If you subscribe to MusicK8, then I know you are as big a fan as I am. What a great resource for all things music, kindergarten through 8th grade. My school has subscribed for years; we have volumes 6-18, with a few years skipped here and there. We no longer subscribe, as the cuts inContinue reading “St. Patrick’s Day Boomwhackers Activity”
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The Best CD for March Listening
This is my go-to CD for the month of March. Liz Carroll, composer and fiddle performer, creates stirring, lovely melodies. She’s American-born, but of Irish parents. Her music always touches my soul – I discovered her years ago on NPR and since then, my students and I have enjoyed her Lake Effect CD every March.Continue reading “The Best CD for March Listening”
Shamrockin’ Songs
So I ran out of copies of our St. Patrick’s Day worksheet I posted about last week; I ran to the copy room only to find the copier broken. Moments of desperation often prove to be chances for innovation. I grabbed some green construction paper and the shamrock die-cut. Taking them back to my 2ndContinue reading “Shamrockin’ Songs”
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”
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