Songs

• A la lata al latero
• Animal Poem
• Boom Chicka Boom
• Clocks of Rondaine
• Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees
• Doctor Katchel
• Five Fat Turkeys
• Great Big Clocks
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• Kitty White
• Kreuztanz
• Meunier tu dors
• Old Aunt Kate
• Old Gray Cat
• Old Molly Hare
• Riding on the Elevated
• Rig a Jig Jig
• Run Chillen Run
• See the Pony Galloping
• Slowly Slowly
• Snail
• Sorida
• Sweetheart Out A-Hunting
• Tony Chestnut
• Story: Tortoise and the Hare
• Uga Uga
• When Papa Put the Paper on the Wall

Recordings

Fast

• Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals – Fossils
• Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals – Wild Asses
• Verdi: String Quartet In E Minor – 3. Prestissimo
• Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance
• Copland – Rodeo: IV. Hoe-Down
• Chopin: Etude Op 10 No 5
• Khachaturian: Gayaneh – Sabre Dance
• Bach Italian Concerto, BWV 971 – 3. Allegro Vivace
• YouTube video: Fast, Frenetic Chase Music

Slow

• Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals – Tortoises
• Mahler: Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor : IV Adagietto
• Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 in C Minor, Op.110 – 5. Largo
• Satie – Gymnopédie No. 1
• Bach: Air on a G String
• Barber: Adagio for Strings
• Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor
• Mendelssohn: Symphony #2 Op. 52, Lobgesang – Adagio Religioso

Coloring sheets

Find coloring sheets online. I like to make a copy of a turtle coloring sheet on one side and a horse coloring sheet on the other side. As students listen to music I play, they color the turtle if they hear slow music and the horse if they hear fast music. I use this to observe and assess the students – to watch if they notice when the music changes.

Links

• more elements of music
• transportation songs
• turtle songs
• snail songs
• lesson ideas