Drum Circle (Greater Than, Less Than)

Drum Circle (estimating values, greater than or less than, numbers to 1,000)    

·        Ask for volunteers to name the seven continents. Tell them that you have instruments from three of the continents. Introduce the instruments and ask them to guess which continent it is from. Brainstorm other instruments and their origins. Point out the continents and places on a globe and on a map as you go. Include discussion of at least one instrument that the students would associate with their own home. (In a subsequent lesson the student could listen to excerpts of music from around the world and also identify origins of map and globe.)

·        Invite the students to select an instrument in an orderly manner or hand out the instruments. If the latter, you can group the instruments (djembes on one side of the room, etc.).

·        Give time to explore the instruments. For example, “explore the sounds your instrument can make for five,” then raise your hand lowering one finger at a time until zero, at which time they should stop. Practice the procedure until they get it right. Encourage them to explore loud sounds AND soft sounds.

·       Play four-count patterns and have the students echo.

·       Introduce a pattern for the students to repeat over and over. Use the expanding ball to have them play louder or softer.

·       Switch instruments in an orderly manner and give them five to explore again.

·        Introduce new patterns and invite students to come up and be the conductor using the expandable ball.

·       Switch instruments and give them five to explore again.

·       Repeat a pattern over and over using the expanding ball.

·       Draw a vertical line on the board and label it the hundreds to 1,000.

·       Explain that the fully expanded ball is 1,000 and the smallest ball is 1.

·       Repeat a pattern over and over using pointing at the vertical line to have them play louder or softer.

·       Call on a student to name a three-digit number and place it in the appropriate place on the line. Call on additional students to do the same.

·       Guessing Game: Show a student a three-digit number, but make sure no one else sees it. Have the student play a pattern over and over at that volume. Let the rest of the class guess what the number is. Whoever is closest gets to be “it” the next time.

Skip to My Lou (Place Value)

   

When using a tune to help students remember a concept, it is more effective to use a tune they already know (a folk tune), albeit with new lyrics. The familiar tune is a brain-pattern that has already been established and can be used to carry new information. That’s not to say that they can’t learn a new song; it just takes a lot more time to build that new pattern in the brain. 

I picked up the following song at a workshop in Arizona. I can't remember who the clinician was, but he was an elementary music specialist giving elementary music integration ideas. 

Play, “Name that Tune”: Sing the tune on a neutral syllable (la, ba, dee, etc.) and invite the students to raise their hands if they know the name of the tune. Ask them to please not shout it out. When the tune is over, call on someone. When they give a title, don’t say “yes” or “no.” Rather, say “let’s test it and see.” Sing the tune as before and then ask the students if they thought it fit. If not, then take additional guesses and repeat the song. 

Invite the students to sing the song (Lou, lou, skip to my lou—or one of the verses, Flies in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo...)

Invite the students to listen to the new lyrics. Point at the board showing a three-digit number. For example, 743. Sing: Three is in the ones place. Four is in the tens place. Seven is in the hundreds place. Seven hundred forty-three.

Sing the song for additional numbers. Invite students to sing along. Invite individual students to come up and point (especially fun with a cool pointer like a drumstick, baton, or mallet).

Additional variations: Keep the beat with various body percussion. Let students come up with their own ways to keep the beat. Let individual students lead the rest of the class in keeping the beat. Tap or clap the rhythm. Do the rhythm with other body percussion. Including some marching in place or something to get them up out of their seats just a bit.

To solidify the fact that hundreds are the largest, repeat the song (with or without beat or rhythm accompaniment) singing softly on the ones, medium on the tens, and loud on the 100s.

Once they seem to know what’s going on, stop singing with them to see if they can carry the tune without the teacher. 

Skip Counting Rhythms

Repeated Patterns (skip counting by 10s, 5s, and 2s)   

Process 

Repeat a 4-count body percussion pattern over and over and invite the students to join in. Make the pattern interesting for them. Include at least two things in the pattern and stick with simple rhythms (1, 2, 3 & 4)

Count together by 10s up to 100 along with the pattern, placing the numbers of counts 1 and 3. 

Change the pattern and do it again. Allow a student volunteer to come up with a repeated pattern (if they want to; if not, don’t force it) and everyone join in and count by 10s

Change the pattern and count by 5s up to 100.

Change the pattern and count by 2s up to 30. 

For any of these steps (above), place the numbers on counts 1, 2, 3, and 4. 

For any of these steps (above), vary the tempo and/or volume.

