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Music Sessions with Older Adults

Do you lead a group of adults who share a passion for music? Want to fuel that passion but don't have time to plan anything inspirational? Roses in December can help!

Roses in December is a collection of over 70 thematic music sessions. At your fingertips: music activities, reminiscence topics, discussion questions, sensory stimulation activities, visualizations, song lists, and more! Simplify your planning with this practical, easy-to-use book. Roses in December includes lyrics, melody, and chords for 43 songs.

Over 70 Themed Session Plans:

Hello and Good-bye Songs • Small Groups • Song Activities • Drum Activities • America, the Beautiful • Angels • Animals • Autumn • Beauty • Bells • Birthdays • Black History Month • Boating Music • Camping • Chasing the Blues Away • Children • A Classical Oktoberfest • Colors of the Day • Dancing • Defining Moments • Dreaming • Fast Facts About Trumpets • Father’s Day • Flowers • Food and Drink • Friendship • Gardens • Gifts • Groundhog Day • Halloween • Hands • Happy New Year • Holiday Lights • Home, Sweet Home • Humor in Music • I Love a Piano • Melody • Mother’s Day • Motoring • Music and Feelings • Music from the Fifties • A Musical Vacation • My Favorite Things • Olympics and National Anthems • Portraying Love in Music • Presidents’ Day • Rainbows • Remember the Ladies • Roses • School Days • Songs in Space • Songs of the Earth • Spring • Summer • Summer Vacation • Sunshine • Thanksgiving • Train Travel • Wellness • What Song? • Winter • Ya Gotta Have Heart • Fred Astaire • Ludwig Van Beethoven • Irving Berlin • Leonard Bernstein • Aaron Copland • Duke Ellington • George Gershwin • Oscar Hammerstein II • Jerome Kern • Cole Porter

Lyrics, melody, and chords for 43 songs:

• All Night, All Day
• Amazing Grace
• America, the Beautiful
• Ballin’ the Jack
• Come and Go With Me
• Cradle Song (Brahms’ Lullaby)
• Down By the Riverside
• Ghost of Tom
• Glory Hallelujah!
• Goin’ Home
• Good-bye to You All
• Good-bye, Ladies
• Hail to the Chief
• Happy Birthday/Merry Widow Waltz
• Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes
• He’s Got the Whole World
• Hokey Pokey
• Home, Sweet Home
• How D’Ye Do
• I Had a Cat
• I Love the Mountains
• I’m Always Chasing Rainbows
• I’m Gonna Sing
• If You’re Happy and You Know It
• Kum Ba Yah
• Life’s Railway to Heaven
• Make New Friends
• Mama Don’t Allow
• A Man Without a Woman
• Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
• The More We Get Together
• M-O-T-H-E-R
• O Canada!
• Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening
• Old MacDonald
• The Riddle Song
• Rock-a-bye Baby
• Shalom
• She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
• Sing Your Way Home
• The Star-Spangled Banner
• This Little Light
• Yankee Doodle

Roses in December written by: Beckie Karras; 2001
ISBN: 1-879633-45-0

130 pages; 8-1/2" x 11" softcover book; spiral binding