The reservoir of creativity inside you and your children is just waiting to be tapped! Drama and Music is a year round guide for incorporating constructive, educational creativity into your daily classroom routine. The easy-to-read format is an invaluable tool for developing brief or extended lessons exploring music and drama while reinforcing other core subjects like math, science, and language arts. Includes background information on teaching and coaching, as well as activities, fingerplays, stories, and pantomime. An extensive index covers music, poetry and literature. Make your class a dynamic, exciting place for integrated learning.

Unleashing Your Creative Potential
Introduction to the Book	p. 1
Introduction to Music and Creative Drama Activities	p. 4
How to Read Musical Notation	p. 8
Activities, Activities, Activities
Name Games	p. 12
Names Are Fun	p. 13
My Favorite Things	p. 13
Who Are You?	p. 13
Body Parts	p. 14
Head and Shoulders	p. 15
Colors	p. 17
The Solar System	p. 17
Safety Name Game	p. 17
Finger Plays	p. 18
Five Little Monkeys	p. 19
Cabin in the Wood	p. 20
Beehive	p. 20
Two Little Black Birds	p. 21
Night and Day	p. 21
Toss the Ball	p. 21
The Tall Fine Pines	p. 21
Eight O'Clock	p. 22
Monsters	p. 22
Nursery Rhymes and Chants	p. 23
Teddy Bear	p. 24
Pat-a-Cake	p. 25
Hickory Dickory Dock	p. 27
Hey Diddle Diddle	p. 28
Noisy Stories	p. 30
A Drive Through Shapesville	p. 31
Kayla's Present	p. 32
Scavenger Hunts	p. 33
Large Group Sound Hunts	p. 34
Small Group Sound Hunts	p. 34
Individual Scavenger Hunts	p. 34
Body Sounds	p. 35
Warmup	p. 36
Who Stole the Cookie	p. 36
Sound Effects	p. 37
Body Sound Orchestra	p. 38
Vocal Sounds	p. 40
I Hear You	p. 41
Found Sounds	p. 42
Sound Boxes	p. 43
Rhythm Instrument Activities	p. 44
Surprise Sound Box	p. 45
Classroom Instrument Bands	p. 45
Song to Story	p. 45
Orchestrations	p. 46
Humpty Dumpty	p. 47
The Squirrel	p. 48
Wishes	p. 49
Colors	p. 50
Sound Journals	p. 51
High Tech Sounds	p. 53
Sounds Painted by Poetry	p. 53
Songs	p. 54
Where is Thumbkin?	p. 55
Shoo, Fly	p. 56
Bingo	p. 56
Yankee Doodle	p. 56
Concentration Game	p. 58
Mom Sent Me to the Store to Buy	p. 59
Musical Puzzles, Questions and Answers	p. 60
Echo	p. 61
Rhythmic Questions and answers	p. 62
Musical Mysteries	p. 62
Movement	p. 63
Warmup	p. 64
Bean Bag Bong	p. 64
Find My Partner Animal Cards	p. 65
Little Duck	p. 68
Creative Interpretation: Snakes	p. 68
Creative Interpretation: Jeremiah Obadiah	p. 69
Body Sculptures and Living Pictures	p. 70
Shapes	p. 71
The Store	p. 71
Now You See It, Now You Don't	p. 71
Creative Movement	p. 72
Machines I	p. 73
Machines II	p. 73
Texture Walk	p. 73
Twin Robots	p. 74
Pantomime	p. 75
You Are a Duck	p. 76
I Can Do It	p. 76
My Grandma Is Special	p. 77
Character Walk	p. 78
What Time Is It?	p. 78
Playland Pizza Parlor	p. 79
Community Helpers	p. 80
Old King Cole	p. 82
No!	p. 83
Narrative Pantomime Story: Kayla's Present	p. 83
Quieting Activities	p. 84
Sequence Games	p. 85
Waiting for the School Bus	p. 86
Special Days Sequence Game	p. 87
Circle Games	p. 90
A New Mother Hubbard	p. 91
Elmer the Elephant	p. 92
Characterization	p. 93
Who Am I Playing Cards	p. 94
Improvisation in Music	p. 95
Call and Response	p. 96
Charlie Over the Ocean	p. 96
Improvisation in Drama	p. 98
Imaginative Improvisations	p. 100
Pioneer Journey	p. 101
Story Creation	p. 105
This Is How My Story Starts	p. 107
A New Way to Go to School	p. 107
Helping on the Farm	p. 108
Story Creation from Props	p. 108
Accompaniment	p. 109
Rhymes	p. 110
Choral Reading	p. 111
Try It This Way	p. 113
Interpreting Poems	p. 113
Listening	p. 114
Sound Identification	p. 115
Song Identification	p. 115
Story Dramatization	p. 116
Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper	p. 118
Fables: Androcles and the Lion	p. 118
Stories: Goldilocks and the Three Bears	p. 119
Stories: Anansi the Spider	p. 120
Stories: The Days of the Week	p. 121
Furthering Your Creative Potential
Inspiring Questions	p. 124
Formating and Combining Activities	p. 127
Creating Original Lessons/Inventory Pages	p. 128
Lesson Plan Pages	p. 142
Appendices
Suggested Stories	p. 146
Suggested Poetry Collections	p. 148
Music Resources	p. 149
Hickory, Dickory, Dock	p. 151
Baa, Baa Black Sheep	p. 152
Love Somebody (Yes, I Do)	p. 153
Merrily We Roll Along	p. 154
Little Jack Horner	p. 155
Looby Loo	p. 156
Row, Row, Row Your Boat	p. 157
Three Blind Mice	p. 158
Hush Little Baby	p. 159
Blue Bird	p. 160
The Farmer in the Dell	p. 161
Ring Around the Rosy	p. 162
Rain, Rain	p. 163
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star	p. 164
Bye, Baby Bunting	p. 165
Hot Cross Buns	p. 166
Sally Go 'Round the Moon	p. 167
This Old Man	p. 168
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