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Every Good Boy Does Fine Memorize it. Got it? Good... here's your quiz. BORING!!! Leaning the names of the lines and spaces on the staff doesn't have to put your students to sleep. There are tons of songs, video clips, games, and tools that can make it easy to remember those pesky seven letters. Here are three of my favorites: 1. Quaver's Marvelous World of Music starring Guido De Arezzo (aka Chip the Monk) Quaver's Marvelous World of Music (QMWOM) is a new music curriculum using very entertaining DVD lessons and interactive online games and tools. Although I feel it is a bit pricey, I think they do an amazing job of making some traditionally boring bits of music theory very fun to learn. They have two lessons on each of their 15 DVDs. You can preview each lesson here. My personal favorite preview is on DVD 4 entitled "Middle C & The Grand Staff." Here your students will meet the creator of the modern staff, Guido de Arezzo, and in a one minute clip, they will learn that a song stuck on one line can sound quite boring, and that by simply moving the notes up and down the 5-line staff, the same song can be a lot more interesting. Let them try singing both versions of "We Are Monks" to see the difference. There is a slightly longer version of this video available on their interactive website www.quavermusic.com, but you have to jump through some hoops to see it: Create a profile (click the login window in the upper right corner.) Go to "Music Room" in the upper left corner.This will take you to your own personal, customizable room to play games, watch videos, and listen to the songs you have written Quaver's other interactive games. Click on the Interactive White Board in the back of the room Click "Animations" Fianlly, click "Middle C." Your students will love the last 30 seconds of the clip. Our favorite line is "Ah, shucks!" 2. Quaver's Marvelous World of Music Lines and Spaces (Chip Strikes Again!) I am by no means saying that videos are the answer to every music lesson, but QMWOM has another short clip that has a song that will make sure your students remember the names of the lines and spaces on the treble clef for the rest of their lives. This is from lesson "Lines & Spaces" on DVD 5. After watching the video, have your students sing the song. You can split the class into two groups. Have the first group sing Guido's part, and have the second group sing his friend's part. After getting these mnemonic devises ingrained in their brains, have them come up with their own EGBDF sentences. These are some of my students' favorites: Every Grandpa Buys Donkey Food Electric Geese Bite Dead Fish Eggs Go Bad During Flight Every Gross Bacteria Dies Friday Evil Guys Believe Doughnuts Fight If you want, you can have your students come up with sentences for the FACE spaces. I have found that most students like "FACE in the Space" best, but I have had a few students use their own creations. 3. The Note Trainer Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net After learning the names of the lines and spaces, you will want your students to practice naming them. You can use flashcards if you'd like, but Ricci Adams' musictheory.net has a trainer called The Note Trainer. This is a web-based tool used to review note names on the treble, bass, alto, and tenor clefs. The really nice feature is that The Note Trainer keeps track of the score so you can use this site to easily assess your students. Adams came out with a new site about a year ago with many ways to customize your trainers. At the bottom of the customization menu, you will find a link that you can use to quickly go to specific lessons. This is handy if you want to use the trainer for specific grade levels. I teach my 1st graders Middle C, D, and E. I created a trainer for those notes. Click here to use it. Although Adams came out with his new site, he was very kind in keeping his classic site available. Although the Classic Note Trainer is limited with its options, and you have to set the note range each time, I do prefer its user interface. New Note Trainer Classic Note Trainer The buttons in the classic trainer are larger and easier for shorter students to press. Also, the score is larger and easier to see. Adams has also made his entire classic site available for offline use with this download. If you use SMART Notebook, you can drag the trainers into your lessons. This feature is nice if your internet is not available for some reason. I also add a timer to my lesson so I can assess speed as well as accuracy. You can have your students use this site in a computer lab, with a laptop lab, or up on an interactive white board. Adams also came out with a mobile version of his trainers on an app called Tenuto. You can purchase this app on the iTunes App Store. Final Thoughts I have been using Ricci Adams' Note Trainer for the past five years and my students love it every time. Quaver Music is new, but clearly a very fun and education site. I used the two video clips for the first time this year, and my students are in love with "Chip" the monk. Whatever you can do to make learning seven letters on five lines and four spaces fun will make it memorable.
