The Song Bag
 

32 - 15 minute programs

Grade(s): PreK - 1

Curriculum: Music

This series invites children to hear and learn a variety of songs selected from the best of our folk tradition, and encourages children to participate in rhythmic movement, creativity, careful listening, expressive singing, and the playing of simple instruments.  Musical concepts and instruments are skillfully introduced, so that children grow in musical confidence, and in their ability to enjoy music. 

Host: Tony Saletan, television teacher for The Song Bag, holds an A. B. from Harvard College, and an A. M. T. in music education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He served as a music consultant to the Harvard Preschool, and the Newton, Massachusetts Public Schools, and as a music instructor at Eliot-Pearson School at Tufts University. Tony Saletan created the popular "Let's All Sing" and is also well known as a folk singer in concert, and has recorded LP albums for Folk Legacy, Prestige International, National Geographic Society, and Western Instructional Television.
 

Teacher Guide:  69 pages containing Program Content and Objectives, Related Vocabulary; Suggested Follow-up activities and Supplemental Materials Recourses

Programs:
 

1. What's in The Song Bag?
2. Skip to My Lou .
3. The Bear Went Over the Mountain.
4. Hush Little Baby.
5. Michael, Row the Boat Ashore.
6. Mother Goose .
7. This Old Man
8. Little Seed.
9. Punchinello
10. John, the Rabbit.
11. Finger Plays
12. Singing About Ourselves
13. A Mystery Melody.
14. Rhythm
15. Merry Green Fields
16. Hey, Betty Martin.
 

Western Instructional Television