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- Three Things {Rhythm game, making instruments, and...
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- Guest Post: Music March Madness
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- Music of Japan Mini-Unit
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4:39 PM
Three Things {Rhythm game, making instruments, and a book}
Children's literature · Instruments of the orchestra · Lesson ideas · 2 comments
Today, I’m reviving my "Three Things" linky party, in which I blog about three things that worked for my and my students this week. If you are a music blogger, and would like to link up with your three things, see the directions at the end of this post. Thanks to Whimsy Workshop Teaching , Kimberly Geswein fonts , and Jax and Jake for the cute clip art and fonts! #1: Memorizing Rhythm My fifth graders are practicing syncopa right now (or eighth/ quarter/ eighth), and one of the songs they are using is "Oboshinotentoten." You can find the music notation here , and here is a vide…
4:39 PM
Three Things {Rhythm game, making instruments, and a book}
Children's literature · Instruments of the orchestra · Lesson ideas · 2 comments
Today, I’m reviving my "Three Things" linky party, in which I blog about three things that worked for my and my students this week. If you are a music blogger, and would like to link up with your three things, see the directions at the end of this post. Thanks to Whimsy Workshop Teaching , Kimberly Geswein fonts , and Jax and Jake for the cute clip art and fonts! #1: Memorizing Rhythm My fifth graders are practicing syncopa right now (or eighth/ quarter/ eighth), and one of the songs they are using is "Oboshinotentoten." You can find the music notation here , and here is a vide…
2:00 PM
Guest Post: Music March Madness
Classroom management · Holidays · 1 comment
I'm excited to have a guest blogger today! Tamarie Sayger will be writing about an activity to build excitement for March madness and music-making! You can read more about her at the end of this post; thanks to Tamarie for sharing her expertise! March is known for basketball mania! The Final Four is the first full week of April, so you can take advantage of all the hype the week before it begins. Run this game with all your classes the week of March 28-April 1. Why? I use this as a way to change things up a little during the middle of the spring semester. It’s supposed to be very fun and posi…
2:00 PM
Guest Post: Music March Madness
Classroom management · Holidays · No comments
I'm excited to have a guest blogger today! Tamarie Sayger will be writing about an activity to build excitement for March madness and music-making! You can read more about her at the end of this post; thanks to Tamarie for sharing her expertise! March is known for basketball mania! The Final Four is the first full week of April, so you can take advantage of all the hype the week before it begins. Run this game with all your classes the week of March 28-April 1. Why? I use this as a way to change things up a little during the middle of the spring semester. It’s supposed to be very fun and posi…
5:33 AM
Music of Japan Mini-Unit
Multicultural music · Songs · 9 comments
Today, I'm blogging about a mini-unit I recently did with my 4th graders. I have a unique situation this year, in that I see all of the 4th graders once every five days for 50 minutes, but my colleague--who is also Kodaly-trained--also sees them once every five days for 50 minutes. We decided this year that the first marking period, she would teach them the "typical" Kodaly-inspired lessons, and I would teach extension lessons. Then at the start of the next marking period, we would switch, so that I'm teaching the typical lessons. This marking period, I've been doing the…