Lesson planning is going well. I'm in the middle of the bird thing, if only I can find my brown marker.*

*The bird thing is a lesson plan that involves a series of illustrations to help with a high-low and eventually a high-medium-low lesson. It starts out with some grass and a flower on the bottom and a sun and clouds on top. There are some red birds near the grass, they are the low. There are some green birds near the sun, they are the high. Then we transition into red birds near grass, green birds near the sun, and blue birds on a tree branch, they are medium. Eventually the birds want to have a party together and perch on different levels of a fence, and become fatter and rounder. See where this is going? It's awesome for beginning notation.

*I need my brown marker to draw the tree.

I'm trying to figure out a way I can put this lesson into movement. I think I can do it with scarves. We can do something with Orff body levels... low, medium and high. We can pass the green scarf over top of our heads for the high, and then the blue one in the middle and the red one on the bottom. Of course I'll have a song... we'll see. I think scarves are going to be it. Then we'll do instruments... high, middle, and low. We can turn it into a performance. I just have to make sure I write the lesson plan out and don't just improvise, because it's turning into something bigger than I thought. I have to stretch it between weeks I think.