Music K-8 Music Sampler Podcast

It's Christmas time in Australia! This musical is designed to work with a variable number of actors and singers. Songs include: "Christmas Down Under," "Kooky Is A Kookaburra," "The Kangaroo Hop," "Christmas Comes From The Heart," and "Singing By Candlelight."

This all-school revue by Teresa Jennings is the ideal way to help your students explore the music of the world. Songs include: "A World Of Music," "Listen To The Children," "Sounds All Around Us," "There Is Music," and "The Universal Language."

Your students will get a wonderful launch into their recorder exploration with this great resource. This exciting collection includes: "BAGs In Space," "StarBAG's Cafe," "HyperBAG," "BAGeroid Field," "In The Nick Of BAG," "Gettin' BAGgy Wit It," and, as a special bonus, "Paper or Plastic?"

If you aren't among the thousands of teachers who are already enjoying M.C. Handel's distinctive arrangements and compositions with their classes, here's an ideal way to try them. Recorder tunes include: "BAGzilla," "World Chimes," "Cha-Cha Chihuahua," "Lucky Sneakers," and "Galactic Swamp Dance."

Teresa Jennings' clever K-4 musical is unique in that it works great for winter performances though it is not tied to any holiday. It is 15-20 minutes long and features five songs: "This Old House Is Yummy!," "Take One Step!," "Sorry.," "Ev'ryone Deserves A Home," and "Lend A Helping Hand!."

We probably don't need to tell you what fun your youngest singers will have with this clever offering from Teresa Jennings. The songs include: "Our Fav'rite Time Of Year!," "New Elf On The Block," "Elf Impersonator!," "He's So Blue," "Arm In Arm," and "The Santa Claus Rock!"

The recordings are exciting with styles right out of the Top 40, guaranteed to keep student interest high while they are learning. Recorder tunes include: "BAG 101," "It's In The BAG," "Not My BAG," "BAGpipe," "Dr. BAG," and "Get Your Own BAG."

This collection from M.C. Handel has brought musical excitement to thousands of students everywhere. Recorder tunes include: "Rockin' Around The Hound Dog's Blue Suede Shoe BAG," "Kris Kringle's Jingle Thingle," "Rain Forest Daydream," "Countdown," and "March Of The Droids."

The kids really love this great collection from M.C. Handel. Recorder tunes include: "Popcorn BAG," "Ukrainian Bell Carol," "M.C.'s Boogie," "Firefly," and "Da Da Da Da Da Bomp!."

This intriguing rap teaches about the planets in their order moving away from the sun as well as helping to teach about other things in and around our solar system, from moons to asteroids and comets.

In this valuable collection, we have assembled eight of the most popular songs in arrangements you will use again and again. Songs include: "I've Been Workin' On The Railroad," "Old Dan Tucker," "A Frog Went A-Courtin'," "I Met A Bear," "This Old Man," "The Ants Go Marching," "If You're Happy And You Know It," and "Turkey In The Straw."

These songs are also a great way for your students to learn about several different styles of music as well as the many possibilities the future holds for them. The five songs include: "Possibilities," "Big Dreams," "I'm Gonna Be," "Don't Ever Give Up," and "It's My Journey!"

This all-school revue explores the problem of world unity in a constructive way, always assuming that we can fix the problems we have and bridge the differences that keep us apart. Songs include: "Together," "We're Not That Different," "The Only World We've Got," "Let's Talk It Through," and "I Can. You Can. We Can."

This song can be performed either in unison, or with an optional solo or second part. The song begins gently and quietly, but builds throughout to a marvelously inspiring ending. Include your own candle-lighting ceremony and you have a guaranteed winner for your winter program.

Sweet and simple, this lovely tune begins with a series of short solos and then builds to a wonderful round. While it can be performed with piano alone, the recording is exquisite, thanks to the world-class string players we used.

This simple anthem to peace and unity has had a profound effect on many of the schools that have already performed it. For maximum effect, the ending of the work features an orchestrated instrumental sectional (very playable on the piano as well) that is designed as a candle lighting ceremony, symbolically passing the light from one to one until everyone has light.

Every year, the subscribers of Music K-8 magazine look for the second issue of the year to bring them all sorts of great winter music. This special collection brings together eight of the most popular of these tunes.

With a variety of styles and options like adding vocals, other percussion instruments, or just more Boomwhackers, It's A Whacky World will provide a fun learning experience for all your students. It's A Whacky World includes: "A Whacky Time;" "Dem Whacky Bones;" "The Boompah Band;" "Boompus 17;" "Whacky, Whacky West;" and "Light As A Brick."

By popular request, Paul and Teresa Jennings have arranged this cumulative favorite in a new setting that adds an appropriate new sound effect for each day and its "present." As you keep adding days... and sound effects... the final result is hilarious.

Christmas Carol-Along is arranged so that each carol is set up perfectly to ask your audience to sing along. The medley includes "Joy To The World," "The First Noel," "Silent Night," and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing."