Literature

There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly (6:33) ViewPure version

I used "The Bear Snores On" by Karma Wilson last year! My kindergartners loved it!! They picked an instrument for each animal in the story and different kids played them!!

The Stinky Cheese Man

Sid the Seed (~5:00)

The Hungry Caterpillar

Good Night Moon - we tried the Goodnight Moon book performance in 1st grade yesterday. We talked about bedtime stories and decided that our sounds should be soft, slow and smooth. I didn't use any drums, mostly maracas, shekere, cabasa, glock, chimes, tambourine, rhythm sticks. I used a small triangle played like a dinner bell for the telephone, a washboard rubbed with a recorder cleaning stick for the chairs and temple blocks for the cow jumping over the moon (low to high and back down again). It went pretty well for a first time with instruments this year. I was especially glad to hear them trying to play soft. Nice! Unfortunately the teacher didn't get back in time to hear them play :( Sally in SC

The Little Old Woman Who wasn't afraid of anything.

The Duck Who Played The Kazoo. Clarion Books, author Amy E Sklansky.

I'm doing a big science of sound unit this year and this fits right in. We'll make toilet paper tube kazoos and use them to do the kazoo part in the story.

=Pete the Cat =

I used Pete the Cat, Rocking in My School Shoes as a springboard for appropriate voice levels for different areas in the school. It's been a big deal that we work on this school wide. We sang extra extra quiet (almost whispering) "in the library", we used our inside voices "in the lunchroom" and sang loudly (no shouting!) "on the playground!" We shook our egg shakers to the steady beat while we sang too. It was a HUGE HIT!! One of my kinders said it was 'the funnest book ever!' Next week we'll work on learning the music terminology for loud & soft. Me luvs my kinders!