These handy FREE Music Note Flashcards are a great way to help kids of all ages practice identifying music notes. Perfect for music education or piano.
These posters are an educational way to brighten up your Orff instrumentarium! All posters are formatted to fit an 8.5 x 11 size or a quarter sized page and can be printed in vibrant colors or a simple black and white. PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW by clicking the green preview button above, to see more images of this product! Set includes: *10 Orff Instrument Set-up posters: Diatonic, C Pentatonic, D Pentatonic, F Pentatonic, G Pentatonic *23 Instrument Labels: Glockenspiel, Soprano Glockenspiel, Alto Glockenspiel, Metallophone, Soprano Metallophone, Alto Metallophone, Bass Metallophone, Xylophone, Soprano Xylophone, Alto Xylophone, Bass Xylophone, Bass Bar, A Bass Bar, B Bass Bar, Bb Bass Bar, C Bass Bar, C# Bass Bar, D Bass Bar, E Bass Bar, Eb Bass Bar, F Bass Bar, F# Bass Bar, G Bass Bar, Mallets *20 Orff Rules Posters (also titled Guidelines and Procedures): Walk around the instruments not over, Carry the instruments with care, Respect the instruments, Walk around the instruments, Mallets stay in rest position before and after songs, Mallets stay in ready position during songs, Take off bars with two hands, Place extra bars in front, not inside, Place extra bars in front, Play in the center of the bars, Bounce mallets in the center of the bar, Return mallets when you are finished, Alternate both hands, Stop when the director stops, Stop when the teacher stops, Play as a team *Blank templates as JPGS for you to add your own posters. *7 BONUS PRINTABLE cheat sheet worksheets in black and white. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This product is part of a huge Spanish & English Music Classroom Decor Set! See more Orff-inspired products: Going to the Amusement Park: An Exploratory Activity for the Orff Barred Instruments See Saw Orff-based Rhythm Composition Teddy Bear Orff-based Rhythm Composition ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow me on Facebook for updates and freebies!
If you’re like me you might struggle with teaching students the language of music in that you only see them for one 40 minute class time per week. Some important questions to ask might be; Can anyone learn anything in that amount of time? What are the most effective ways to maximize learning time? What …
This free printable Do Re Mi staircase is a brilliant visual aid and teaching tool for introducing small children to Do Re Mi and interval recognition.
5 easy (and free!) sub plans for the music room: Includes great ideas for sub plans, as well as a way to download the sub plans as an editable Word document!
Now, this is a song that I had sitting in my pile of "too be looked at in greater detail" pile for years. I couldn't figure out how to "own" the song and in turn "sell it" to my students. Then last year at Leigh Anne Garner's ROCKE workshop I learned some activities to do with it. Here's the song: Here's an easy Orff accompaniment that I made up (again, I have no Orff training, so all my "stuff" is quite simple): Now, Leigh Anne presented a passing song using plush roses. Last year I found these online: They were quite the buy and they can in five different colors (red, pink, orange, blue, purple), which worked out nicely for the game that Leigh Anne taught us. (I'm sad to report that the roses I found are no longer available. But with Valentine's day around the corner keep your eye out when your shopping, you never know what you might find!) Here are my kiddos singing and playing the passing game. Sitting in a circle, every student had a rose and passed the roses to the right on the beat of the song (pass, pick-up, pass, pick-up, etc.) When Leigh Anne taught is she didn't have a rose for everybody, so that's another way to play it. When you didn't have a rose you kept the pattern going with your arms and when the rose was in front of you you passed it. Here's a PowerPoint that I made for the song. There's a lyric slide: Melodic preparation slides: Melodic prep on the staff: Melodic practice slides (sans rhythm): Melodic practice on the staff: Rhythm preparation slides, students must figure out where to add ties: Rhythmic preparation slides, with ties: Rhythm practice slides: Rhythmic and melodic practice slides, with stick notation: Rhythmic and melodic practice slides, staff notation: Absolute pitch reading practice slides: And a song sorting game: Going back to the plush rose passing game, I use the colors of the roses to group my students and I have the above cards printed on matching paper. That is, I have red cards, pink cards, orange cards, blue cards & purple cards. Everyone with like colored roses work together to find the cards that they need to put the song in order. If you notice, the first 4 cards match the song, the second 4 do not match the song. This is to "up the ante" and make the game harder. So to simplify the game, you could print out only the top four cards. This PowerPoint is available at my Teachers pay Teachers store for $1.00. Please follow me on Teachers Pay Teachers, beginning in February I will be starting a monthly freebie, for followers only.
You can print out these music theory guides for free!
Use this free listening map of Astor Piazzolla's Libertango to teach timbre to your elementary music students.
