Enrichment Activities:

• Without revealing the title of the music, play the recording of Ravel's "Love for Two Cats" (CD 3-19). Can the children identify the animals that the singers are imitation? (cats)
• Point out that children everywhere have their own singing games and dances. Allow students to investigate games and dances from other countries, perhaps one from their ethnic background, using a CD-ROM encyclopedia for children.
• Children who are comfortable associating the shape of a circle with section A of a piece of music and the shape of a square with section B, can reorganize sections of a song to create a new composition. "Making Music" is a possible software program to use for this activity.
• Students can create ostinatos using the bells or xylophone for "Old Dan Tucker", "Built My Lady a Fine Brick House", "My Farm", or "Poor, Poor Arthur".
• Students advanced in visual arts can make paper-bag puppets of the animals in "My Farm" or "Poor, Poor Arthur" and then use them to dramatize the song.

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Submitted: July 1, 1998