Extension: For any of these steps (above), add an accelerando, ritardando, crescendo, or decrescendo/diminuendo. However, at this point it isn’t necessary to talk about what these are called; simply say speed up gradually, slow down gradually, get gradually louder, get gradually softer.  

My Many Colored Days (Grade 1, Reading and Music)

Overview: Students will create sounds to accompany My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss (or another book with lots of potential moods/sounds)

Resources: Assortment of classroom percussion instruments (could be found sounds)

Process:

• Invite the children to sit in a “story time” group on the floor.
• Place an assortment of classroom percussion instruments on the floor between teacher and students (at least one instrument per student).
• Ask the children to not touch the instruments yet. Assure them that they will get a chance to play them in a little while.
• Read My Many Colored Days with expression.
• Explain to the children that we will be adding sounds.
• Review the book page by page and invite students to brainstorm what kinds of sounds could go with the mood of each (one sound per page).
• Invite individual students to share their ideas for which sound should go with which page as you go through the book. They can demonstrate the sounds with the classroom instruments.
• Let the students choose an instrument one by one until everyone has one. Ask them to take the instrument and set it quietly on the floor.
• When everyone has an instrument, let them play it and practice the mixed up day at the end of the book. Work for a balance so that they can still hear the teacher over all of the instruments.
• Quickly and briefly review who plays on which page in the book. “Raise your hand if you play here.” “Show me what it will sound like.”
• Perform the book with everyone adding their sounds throughout in the appropriate places. It might be necessary to repeat some pages if there is confusion.
• Possible extension: Record the performance and let the children listen to it.

Standards:

• Reading: Literature Standard 1 – Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• Reading: Literature Standard 4 – Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
• Integrated Core: Objective 3 – Develop and use skills to communicate ideas, information, and feelings. Recognize and express feelings in a variety of ways (e.g., draw, paint, tell stories, dance, sing).

Name Rondo* (Grades 3-6, Community and Music)

by Kay Lehto

“A” Section

Names, names, remembering names, if you forget;           who could blame you about

              S                                   S                              S            

        C           C                 C               C            C             C

 P                            P                                 P                         P

Names, names, remembering names, ready, set, here we go!

              S                                    S                              S            

        C           C                 C                C             C               C           C C C

P                              P                                 P                              P

“B” Section

  C C C    C C C     C C C    C C C

P            P            P           P     

Perform the “A” section, do the “B” section twice, and then return to the “A” section. During the P’s in the “B” section, four children will say their names (one child per P) following by the entire group saying all four names on the P’s in the same order (then return to “A”). After all children have had a turn saying their name, perform the “A” section one more time. You might have the children choose words to replace “ready, set, here we go” to give more finality to the chant.

*A “rondo” is a musical form with a reoccurring “A” section (ABACADA etc.)

Extension: Play a name-memory game. Choose one student to be the leader or head of the circle and someone to be at the end. Perform the “B” Section only. The leader begins with her/his own name and then says someone else’s name on the next pat. That student then says her/his own name on the next pat and someone else’s on the pat after that. When someone “messes up” they move to the end of the circle and everyone “below” them moves up one place.

Echo and Answer (Grades K-6, Listening and Music)

Process       

• Invite students to echo your four-count body percussion pattern. This can be tricky the first time. Use the familiar attention-getter pattern (clap, clap, clap-clap, clap) and/or count to four while doing the pattern so that the four counts are clearly defined. You could also begin with four claps, snaps, pats, etc. counting to four each time. Later, leave out the counting and the students should be able to simply count in their heads.
•  Immediately after the students echo the pattern, begin a new pattern. The echos should be seamless—pattern, echo, pattern, echo. Large gaps interrupt the flow and pacing. Keep the patterns simple enough for the students to echo, but complex enough to keep them interested. Vary the type of body percussion (clap, snap, pat, pat cheeks, pat head, stomp, etc.). Vary the volume level. Vary the rhythm. You can also use repetitive actions that are silent; these are especially effective in focusing a group of students. 
• Invite the students to, instead of an echo, perform an answer to your pattern. An answer is a pattern that is different but takes the same amount of space. If necessary (if students just keep echoing), choose a student to demonstrate with you, pattern-answer-pattern-answer. Ask the students, “Was it an echo or an answer?” Answers are an important step towards students making up their own patterns.

Variations on echoes and answers:

• Choose individual students to be the leader.
• Have two students answer each other back and forth.
• Have halves of the class answer each other back and forth.
• Divide into partners or small groups and practice echoes and answers.
• Vary the tempo (fast echoes and answers or slow echoes and answers)
• Around the Circle: Have everyone develop a pattern. Go around the circle and have each student perform her or his pattern for the rest of the class to echo or answer.
• Use the same process with percussion instruments or with found sounds. 

