In case you do not follow blog carnivals, they are a great way to find new ideas and new blogs to follow. It is also a great way to share your information with others! I saw today that my “10 Days of Thanksgiving” Post was featured in the December Edition of the Music Education BlogContinue reading “December Music Education Blog Carnival”
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Sleigh Ride | Holiday Listening Activity
Each week the older classes have a “Listen and Think” to start their lesson. This week’s “Listen and Think” is Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride. I post this flipchart page on the board as students enter class…. and we read the questions aloud. Then I play the following YouTube.com video of John Williams conducting The Boston PopsContinue reading “Sleigh Ride | Holiday Listening Activity”
How to Join PDF files for FREE!!
Many of my resources are shared as PDFs. As most people know, a PDF is the best way to save a document so your formatting, style, and information is conveyed as you originally created it. Often I create separate PDFs and then need to combine them into one single file for publishing or sharing. IContinue reading “How to Join PDF files for FREE!!”
Change Is In the Air!
As you may have noticed, there are lots of changes coming down the pipe here at Learn Me Music! I ask you to be patient as these upgrades take place. I think you will find the updates beneficial. More resources will be added regularly and those resources will be accessed easier through the pages aboveContinue reading “Change Is In the Air!”
Thanksgiving Song: Ten Days of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Song – Ten Days of Thanksgiving Day 1 Looking for a Thanksgiving song to use for fun in your classes? Look no further than one of my go-to blogs and websites, ListenLearnMusic.com. Rachel Rambach, a music therapist, produces a huge range of original music for all settings, themes, and holidays to use in herContinue reading “Thanksgiving Song: Ten Days of Thanksgiving”
Halloween Song for Recorder: Minor Tonality and Composing Original Lyrics
Simple Halloween Song for Soprano Recorder – in Em Not sure if anyone else has discovered this, but there exist very few Halloween-themed or even minor tonality songs for soprano recorder. In my quest to find a simple Halloween song for soprano recorder, I ended up writing my own simple melody. As you can seeContinue reading “Halloween Song for Recorder: Minor Tonality and Composing Original Lyrics”
Pitch Lesson with Boomwhackers®: Five Little Pumpkins
October is by far my favorite month of the year! And Halloween ranks up there with Christmas and Thanksgiving as my favorite holidays! In my Kindergarten and First Grade classes this week, we are using the song/fingerplay/story “Five Little Pumpkins” to learn about pitch. I use the version made famous by Raffi. Visit thisContinue reading “Pitch Lesson with Boomwhackers®: Five Little Pumpkins”
Free Lesson Ideas Using BrainPop and BrainPopJr
Need a new idea for great music lessons? My go-to lesson “fun-maker” is BrainPop Jr and its big brother, BrainPop. These two sites are subscription based for full-access, but there are a number of free resources, lessons, and movies available for use as well! My school district has a site-wide subscription of both sitesContinue reading “Free Lesson Ideas Using BrainPop and BrainPopJr”
Music Video With A Message: Black Eyed Peas Project – Part 3
Using the poetry we wrote in response to listening to “One Tribe” by the Black Eyed Peas, my students and I used GarageBand on our classroom iMac with a Yamaha MIDI keyboard to compose beats and loops and to record our poetry as a rap. Each of my 6 classes composed a verse to theContinue reading “Music Video With A Message: Black Eyed Peas Project – Part 3”
Poetry and Peace: Black Eyed Peas Project – Part 2
The development of the Black Eyed Peas Project was an amazing process to witness. Today I will share with you our process of writing the poetry that became the lyrics to our song. Below are some of the chart pages we worked with while brainstorming and writing. (Note: I do almost everything digitally in myContinue reading “Poetry and Peace: Black Eyed Peas Project – Part 2”
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