 4: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick!
Jack jump over the candlestick! Students yell: “Ready, Set, GO!”
(Jack runs and jumps..then holds his bottom running around yelling ““Ow! Ow! Ow! Hot! Hot! Hot!”)
Mother Goose: Your rhyme is nice, but what‟s the use?
It cannot help bring back my goose! .(.Page puts fourth puzzle piece up)
…..4
4
Rhyme 5: Old Mother Hubbard (Hold up cupboard closed)
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone. (Hold up dog and bone)
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare (Open cupboard)
And so the poor dog had none! (dog whines..then growls..chases Mother off stage. She yells ”Nice doggie..nice
doggie! OK! .I‟m off to Superstore!” in scared tone)
Mother Goose: Your rhyme is nice, but what‟s the use?
It cannot help bring back my goose! .(.Page puts fifth puzzle piece up)
Rhyme 6: (singing)
Three blind mice! Three blind mice!
See how they run! See how they run! (3 “mice” with “Shades” on run around bumping into each other)
They all ran after the farmer‟s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife. ( Farmer‟s wife: “ STOP!! You‟re making me out to be the bad guy! I‟m out of here!”
She stomps off.
Did you ever see such a sight in your life
As three blind mice!
Mother Goose: Your rhyme is nice, but what‟s the use?
It cannot help bring back my goose! .(.Page puts sixth puzzle piece up)
…5
5
Rhyme 7: Little Jack Horner,
Sat in a corner (Jack looks dejected.. says in stage whisper “Actually I‟m on a time out!”)
Eating his Christmas Pie Pretend pie (Jack says, “I‟ve been here since Christmas????)
He put in his thumb (He puts thumb into ball with
And pulled out a plum hole in it, and pulls it out)
And said “What a good boy am I!” (Jack yells‟”Can I come out now?”..and runs off)
Mother Goose: Your rhyme is nice, but what‟s the use?
It cannot help bring back my goose! .(.Page puts seventh puzzle piece up)
Rhyme 8: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (“ Wall” with “student egg” on top)
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall! (cymbal crash)
( “Student egg” jumps wall and falls on floor…yells “Oh, man!!!)
All the king‟s horses and all the king‟s men (Group comes out and surveys the damage)
Couldn‟t put Humpty together again! (One of the king‟s men: “How do you all like your eggs?” Rest: “Scrambled!” 2 students drag him off stage by his feet)
Mother Goose: Your rhyme is nice, but what‟s the use?
It cannot help bring back my goose! .(.Page puts eighth puzzle piece up)
….6
6
Rhyme 9: Hickory dickory dock (clock with mouse on string
The mouse ran up the clock ..pulls up and down)
The clock struck one (cymbal crash)
The mouse ran down
Hickory dickory dock!
Mother Goose: Your rhyme is nice, but what‟s the use?
It cannot help bring back my goose! (.Page puts ninth puzzle piece up)
Rhyme 10: Hey diddle diddle!
The cat and the fiddle (student “cat” plays “fiddle”)
The cow jumped over the moon (Student “cow” leapfrogs over student “moon” ..) Moon yells : “ Hey! Watch it with those horns, cow!!”
The little dog laughed to see such sport (Student dog lays on floor shaking and laughing with loud snorks)
And the dish ran away with the spoon! (Student “dish” and student “spoon” run off..”These guys are crazy!! We are so out of here!)
****(.Page puts TENTH puzzle piece up)****
Mother Goose: I‟m old Mother Goose (says all this dejectedly)
And I‟m stuck on the ground
While that gander of mine
Is out playing around!
….7
7
All: (Except Mother Goose)
Your puzzle is solved!
So please don‟t despair!
Your goose is behind you,
Not up in the air! (Mother Goose looks behind her..does “Home Alone” surprise look to the audience)
Put on your goggles,
Your scarf, and get set,,,(she does this)
To take off and fly
On your favorite pet! (Mother Goose strikes dramatic pose in front of goose puzzle)
Old Mother Goose
When she wanted to wander..
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander!!
( Students all stand and take a bow!)
