Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
These are just a few of the topics new this week in Music Box.
- Christmas Caroling with kindergarten students
- Using the parachute with the baby class
- Assorted whacky instruments for sound effects
Halloween signals that it’s time to focus on holiday concerts! We find that no matter what the age, a hat, a halo, or a holiday scarf adds so much to the festive atmosphere at our events. In our schools, classroom teachers often enjoy having their class make a special hat.
From In All Kinds of Weather, Kids Make Music, the class in the stocking caps below sang Five Little Snowmen, If all of the Snowflakes, and the Snowflake hats are for the class singing Snow (Yuki) and White Feathers. The class wearing the garland halo sang Angel Band, check out the FREE recording and lesson download in Music Box.
MUSICRHAPSODY MEMBERS: You can find these in your lessons plans.
Babies Make Music Module 2 – Skating
Toddlers Make Music Module 2 – If All of the Snowflakes
Young Musicians Make Music Module 2 – Snow (Yuki), Angel Band
Enjoy the Babies Make Music Class Skating to Charlie Brown’s Christmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHlEjsamF4&list=PLcGAMvU2YN-UGy0ARyr1yKsJ0VwpkVmwu&index=1
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See you in the Box!
Aug 13, 2024 | Early Childhood, Orff Training
Whew! What a week! Adorable costumes and pumpkin singing games.
Now it’s time for our festive November singing games (pitch matching, singing in tune) including NO-VEM-BER and Turkey Feathers! If you are using the Rhythm Readers Pack 1-13 or Four Fall Songs, you have the lesson plans for these.
If you don’t have a fun set of feathers, there’s still time for us to ship you a set. No felt board? We have that too! The kids love putting their feather on the bare turkey. See my favorite felts here.
Just in case you missed it…here’s a Turkey Feather video playlist with 4 ideas how to use this song. With one fun idea, you or a child wear a belt so the (scarves) feathers can be “tucked in.”
Veteran’s Day is November 11. Free Recordings this Week: Go to Music Box for the Deal of the Week. Check out Yankee Doodle and Over There. Four FREE tracks total, which include sing-a-long versions – enjoy!
Lesson Download here.
Want more lessons? More resources? visit MusicBox
Aug 13, 2024 | Recorder & Orff
Recorder Rookies
I love to make lesson plans fun with stories, like Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears, from my Recorder Rookies lesson plan 7-9. Here’s a short clip of my students, sharing the story with their families.
You Tube: Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears
Holiday Programs
For Jingle Bells with the older students, check out my recorder workshop for teaching “Jingle Bells!” For members, here are the visuals I love to use and the music for this lesson.
For the younger ones, it’s time to put our beloved Little Clown and He Dances in a story for the holiday program!Here is the FREE download in Music Box this week: Download. And enjoy the Pre-K Toymaker Performance!
Aug 13, 2024 | Music Teaching Videos
I am thankful for YOU! Thanks so much for all the efforts you make for your students. I am thankful for my students.
Do you know what your students are thankful for? Here’s a couple of ways to find out …
Think Drumming! Everyone plays this 4 beat rhythm and then one by one, each child drums and says something they are thankful for.
For the SOLO DRUM: Player Improvises, playing and saying what they are thankful for.
“I am thankful for _____________.”
And here are few videos to remind you of the classics from my classic book/CD Kids Can Listen, Kids Can Move!
Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
Working with many age groups is so much fun for me! This week, I saw everything from babies to adults with special needs. Each group had me saying “this is my favorite!” Here’s a few highlights.
Yesterday, I had “Toddlers Make Music” in the morning. We practiced our bell ringing (from the classic Kids Make Music, Babies Make Music Too) for our upcoming Holiday Open House for Music Rhapsody studio classes.
Me: Shake those bells and shake them…..
Tots: high (reminding them to hold bells up high and use their high voice)
Me: Shake those bells and shake them
Tots: low (reminding them to bend over to hold the bells low and use a low voice)
Me: Shake those bells and shake them
Tots: high
Me: Shake those bells around we
Tots: go! (showing them to turn in place)
Here’s some Bell Ringers from a past performance.
Then in the afternoon, we worked on a 5 part arrangement of Jolly Old Saint Nick! We’re not just Recorder Rookies anymore! But these students first learned the melody from Recorder Rookies Set 2, (Music Rhapsody Members: this is in your Module 1 lessons). The students remember the simple version we learned and how the color coding made it successful from the start. The goal here was not to rush and play it for our parents at the end of our rehearsal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJg5NvCR3lg&list=PLcGAMvU2YN-UGy0ARyr1yKsJ0VwpkVmwu&index=2
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Thanks to Abbie for her kind words on this video. If you have not taken the training, have a listen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID_iTPTceH0&list=PLcGAMvU2YN-WDhnC-oyphGbmUbBXUYm3r&index=1
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