December 21, 2016 : Holiday Music

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Make a holiday music game. Use pieces of paper or 5 - by - 8 - inch cards. Paste newspaper pictures and words that are clues to a holiday song or carol on one side of the card. Write the name of the song on the other side. Share your cards with friend – see how many songs they can name using your cards.

2. Many TV shows, movies and newspaper ads use the titles or lyrics of holiday songs for titles and headlines. Circle all the references to holiday songs in the newspaper.

3. Paste news photos or comic strips of five different people on a sheet of paper . Next to each photo/comic strip, write the name of a holiday song that seems to match that person or character.

4. How did these people contribute to holiday music: (a) Jay Livingston, (b) Peter Yarrow, (c) St. Francis o f Assisi and (d) Joseph Mohr?

5. Use the melody of a favorite holiday song and write new lyrics (words) that de scribe your community or area. If you live in a warm climate, you wouldn’t write about snow and cold. If you do live in a cold area, just replace the words to describe you r neighborhood.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Students understand the ways stories, music and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture. (Social studies: Culture)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)