Description: The Singin' and Swingin' at the K-2 Chorale Series includes easy-to-stage mini-musicals specifically designed for primary-age students. The songs, scripts, costumes, and staging suggestions for the series provide a number of performance options that accommodate a wide range of skills extending from kindergarten through second grade, and may even be extended to third grade as well.
In A Barnyard Moosical, a hilarious and imaginative mini-musical, we meet a unique and talented group of animals living at this unusual farm. Between the gourmet goats that refuse to eat garbage, a chorus line of hoofing cows, neatnik pigs and funky dancing chickens, the musical will be sure to tickle the imagination and funny bone of performers and audiences alike. This kit contains the director's score, reproducible student parts, and an Enhanced StudioTrax CD that includes an event poster, program, artwork elements and a personal note to the director/teacher from the Gallinas. Duration: ca. 15 minutes. Grades K-2.
Description: Movement and music provide an excellent instructional format for teaching a broad range of musical and developmental skills. This energetic collection of 10 engaging songs will help teach the emerging young musician and provide growth to all students in a wide range of areas existing across the entire curriculum. Active listening, auditory memory and discrimination, gross motor skills, and body awareness are all a part of the participatory songs designed with melodies and lyrics that give directives while listening. Rhythmic vocal speech adds a terrific learning experience and the comfortable vocal range allows for singing and performance as well. Piano/vocal arrangements are included, along with digital access to performance/accompaniment audio recordings and PDFs of singer parts. Plant and nurture the seeds of learning with these imaginative original songs. Suggested for grades K-3.
Description: Cool it, friends, and CHILL! It's time for the annual Snow Ball with a talented group of cold climate friends ready to entertain you. Join hearty polar bears who refuse to take a snooze, good natured arctic terns, hi-falutin' penguins dressed to the nines and multi-talented seals who are sure to seal the deal! The Singin' and Swingin' at the K-2 Chorale Series includes easy-to-stage mini-musicals specifically designed for primary-age students. The all-in-one format features piano/vocal arrangements, scripts with 18 short speaking parts, costumes and staging suggestions and audio access to performance/accompaniment recordings, as well as projectable/printable PDFs of melody sheets, lyric sheets and dialog - all under one cover! Songs include: Out in the Cold, Roly Poly Polar Bears, One Good Tern Deserves Another, The Penguin Ball, Seal the Deal! About 20 minutes. Suggested for grades K-2.
Description: This versatile collection of eight holiday choral pieces lends itself perfectly for your holiday or winter concert programming. Each selection is a stand-alone arrangement, however, the collection contains a short rhyming linking script so that the songs can be performed together as a cohesive, holiday production. You can successfully use all or any combination of the eight songs. The Enhanced Teacher Edition includes piano/vocal arrangements, optional program script as well as choreography and staging suggestions. The enclosed CD-ROM offers reproducible singer and speaking parts. Whichever performance option you choose, Catch the Holiday Spirit will prove to be a positive and entertaining collection of holiday cheer for your singers and audience alike! Suggested for grades 4-8.
Description: This versatile collection of eight holiday choral pieces lends itself perfectly for your holiday or winter concert programming. Each selection is a stand-alone arrangement, however, the collection contains a short rhyming linking script so that the songs can be performed together as a cohesive, holiday production. You can successfully use all or any combination of the eight songs. The Enhanced Teacher Edition includes piano/vocal arrangements, optional program script as well as choreography and staging suggestions. The enclosed CD-ROM offers reproducible singer and speaking parts. Whichever performance option you choose, Catch the Holiday Spirit will prove to be a positive and entertaining collection of holiday cheer for your singers and audience alike! Suggested for grades 4-8.
Description: This versatile collection of eight holiday choral pieces lends itself perfectly for your holiday or winter concert programming. Each selection is a stand-alone arrangement, however, the collection contains a short rhyming linking script so that the songs can be performed together as a cohesive, holiday production. You can successfully use all or any combination of the eight songs. The Enhanced Teacher Edition includes piano/vocal arrangements, optional program script as well as choreography and staging suggestions. The enclosed CD-ROM offers reproducible singer and speaking parts. Whichever performance option you choose, Catch the Holiday Spirit will prove to be a positive and entertaining collection of holiday cheer for your singers and audience alike! Suggested for grades 4-8.
Description: Have a rip-roaring time teaching your kids about some amazing prehistoric creatures! Sing and play your way through the early history of life on earth and discover science in a way you never thought could be this fun!
Dino Soaring! is an engaging cross-curricular resource of songs and activities for Grades 1-3 that explores the lives of seven exciting dinosaurs. It includes eight songs, an easy rhyming script, and fifteen fact-filled reproducible activities. Designed for music and general classroom teachers, this collection will reinforce learning done in other disciplines across the curriculum and engage students in a riveting musical learning experience. This collection also provides you with a “Dinosaur Vocabulary Guide,” “Life Science Curriculum Objectives,” and “Fast Facts for Teachers” for each of the seven dinosaurs to help answer basic questions and allow you to conduct fun and informed classroom discussions.
Whether used as a musical revue or as a teaching tool for any classroom, Dino Soaring! is sure to provide meaningful fun for both you and your students.
Description: Have a rip-roaring time teaching your kids about some amazing prehistoric creatures! Sing and play your way through the early history of life on earth and discover science in a way you never thought could be this fun!
ÚDino Soaring!Ú is an engaging cross-curricular resource of songs and activities for Grades 1-3 that explores the lives of seven exciting dinosaurs. It includes eight songs, an easy rhyming script, and fifteen fact-filled reproducible activities. Designed for music and general classroom teachers, this collection will reinforce learning done in other disciplines across the curriculum and engage students in a riveting musical learning experience. This collection also provides you with a “Dinosaur Vocabulary Guide”, “Life Science Curriculum Objectives”, and “Fast Facts for Teachers” for each of the seven dinosaurs to help answer basic questions and allow you to conduct fun and informed classroom discussions.
Whether used as a musical revue or as a teaching tool for any classroom, ÚDino Soaring!Ú is sure to provide meaningful fun for both you and your students. Available: Unison Collection/Listening CD; Enhanced StudioTrax CD-ROM; Classroom Kit.
Description: Elfis and the Elves Get All Shook Up is a “Rise and Shine” musical specifically designed to be performed on choral risers. These presentations are highly entertaining and provide valuable learning opportunities for your students while putting the rehearsal process on the fast track to success. In this mini-musical, Elfis decides the elves always work too hard during the holiday season and never see how other cultures celebrate. After talking Santa into letting him borrow the sleigh, Elfis takes the elves on a whirlwind tour. They get an opportunity to observe holiday celebrations including Las Posadas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas gift-wrapping. Through this exciting musical journey, the performers and audience learn that our different celebrations should not set us apart. Instead, we should celebrate those differences and “keep love within our heart.” Grades K-5.
Description: This 45-minute musical for Grades 4-8 traces the determination and struggle of an immigrant family who sacrifices all to pursue the American Dream. Available: Piano/Conductor Score, 2-Part Singer's Edition, ShowTrax Cassette.
Description: Perfect for smaller and/or younger children's choirs, Guess Who's Coming to Bethlehem? is a heartfelt, fun and moving Christmas musical. The animals in the Bethlehem stable have been informed of the coming Messiah, but they aren't quite sure who it will be. Through easy-to-prepare and present songs and rhyming dialog, the Christmas story is told in a fresh and creative way. The musical is offered in a reproducible format, making it a real budget-stretcher. Performance Time: 15 minutes. Grades K-3.
Description: Perfect for smaller and/or younger children's choirs, Guess Who's Coming to Bethlehem? is a heartfelt, fun and moving Christmas musical. The animals in the Bethlehem stable have been informed of the coming Messiah, but they aren't quite sure who it will be. Through easy-to-prepare and -present songs and rhyming dialog, the Christmas story is told in a fresh and creative way. The musical is offered in a reproducible format, making it a real budget-stretcher.
Description: It's a snow day! Samantha tweets her friends with an invitation to hang out. The friends bury themselves, not in the snow, but in their individual electronic devices. Although resistant to play outdoors in the snow, the children soon find themselves face-to-face with a walking, talking, sunglass-wearing snowman!
