Listen Sing Rattle Ding

Listen, Sing, Rattle, Ding
Lesson Ideas to Take a Little Song a Long Way
By Mari Schay
Book and CD-ROM
72 pages
Grades PreK - 2

Use the timeless appeal of folk and camp songs to energize and enrich your lower-elementary classroom repertoire with loads of fun and lots of learning. These brain-based lesson plans will take the simple songs to a new level. Every lesson offers every student the opportunity to listen, sing and play instruments. Recommended grade, applicable National Standards and an extension or assessment idea are also given with each lesson. 

The handy index lists 12 categories including Arranging and Composing, Assessment, Form and Rhythmic Notation with the songs listed under the appropriate category(ies).

Teaching aids are available on the included CD-ROM to further enhance many of the lessons.

Contents:
About This Book
Using the Lessons
The Instrumentarium
Planning for Success
Brain Research
Make Your Own Word Wall

Acka Backa, Alison's Camel, Ding Dong Digga Digga Dong, Dr. Knickerbocker, Glump Glump!, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, I Bought Me a Cat, In a Cabin, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Little Red Caboose, Peanut Sat on a Railroad Track, Pile of Tin, Rocky Mountain, A Sailor Went to Sea, Sarasponda, She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain, Shoo Fly, There Goes the Frying Pan, This Old Man, Three Little Muffins.

Index