Engagement in 4/5 Music – Even without a music room

Instruments to use:
 Glockenspiel
 Slidewhistle
 Handbells
 Lummi sticks or rhythm
 Boomwhackers
 Metallophones
 Handheld percussion
 Non-pitched and/or pitched percussion
 Autoharp
 Egg shakers
 Cabasa
 Bucket drums

Tips: ADD INSTRUMENTS OR BODY PERCUSSION TO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING

Choose fun songs:
 I love the mountains
 Hey Ho Nobody’s Home
 Do at your belly button
 Away Idaho
 I’s the B’y
 This is my chair
 In the Hall of Halloween
 Amazing Grace, upbeat melody (make up new lyrics for it as a class)

Other ideas for SPONGE or other units:

 Red are Strawberries
 My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
 The Cowboy
 Travelling Stick Game Song
 Fa la la (6/8 Cannon Major)
 The Grand Old Duke of York
 The green grass grows all around
 Singing Games
 Chante le jour melody? (Hashi Venu)
 Sea Shanties
 Indigenous travelling stick game

Halloween Songs:
  In the Hall of Halloween
Remembrance Day Songs:
 Light a candle for Peace
 Remember me
 Remembrance Day Song
 Soldiers cry
Christmas song:
 Jingle Bell Rock
 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
 Carol of the Bells

Music Games:
 Doggie Doggie
 Travelling Stick Game
 Hide the Key
 I have lost my Closet Key
 Trashketball
 Boomwhacker Youtube Video Games
 This is my Chair