Children's Books about Music and Musicians

Selected List of Children’s Books that Incorporate Music

Dr. Sara Womack
swomack@hoover.k12.al.us
http://www.tarleton.edu/Faculty/boucher/Selected%20List%20of%20Childrens%20Books%20that%20Incorporate%20Music.pdf

1, 2, Buckle My Shoe by Anna Grossnickle Hines, ISBN 0152063054
The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Jonah Winter and illustrated by Barry Blitt, ISBN 0375836022
A My Name Is Alice by Jane E. Bayer and illustrated by Steven Kellogg, ISBN 0140546682
Ah, Music! by Aliki, ISBN 0060287191
A-Hunting We Will Go by Steven Kellogg, ISBN 0064437477
All of You Was Singing by Richard Lewis, ISBN 0689315961
All the Pretty Little Horses by Linda Saport, ISBN 0395930979
America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates, ISBN 0689318618
America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates and illustrated by Neil Waldman, ISBN 0689853452
Ancient Rhymes: A Dolphin Lullaby by John Denver and illustrated by Christopher Canyon, ISBN 1584690641
The Ants Go Marching by Ann Owen and illustrated by Sandra D’Antonio, ISBN 1404801480
The Aunts Go Marching by Maurie J. Manning, ISBN 1590780268
Baa Baa Black Sheep by Iza Trapani, ISBN 1580890717
Baby Yaga: A Russian Folktale by Eric Kimmel and illustrated by Megan Lloyd, ISBN 082340854X
Baby Beluga by Raffi and illustrated by Ashley Wolff, ISBN 0517709775
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers by Deborah Hopkinson and illustrated by Raúl Colón, ISBN 0689810628
Banjo Granny By Sarah Martin Busse and Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Barry Root, ISBN 0618336036
The Banza by Diane Wolkstein and illustrated by Marc Brown, ISBN 0140546057
Barn Dance! by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault and illustrated by Ted Rand, ISBN 0805000895
Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming, ISBN 0805055818
The Bat Boy and His Violin by Gavin Curtis and illustrated by E.B. Lewis, 0689841159
The Bear: An American Folk Song by Kenneth Spengler, ISBN 1590341902
Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Barbara Nichol and illustrated by Scott Cameron, ISBN 0531068285
Ben’s Trumpet by Rachel Isadora, ISBN 0688109888
Berlioz the Bear by Jan Brett, ISBN 0698113993
Bling Blang by Woody Guthrie and illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky, ISBN 076360769X
Brahms by Ann Rachlin and illustrated by Susan Helland, ISBN 8574160784
The Bravest Flute: A Story of Courage in the Mayan Tradition by Ann Grifalconi, ISBN 0316328782
The Bremen Town Musicians by the Brothers Grimm and illustrated by Pamela Baldwin Ford, ISBN 0805047905
Buffalo Girls by Bobbette McCarthy, ISBN 0517565684
Cadillac by Charles Temple and illustrated by Lynne Lockhart, ISBN 0399226540
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina, ISBN 0064431439
Carnival of the Animals: Poems Inspired by Saint-Saëns' Music by Judith Chernaik and illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura, ISBN 0763629601
Carnival of the Animals by John Lithgow and illustrated by Boris Kulikov, ISBN 0689873433
Carnival of the Animals by Barrie Carson Turner, ISBN 0805061800
Carnival of the Animals: Classical Music for Kids by Barrie Carson Turner and illustrated by Sue Williams, ISBN 0805061802
Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee by Paul Galdone, ISBN 08991977051
The Cello of Mr. O by Jane Cutler, ISBN 0525461191
Charlie Parker Played Bebop by Chris Raschka, ISBN 0531070956
A Cheerful Note for Jack by Arlene Boehm, ISBN 1570980810
Chicken Joy on Redbean Road: A Bayou Country Romp by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Melissa Sweet, ISBN 0618507590
The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock by Jim Sylesworth and illustrated by Eileen Christelow, ISBN 0689718624
Crash! Bang! Boom! by Peter Spier, ISBN 0385067801
Crocodile Beat by G. Jorgenson, ISBN 0027480100
Cumbayah illustrated by Floyd Cooper, ISBN 0688135439
Dancing Drum: A Cherokee Legend by Terri Cohlene and illustrated by Charles Reasoner, ISBN 0816723621
Deck the Hall: A Traditional Carol illustrated by Sylvia Long, ISBN 0811828212
Dinosaur Roar by Paul and Henrietta Strickland, ISBN 0140568080
Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D’Arezzo by Susan Roth, 0618465729
Do Your Ears Hang Low?: A Love Story illustrated by Caroline Church, ISBN 0439128714
Don’t Wake Up Mama by Eileen Christelow, ISBN 0395764793
Don’t Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin, ISBN 0941807517
Down by the Bay by Raffi and illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott, ISBN 0517800586
Down by the Station by Will Hillenbrand, ISBN 0152018042
Dreamsong by Alice McLerran and illustrated by Valery Vasiliev, ISBN 0831743573
Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrated by Brian Pinkney, ISBN 0786821507
Earthsong by Sally Rodgers, ISBN 0525458735
The Eensy-Weensy Spider by Mary Ann Hoberman and illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott, ISBN 0316363308
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Pinkney and illustrated by Brian Pinkney, ISBN 0786805686
Ernie Dances to the Didgeridoo by Alison Lester, ISBN 0618104429
The Farewell Symphony by Anna Harwell Celenza, ISBN 1570914060
The Farmer in the Dell by Mary Maki Rae, ISBN 0670818534
A Farmyard Song by Christopher Manson, ISBN 1558581693
Fiddle-i-fee by Santiago Cohen, ISBN 1593540205
Fiddle-i-fee by Will Hillenbrand, ISBN 0152019456
Fiddle-i-fee by Melissa Sweet, ISBN 0316758612
The First Song Ever Sung by Laura Krauss Melmed, ISBN 0140554572
Fishes by Brian Wildsmith, ISBN 0192721518
Five Green and Speckled Frogs by Priscilla Burris, ISBN 0439354899
Five Little Ducks by Raffi and illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey, ISBN 0517800578
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow, ISBN 0395557011
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow, ISBN 0395664136
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter, ISBN 0679819975
The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song illustrated by Peter Spier, ISBN 0440408296
Frog Went A-Courtin’ by John Langstaff, ISBN 0156339005
Froggie Went A-Courtin’ by Iza Trapani, ISBN 1580890288
Froggie Went A-Courting: An Old Tale with a New Twist by Marjorie Priceman, ISBN 0316712272
Froggy Plays in the Band by Jonathan London and illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz, ISBN 0670035327
From a Distance by Julie Gold and illustrated by Jane Ray, ISBN 0525458727
Frosty the Snow Man by Annie North Bedford and illustrated by Corinne Malvern, ISBN 0760704589
Georgia Music by Helen V. Griffith and illustrated by James Stevenson, ISBN 0688060722
Getting to Know You!: Rodgers and Hammerstein Favorites by Richard Rodgers and illustrated by Rosemary Wells, ISBN 0060279257
The Gingerbread Man by Eric Kimmel, ISBN 0874993199
Give the Dog a Bone by Steven Kellogg, ISBN 1587170027
God Bless America by Irving Berlin and illustrated by Lynn Munsinger, ISBN 0060097884
Goin’ to Boston by H. Ellen Margolin and illustrated by Emily Bolam, ISBN 1929766459
Going to the Zoo by Tom Paxton and illustrated by Karen Lee Schmidt, ISBN 0688138004
Good King Wenceslas by John Mason Neale and illustrated by Christopher Manson, ISBN 1558583211
The Grand Old Duke of York by Maureen Roffey and Bernard Lodge, ISBN 1879085623
Grandma’s Feather Bed by John Denver and illustrated by Christopher Canyon, ISBN 1584690955
A Green Horn Blowing by David F. Birchman and illustrated by Thomas B. Allen, ISBN 0688123899
The Happy Hedgehog Band by Martin Waddell and illustrated by Jill Barton, ISBN 1564022722
Handel and the Famous Sword Swallower of Halle by Bryna Stevens and illustrated by Ruth Tietjen Councell, ISBN 0399215484
Harry and the Singing Fish by Peter Lubach, ISBN 1562821598
Heaven’s All-Star Jazz Band by Donald J. Carter, ISBN 0375815716
Her Piano Sang: A Story about Clara Schumann by Barbara Allman, ISBN 1575051516
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush by Will Hillenbrand, ISBN 0152020322
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands by Kadir Nelson, ISBN 0803728509
Hey, Diddle Diddle by Kin Eagle and illustrated by Rob Gilbert, ISBN 1580890075
Hilda Must Be Dancing by Karma Wilson and illustrated by Suzanne Watts, ISBN 1416950837
Hip Cat by Jonathan London and illustrated by Woodleigh Hubbard, ISBN 0811814890
How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? By Bob Merrill and illustrated by Iza Trapani, ISBN 1580890318
How Music Came to the World by Hal Ober and illustrated by Carol Ober, ISBN 0395675235
Howdi Do by Woody Guthrie and illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky, ISBN 0763607681
Humpty Dumpty by Kin Eagle and illustrated by Rob Gilbert, ISBN 1580890199
Hurricane Music by Barbara Bottner and illustrated by Paul Yalowitz, ISBN 039925447
Hush! A Thai Lullaby by Minfong Ho, ISBN 0531071669
Hush Little Baby by Marla Frazee, ISBN 0152014292
Hush Little Baby by Sylvia Long, ISBN 0811814165
Hush Little Baby by Margot Zemach, ISBN 0525442960
I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont and illustrated by David Catrow, ISBN 0152024888
I Had a Rooster: A Traditional Folk Song by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, ISBN 0670035211
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman and illustrated by Robert Sabuda, ISBN 0399218084
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Nadine Bernard Westcott, ISBN 0316931276
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson and illustrated by Judith Byron Schachner, ISBN 0140565957
