Simply Music Rhapsody Big Kids Make Music: Concert Grid

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What’s Needed: What’s Needed: Song All Classes Students Teachers

Concert Start Children are seated on small chairs or risers with their color group Decorated Shoeboxes Guitar/Uke/Piano Their decorated shoe boxes are in front of them Glocks/Ocean Drums Colored Tape/Mic/Tracks Glocks are on their laps with mallets on “shoulder holders” Rhythm Sticks/Shaker Sopranino/Conga Drum Children play all instrument parts, taking what they need from their box. Eggs Frog/Snake/Gorilla Jungle item

Tideo “Time for music” — Play the rhythm of “ti-de-o,” (no improv) Glocks Guitar/Uke or Piano Metals “Time for music” — Play the rhythm of “ti-de-o,” (no improv) Glocks with C chords Say: “Time for the metals to make up a song” Improvisation Ocean Drums Skins Say: “Glocks go in, skins come out. Time for skins now everybody sing.” Rhythm Sticks Sopranino “Time for skins now” — ocean drums with one mallet Jungle Item Say: “Time for the skins to make up a song” Improvisation Woods Say: “Skins go in, woods come out. Time for woods now everybody sing.” “Time for woods now” — rhythm sticks Say: “Time for the woods to make up a song” Improvisation

Jungle Beat Rhyme Play the two sounds after each “jungle beat.” Rhythm Sticks Conga Drum

Grrumph A - scrape sticks on “Grrumph” and tap on “bloops” Rhythm Sticks Frog Puppet B - put sticks down, pick up shaker eggs and dance Shaker Eggs Instrumental Track

Silly Sam “Silly Sam the sneaky snake” — sing and shake Shaker Eggs Snake Puppet “Hides behind a rock ...” — hide eggs behind back on “wait” Guitar/Uke or Piano in D “Shakes up high and he shakes down low” — shakers high and low After “Away we go” — dance and shake

Going to the Jungle Everyone puts the shakers away and picks up their jungle item. Singing/Solos Mic for Solos Jungle Items Sing What We Sing the song followed by solos of the children that want to sing in the mic. Guitar/Uke or Piano Should Bring use D minor and A major chords

The Elephant “The elephant goes like this and that” — sway side to side Movement & Speaking Conga Drum “He’s terribly big and he’s terribly fat!” — arms straight up, straight out to the side or two hand drums “He has no fingers, he has no toes” — clench hands in a fist then point to toes with mallet “But goodness gracious, what a nose” — hands on hips, make a “trunk” with arm

Matilda Teacher leads with Matilda the Gorilla Movement & Singing Gorilla Puppet Children follow Matilda’s movement Instrumental Track

Goodbye Song Ask children to name the composer, symphony number and the 4 instruments they hear Singing Guitar/Uke at the beginning. (before singing) Track