Ourchestra

=__Ourchestra __= //By Shel Silverstein// //Taken from “Where the Sidewalk Ends”// So you haven’t got a drum, just beat your belly So you haven’t got a horn, I’ll play my nose So I haven’t any cymbals, we’ll just clap our hands together And though there may be orchestras T hat sound a little better With fancy instruments That cost an awful lot We’re making music twice as good By playing what we got Teaching Process:  · Read the poem to the children in its entirety, chanting the words while the children keep a steady beat.  · Read the poem again, stopping after each line for exploration of the specified “body sound”. Make a list of all the things that each body sound could do (i.e. belly – gurgle, growl, etc)  · Divide the class into three groups – have them make a list of the sounds their body part can make. Record these on chart paper.  · Each group will select four sounds and clap them to create a rhythmic ostinato. Invite each group to add body percussion sounds to the ostinato.  · Share these with each other. Transfer the ostinati to non-pitched percussion or found sounds.  · Repeat the poem, adding the rhythm pattern after each line  · Use the rhythm patterns that you have created as the as the foundation for a “Rhythmic Stomp” that can be created collaboratively  · Read the poem, again, using the body percussion after each line, add the B section with a “stomp” which makes use of found sounds for “percussion”, and finish with a CODA (the last six lines of the poem ending with a loud accent from all the “found sounds)  · Extension : Have students who are going to read add dynamics to each line.