I Know an Old Teacher by Anne Bowen and illustrated by Stephen Gammell, ISBN 0822579847
I Know an Old Texan Who Swallowed a Fly by Donna D. Cooner, ISBN 1885777140
I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello by Barbara S. Garriel and illustrated by John O’Brien, ISBN 1590780435
I Live in Music by Notzake Shange and illustrated by Romare Bearden, ISBN 0941807096
I Say a Little Prayer for You by Burt Bacharach, ISBN 0439296587
I See a Song by Eric Carle, ISBN 0590252135
I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus and illustrated by Michele Wood, ISBN 0892392124
I’m a Little Teapot by Iza Trapani, ISBN 1580890105
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad by Nadine Bernard Westcott, ISBN 0786820411
If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong by Roxanne Orgill and illustrated by Leonard Jenkins, ISBN 061825076X
Igor Stravinsky by Mike Venezia, ISBN 0613373995
In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming, ISBN 0805039412
Inch by Inch: The Garden Song by David Mallett, ISBN 0064434818
Introducing Gershwin by Roland Vernon, ISBN 0382391608
The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani, ISBN 1580890148
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring by Kin Eagle and illustrated by Rob Gilbert, ISBN 1879085712
Jazz Baby by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Laura Freeman, ISBN 1584300396
The Jazz Fly by Matthew Gollub and illustrated by Karen Hanke, ISBN 1889910171
The Jazz of Our Street by Fatima Shaik and illustrated by E.B. Lewis, ISBN 0803718861
Jingle Bells by Stephanie M. Britt, ISBN 0516094904
Jingle Bells by Diane Muldrow and illustrated by Joe Ewers, ISBN 0307960234
Join the Band by Marjorie Pillar, ISBN 0060218347
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback, ISBN 0670878553
Josephine Wants to Dance by Jackie French and illustrated by Bruce Whatley, ISBN 0810994317
Just the Two of Us by Will Smith, ISBN 0439087929
Knick Knack Paddywhack by Paul O. Zelinsky, ISBN 0525469087
The Lady with the Alligator Purse by Nadine Bernard Westcott, ISBN 0316930741
Life Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson and illustrated by Elizabeth Catlett, ISBN 0809774423
Little Bunny Foo Foo by Paul Brett Johnson, ISBN 0439373012
The Little Drummer Boy by Ezra Jack Keats, ISBN 0140567437
Little Green Frog by Rozanne Lanczak Williams, ISBN 0916119505
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams and illustrated by Megan Lloyd, ISBN 0064431835
Little Rabbit Foo Foo by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Arthur Robins, ISBN 0744598001
Little White Duck by Walt Whippo, ISBN 0316032271
The Listening Walk by Paul Showers, ISBN 0064433226
Lookin’ for Bird in the Big City by Robert Burleigh and illustrated by Marek Los, ISBN 0152020314
M Is for Music by Kathleen Krull and illustrated by Stacy Innerst, ISBN 0152064792
The Magic Flute by Anne Gatti, ISBN 0811810038
Mail Myself to You by Woody Guthrie and illustrated by Vera Rosenberry, ISBN 0673361969
Mama Don’t Allow by Thacher Hurd, ISBN 0064430782
The Marvelous Toy by Tom Paxton and illustrated by Elizabeth Sayles, ISBN 0688138799
Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale and Bill McMillan, ISBN 0590437747
The Master Violinmaker by Paul Fleisher, ISBN 0395653657
Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney, ISBN 068981593X
Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes and illustrated by Karmen Thompson, ISBN 0152002227
Miss Mary Mack by Nadine Bernard Westcott and illustrated by Mary Ann Hoberman, ISBN 0316931187
Mockingbird by Allan Ahlberg and illustrated by Paul Howard, ISBN 0763604399
Mole Music by David McPhail, ISBN 0805028196
Morning Has Broken by Eleanor Farjeon, ISBN 0802851274
Mozart Finds a Melody by Stephen Costanza, ISBN 0805066272
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Dr. Seuss’s Book of Wonderful Noises, ISBN 0679882820
Music, Music for Everyone by Vera B. Williams, ISBN 0688078117
Music over Manhattan by Mark Karlins and illustrated by Jack E. Davis, ISBN 0440411874
The Music Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler and illustrated by Jared Lee, ISBN 0439188733
Music Instruments from A to Z by Bobbie Kalman, ISBN 0865054088
Musical Max by Robert Kraus, ISBN 0099911000
Musicians of the Sun by Gerald McDermott, ISBN 0689839073
My Dolly by Woody Guthrie and illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky, ISBN 0763607703
My Favorite Things by Richard Rodgers and illustrated by Renee Graef, ISBN 0060287101
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss and paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, ISBN 067989344X
Mysterious Thelonious by Chris Raschka, ISBN 0531330575
Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Mary Szilagyi, ISBN 0689714734
Night Noises by Mem Fox, ISBN 0152574212
The Noise Lullaby by Jacqueline K. Ogburn and John Sandford, ISBN 0688104525
The Noisy Book by Margaret Wise Brown, ISBN 0064430014
A Noteworthy Tale by Brenda Mutchnick and Ron Casden and illustrated by Ian Penney, ISBN 0810913860
The Nutcracker illustrated by Azat Minnekaev, ISBN 0810913933
O Beautiful for Spacious Skies by Katharine Bates and illustrated by Wayne Thiebaud, ISBN 0811808327
Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go by John Langstaff, ISBN 068971503X
Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth and illustrated by Stephen Gammell, ISBN 0805039252
Old Chisholm Trail: A Cowboy Song by Rosalyn Schanzer, ISBN 0792275594
Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop by Lisa Shulman and illustrated by Ashley Wolff, ISBN 0142401866
Old McDonald Had a Farm illustrated by Pam Adams, ISBN 085953054X
Old McDonald Had a Farm illustrated by Holly Berry, ISBN 1558587039
Old McDonald Had a Farm by Kathi Ember, ISBN 0307988066
On Top of Spaghetti by Paul Brett Johnson, ISBN 0439749442
One Grain of Sand: A Lullaby by Pete Seeger, ISBN 0316781401
The Orchestra by Mark Rubin and illustrated by Alan Daniel, ISBN 1920668992
Our Marching Band by Lloyd Moss and illustrated by Diana Cain Blethenthal, ISBN 0399233357
Over in the Garden by Jennifer Ward, ISBN 0873587938
Over in the Meadow: A Counting Rhyme by Olive Wadsworth, ISBN 0735818711
Over the Rainbow by E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen, ISBN 0060295007
Over the Rainbow illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, ISBN 0941807388
Over the River and through the Wood by Lydia Maria Child and illustrated by Iris Van Rynbach, ISBN 0688118399
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear and illustrated by Jan Brett, ISBN 0698113675
Pamela’s First Musical by Wendy Wasserstein and illustrated by Andrew Jackness, ISBN 0786812923
Parade by Donald Crews, ISBN 0688065201
Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Play Rhyme by Nadine Bernard Westcott, ISBN 0140548521
Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev and illustrated by Ian Beck, ISBN 0552527556
Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev and illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak, ISBN 0140506330
Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev and Chris Raschka, ISBN 0689856520
Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev and illustrated by Vagin Vladimir, ISBN 0590386085
Peter and the Wolf retold by James Riordan and illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus, ISBN 0192722018
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed by Karla Kuskin, ISBN 006443124X
Picker McClikker by Allen Johnson, Jr. and illustrated by Stephen Hanson, ISBN 1887654143
Pictures at an Exhibition by Anna Harwell Celenza, ISBN 1570914923
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning and illustrated by Bud Peen, ISBN 0810943514
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle, ISBN 0805053883
Prince Ivan and the Firebird by Bernard Lodge, ISBN 1879085631
Puff, the Magic Dragon by Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton and illustrated by Eric Puybaret, ISBN 1402747823
Rain Song by Lezlie Evans, ISBN 0395850770
The Rainstick: A Fable by Sandra Chisholm Robinson and illustrated by Peter Grosshauser, ISBN 1560442840
The Remarkable Farkle McBride by John Lithgow and illustrated by C.F. Payne, ISBN 0689833407
Rogers and Hammerstein’s My Favorite Things illustrated by Renee Graef, ISBN 043941167
Roll Over!: A Counting Song by Merle Peek, ISBN 0395581052
Rondo in C by Paul Fleischman, ISBN 0060218568
Row, Row, Row Your Boat by Pippa Goodhart, ISBN 051788593X
Row, Row, Row Your Boat by Joanne Oppenheim, ISBN 0553371932
Row, Row, Row Your Boat by Iza Trapani, ISBN 1580890229
Rub a Dub Dub by Kin Eagle and illustrated by Rob Gilbert, ISBN 1580890083
Sakes Alive! A Cattle Drive by Karma Wilson and illustrated by Karla Firehammer, ISBN 0316988414
Satchmo’s Blues by Alan Schroeder, ISBN 0040414725
The Seals on the Bus by Lenny Hort and illustrated by G. Brian Karas, ISBN 0805072632
Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi and illustrated by David Allender, ISBN 0517566478
Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Founder’s of Rock and Roll by Holly George-Warren and illustrated by Laura Levine, ISBN 0618055401
She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain by Philemon Sturges and illustrated by Ashley Wolff, ISBN 0316822565
She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain by Luella Connelly, ISBN 0613344642
Shoo Fly! by Iza Trapani, ISBN 1580890806
Simple Gifts by Chris Raschka, ISBN 0805068171