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Who knew rocks, with a bunch of boxes, could be so fun? E, R, and I recently spent some time with a sweet, playful and inspiring story called Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran. The author lets us in on when her mother was a child and how, in Arizona, she and her neighbors made a unique and special kids-only space called, you guessed it, Roxaboxen. E and R had a great time building their own Roxaboxen in our backyard - with rocks and also cardboard boxes pulled out from our garage. It was also a great opportunity to learn all about Arizona, the desert and rocks! Here's what our set-up looked like for the week: To learn a bit about Arizona, we used an Atlas we had on hand along with this coloring book (which is a great resource to learn the very basics about each U.S. state for only $5!). To learn about rocks, we read Let's Go Rock Collecting which, among other things, taught us about the three main categories of rocks. To learn about the rock cycle, we used this FREE infographic. I had this rock and mineral collection already on hand so that, with a magnifying glass, my kids could explore and even identify some rocks. I love TOOB, so on top of some sandpaper to resemble the desert, I had these TOOB desert figurines. The kids loved to play with them throughout the week. As always, I had a handful of books from our local library available on our topic so that when we had a down moment, we could pull one out and read some more. The last thing we did for Roxaboxen was to make a couple of desert art projects. They came from this great habitat project book. The kids made a pickleweed cactus painting and a big-horned sheep with toilet paper rolls and paper plates. Have you read Roxaboxen? Also, what have been some of your especially great resources to learn about deserts and/or rocks? Feel free to check out my Pinterest Board for more Roxaboxen ideas! https://www.pinterest.com/shelleypimentel/
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"Look at your hand. Can you see through it?" "Uh ... no," was the reply I got from our 10-year-old (with a hint of attitude, mind you). "What if I told you that you were going to look through a hole in your hand without us harming your hand in the least bit?" (puzzled expression) And thus our experiment began. It took barely any supplies and only a few minutes but the effect was something we were still talking about an hour later. What You Need An empty cardboard paper towel tube (or a rolled up piece of paper) Two hands Two eyes What to Do Place the tube over one eye and look down it. Bring the other hand (the one that isn't holding the tube), beside the end of the tube, palm toward your face, so it touches the tube. As you look down the tube, you'll suddenly see a hole in your palm! Don't see it? Try moving your palm forward and back, closer and further away from the tube. How It Works Your eyes see the same thing but from slightly different vantage points. In order to see dimension, your brain combines these images. With the tube in front of one eye, we are suddenly giving the brain two very different images. When it combines them, it appears that you hand suddenly has a hole through it.
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Who's Behind the Flag: Italy Grand Tour Unit Study takes the student on a tour through Italy as they learn about the facts and the people of the country. They are on a mission to discover the identity of the famous person whose identity has been concealed in this study. Can you solve the mystery? This unit study includes: 2 Clues Clue Journal 2 Hands-on Activities Italy Grand Tour Board Game 6 Writing Prompts SPOILER ALERT! The identity of this famous person is revealed at the end of this description. In the reading assignments, the children are given clues about the life of the mystery person. They are on a mission to discover who they are learning about. They will read about where this person was born, their family, and their career choice. After every reading assignment, there is a hands-on activity that goes along with what the student has learned. This gives them a sensory experience that will help remember what they have learned. Plus, this is the fun part! I created a board game called Italy Grand Tour as a fun and engaging way for the children to learn facts about Italy. The game cards include information about interesting facts, exciting places, and fascinating people in Italy. The child is supposed to read the card aloud to everyone and then they follow the directions on the card. They have a chance to advance a certain amount of spaces, go back a certain amount of spaces, freeze like gelato, move ahead to a specific place, or maybe even trade spots with an opponent. It highlights six famous people from Italy so they have a chance to make an educated guess. The people are: Alessandro Volta Christopher Columbus Michelangelo Galileo Galilei Leonardo da Vinci Marco Polo I have included six writing prompts so the child can put what they are learning to paper. I would really appreciate it if you would follow me! Please let me know how much you enjoy this product by leaving me some positive feedback! Feel free to visit our blog at www.hobbscrew.com. Thank YOU! SPOILER ALERT: The mystery person is Leonardo da Vinci.
Today is March 4, which marks National Grammar Day. So, I thought I'd bring you this funny poem to celebrate. It certainly emphasizes the importance of knowing how to spell (or use a good old fashioned dictionary) instead of ONLY relying on your spell check. ;-) That being said, having been a professional Copy Editor and Proofreader for many years. Please do spell check. It's your last line of defense! I want you to do it, and so does Uncle Sam: Always arm yourself with good grammar: Happy Grammar Day, folks!