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Piano sheet music for kids "Kookaburra" is also a singing round! Now with 2 beginner Middle C arrangements, 2 solo piano versions, & vocal rounds in 2 keys.
Today I'm giving a glance into my first day of school lesson plans, from TK - 5th grade. In the first day of music class, students are arguably the most attentive they will be all year. This puts a unique pressure on the first day's lesson plan to set the tone for the rest of our time together.
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50 Reproducible Biographies of Famous Composers. By Jay Althouse. Book & Data CD. One-Page Composer Bios is a 100% reproducible book containing brief, informative, and interesting one-page biographies of 50 of history's greatest composers. Use these easy-to-read bios as a complete course in composers or music history---studying as many or as few
Would you like to talk about your favorite band in English but do not know how to refer to different instruments of music? Perhaps you play a musical
One of the benefits of being a traveling teacher is getting exposed to different teaching philosophies. I teach in at least 3 schools each year and when you factor in all the schools I’ve taught in, I’ve worked closely with 9 different elementary music teachers...
When I first started teaching, I used the Recorder Karate method for introducing the recorder to third graders. The kids were highly motivated to earn their belts and they worked hard to learn the required songs. However, after two years, I discontinued the program. I felt like my students were playing well, but they weren't reading the notation as they were playing. They were simply learning to memorize fingerings and melodies for familiar songs, but were not becoming musically literate. Thus, I discontinued the program and used some other resources. This year, I decided to bring Recorder Karate back from the dead. I wanted my students to have the excitement about playing recorders that I knew the belts provided in the past. Thus, I've been working like a crazy woman to create supplements that help the students practice reading and writing music, in combination with the recorder belt songs, while keeping them excited and enthused. I've tried to set these supplements up as stations, so students can work in small groups, have a variety of opportunities to interact with their notes, and work in groups that are of similar readiness. The station set up also allows me to work in small groups with students for belt testing and support while everyone else is actively working on someone else. The kids have been thrilled with the stations and I have been thrilled to see their note reading and recorder performing progress. So, here's my newest set of stations this cycle, now available at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. Color by Note has students identify B's, A's, and G's, and color in the bodies of the monsters based upon what pitch is inside the area. Monster Dance B A G Recorder Composition allows students to write a B A G song based on a simple poem about Monsters that I wrote. They dictate their composition and practice performing it at this station. This station has students play for each other and provide specific positive and constructive feedback for improvement via a checklist. Since I can't be with every group at all times, I'm hoping this will be another way for students to improve their musicianship. It also provides me another tool to learn about student strengths and weaknesses. All of these resources are set up for stations, but would also work as full class activities. I glue the cover sheets to the front of a file folder, and put the worksheets and/or directions inside for students, so that when they rotate to a station, they have everything they need. Download this fun set now at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Monster-BAG-Recorder-Stations-and-Worksheets
My district is one that is implementing Student Learning Objectives...which are basically large-scale goals for each student in class based on their ability levels. Teachers have to set target scores/learning outcomes for lower level learners to higher level learners. That means there has to be some sort of pre-assessment in order to determine the level of the students. I really have struggled in attempting to create pre-assessments for orchestra. It has been hard to wrap my head around giving a test to see what I know students don't know yet...since I haven't taught the skill, yet. Anyway, I am focusing my learning objective on rhythm. I want to be sure my students are fluent note-readers and rhythm readers. For my pre-test, I will use the 'I Got Rhythm' form that I created. This can be used many different ways and can be a useful tool in a variety of rhythm exercises. For my pre-assessment, I will perform the rhythm from one box on each line...and I will have students circle the rhythm that they think I played. This will help me see if students are already recognizing these rhythms. The rhythms get progressively more difficult as you move down the page, so I will be able to set some learning targets for individual students. Eventually of course, students will demonstrate the ability to perform these rhythms on their own - by the end of year 1. I can also use this form as a rhythm exercise...students can perform the rhythms across and down each line. They can cut them up to make flashcards. You can use the different rhythms for warm-ups and scales.
I updated my visual rubrics for performance assessments in my classroom and am sharing them all with you! Free to download are four rubrics based off of a four point scale (4=Exceeds 3=Meeting Expectations 2=Developing Skill 1=Having Difficulty). Descriptors of each requirement for each skill are included. I post these and remind students of expectations before assessing them. Hope you can use these with your kids too! Happy Freebie to You! Download today at my Teachers Pay Teachers store!
Learn Tools, Equipment, Devices and Home Appliances Vocabulary in English.
Adding creativity to the classroom can seem like a daunting task, but it's important for making learning fun, engaging, and memorable!
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A list of ascending and descending intervals to use with your students in the music classroom. I do!