Sing a Song of Sixpence illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, ISBN 081205900X
Sing Me a Story by Jane Rosenberg, ISBN 0500278733
Sing, Sophie by Dayle Ann Dodds, ISBN 0606193219
The Singing Man: Adapted from a West African Folk Tale by Angela Shelf Medearis, ISBN 0823412083
Skip to My Lou by Nadine Bernard Westcott, ISBN 0316930911
Sleepy-O! by Harriet Ziefert, ISBN 039587369X
Somewhere in the Ocean by Jennifer Ward, ISBN 0873587488
Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman, ISBN 0679819959
A Song for Little Toad by Vivian French, ISBN 0763603473
Sounds All Around by Wendy Pfeffer and illustrated by Holly Keller, ISBN 0064451771
The Star-Spangled Banner illustrated by Peter Spier, ISBN 0440406978
The Story of the Incredible Orchestra: An Introduction to Musical Instruments and the Symphony Orchestra by Bruce Koscielniak, ISBN 0618311122
Summertime from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin and paintings by Mike Wimmer, ISBN 0689850476
Sunshine on My Shoulders by John Denver and illustrated by Christopher Canyon, ISBN 1584690504
Swan Lake by Rachel Isadora, ISBN 0698113705
Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver and illustrated by Christopher Canyon, ISBN 1584690726
Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Jack Norworth and illustrated by Alec Gillman, ISBN 0689824335
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear by Michael Hague, ISBN 0688152511
There Was a Bold Lady Who Wanted a Star by Charise Mericle Harper, ISBN 0316146730
There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro and illustrated by Jared Lee, ISBN 0439567033
There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea by Jennifer Ward, ISBN 0873588980
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Pam Adams, ISBN 0859530183
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback, ISBN 0670869392
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout! by Teri Sloat and illustrated by Reynold Ruffins, ISBN 0805069003
There Was an Old Witch by Howard Reeves, ISBN 0786814926
There’s a Hole in the Bucket by Nadine Bernard Westcott, ISBN 0064431959
This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie and illustrated by Kathy Jakobsen, ISBN 0316392154
This Little Light of Mine by E.B. Lewis, ISBN 0689831799
This Old Man illustrated by Pam Adams, ISBN 0859530272
This Old Man illustrated by Carol Jones, ISBN 0395901243
Train Song by Diane Siebert and illustrated by Michael Wimmer, ISBN 0064433402
Troubadour’s Storybag: Musical Folktales of the World by Norma J. Livo, ISBN 1555919537
The Twelve Days of Christmas by Hilary Knight, ISBN 0689711506
The Twelve Days of Christmas illustrated by Jan Brett, ISBN 0698115694
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star by Michael Hague, ISBN 0688111688
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star by Jane Taylor and illustrated by Sylvia Long, ISBN 0811828549
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star by Iza Trapani, ISBN 1580890156
Twist with a Burger, Jitter with a Bug by Linda Lovery and illustrated by Pat Dypold, ISBN 0395670225
Two Scarlet Songbirds: A Story of Anton Dvorak by Carole L. Schaefer, ISBN 0375910220
Ty’s One-Man Band by Mildred Pitts Walter, ISBN 0590446444
A Very Young Musician by Jill Krementz, ISBN 0671726870
Violet’s Music by Angela Johnson and illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith, ISBN 0803727403
Way Up in the Artic by Jennifer Ward and illustrated by Kenneth J. Spengler, ISBN 0873589284
We All Sing with the Same Voice by J. Phillip Miller and illustrated by Paul Meisel, ISBN 0060274751
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, ISBN 0689815816
What Instrument Is This? by Rosemarie Hausherr, ISBN 0590446444
What Will You Wear Jenny Jenkins? by Jerry Garcia, ISBN 0060282630
What a Wonderful World by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss, ISBN 1568013698
Wheels on the Bus by Raffi and illustrated by Sylvie Kantorovitz Wickstrom, ISBN 0517709888
The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zelinsky, ISBN 0525446446
Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass and Philemon Sturges and illustrated by Ashley Wolff, ISBN 0316820164
A Winter Concert by Yuko Takoa, ISBN 0761304266
Winter Wonderland by Dick Smith, ISBN 0590466577
Yankee Doodle by Gary Chalk, ISBN 1564582027
Yankee Doodle by Steven Kellogg, ISBN 06898007260
Yellow Umbrella by Jae Soo Liu, ISBN 1929132360
Young Mozart by Rachel Isadora, ISBN 0140564780
Young MacDonald by David Milgrim, ISBN 0525475705
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra by Anita Ganeri, ISBN 0152013040
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss and illustrated by Marjorie Priceman, ISBN 0689835248

