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Description:
This 20 minute musical play can be done as a complete play, skits, read-aloud,
or you can just sing songs. No music or drama experience needed.
Grades K-3.
We've combined eight great songs with a bit of fun, fact-filled storytelling in
this
celebration of earthworms. In addition to details about the importance of our
wriggling
friends (aeration, soil nutrients, composting), students will meet The Little Earthworm
That Could, an eight foot Australian worm, and earthworms who "love to dance."
Designed especially for younger students, Earthworms Make America Great! makes
learning as easy as eating dirt!
Earthworms Make America Great! is a great complement to your curriculum
resources in primary grade environmental education.
The duration of the show is about 20 minutes.
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Casting:
Flexible casting from 11-40 students.
Read the Script:
This
is the first one-third of the script:
SINGERS:
Each song in this show is sung by the entire cast. (In one song, a couple
individual singers sing back and forth with the rest of the class.) However,
the songs can easily be divided up among the students if that is desired.
STORY-TELLERS:
Each scene in the show is introduced with a very brief bit of dialogue
involving three student actors. We have numbered these parts 1-27, but
students may of course take more than one part. And since each "part" has
two lines in a scene, more student actors could be used as well by using up
to six storytellers in each scene.
(ENTIRE CLASS enters as music starts to play. They face the audience. Across
the back of classroom/stage is a giant poster that spells out EARTHWORM.
During the performance, the Student who announces the next letter can first
go up to the poster and point out the letter. Or the Student can wear a
cardboard sign around his or her neck with the letter written in big print.
Or Students can wear T-shirts with the appropriate letter inscribed across
the front. You can fade out the music when the students are set up.)
STUDENT 1 (to audience): E is for "Earthworms."
STUDENT 2: There are over four thousand species of earthworm.
STUDENT 3: There are probably more earthworms by weight under the ground
than livestock above it.
STUDENT 1: That's a lot of earthworms.
STUDENT 2: I had no idea.
STUDENT 3: Yep. Earthworms make America great.
Song 1
CLASS:
So much is great about this land
The mountains, plains, and desert sand
America is flying high
With Uncle Sam and apple pie.
But the things that really make her
Are the worms in every acre...
Earthworms make America great
Earthworms!
Earthworms make America great.
They make the soil for me and you
I think they bleed red, white, and blue
No, they're not fuzzy, warm and cute
But when they crawl by, I salute.
No bald eagle, bear or turtle
Makes our fruited plains so fertile...
Earthworms make America great
Earthworms!
Earthworms make America great.
Look up at the flag
Proud as you can be
Its lovely stripes:
They're earthworms,
Earthworms flying free!
Earthworms make America great
Earthworms!
Earthworms make America great.
STUDENT 4: A is for "Australia."
STUDENT 5 (to #4): What's have to do with earthworms?
STUDENT 6: They have eight-foot earthworms in Australia.
STUDENT 4: And a Giant Earthworm Museum.
STUDENT 5: Giant earthworms?
STUDENT 6: Yep. And you should see the fish they catch with them.
(Spreads arms wide apart to show how big the fish is.)
Song 1
CLASS:
Down, down, down in Australia
With the kangaroos
They've got a creature who's been making
news.
There, there, there with the wombat
And koala bear
Theyıve got an earthworm that will make you stare.
One foot
Two foot
Three foot
Four
I hope that's all but I think there's more.
Five foot
Six foot
Seven foot
Eight
And foot worm and itıs learning to skate.
An eight foot worm learning to skate.
Down, down, down in Australia
With the platypus
They've got an earthworm who's as big as us.
There, there, there all the robins
Have a heart attack
Pulling an earthworm that can pull right back.
One foot
Two foot
Three foot
Four
I hope that's all but I think there's more.
Five foot
Six foot
Seven foot
Eight
And foot worm and it's learning to skate.
An eight foot worm learning to skate.
Here it comes!
One foot
Two foot
Three foot
Four
I hope that's all but I think there's more.
Five foot
Six foot
Seven foot
Eight
And foot worm and itıs learning to skate.
An eight foot worm learning to skate.
STUDENT 7: R is for "R you crazy?"
STUDENT 8 (to #7): That's not a real R.
STUDENT 9: Tell that to Betty.
STUDENT 7: Earthworms move very slowly, contracting their muscles to
shorten and lengthen their bodies.
STUDENT 8: What's that got to do with Betty?
STUDENT 9: Gather 'round, children, and hear the tale.
(This concludes the first one- third of the
script.)
National Education Standards:
Fulfills National Arts
Standard 3 for Dance, 1 and 8 for music, and 2, 3, and 5 for Theater.
Fulfills National History Standard 3
for K-4, Standards 1 and 3 for 5-12, and 7, 8, 9, and 10 for 5-12.
Fulfills National Social Studies
Standard 1, 2, 3, 6, and 10.
Fulfills National
Science Standard C for K-4.
Fulfills National
Science Standard C for 5-8.
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Are Two of You Planning to Put
the Play on Together?
If you ask us, we always suggest having just one class put on a play. We
think each kid is
more involved, and we think it's easier for you to deal with a smaller number of students.
But lots of teachers disagree with us.
They've been happily doing the
plays together for years.
In fact, Amy Anderson, the teacher who does four musicals a year
(and she talks about this on our home page) thinks two classes
together is the way to go.
Then what do I need to purchase? Think
of a musical play like a library book.
Only one teacher may "check out" (i.e. put on) the play at a time. If another
teacher wants
to produce the music play that you purchased in a separate production and at a
later date,
you may loan out your original plan and student copies.
Your "library" needs two copies of the play for two teachers to
put on the play at the
same time. If a teacher wants her class to put on the play with your class,
she needs
to buy her own copy of the play. For three or more teachers to produce a play together,
purchase three copies for your "library" and Bad Wolf extends a Site License for all the
teachers and classes at your school.
But why can't I just make extra copies
of the play? If copies are made for
a class other than the purchasing teacher's, it's an infringement of U.S.
copyright law.
Yikes! Bad Wolf likes to toe the line where Uncle Sam is concerned, so we offer a
discount on the purchase of multiple copies of the play.
If you are 2 teachers putting on the
play together................................$60
* Includes 2 copies of the book and CD (save
almost $20 off of buying
them separately) so each of you has a CD and
book to work with.
* Includes the right to reproduce the script for the
students in both of
your individual classes.
Questions?
Call or email Ron Fink at (888) 827-8661
or ron@badwolfpress.com
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