Weather Songs, Songs for Holiday Shows, Snow and Winter Songs are all topics in the Music Box Forum. Go to www.lynnkleinersmusicbox.com. The book and CD, In All Kinds of Weather, Kids Make Music is available at www.musicrhapsody.com. Use your Music Box Teacher's...
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Fall Music Fun for Active Music Making!
Dear Music Box Friends, Since I am teaching in Southern California, I might not see the changes of the seasons like many of you but I still get excited to bring out my favorite books, puppets and songs for autumn, including Halloween and Thanksgiving fun.I’ll...
Music Rhapsody!! Simply Awesome!!
Hello fellow music educators! As you may have seen in previous blog posts or music box events, the past two years have been a whirl-wind of new teaching ideas and projects with a number of collaborating educators! One of my biggest undertakings...
Easy Orff
A teacher asked for easy Orff activities. Here's one we've been enjoying lately since we are planning a Farm theme for all our preschool-grade 1 concerts this year. This is from the book/CD Farm Songs and the Sounds of Moo-sic, "I Plant a Little Seed."...
Farm Theme Concert for Ages 2-8
Highlights of our "Farm Songs and the Sounds of Moo-sic" Concerts. I am fortunate to have many talented teachers on my staff. We discuss possibilities for our theme with more than enough options for them to use one of my concert plans or design one...
Orff Course for Kids, Music Camp
I think of this as an Orff Teacher’s Heaven. Kids excited and inspired about a day full of singing, dancing, moving, recorder, instrument building, and electives such as “surprise” class, which will include a surprise each day. May be an activity for...
Music Lessons for Fall, Back to School
I love that after 35 years in the early childhood and elementary music classroom, I am still excited about the start of another school year! Looking around Music Box, I am reminded of years of my favorite back to school, fall, Halloween and Thankgiving favorites. If...
Recorder Brands
Recently, a teacher was discussing what brand of recorders to choose for her elementary class. Some of the suggestions were far from the quality that I insist on for my students. I know some settings have very limited resources but if you are able to come up...
Recorder from an Orff Approach in Music Box
I just received an email asking about my preferred brand of recorder, a recorder book, lesson plans and materials for teaching recorder from an Orff approach. I use the Aulos, a beautiful 3 piece model. Its more expensive but a very nice instrument....
To use or not to use CD in class
Hello! About to start my first class and am forgetting whether or not to use the music on the CD's in class. I enjoy the instrumental accompaniment to the songs and wish there were an instrumental track to be used in class. Especially with the...