Once Upon a Music Class 3-6

Once Upon a Music Class Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Nursery Rhymes for Intermediate Music Students By Valeaira Luppens and Greg Foreman Book and enhanced SoundTrax CD 84 pages Grades 3 - 6 Meaningful, enjoyable lessons that engage students while addressing Common Core music standards. Grade-appropiate children's literature and music activites are used. Sources are fairy tales, nursery rhymes, folk tales, legends, camp stories, myths, fables, and tall tales. Students will create, perform, respond, and connect or do a combination of those processes at the same time.  Includes 20 lessons with learning targets, procedures, and reproducible student pages. An Enhanced CD has audio recordings as well as the data files. Contents Third and Fourth Grade Lessons 1. Beethoven and the Count (Folk Legend) 2. The Fisherman and the Bear (Tall Tale) 3. The Hart in the Ox Stall (Aesop's Fable) 4. Hot Cross Buns (Nursery Rhyme) 5. The King's Magic Drum (Nigerian Folk Tale) 6. The Man Who Saw an Alligator (Camp Story) 7. Old King Cole (Nursery Rhyme ) 8. Peer Gynt (Norwegian Fairy Tale) 9. The Skeleton (Americab Folk Tale) 10. The Story of Paul Bunyan (American Tall Tale) Fifth and Sixth Grade Lessons 11. The Ancestor of Tea (Chinese Folk Tale) 12. Atlas (Greek Myth ) 13. The Blue Mountains (European Folk Tale) 14. Fairy Tale Starters (Student Generated Fairy Tales) 15. The Firebird (Russian Folk Tale) 16. The Lion and the Donkey (Aesop's Fable) 17. The Lion and the Mouse (Aesop's Fable) 18. One for the Money (Nursery Rhyme) 19. Pan (Greek Myth) 20. The Wild Swans (Danish Fairy Tale)