2.+Alligators



ALLIGATORS Home      Alligators __**fast**__, Alligators **__slow__**  Alligators, Alligators  Playing in the snow?  Alligators __**high**__, Alligators **__low__**  Alligators, Alligators,  Where did you go?  Alligators __**soft**__, Alligators **__loud__**!  Alligators, Alligators  Up in the cloud? <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(205, 101, 112); text-align: center; display: block"> Teacher: Do alligators fly? <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(205, 101, 112); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(250, 5, 5)"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(40, 16, 16); text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(250, 5, 5)">Children: No! (do a downwards glissando with the voice).

Process 1. Teach the poem keeping a steady beat pulse. 2. Speak the poem again playing the rhythm of the word "alligators" on your knees. 3. Ask the children if the words suggest any way that we might perform the piece. Discuss what words like "soft" or "loud" suggest. Ask children to volunteer performing the words. 4. Decide what instruments could be used to enhance the performance of the piece. What instrument might make high sounds? What instrument might play low sounds? 5. Add this instruments to the performance. 6. Add an introduction and coda to the performance. Student conductors could point to instrument players to improvise sounds for these sections.

Extensions 1. Substitute the word "alligators" for other animals. Use picture cards to clap the rhythm of different animals. Later you can clap a combination of cards and have the students put them in order. 2. Explore the comparatives loud and soft; high and low; fast and slow. Draw pictures of things in life that make loud sounds. Make large wall charts of these pictures. They could be labeled - "loud like a ..."; "high like a ..." 3. Write new poems using "Alligators" as a model for the purpose of exploring rhyming words and other concepts.

__Numbers__ Fish one, Fish one (hit drum once after the word "one") Fish, Fish Lying in the sun.

Rabbits two, Rabbits two (hit sticks twice after the word "two") Rabbits, Rabbits Tying their shoe

Dinosaurs three, Dinosaurs ...

Alligator four, Alligator four ...

Hippopotamus five, Hippopotamus five ...

__Colours__ Alligators <span style="color: rgb(30, 255, 0)">green,  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(233, 28, 39); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(205, 101, 112); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(40, 16, 16); text-align: left">Alligators <span style="color: rgb(30, 255, 0)">green    <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(233, 28, 39); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(205, 101, 112); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(40, 16, 16); text-align: left">   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(233, 28, 39); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(205, 101, 112); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(40, 16, 16); text-align: left">   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(233, 28, 39); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(205, 101, 112); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(40, 16, 16); text-align: left"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Alligators, Alligators Are you mean?

Alligators <span style="color: rgb(41, 57, 245)">blue , <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(233, 28, 39); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(205, 101, 112); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(40, 16, 16); text-align: left">Alligators <span style="color: rgb(41, 57, 245)">blue, <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(233, 28, 39); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(205, 101, 112); text-align: center; display: block"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; color: rgb(40, 16, 16); text-align: left">Alligators, Alligators Do you say "Moo"?

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