Making Music, Literacy and Movement Fun

For The Older Ones - Spring 2012

Presenters:

Christie Noble and Tracy Stener

www.funlitmusic.com

Song/Book List Literacy Objectives

To support using

Stories/Activities

Music Objectives

To support using

Stories/Activities

Woodland Chorus By Bill Shontz

Exploring the Canadian

wilderness/wild life.

Mood and Setting as

told in song

Reading a musical score

Vocal exploration

Exploring instruments

to create mood (sound

effects)

Waka Waka

(This Time for Africa)

*Making Energizers Fun

for Everyone (Noble/Stener) Use Holla moves

Music can portray a

positive attitude and

hope for the future.

Energizer!

Learning

music/movement

sequence

Bringing the Rain to

Kapiti Plain

By Verna Aardema

Acting out a story using

mime

Exploring mood and

setting

Predicting

Sequencing/building

Mallet technique on the

Orff instruments

Creating mood using

sound effects

Layering ostinatos

There’s a Hole in the

Bucket

Taking turns

Finding humour in an old

traditional song

Singing with tonality as

well as with expression.

Iko, Iko The Dixie Cups

Study the “history” of a

song or the story

behind a popular song

from the 1960’s

Keeping the beat

Learning sequence

“stick” pattern with

partner(s)

The Web Files Reader’s Theatre Playing a melodic

pattern on the barred

instruments

Clap, Clap Bumblebee Applying a chant to

action

Keeping the beat

Slow vs. fast

Waka Waka (It’s Time for Africa)

Introduction : count to 8 twice

Dance Sequence (repeated throughout entire song):

1. Patch knees twice then “pat-a-cake” two hands out in

front twice (this is repeated 4 times; for duration of 16

beats)

2. “raise the roof” (raise two arms above head; palms up)

twice to the left, then twice to the right (this is

repeated 4 times; for the duration of 16 beats)

3. March in place (knees up and pump arms) for 16 beats

4. Point index fingers up in the air above head (for the

duration of 16 beats)

5. Jump up in the air 16 times OR Make a statue every

four beats (4 statues in total for the 16 beats)

REPEAT (you should end by having pointers in the air!)

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.

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

THERE’S A HOLE IN THE BUCKET

LIZA: (screechy voice) HENRY! HENRY! Where is that good for nothing

lazy man! HENRY!!!!!

HENRY: (lazily ambles on stage) Yes, Liza?

LIZA: Go fetch me some water, lazy Henry, and be quick about it!

HENRY: (resigned voice) Yes, Liza (holds up bucket and looks at it)

LIZA: What are you LOLLYGAGGING about for? Get goin’!

HENRY: (shrugs shoulders) I can’t.

LIZA: ( in his face) WHAT DID YOU SAY?????

HENRY: I said I can’t.

LIZA: AND WHY NOT?????

HENRY: Well, you see Liza…

There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza,

There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole!

Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, fix it!

With what shall I fix it, dear Liza, dear Liza,

With what shall I fix it, dear Liza, with what?

With a straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

With a straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, with a straw!

But the straw is too long, dear Liza, dear Liza,

But the straw is too long, dear Liza, too long!

Then CUT it dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,

Then CUT it dear Henry, dear Henry, CUT IT!

With what shall I cut it, dear Liza, dear Liza,

With what shall I cut it, dear Liza, with what?

With an axe, DEAR Henry, DEAR Henry, DEAR Henry,

With an axe, DEAR Henry, DEAR Henry, with an axe!!

But the axe is too dull, dear Liza, dear Liza,

The axe is too dull, dear Liza, too dull!!

Then SHARPEN IT, DEAR Henry, DEAR Henry, DEAR Henry,

Then SHARPEN IT, DEAR Henry, DEAR Henry, SHARPEN IT!!

With what shall I sharpen it, dear Liza, dear Liza,

With what shall I sharpen it, dear Liza, with what?

With a STONE, DEAR Henry, DEAR Henry, DEAR Henry,

With a STONE, DEAR Henry, DEAR Henry, A STONE!!

But the stone is too dry, dear Liza, dear Liza,

The stone is too dry, dear Liza, too dry!

THEN WET IT, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY!

THEN WET IT, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY, WET IT!!!!!

With what shall I wet it, dear Liza, dear Liza,

With what shall I wet it, dear Liza, with what?

OOOOOOHHHHH!

WITH WATER, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY!

WITH WATER, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY,WITH WATER!!

With what shall I fetch it, dear Liza, dear Liza,

With what shall I fetch it, dear Liza, with what?

IN A BUCKET, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY!

IN A BUCKET, DEAR HENRY, DEAR HENRY, IN A BUCKET!!!!!

HENRY: (chuckles) But Liza…

There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza,

There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole!

(Liza screams and chases Henry off-stage)

IKO IKO The Dixie Cups

Hand Jive Pattern to play with a partner while singing/listening to song and

keeping the beat: (sit on floor facing your partner)

Pat, Pat (tap sticks on floor)

Clap, Clap (tap your own sticks together)

Shimmy (right hand on top), shimmy (left hand on top) (holding sticks)

Hitch – Hike (at the same time point both sticks up in the air, over

shoulders)

Tap, Tap, Tap (ti-ti-ta rhythm) (tap your partner’s sticks -*One partner taps

while the other one holds up sticks to be tapped)

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..)

Scene 1

6:32 a.m.

This is the farm.

Scene 2

6:35 a.m.

The hen's house

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?

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?

Scene 3

9:06 a.m.

Police Headquarters

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 suspect

(Ominous music on xylophones..)E-G-B-E’ (higher E)-C

B-A-G-F#

E-G-B-E’-C

B-A-G-F#-E

(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)

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!

SHEEP: (big sigh) And could you please find my lettuce while you

Scene 4

10:43 a.m.

Corner of Barn and Pen

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!!!

DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (shouts) THAT'S IT! There is only one

Scene 5

11:47 a.m.

The Coffee Shop

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!

Scene 6

12:22 p.m.

On the Road Again

Scene 7

12:46 p.m.

Dirty Rat's House

DUCKTECTIVE WEB: (to audience) He did.

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.

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…)

Scene 8

1:12 p.m.

Epilogue

CASE CLOSED!

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 labour with time off for good

behaviour, better table manners, and clean teeth.

Resources

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema

Puffin Books 1983

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-

africa/monhan/choralreading.htm

The Web Files by Margie Palatini and Richard Egielski

New York: Hyperion Books for Children 2001 **no longer in print

Noble, C. and Stener, T. (2007). Making Energizers Fun For Everyone

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