A Dark Dark Tale By Ruth Brown
Activity:
Initially, read the story to your students.
Every time “Dark, Dark” is read, play an instrument twice (we use pitched
instruments and remove the C and F bars; having students play any two notes
on the word “Dark”).
If you do not have pitched instruments, use any sound maker that you or
your students suggest to enhance the words of this eerie story.
Create an atmosphere of suspense - soft dynamics, turn off the lights, eerie
background music playing, use a plastic echo microphone to read story etc.
Build up suspense until “dark, dark box” , then scare students by quickly
yelling: ”THERE WAS A MOUSE!”
Extensions:
Use different instruments for each object in the story.
Ex: moor-thunder tube
wood: bird calls
This is an excellent language arts activity for K-3!
Students rewrite the story, substituting different words for “dark, dark”,
or keep “dark, dark”, and change the setting of the story.
Grades 4-6 wrote for us some of their best descriptive stories around this
book. They underlined what words they wanted sound effects for, chose
friends to play the instruments they had picked out. We then filmed them.
It was a great experience for all!
IKO – The Dixie Cups
Hand Jive/rhythm stick partner game
Intro music – get the beat of the song until the singing begins (12 beats)
HAND JIVE PATTERN: (8 moves)
Pat, Pat, Clap, Clap
Shimmy (hands with right on top), Shimmy (hands with left hand on top),
Hitch hike thumbs (thumbs up twice)
REPEAT FOR ENTIRE SONG
Hint: Hand jive pattern completed once would fit in with the lyrics:
“My grandma and your grandma were sitting by the fire”
Hand Jive pattern using sticks:
Tap floor, tap floor, tap sticks in front, tap sticks in front
Shimmy, Shimmy
Tap sticks 3 times in the air above head
PARTNER GAME: (8 moves) facing partner
Pat, Pat, Clap, Clap
Partner, Partner, Clap 3 times in the air above head
Partner Game using sticks:
Tap floor, Tap floor
Tap Sticks, Tap Sicks
Tap Partner’s sticks, Tap Partner’s Sticks
Tap own sticks in the air above head 3 times.
GROUP CIRCLE GAME:
Tap floor, Tap floor
Tap front, tap front
Shimmy, Shimmy
Tap sticks to your side 3 times to tap sticks of both people on each side of you
Choral Reading
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
by Verna Aardema
The class should be divided into four groups:
After you have completely read and discussed the book and given all the
background information, then have the class read the book together from
the chart paper or transparency. Have them do this until you feel they are
comfortable with it.
When they are comfortable reading it then have them do the following
choral reading.
Music instrument parts:
Introduction : drum music on CD
CLOUD – music on CD
GRASS – African Pods
COW – cowbell
KI-PAT – music on CD (A-A-A-C’-B (rest,rest,rest) A-A-A-G-A(rest,rest,rest)
EAGLE – Wind chimes
ARROW – Flexitone
BOW – music on CD (E-D-C-D-E-A__-E____ E-D-C-D-E_E_-E___)
SHOT! - Drum
The whole class: This is the great Kapiti Plain, all fresh and green from
the African rains--A sea of grass for the ground birds to nest in, and
patches of shade for wild creatures to rest in; with acacia trees for
giraffes to browse on, and grass for the herdsmen to pasture their cows
on.
But one year the rains were so very belated, that all of the big wild
creatures migrated. Then Ki-pat helped to end that terrible drought--and
this story tells how it all came about!
Group 1: This is the cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the ground
on Kapiti Plain.
Group 2: This is the grass, all brown and dead, that needed the rain from
the cloud overhead--
Group 1: The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the
ground on Kapiti Plain.
Group 3: These are the cows, all hungry and dry, who mooed for the rain
to fall from the sky;
Group 2: To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, that needed the rain
from the cloud overhead--
Group 1: The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the
ground on Kapiti Plain.
Group 4: This is Ki-pat who watched his herd as he stood on one leg,
like the big stork bird;
Group 3: Ki-pat, whose cows were so hungry and dry, they mooed for
the rain to fall from the sky;
Group 2: To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, that needed the rain
from the cloud overhead--
Group 1: The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the
ground on Kapiti Plain.
