 | An easy, flexible, 15-minute musical play for grades K-3. Comes with the script, audio recording (with both a vocal and instrumental version of each song), and a teacher's guide. No music or drama experience needed! |
 | ✓ Funny script ✓ Catchy tunes ✓ Flexible casting ✓ Dumb jokes
Aligned with Next Generation Science Standards, this show teaches about the sun, moon, and stars, emphasizing observable patterns. Learn more! |
NewMusicalGr. K-315 Min.
Musical Play: “Patterns in the Sky”
Complete Script & Audio: $45 (other items also available)
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Synopsis
Can observation really help you understand the solar system? Sure, if you pay attention and take careful notes! In this short, easy show, a group of students learns all about the patterns of the sun, moon, and stars. With the help of some goofy characters — the oh-so-serious “solar detectives” and the mysterious werechickens that transform when the moon is full — they’ll discover how orbits work, why we have seasons,where the sun goes at night, and why we can’t see the stars during the day.
Key Concepts
Patterns in the Sky refers to and builds on students’ familiarity with the following:
- Sun, moon, and stars have observable patterns
- Basics of scientific observation
- Relationships between the sun, earth, and moon (orbits)
- The sun’s patterns; sunrise/sunset; daytime/night
- The earth’s tilt and the resulting seasons
- The moon’s patterns: phases, tides
- The stars’ patterns: visibility in day/night
- Planets vs. stars
Patterns in the Sky is a great complement to your curriculum resources in STEM and the solar system. And, like all of our plays, this show can be used to improve reading, vocabulary, reading comprehension, performance and music skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and numerous social skills (read about it!) — all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!
Aligned with national standards! View the standards and vocabulary.
Publication Info
Author: Lisa Adams and John Heath (Book and Lyrics) and Mike Fishell (Music)
ISBN:
978-1-886588-73-8
© 2019
Bad Wolf Press, LLC
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The Show
We want you to know what you're getting, so the cast list and first third of the script are available here! Bad Wolf shows are written for flexibility and can be edited however you like to meet the needs of your actors, school, curriculum, parents, astrological chart, latest whim, etc. If you have questions about the portions of the script not shown, please contact us.
Casting
From 8-40 students. All songs are sung by the entire cast. There are 20 parts for Students, each with a few lines, but these parts/lines can be distributed any way you like. Actors can easily play several roles, or a single role can be divided between multiple actors. All parts can be played by any gender.
CHARACTERS:
Students (20)
Detectives (2)
Wolves (2)
Script
This is the first one-third of the script.
(CLASS enters and sings:)
Song 1
Listen to
a sample!
There're patterns everywhere you look
On carpets, flags, in every nook
My socks have patterns that repeat
To give me cool designer feet.
Some actions can be patterns too
If they're predictable to you
"I don't like this pattern," Mom has said
Each night when I won't go to bed.
But my favorite regularities, it must be said
Are right overhead...
Patterns in the sky
The stars and moon and sun
Patterns in the sky
Their race is never done.
Regular as clockwork
Can't help but wonder why
Patterns in the sky.
Today the sun will rise and set
The same tomorrow, I will bet
The moon looks awfully full these days
But we all know that's just a phase.
Patterns in the sky
The stars and moon and sun
Patterns in the sky
Their race is never done.
Regular as clockwork
Can't help but wonder why
Patterns in the sky.
Patterns in the sky.
(STUDENTS #1 and 2 enter. THEY are looking at each other, around the room, and up at the "sky," scratching their heads. STUDENTS #3 and 4, enter a moment later, holding notebooks.)
STUDENT #3: Hey, what's wrong?
STUDENT #1: We don't understand the assignment.
STUDENT #2: Yeah, we're supposed to find patterns in the sky -- but every time we look, the sun and moon are in different places.
STUDENT #1 (points at different places around the room): There, there, there, there, there!
STUDENT #4: Where's your notebook?
STUDENT #2: Uh, notebook?
STUDENT #3: Yeah! You have to write down what you see and when. Then you can find the pattern.
STUDENTS #1 and 2 (looking at each other): OHHHHHH.
