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Lesson: Go to Bed, Tom!

Posted November 4, 2020byRoger Sams & Michael Vasquez

From their book, Percussive Play, Roger Sams and Michael Vasquez share this fun lesson that is sure to delight your students as they play with excuses and reasons for not going to bed! Designed to encourage active music making, this lesson includes pathways to rhythm, literacy, partwork, and composition.

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Excerpt from Percussive Play. Copyright © 2018 by MIE Publications. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Roger Sams & Michael Vasquez

Percussive Play is the first supplement to the Purposeful Pathways core materials, and thus, utilizes the Purposeful Pathways Model, integrating Orff-Schulwerk, Kodály, and eurhythmics. It contains ten active music making lessons for the elementary music classroom. Electronic Visuals are available for this book in three formats: Microsoft® PowerPoint®, SMART Notebook™, and Promethean ActivInspire. The printable manipulatives are available as PDF files. The electronic visuals and printable manipulatives are available to you for free with the purchase of this book.

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