Group 1: This is the eagle who dropped a feather, a feather that helped to
change the weather.
Group 4: It fell near Ki-pat, who watched his herd as he stood on one leg
like the big stork bird;
Group 3: Ki-pat, whose cows were so hungry and dry, they mooed for
the rain to fall from the sky;
Group 2: To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, that needed the rain
from the cloud overhead--
Group 1: The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the
ground on Kapiti Plain.
Group 2: This is the arrow Ki-pat put together, with a slender stick and
an eagle feather;
Group 1: From the eagle who happened to drop a feather, a feather that
helped to change the weather.
Group 4: It fell near Ki-pat, who watched his herd as he stood on one leg
like the big stork bird;
Group 3: Ki-pat, whose cows were so hungry and dry, they mooed for
the rain to fall from the sky;
Group 2: To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, that needed the rain
from the cloud overhead--
Group 1: The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the
ground on Kapiti Plain.
Group 3: This is the bow, so long and strong, and strung with a string, a
leather thong;
Group 2: A bow for the arrow Ki-pat put together, with a slender stick
and an eagle feather;
Group 1: From the eagle who happened to drop a feather, a feather that
helped to change the weather.
Group 4: It fell near Ki-pat, who watched his herd as he stood on one leg
like the big stork bird;
Group 3: Ki-pat, whose cows were so hungry and dry, they mooed for
the rain to fall from the sky;
Group 2: To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, that needed the rain
from the cloud overhead--
Group 1: The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the
ground on Kapiti Plain.
Group 4: This was the shot that pierced the cloud and loosed the rain
with thunder LOUD!
Group 3: A shot from the bow, so long and strong, and strung with a
string, a leather thong;
Group 2: A bow for the arrow Ki-pat put together, with a slender stick
and an eagle feather;
Group 1: From the eagle who happened to drop a feather, a feather that
helped to change the weather.
Group 4: It fell near Ki-pat, who watched his herd as he stood on one leg
like the big stork bird;
Group 3: Ki-pat, whose cows were so hungry and dry, they mooed for
the rain to fall from the sky;
Group 2: To green-up the grass, all brown and dead, that needed the rain
from the cloud overhead--
Group 1: The big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the
ground on Kapiti Plain.
The whole class: So the grass grew green, and the cattle fat! And Ki-pat
got a wife and a little Ki-pat-- who tends the cows now, and shoots down
the rain, when black clouds shadow Kapiti Plain.
After group 4 says "LOUD!" then have the students play the rain
game, or wait until the end of the sequence or the story.
Resources
“Mother Goose‟s Goose is Loose”:
How to Do Plays With Children by Jo Ellen Moor
Evan-Moor Educational Publishing 1995
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
Puffin Books 1983
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-
africa/monhan/choralreading.htm
A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown
New York: Puffin Books 1981
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
U.S.A.: Harper Collins Publishers 1986
The Web Files by Margie Palatini and Richard Egielski
New York: Hyperion Books for Children 2001 **no longer in print
The Three Billy Goats Gruff, retold by Dr. Alvin Granowsky. The series is
Steck-Vaughn, Another Point of View. The flip side is Just a Friendly
Old Troll.
Noble, C. and Stener, T. (2007). Making Energizers Fun For Everyone www.funlitmusic.com
Noble, C. and Stener, T. (2003). Making Music Fun For the Little Ones – Book 1 www.funlitmusic.com
Noble, C. and Stener, T. (2003). Making Music Fun For the Little Ones Book 2 - Winter www.funlitmusic.com Noble, C. and Stener, T. (2008). Making Music Fun For the Little Ones - Book 3 www.funlitmusic.com
Additional GREAT Resources
Once Upon a Folk Tale – Eight Classic Stories (songs and accompaniments)
by Linda Rockwell High Memphis Musicraft Publications 1994
Around the House with Mother Goose – A Guide to Using Nursery Rhymes to
Explore Multiple Intelligences by Carol Lemoine
Fearon Teacher Aids 2000