1st Graders Orchestrate "In the Tall Tall Grass" and "My Many Colored Days"

Books are coming to musical life in class!  1st graders have been working with the books In the Tall Tall Grass by Denise Fleming and My Many Colored Days by Dr. Suess.  In the Tall Tall Grass you will see students practicing an ostinato pattern on xylophones.  (They are working on playing do and sol to the rhythmic pattern six eighth notes followed by a quarter note.)  Students also picked rhythmic instruments to depict a character in the story.  Their task was to think about the musical concepts fast/slow, high/low, loud/soft and smooth/bumpy and pick and play an instrument in the way that creature would move.  In My Many Colored Days students are picking instruments to express the emotions displayed by colors in the book.  Other students are creating movements that go with the color/emotions.  Enjoy!
  Red Group   Blue Group   Yellow Group