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1. Begin the experience by reading the story of “The Tortoise and the Hare”. Check out these interesting ones online.

 http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/aesop/index.html  Designed and illustrated by Tom Lunch  http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour/torthare/ Text and illustrations by Rebeccah Kamp 

Watch the Walt Disney animation.

media type="youtube" key="2DrKmpuKhKE&hl=en&fs=1" height="407" width="500"  2. Listen to the recording of the “Tortoise and the Hare”. This recording is found on [|IDEAS Music CD 1]. Listen once with your eyes closed. Invite students to tell you what they heard. Invite them to move like the tortoise and the hare. What kinds of movements might be like the tortoise? Allow several children to demonstrate their ideas. Listen and move to the CD.  3. Allow students to work in small groups to retell the story of the “Tortoise and the Hare” using spoken words, sound, and movement. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">4. Building on this experience, listen to an example of program music (Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns). Ask students to close their eyes and draw pictures in their minds. Allow students to share their images. Here are several sound files for you.

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(5, 0, 255)">media type="file" key="The Swan.mp3" <span style="color: rgb(47, 0, 255)">"The Swan" media type="file" key="The Elephant.mp3" <span style="color: rgb(82, 48, 243)">"The Elephant" media type="file" key="Tortoises.mp3" "Tortoises" media type="file" key="Aquarium.mp3" "Aquarium"

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">5. Provide students with scarves and let them respond to the music with one being the leader and the other the mirror. Scarves enhance this experience.

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">6. Now begin to build a shared story with the students that can be told through movement and told orally.

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