One of my favorite lessons. Usually I teach this to 2nd grade. Use to introduce barlines and time signature. Ideas from an Orff workshop...don't have the clinicians name....bummer. * demonstrate ways to keep pulse *students keep pulse while teacher reads The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss *draw attention to phrase "oh how many, feet you meet". Whenever that phrase is read, students change the way they keep the pulse. *model movements to the "Little Shoemaker" (Children's Dances of Terra Del Zur, Vol. 1) A- slow motion opposite arms, B- rhythmic pounding pattern, C- skipping away. Practice with music. *practice with partner *perform *students remove one shoe and practice moving to the drum beat (walk, tip-toe, jog, march, skip) *adjust dance to one shoe on, and one shoe off *discuss what it feels liek to move with one shoe off and one shoe on *share poem "Deedle, Deedle Dumpling" *words to poem are written on sentence strips, have students place them in ord...