Grades K-6 * "Activate!" is an all-you-need resource for the K-6 classroom teacher. Each jam-packed compilation includes: songs to help students discover their voices; opportunities to utilize classroom instruments, from the traditional to the creative; folk dances and other movement activities; and pencil-to-paper games and activities addressing a variety of music concepts. Lesson plans are provided and a CD with numerous complementary recordings is included in each book. You want more? Okay. The National Standards for Music Education are referenced and all student pages are reproducible!

Contents: February Calendar; March Calendar; Inside the Music Classroom: Crossing Curricular Lines with Integrity (Patricia Bourne); Kindergarten Corner: Morgan the Monkey (Denise Gagne); Up, Up, Down (Denise Gagne); Mama Don't 'Low (Doug Edwards); Follow the Drinking Gourd (Patricia Bourne); Celebrating Black History Month in February and Reaching Month in March (Patricia Bourne); Good News (Gene Grier); Reading Rocks (Mark Burrows); Crash Test (Cathy Blair); Yonder Come Day (Donna Dirksing); Blues In, Blues Out (Cathy Blair); Dizzy's Bag; When the Saints Go Marching In (Jeanette Morgan); Sally Sunshine; Head and Shoulders; Down, Down Baby; Kings and Queens; Four Walls - Instrument Families (Mark Burrows); Melodic Rhythmic Guessing Game (Mark Burrows); Web Visit to PBS Jazz Kids (Jeanette Morgan); Spotlight on Stevie Wonder (Jenny VanPelt); Queen Latifah's Code (Bonnie J Krueger); Shhhhhhh (rest values); Music Boxes (vocabulary); Magic Wand Notes (rhythmic duration); Top of the Treble to You (note speller); Tempo Tester (tempo); Testing 1-2-3, Testing (notes and rhythmic duration)