Happy the Snowman used a slush fund to come to life to learn about today's technology. Quite frankly, up until now, he's been frozen out! Very quickly, Happy is lost in a blizzard of techno-speak and electronic devices. After posting a video online of the snowman's song and dance, Happy's adventure takes a dramatic turn as the video goes viral! When chased by scientists, reporters, and paparazzi, his new friends text everyone they know to join in a friendly flash mob to distract his pursuers and to rescue our hero.
Happy, the High-Tech Snowman can be used anytime between late fall and the end of the winter months and it lends itself to many community and instructional settings. For Grades 4-8. Available: Teacher Edition; Singer Edition 5-Pak; Listening CD; Enhanced StudioTrax CD; Preview Pack; Performance Kit.
Description: It's a snow day! Samantha tweets her friends with an invitation to hang out. The friends bury themselves, not in the snow, but in their individual electronic devices. Although resistant to play outdoors in the snow, the children soon find themselves face-to-face with a walking, talking, sunglass-wearing snowman!
Happy the Snowman used a slush fund to come to life to learn about today's technology. Quite frankly, up until now, he's been frozen out! Very quickly, Happy is lost in a blizzard of techno-speak and electronic devices. After posting a video online of the snowman's song and dance, Happy's adventure takes a dramatic turn as the video goes viral! When chased by scientists, reporters, and paparazzi, his new friends text everyone they know to join in a friendly flash mob to distract his pursuers and to rescue our hero.
Happy, the High-Tech Snowman can be used anytime between late fall and the end of the winter months and it lends itself to many community and instructional settings. For Grades 4-8. Available: Teacher Edition; Singer Edition 5-Pak; Listening CD; Enhanced StudioTrax CD; Preview Pack; Performance Kit.
Description: It's a snow day! Samantha tweets her friends with an invitation to hang out. The friends bury themselves, not in the snow, but in their individual electronic devices. Although resistant to play outdoors in the snow, the children soon find themselves face-to-face with a walking, talking, sunglass-wearing snowman!
Happy the Snowman used a slush fund to come to life to learn about today's technology. Quite frankly, up until now, he's been frozen out! Very quickly, Happy is lost in a blizzard of techno-speak and electronic devices. After posting a video online of the snowman's song and dance, Happy's adventure takes a dramatic turn as the video goes viral! When chased by scientists, reporters, and paparazzi, his new friends text everyone they know to join in a friendly flash mob to distract his pursuers and to rescue our hero.
Happy, the High-Tech Snowman can be used anytime between late fall and the end of the winter months and it lends itself to many community and instructional settings. For Grades 4-8. Available: Teacher Edition; Singer Edition 5-Pak; Listening CD; Enhanced StudioTrax CD; Preview Pack; Performance Kit.
Description: One way the holiday season is ushered in is with decorated department store windows, and children look in at the festive scenes as color and magic abound within them!
In this reproducible musical by Michael and Jill Gallina, narrators introduce each special window display and the audience is invited to follow them as they walk down the avenue and tell about the colorful scenes that appear in the five windows featured in this production: a winter scene, a holiday in the tropics, elves making toys, holiday cooking, and a New Year's celebration to close out the musical. Through the use of holiday windows, the musical joyfully sets the stage full of color, wonder, and excitement. Written in revue-style format, this musical can be easily presented by one classroom or a number classrooms and/or grade levels. By assigning a different group to each of the five window scenes, it is possible to successfully involve a large number of children. The easy-to-memorize rhyming script provides for 38 speaking parts. However, that number can be doubled if only one line is given to each child. The musical includes an easy rhyming script and lots of staging and choreography suggestions. The enhanced Teacher Edition includes a Singer CD-RM with reproducible singer and speaking parts. For Grades 3-5. 20 minutes.
Description: One way the holiday season is ushered in is with decorated department store windows, and children look in at the festive scenes as color and magic abound within them!
In this reproducible musical by Michael and Jill Gallina, narrators introduce each special window display and the audience is invited to follow them as they walk down the avenue and tell about the colorful scenes that appear in the five windows featured in this production: a winter scene, a holiday in the tropics, elves making toys, holiday cooking, and a New Year's celebration to close out the musical. Through the use of holiday windows, the musical joyfully sets the stage full of color, wonder, and excitement.
