Kids Can Listen, Kids Can Move!

Get students active and interested in orchestral music with Kids Can Listen, Kids Can Move! This creative resource engages elementary aged kids with classical favorites that include movement activities for marching, dancing, trotting, skipping, jumping, hiding, sleeping, playing instruments, entering class, and saying goodbye. The activities incorporate songs (classical themes with new lyrics), dance, games, triangles, optional stick horses or kangaroo puppets, children's story books, tambourines, jingle bells, parachute, shaker eggs, guiro tone block, rhythm sticks, hand drums (or Sound Shapes), maraca, glockenspiel, xylophone, scarves, listening map, and finger cymbals. The included CD has tracks to coordinate with each of the activities.

Contents:

• The Syncopated Clock (Anderson)
• Forgotten Dreams (Anderson)
• Sleigh Ride (Anderson)
• Lieutenant Kije-Troika from Symphonic Suite Op.60 (Prokofiev)
• Hungarian Dance #6 (Brahms)
• Run Run! from Memories of Childhood (Pinto)
• Children's March (Grainger)
• Creatures of the Garden (Donaldson)
• The Wild Horseman (Schumann)
• Chinese Dance, from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
• Trepak, from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
• March, from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
• Prelude to Act 1 form Carmen (Bizet)
• Viennese Musical Clock, from Hary Janos Suite (Kodaly)
• Hungarian Dance #5 (Brahms)
• Colonel Bogey March (Alford)
• Aquarium, from Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens)
• Kangaroos, from Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens)
• The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods, from Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens)
• Pizzicato from Sylvia Ou la Nymphe de Diane (Delibes)
• Primo Vere: V. Ecce Gratum from Carmina Burana (Orff)
• "Come My Friends"- a song set to Allegretto from Pastorale Symphony #6 Op.68 (Beethoven; words by Kleiner)
• Theme and Variations from Surprise Symphony (Haydn)
• Adagio from Symphony #1 (Brahms)
• Largo from New World Symphony #9 (Dvorak)