Essential Elements

The Book
Essential elements (or refereed to as "the book") contains 187 songs, which are to help beginning band members practice their instruments.

Use in BeanBoy's Class
BeanBoy currently uses the book mainly for newly entered sixth graders, who practice it throughout the first semester of the school year and then usually move on to sheet music, but play out of the book every now and then. Newly entered seventh and eighth graders are taught from the book. Recently, BeanBoy has added a common practice of having seventh and eighth graders play at least one song out of the book once a week.

Here is a link to the book used on Amazon.

Warm-ups
BeanBoy uses songs 81, 82, and 83 in "the book" most classes to warm up the band classes. Classes that have not reached these numbers do not play these warm-ups.

108
Song 108 in "the book", March Militaire, is played along with the warm-ups and is classified by BeanBoy as a warm-up.