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Tag Archives: elementary school
Resource: FREE Music Lesson Plans
Check out this database of music lesson plans from Hillsborough Countyu Schools: Music Curriculum Search You will need to enter the provided username and password. I have not examined these lesson plans in detail, but when you log in you … Continue reading
Posted in 3rd-5th Grade Lessons, Kindergarten Lessons, Lesson Plans & Ideas, Teaching Elementary
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Choral Music Scavenger Hunt
This is a scavenger hunt I borrowed from my colleague Miss B.; we used it when I substituted for her class, but it can also be used as a great way to get the students to become familiar with the … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Chorus
Tagged choir, choral, chorus, coda, crescendo, education, Elementary Music, elementary school, fermata, flat, forte, high school, mezzo-piano, music, music scavenger hunt, piano, ritard, scavenger hunt, school, segno, sharp, spiritual, teaching
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Out of the Mouths of Babes…
Kids really do say the darndest things. I am going to attempt to keep track of some of the more amusing ones. Feel free to add any you think deserve notice! One of my piano students, an 8-year-old boy, was … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Positive
Tagged beer, children, crazy, darndest, education, elementary school, funny, humor, kid quips, kids, lessons, mouths of babes, music, music education, student
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Lesson Plan – Ice Cream Chords – 4th/5th
This lesson introduces chord building to older elementary school students. Submitted by Miss G., lesson plan by Artie Almeida. Lesson Plan – Ice Cream Chords – 4th/5th
Elementary Resources – Bibliography and Discography
Music Education Bibliography and Discography By Zadda Bazzy bazzyz[at]manateeschools[dot]net Recorder Do It! Play Recorder by James O. Froseth – book with Cd Recorder Routes I (or any of her other books) – book This book includes Orff arrangements with recorder … Continue reading
Stickfigure Statues
This is a great idea for body motion and spatial awareness that can be done with music. Simply hold up one of the stick figures and the students must imitate the pose of the stick figure. It’s even more fun … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson Plans & Ideas
Tagged ABA, awareness, beat, children, education, elementary school, form, ideas, lesson, lesson plan, motion, music, pedagogy, posture, rondo, spatial, statues
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Kindergarten – Spider Beat
A lesson plan that I took from the book, Making Music (Silver-Burdett. Unit 4, lesson 3, p. T92.) I modified the lesson to suit me and created the PowerPoint. Feel free to use the PowerPoint in your own lessons! Spider … Continue reading
Posted in Kindergarten Lessons
Tagged beat, children, class, elementary school, kindergarten, kindergarten lesson, lesson, lesson plan, Making Music, music, music notation, Notation, rhythm, steady beat
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Busy Bee…
Hello again! I am currently nearing the end of my internship, finishing up working in an elementary school (I started with middle school) and have been terribly busy. Between internship, working a part-time job, teaching lessons, and planning my wedding, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged band, bass, bassoon, cello, chorus, clarinet, elementary school, Florida, flute, french horn, horn, intern, internship, learn, middle school, music, oboe, orchestra, saxophone, students, treble, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola, violin
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Adventures of a Music Teacher 