Plays Well Together

Spice up your recorder curriculum by adding drum and xylophone ensembles to the mix!

This collection includes a mix of folk songs with catchy recorder interludes and original, classroom-tested songs for soprano recorders with optional alto recorder parts. All songs include optional drum and/or xylophone ensembles.

Also included are lesson plans for each activity, tips for improvisation, strategies for building notation reading skills, and reproducible student pages. This collection is intended for grades four and up.

Song list:

• Sweet Guava Jelly
• Colon Man
• Pat Works On the Railway
• Whoa, Jack!
• Hush, Mama Baby
• Run, Chillun, Run
• Spring Rains
• Daffodil Dreaming
• Spring Star Shine
• A Rainbow 4 Evergreen
• Island Evergreen
• Talk to Me!
• Walkin' It On In!