🔹 Here's the perfect song and fun circle game about lunar and solar eclipses with engaging Orff arrangement, Poison Pattern game & parachute activity. It's no or super low prep with step-by-step slides. (Click MORE for Link)
🔹 My Favorite Part
The catchy tune! The simple song is so fun to sing along with the game based on "Cut the Cake."
But then...
A spoken B section to go with the Orff arrangement is so rhythmically ENGAGING, with solar, lunar, shadow, and all the eclipse vocab!
🔹 Music & Resource Analysis
-C Major
-4/4
-Rhythmic Content-quarter notes/rests, barred eighths, single eighths
-Harmonic Content-C, C6 (opt. ukulele)
-Barred Instruments (woods & metals)
-Boomwhackers
-Melodic Poison Pattern for so' do,
🔹 This resource allows teachers and students
-to use speech, body percussion, and movement to help learn the instrumental parts
-to create and explore beat and rhythm
-to be guided through the learning process with a sequenced resource
-learn with a presentation that uses differentiation through color-coding and varying text styles
🔹 Instrumentation
-barred instruments (any combination will work)
-drums
-ukulele (opt) chord C or C6
-singing and speaking voices
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