Once Upon a Music Class PreK-2

Using grade-appropriate children's literature and music activities, "Once Upon a Music Class" provides meaningful, enjoyable lessons that engage students while addressing Common Core music standards. Author Valeaira Luppens bases music lessons on fairy tales, nursery rhymes, folk tales, fables, and tall tales. Students will create, perform, respond, and connect, or do a combination of those processes. 20 lessons are included with learning targets, procedures, reproducible student pages, and recordings.

Recommended for grades PreK – 2. Please see item 862146 for "Once Upon a Music Class"for grades 3-6 (sold separately).

Contents:

Pre-K and Kindergarten Lessons:

1. Beauty and the Beast (Fairy Tale)

2. The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Aesop's Fable)

3. Humpty Dumpty (Nursery Rhyme)

4. Jack Be Nimble (Nursery Rhyme)

5. Johnny Appleseed (American Folk Tale)

6. The Little Bird (Nursery Rhyme)

7. Little Miss Muffet (Nursery Rhyme)

8. Pop! Goes the Weasel (Nursery Rhyme)

9. The Swallow and the Crow (Aesop's Fable)

10. The Teeny Tiny Man (Canadian Finger Play)

First and Second Grade Lessons:

11. The Ants and the Grasshoppers (Aesop's Fable)

12. The Bamboo Cutter (Japanese Fairy Tale)

13. Dust Under the Rug (American Fairy Tale)

14. The Four Skillful Brothers (German Fairy Tale)

15. The Little Red Hen (Russian Folk Tale)

16. Peter Piper (Nursery Rhyme)

17. Stone Soup (European Folk Tale)

18. The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Norwegian Folk Tale)

19. The Tortoise and the Hare (Aesop's Fable)

20. The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Russian Fairy Tale)