What Shall We Do with a Grumpy Sailor? (Grades 1-4, Reading, Writing, and Music)

Overview

Students will learn learn an authentic sea shanty and adapt it to explore adjectives.

Resources
Video of Drunken Sailor song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTsHaXtPrys, Space for movement

Process

• Teach the song (watch the video together and figure it out)
• Replace "Drunken" with other adjectives
• Write new verses to answer the question "What shall we do . . .?"
• Make up new ways to do the dance during the verse. (I usually keep the same actions on the chorus "Way, hey, and up she rises." The children especially love the final action going over and under, "wringing the dishrag").
• The words could also be adapted more generally: "What shall we do with ________" (Ex. a jelly donut, a piece of paper, etc.) 

Standards
Music (sea shanty, singing and dancing)
Language Arts (adjectives and creative writing)

Four White Horses (Grades 4-6, Music and Language Arts)

Students learn Four White Horses by rote using actions, learn the corresponding hand-clapping game, develop stories about the song, and develop new ways to play the game.

Resources

A recording of Four White Horses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqr44wfy9lA), writing materials, space for movement

Process 

First Session: Learn the song by rote

• Listen to Four White Horses and clap on "hey" (or "ay")
• Listen again and clap on "hey"
• Listen again and add actions on "up" (raise hands high above the head)
• Repeat and add actions on "rainy day" (fingers wiggle and fall)
• Develop actions for "shadow play" and repeat
• Continue repeating, adding actions for other parts of the song (come on, four white horses, on a river, ripe banana)
• Repeat the entire song with actions; invite all participants to sing along (Let them just listen if they want to up until this point when everyone is invited to sing along. However, if they choose to sing along prior, that's okay.)
• Repeat the entire song again without the vocal model; see if the students can carry the song on their own. Usually they can at this point. 

Second Session: Explore the meaning of the song

• Repeat the song with actions
• Brain-storm ideas for the song's meaning
• Write a short story based on the song
• (Participants could also research the origins and possible meanings for the song.)
• Share stories with others in small groups 

Third Session: Learn the game and make up new ways to play the game

• Repeat the song with actions
• Invite participants to stand in a circle close enough to reach each other
• Practice a four-count pattern (hands forward, clap hands, hands to sides clapping neighbor's hands, clap hands again)
• Sing the song with the repeated four-count pattern; the first four beats match the syllables, "four white hor-ses", etc.
• Choose three participants (making four in all) and demonstrate the game; begin with one partnership always clapping above the others, then alternate above and below if possible
• Invite groups to make up new ways to play the game
• If the class does not divided evenly into groups of four, invite odd groups (3 or 5 participants) to develop a way to play the game
• Have the groups share their creative ways to play the game if they would like; the other groups can also try the new ways to play the game

Standards

Language Arts

Music