Black Bats (cc) 2010 Jerry Bradley www. orffsite Black Bats (cc) 2010 Jerry Bradley www.orffsite.com Black bats everywhere (snap) Flying under bridges flapping over ridges (pat) Eating insects on their way (stamp) Heading home at the break of day (clap)

Rhythm for poem: Ta Ta Ta-de Ta Tika Tika Ta-de, Tika Tika Ta-de Ta-de Ta-de Ta-de Ta Ta-de Ta-Tika Ta-de Ta    (Ta=quarter, Ta-de= 2 eighths, Tika-Tika= 4 sixteenths, Ta-Tika= 8th followed by 2 16ths) Process: 1. Teacher says poem 2. Teacher says poem with body percussion 3. Students echo line by line with body percussion 4. Divide class into 4 groups 5. Assign one line to each group 6. Perform with speech and body percussion 7.Audiate text and perform body percussion only 8.Groups perform with contrasting non-pitched percussion