We had a great time playing with some of the music from the play Peter Pan today at Journey Montessori! We identified which character went with each piece of music we listened to and then did a fun activity to go along with the song.
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Song- Ugh-A-Wug
Characters- Indians and Peter Pan
Activity - Ostinato (repeated pattern) on the drums. Drum, rest, drum clap, drum clap, rest, rest, rest.
Songs - Hooks Tarantella and Hooks Waltz
Characters - Captain Hook and the Pirates
Activity - Bounce up and down to feel the duple feel of the Tarantella and Waltz to feel the triple feel of the waltz.
Captain Hook gets some neat songs. He has a Tango, which is a Spanish dance, a Tarantella, which is a duple meter Italian folk song, and a Waltz which is an Austrian triple meter song.
Song - I Won't Grow Up
Characters - Peter Pan and the Lost Boys
Activity - Call and response.
