Peter and the Wolf is one of my favorite lessons regarding these kinda of things! Good music and an excellent demonstration of what the instruments are capable of!

If any folks want to keep sending suggestions, more ideas are always shiny! But I've more or less got a handle on things now. What's limiting me the most is my lack of equipment and only seeing each group of students once a week.

I have kids in this age group. We recently did a series of music lessons on families of instruments and instrument identification. At that age, usually they can't tell the difference between an oboe and clarinet (sometimes, *I* have a hard time). But they can identify woodwinds vs brass, or pick out a sound that is very unique like a piccolo.

If I can find it, we watch videos of classical music and film music concerts so they can see the instruments being played.

Also, there is a cool video called Elmo's Peter and the Wolf. http://www.amazon.com/Sesame-Street-Presents-Musical-Adventures/dp/B000056MMG

Check out HBO they have something called classical baby that would make a few awesome lessons. Also check out ERIC.

If I was you I'd do some research into Carnival of the Animals. It has loads of different sections, each one (as suggested) representing a different animal. There's loads of different elements to it too, so it could come in handy another time too.

Of course, Eurythmyics! Excellent idea, I vague remember covering Eurythmyics with Kodaly I think it was... time to break out that text book and do some more research. Thank you very much for the suggestion.

Have them dance to it! They can move with the rhythm go fast/slow with delicate/sharp movements, etc, to go along with the music. You're right, they need to be doing something, otherwise you will totally lose them. You could have them make up different dance moves to go with different parts of the song, stuff like that. Afterwards have a little discussion about what they noticed/how it made them feel, etc. Good luck:)