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Award-winning instructor and early childhood music pioneer Lynn Kleiner shares her innovative lesson plans for toddlers through primary-age children that capture the magical power and excitement of interactive musical learning. Enjoy 35 songs, poems, and stories for all seasons that will delight children and stimulate their responses to music. For teachers, parents, and caregivers. Videos and instrument kits available through Remo, Inc.
(String Letter Publishing). What makes a child fall in love with learning to play music? How does talent develop? When is the right time to start lessons? Which instrument is the best fit? Why is practice so challenging and what can parents do to keep kids musically motivated? Where can a parent learn about music programs, camps, books, recordings, and other important resources? This groundbreaking book answers these questions and many others, serving up healthy portions of insight, humor, research, practical advice, fresh ideas and heartfelt encouragement for making the most of musical development from pregnancy through the elementary years. It provides everything parents need to nurture children so they may begin to discover their own unique voices. If one book can keep kids from quitting, this is it! "This book will help you find a new relationship with your child, and perhaps, yourself ... It's never too late." Graham Nash
Why use picture books with children? -- Extending picture books through art -- Extending picture books through drama -- Extending picture books through music -- Extending picture books through math -- Extending picture books through science.
Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom provides a practical guide to help music teachers incorporate elementary classroom subjects into their curriculum using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math)-inspired strategies, with added emphasis on social studies. It includes a complete elementary music curriculum for kindergarten, first, and second grades, and has cross-referencing charts for regular elementary classroom teachers to find music activities for their classroom. Importantly, it shows teachers how to include the artistic processes of creating, performing, responding, and connecting in their lessons. These processes make up the new music standards featured in NAfME's new Core Arts Music Standards. In order to maximize comprehension, the book includes assessment tests, sheet music, work sheet templates, and brainstorming activities centered on using technology to enhance composition projects. Lesson plans are organized by the calendar year, each inspired by the seasons, American culture, and world culture. These lessons may be used as is or used to generate new curricula altogether.
For future early education teachers, this text describes the rationale and techniques for using music with infants, toddlers, and young children through the age of five...and the developmentally appropriate stages for its introduction. Coverage is built on a strong foundation of research and theory, incorporating findings in the field and the suggestions of users. The authors take a developmental approach to the role of music in the life of the young child, and offer a sound program for successfully bringing music into the early childhood educational environment.
Written by the author of Music for Fun, Music for Learning, the book incorporates a child's activities such as singing, dancing, playing instruments and body movements and gestures to develop the understanding of musical concepts, musical literacy and an appreciation for different kinds of music as well as co-ordination, motor and listening skills, social skills and acquisition of basic facts. Intended to be a useful and practical resource for teachers, parents and leaders of all children, Come on Everybody Let's Sing! also encourages a greater use of music with special students. The audio package offers songs from each chapter of the book professionally recorded and produced to provide both the teacher and students with excellent representations of the songs as set out in the book. Preschool-Grade 6.
These strategies ask students to make musical decisions, reflect on their learning, and demonstrate discovery through performance. They require students to "sing, improvise, compose, move, and play" their musical understanding. The 69 strategies include step-by-step instructions, ideas, and resources.
"Now the standards and assessment process has reached its final state - identifying examples of student responses at the basic, proficient, and advanced levels for each of the standards. To accomplish this, MENCE embarked on the Benchmark Student Performances in Music project - a project to assemble benchmark student responses to the assessment strategies described in Performance Standards for Music. This current publication, the first in the Benchmarks project, focuses on the benchmark student performances in music for Standard 4. It offers examples of fourth-, eighth-, twelfth-graders' responses to strategies designed to assess progress toward the achievement standards included within Content Standard 4: Composing and arranging music with in specified guideline"--Page vii.
Christian Steinman, son of Jacob Steinman and Barbara Kennel, was born in 1792, in or near Marienthal in Lorraine, France. Christian married Veronica Eyer in France ca. 1822. The family arrived in the harbor of New York August 18, 1826. From New York Christian Steinman brought his family to Wilmot, Upper Canada (Ontario). Most of the Steiman descendants now live in Ontario, Canada. Some family members live in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and elsewhere. Christian and his family adhered to the Amish Mennonite faith and located in Amish communities. Includes Albrecht, Baechler, Bast, Bender, Boshart, Bowman, Brenneman, and Erb as well as other connected families.