Themes & Variations

Author: Dan Fee

Listening Fun provides Active Listening Activities for Grade 1-6 students using scarves, tennis balls and movement.

• Introduction with many helpful suggestions for teachers
• Teacher's guide with student reproducibles, lesson plans and movement instructions
• Lesson plans with objectives, assessment strategies and alignment to national standards
• Reproducible biographies of the composers that are represented in this kit
• Movement activities using scarves and tennis balls
• Guides-at-a-glance for use to avoid holding long written out sheets when teaching
• Digital Resources Disk with PowerPoint, Smartboard and QuickTime movies of routines, composer biographies and lesson information
• CD of all music used within this guide
• DVD of all the routines in the guide

Songs Include:

• "In the Hall of the Mountain King," from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46 by Edvard Grieg (movement or tennis balls)
• "Bydlo," from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky (scarves)
• "Wedding March," from A Midsummer Night's Dream by Felix Mendelssohn (tennis balls)
• "Morning," from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46 by Edvard Grieg (scarves)
• Gigue, from Amadis de Gaule by Johann Christian Bach (tennis balls)
• Badinerie, from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor , BMV 1067 by Johann Sebastian Bach (scarves)
• Prelude, from Holberg Suite, op. 40 by Edvard Grieg (tennis balls)
• "The Great Gate of Kiev," from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
• "Promenade," from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky (scarves)
• Hornpipe, from Water Music Suite in F Major by George Frideric Handel (scarves)
• Gavotte, from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BMV 1068 by J.S. Bach (tennis balls)

Each movement routine comes with:

• A lesson plan detailing how to approach teaching the specific concept addressed in the music
• An expanded movement guide giving step by step instructions on how to perform each move
• A one page Guide-at-a-Glance with timings for quick reference in class
• A biography of the composer and information about the piece

There are three additional disks included with this collection that give teachers the following:

• A QuickTime movie of the routine
• A CD recording of the piece used
• A PowerPoint presentation highlighting major concepts
• A DVD with video footage of all the routines in the book