"Drum Up a Song" is a literacy based music program that gives students a chance to turn a favorite book into a song, turn a favorite song into a story and create a song of their own. The students will experience how an author creates songs from his children's books and how a popular song was turned into a children's book. We then collaboratively write an original song with a positive message about their school and set it to a rhythm that everyone plays and sings. The teaching artist will be reading/leading musically.