So the hare lies down and soon lets out a snore.
Watch that hare go, go, go! Watch that hare, hopping fast! Watch as he goes hopping past, watch as he goes hopping past. The one everyone thinks is so “slow” can still win!Īesop’s Fable – Lyrics and Tune © 2015 by Liz BuchananĪll day long, watch the tortoise go, plodding along, his steps so slow. It’s a nice lesson: sometimes the outcome isn’t what you expect. To have more fun with the story, you could have children make stick puppets and create their own puppet show, telling the story in their own words or perhaps singing parts of the song.įables, of course, have a “moral.” In the case of this story, “Slow and steady wins the race.” Ask children which character they like best, and why the tortoise won the race and the hare lost, even though he was faster. Everyone can play during the parts that involve both tortoise and hare.
Sometimes I divide the kids into two groups the tortoise group plays shaker eggs during the “tortoise” parts of the song, the hare group plays rhythm sticks during the hare parts. I ask children to join me in playing the different tempos in this song. I use percussion instruments such as shakers and rhythm sticks. The children play both parts at the beginning, but around the “nap” part of the song, they usually decide which part they want to play – the hares take a nap while the tortoises keep moving slowly around the room until they win. I invite the children to get up and move slowly like a tortoise and then hop quickly like the hare. We do the song first as a movement activity. Sometimes music goes slowly like the tortoise, and sometimes it moves rapidly like the hare. I also introduce tempo, the speed or pace of a piece. When I sing this song in the classroom, I focus on learning about the opposites, fast and slow. He adores playing his vintage banjo-lin, which plunks along with a slightly goofy sound. Credit my CD producer Eric Kilburn at Wellspring Sound for all the extra instrument parts on the recording. It’s a simple 3-chord song in C I usually play it on the ukulele. You can find a sample and download of my song at Songs for Teaching or CDBaby. I wrote a song about the Tortoise and the Hare to teach about musical tempo, and to help children think about story structure and characters. Most children seem to be familiar with the story already many say they have “seen the movie.” The Tortoise and the Hare is one of the best known of Aesop’s Fables, stories that are credited to Aesop, a storyteller and slave who lived in ancient Greece.
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