St. Patrick’s Day Composition Activity

With holidays during the year, I try to think of ways to incorporate what we’ve been studying with the coming holiday.  Next week being St. Patrick’s day, we needed some shamrocks and some luck!  My second graders and I have been working with notation in the treble clef and the C major scale (See theContinue reading “St. Patrick’s Day Composition Activity”

Boomwhackers® Inspiration

So I stumbled across a Music Therapy blog this evening, Rhythm for Good, by a music therapist, Kat Fulton.  She has some amazing Boomwhackers® resources – this is so exciting since we are in the middle of experimenting and exploring our new Boomwhackers®!  She arranged a Lady GaGa tune for Boomwhackers® and it is trulyContinue reading “Boomwhackers® Inspiration”

Boomwhackers Software

I discovered today in my search for Boomwhackers® resources that The Music Interactive site now has a Boomwhackers® software download.  As of January 2011, you are now required to create a username and password to their download site; however, once I easily did that (just follow the online and email instructions), I downloaded and opened this neatContinue reading “Boomwhackers Software”