Written in revue-style format, this musical can be easily presented by one classroom or a number classrooms and/or grade levels. By assigning a different group to each of the five window scenes, it is possible to successfully involve a large number of children. The easy-to-memorize rhyming script provides for 38 speaking parts. However, that number can be doubled if only one line is given to each child.
The musical includes an easy rhyming script and lots of staging and choreography suggestions. The enhanced Teacher Edition includes a Singer CD-RM with reproducible singer and speaking parts. For Grades 3-5. 20 minutes.
Description: One way the holiday season is ushered in is with decorated department store windows, and children look in at the festive scenes as color and magic abound within them!
In this reproducible musical by Michael and Jill Gallina, narrators introduce each special window display and the audience is invited to follow them as they walk down the avenue and tell about the colorful scenes that appear in the five windows featured in this production: a winter scene, a holiday in the tropics, elves making toys, holiday cooking, and a New Year's celebration to close out the musical. Through the use of holiday windows, the musical joyfully sets the stage full of color, wonder, and excitement.
Written in revue-style format, this musical can be easily presented by one classroom or a number classrooms and/or grade levels. By assigning a different group to each of the five window scenes, it is possible to successfully involve a large number of children. The easy-to-memorize rhyming script provides for 38 speaking parts. However, that number can be doubled if only one line is given to each child.
The musical includes an easy rhyming script and lots of staging and choreography suggestions. The enhanced Teacher Edition includes a Singer CD-RM with reproducible singer and speaking parts. For Grades 3-5. 20 minutes.
Description: One way the holiday season is ushered in is with decorated department store windows, and children look in at the festive scenes as color and magic abound within them!
In this reproducible musical by Michael and Jill Gallina, narrators introduce each special window display and the audience is invited to follow them as they walk down the avenue and tell about the colorful scenes that appear in the five windows featured in this production: a winter scene, a holiday in the tropics, elves making toys, holiday cooking, and a New Year's celebration to close out the musical. Through the use of holiday windows, the musical joyfully sets the stage full of color, wonder, and excitement.
Written in revue-style format, this musical can be easily presented by one classroom or a number classrooms and/or grade levels. By assigning a different group to each of the five window scenes, it is possible to successfully involve a large number of children. The easy-to-memorize rhyming script provides for 38 speaking parts. However, that number can be doubled if only one line is given to each child.
The musical includes an easy rhyming script and lots of staging and choreography suggestions. The enhanced Teacher Edition includes a Singer CD-RM with reproducible singer and speaking parts. For Grades 3-5. 20 minutes.
Description: One way the holiday season is ushered in is with decorated department store windows, and children look in at the festive scenes as color and magic abound within them!
In this reproducible musical by Michael and Jill Gallina, narrators introduce each special window display and the audience is invited to follow them as they walk down the avenue and tell about the colorful scenes that appear in the five windows featured in this production: a winter scene, a holiday in the tropics, elves making toys, holiday cooking, and a New Year's celebration to close out the musical. Through the use of holiday windows, the musical joyfully sets the stage full of color, wonder, and excitement.
Written in revue-style format, this musical can be easily presented by one classroom or a number classrooms and/or grade levels. By assigning a different group to each of the five window scenes, it is possible to successfully involve a large number of children. The easy-to-memorize rhyming script provides for 38 speaking parts. However, that number can be doubled if only one line is given to each child.
The musical includes an easy rhyming script and lots of staging and choreography suggestions. The enhanced Teacher Edition includes a Singer CD-RM with reproducible singer and speaking parts. For Grades 3-5. 20 minutes.
Description: Freddy and Franny Farmer's garden vegetables are movin' and groovin' in this charming and imaginative mini-musical for primary-age students. This is not your typical garden-variety musical as the french fried potatoes have “appeal,” leafy vegetables sing “Lettuce Entertain You” and the corn and peas beg “Please Don't Put Us in a Can-Can!” These lively veggies will sing and dance their way into everyone's hearts! With an easy-to-memorize rhyming script and flexible cast size, this budget-stretching kit includes director's score, reproducible singer's parts, choreography, costuming, performance and scenery suggestions, as well as an Enhanced StudioTrax CD that includes accompaniment and performance tracks, poster, program, clip art, information about the composers and more! Available: Performance Kit (Reproducible unison musical/Enhanced StudioTrax CD). Duration: ca. 18 minutes. Grades K-2.
