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Joan Eckroth-Riley and Wendy van Gent have prepared a fall lesson that beautifully combine the philosophies of Music Learning Theory and Orff-Inspired teaching.

Music is organized sound. I like to give students opportunities to organize sound and icons for sounds before we work with organizing notation. One of the ways I do that is to create sound songs. We take a basic grid and brainstorms sounds we can make with our bodies (APPROPRIATE sounds *giggle*) and then draw shapes and simple picture to represent them. We draw them into the grid so that they are organized and then perform them for each other. FUN! Another thing I like to do is work with…

#along #body #percussion #play #wellerman #rhythm #boomwhackers Teachers, you are invited to work with the wellerman and his cute companion to develop a numb...

Classical music to teach emotions, to be used alongside for imaginative movement, background to imaginative play or simply to listen to.

Who doesn't know and love "Frere Jacques"? This is a folk song that most of your kids even know, but there is so much you can do with it. This is a great song to present half note, fa, low sol, part-singing, and so much more! I'm using it this year to present half note to my 2nd graders. We prepped and prepped half note at the end of last year, and have been reviewing it for this year. I'm just about ready to present it (my 2nd graders this year are just amazing - this is slightly earlier…

Miss White had a fright In the middle of the night Saw a ghost eating toast Halfway up the lamp post! Here's a fun arrangement to use with your young students, just in time for Halloween!