Great for Valentine's Day or any time of the year, "Magic Words," a song about using manners, leads primary age children through a lesson for performing an ostinato pattern. The students begin by learning the song "Magic Words", and then they add a simple ostinato pattern using first speech, then body percussion, and finally playing the ostinato pattern on un-pitched percussion instruments to accompany the song. Also included in this lesson is a B section which consists of a spoken rhyme and r