STUDENT #4: Taking careful notes is an important part of scientific observation.
STUDENT #3 (holding up notebook): I've got that part down, but I can't figure out how the solar system actually works.
STUDENT #1: Now that's a doozy.
STUDENT #2: I hope you like spinny rides, because we're on one right now!
(CLASS is divided into three groups -- SUN, EARTH, and MOON. THEY sing:)
Song 2
Listen to
a sample!
SUN:
Who's in the middle of the solar system?
Me, the sun!
OTHERS: You, the sun!
Who brings the light that you are missin'?
Me, the sun!
OTHERS: You, the sun!
CLASS:
So raise your voices loud, my friends
For all the warmth that it expends
Yes raise your voices loud, my friends
And spin spin spin around.
EARTH:
Who orbits all the way around the sun?
Me, the earth!
OTHERS: You, the earth!
Who gives a place to live to everyone?
Me, the earth!
OTHERS: You, the earth!
CLASS:
So raise your voices loud, my friends
For all those earthly dividends
Yes raise your voices loud, my friends
And spin spin spin around.
Sun, Earth, and Moon have gravity
That keeps them all in place
Whirlin' in the universe
With patterns we can trace
MOON:
Who orbits all the way around the earth?
Me, the moon!
OTHERS: You, the moon!
Who's got the phases and creates the surf?
Me, the moon!
OTHERS: You, the moon!
CLASS:
So raise your voices loud, my friends
Its moonbeams aren't just passing trends
Yes raise your voices loud, my friends
And spin spin spin around.
And spin spin spin around.
(STUDENTS #5 and 6 enter.)
STUDENT #5 (holding head): All that spinning around makes me dizzy!
STUDENT #6: Really?
STUDENT #5: Well, actually...no. That's weird. If the earth is always spinning, why don't we feel dizzy?
STUDENT #6: Because we're spinning right along with it...at almost a thousand miles per hour!
STUDENT #5: Yikes! I hope we don't get a ticket.
(2 DETECTIVES enter, holding up magnifying glasses in front of their noses. THEY don't see the STUDENTS.)
STUDENT #6: Who are you?
(DETECTIVES jump, startled)
DETECTIVE #1: Oh! Shhhh -- we're undercover. Working on an important case.
STUDENT #6: You're detectives?
DETECTIVE #2: Not just any detectives.
DETECTIVES (in unison): Solar detectives.
DETECTIVE #1: It's serious work, snooping on the sun.
DETECTIVE #2: We've been hired to find out where it goes at night.
(This concludes the first one-third of the script.)
The Songs
Click on any song to listen to a snippet. Click the cart icon to purchase any track for $1.
Standards
Common Core and Other National Standards
Science
- Next Generation Science Standard, Space Systems for Patterns and Cycles
- National Science Content Standard D for K-4th
Language Arts
- Common Core Reading Standards for Literature: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
- Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational Skills:
- Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards: Comprehension and Collaboration - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
- Common Core Language Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd
- Common Core Standard 10: Range, Quality & Complexity: Range of Text Types for K-5th
National Core Arts Standards
- Music - Anchor Standards 4-6
- Theater - Anchor Standards 3-6
- Dance - Anchor Standards 1-6
Vocabulary
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| solar | gravity | astronomy | sphere | ||
| orbit | circuit | phases | lunar | ||
| nuclear | reflect | ||||
General Vocabulary-Building
| nook | designer | predictable | regularity |
| clockwork | doozy | expend | dividend |
| undercover | steady | frontier | reprise |
| literally | inquiry | cumin | oregano |
| swoon | mass | luminous | fret |
| "influencer" | "passing trend" |
Michelle.educator (verified owner) –
Bad Wolf Press + puppetry = equity. Fifth-grade science end of year exam is a woozy for students and teachers alike. I can rest easy knowing that my students can easily recall all the information covered by Patterns in the Sky production. Students sing lyrics as they write written responses during practice exams. For me producing a puppet show musical was complete new and took my teaching to the next level.
YouTube Patterns in the Sky Cedarwood to see the production. Parents love it, students love it, school loves it. Just do it you will not regret it.