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Enjoy 11 fun, inspirational, wonderful songs that every elementary music teacher needs for occasions throughout the school year. Kid-tested, these superb originals from Mark Burrows will delight students. Great activities are included for all 11 songs, as well as reproducible lyric sheets, and full performance and accompaniment tracks. Songs are: Beware the Music Teacher! * The Boredom Blues * Building a Bridge * The Day the Animals Joined the Band * Christmas Can Last All Year Long * Their Love Shines On * Hola Means "Hello" * Sing a Song for Nature * A Brand New Star in the Sky * (Positive) Attitude * We Are the Future * We Are the Now. Includes two bonus classical listening tracks. Grades K-6.
Pot-Pourri is a creative collection of 35 original and traditional songs set as Orff arrangements. This book is written by a well-known consultant in Orff-Schulwerk, and the 1996 recipient of the American Orff-Schulwerk Distinguished Service Award. Pot-Pourri contains games and rhythms for elementary and middle school students. It includes many general suggestions for teaching.
This fun and useful book for elementary music teachers includes 12 kid-tested original songs and focuses on appropriate movement and dance ideas. Clear assessment strategies for each lesson help the teacher provide data to support the school's music education program. The professional CD includes full performance and accompaniment tracks. Lead lines with guitar frames are provided for teachers who prefer to accompany on guitar or piano. All lessons are correlated to the National Standards for Music Education K-5. A great book for any elementary music teacher!
A complete book dedicated to the analysis and applications of flams. The first half of the book describes in clear detail the grace note placement and the effects it has on the flam regarding time, sound and pulse. Rudimental flam studies and applications are also studied in great depth. The second half of the book discusses the flam's evolution to the drumset in rock, funk, jazz, and Afro-Cuban styles, both in actual beats and fills. With the clear explanations and chop building exercises provided, this text is an outstanding source for in-depth study of the flam rudiment.
Seven songs on the CD are the core of seven lessons that also include multi-cultural selections. The music selections reinforce the national music standards for the Music Educator's National Conference for pre-K, 1st and 2nd grade children. A Listening Map for each orchestral selection is included to help motivate and focus students along with creative activities.
Singing deserves a place at the center of all the musical skills. This fun collection will delight students and enhance their part-singing and sight-singing skills. Teaching suggestions are included for each of nine songs which range from unison to rounds to 2-part, to simple 3- and 4-part voicings. Movement accompanies each song which enhances the learning experience and provides for exciting performances. Grades 4-8.
Using Boomwhackers, colorful tubes tuned to different musical notes, students learn to play ten classic themes by great composers. Includes teaching suggestions and reproducible visuals.
This wonderful book with CD is a must for music, dance, or classroom teachers teaching about the Renaissance. Historical information about the Renaissance is included as well as easy-to-follow dance graphics. Each dance is provided in three formats: CD dance-along orchestrations with authentic Renaissance sounds, classroom recorder/Orff instrument arrangements, and piano arrangements. These dances are fun and accessible for students in grades 5 and higher.
Orff instruments have enormous appeal for students of all ages. This creative six-chapter book includes pieces simple enough for first graders and challenging enough for middle school students to enjoy. In this collection consisting primarily of Orff instrumentals, Konnie Saliba takes students from very simple songs in which they play only a few notes to challenging selections that require some reading skills. Grades K-8.
Joe (or Jane) Kid tries his luck on an exciting new game show in which he competes with the famous composers W.A. Mozart, J.S. Bach, and Carl Orff to answer questions about music. The composers all have "theme songs" which are played by the "studio audience" Orff ensemble. A reproducible student's script is included.