Making Music,

Literacy and Movement

Fun for the Older Ones

Presenters: Tracy Stener and Christie Noble E-mails : noblec@telusplanet.net and tstener@epsb.ca

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)

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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?

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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)

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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!

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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!!!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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