Bear Graphic Score

Graphic Scores (structure)

The structure of the first part of The Bear Went Over the Mountain song can be shown in pictures. The Bear went over the mountain is sung three times, then To see what he could see is sung just once, like this:

First the children could invent actions to show what the bear is doing in each line, as they sing the song again. The next step is to make their own graphic scores of the song using cut-out pictures that they have drawn, or by drawing symbols.