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I used Amanda's idea and made my own TBA posters. I did black and white so I can print on colored cardstock and not get in trouble for using a lot of color ink ! LOL

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I made this in Canva, printed on cardstock, and laminated. Free to you!

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I'm guessing many of us are already on this page, but if not, this is a great place to get answers, search for info, etc on anything FSIM and/or CS

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There is a reason it took this long for something like CS training to happen for our district. We needed the right people at the right time, and there you all were! My heart is full seeing all the joy that was had this week and I know your students are going to feed off your joy.

If you need anything - I can laminate, cut, sort, assemble while you are trapped in meetings. I can’t get paid for anything until November. :) Feel free to text or call: 501.258.1938. Delynne23@gmail.com or westd@obu.edu

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Partners create rhythms by rotating cups, then read both patterns together.

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Reba Tribute Concert That I will be performing in (Dates coming soon)

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Reba Tribute Concert That I will be performing in (Dates coming soon)

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Shortnin' Bread

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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play "Shortnin Bread' on their acrylic nails in 1987.

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Great podcast for Dolly Parton fans!

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Dolly Parton’s America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

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The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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Chris Anne Powers' Homework from Bryant School District Participants

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Chris Anne Powers' Homework from Bryant School District Participants

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We are so excited about this journey for you!

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SHANIA TWAIN GREATEST HITS IN ORDER!!!!!!!

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Lots of good stuff here.

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Make Moments Matter Inspiration for your Elementary Music Classroom Thanks for stopping by! In college my professors told me that the best teachers are the people who beg, borrow, and steal. Great educators look for new ideas, work hard to adapt concepts for their situation, and are continually talking with [...]

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Don't start this until we are all together :)

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Don't start this until we are all together :)

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Aka Mary Had a Little Lamb.

Can also do a hand jive to it.

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Similar to the Pachelbel rant :)

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4 Chords | Music Videos | The Axis Of Awesome

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Some of you were asking about my music room decor--a lot of it is from TPT. Here is the link to my MUSIC board.

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I have included ALL of my favorite Music Class resources in this Bundle! This includes posters, bulletin board décor, labels, and more!As I continue adding to this bundle, you will get more and more resources all for the same initial price!Check out all the other ways to keep up with me!INSTAGRAMYOU

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♫ Editable Music Bulletin Board ➜ Music Across the Subjects ➜ Color & B/W

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This Bulletin Board Set is the perfect addition to any classroom. It's colorful, educational, and is perfect for Back to School time or to be left up all year long! Check out the preview for more details!Check out all the other ways to keep up with me!

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A moment of clarity yesterday: I have taught Unit 1 followed by Unit 4 the last couple years. This year I am going to teach Unit 1, 2, 4. The reasoning - 4th grade play recorders after Christmas. Their songs are in 2/4 and 6/8. Teaching Unit 2 before they get to recorders is going to make a big difference for them.

Loving all the new games, songs, etc that I'm learning this week. Can't wait to incorporate them. Music class is going to be so fun this year!

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Goals.

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Mrs  Parker's Chickens/Had A Little Rooster

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I like to show my kids this after the Swan Move It. It's a street style of dance called "jookin".

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A dancer performs a magical improvisation on The Swan - Carnival of the Animals

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This is one of the favorite challenge songs for my 4th/5th graders. When BHS did Beauty and the Beast some of my SPES kids snuck in a reference to this song during the chase scene. By the way, my mom was in this audience. :)

This would be great for introducing 16th notes.

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Trout Fishing in America Live 2022 🡆 What I Want Is a Proper Cup of Coffee 🡄 Oct 23 ⬘ The Woodlands

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There are three songs that made me a life-long TFIA fan. Lullaby is my all-time favorite. Go check it out. They have been nominated for 4 Grammys for best children's album, but their concerts are all ages.

Amanda referenced The Window. This is so easy to do with your kids. I love their live versions because of audience interaction and they change up the last one.

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Here is a sneak peek of the test - you will fill it out in hard copy during our time together tomorrow :)

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I loved today! I have experience with the Purple Level 1 book, but not the Orange-Red Level 2 book. I had so much fun connecting with everyone over dinner tonight too. Happy studying!

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We chatted about this at dinner. Check out Dr. Barbara Freedman who runs our Electronic Department. You will see Greenwich's part of the doc around the 5 minute mark - but the whole doc is great!

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The Creative Element: Forging a Path in Music Education

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chris_powers@greenwich.k12.ct.us

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I loved having dinner with you all tonight - if you weren't there, you really missed out on some meaningful conversation!

Today I got a peek of what applying these concepts would look like in a high school choir room. I believe someone may find our singers chasing squirrels this year!

I'm also really loving some of the techniques have been learning like Rapid Rules and the tone chart light sabers for reading decode unfamiliar.

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Dinner was lovely! Thank you for hosting Amy!

I didn’t know Johnny Works with One Hammer was a 6/8 song. I learned it somewhere else as a 2/4 song.

I really liked the I’s the By’s game and Let Us Chase the Squirrel. Sometimes I have trouble visualizing the games as written instructions so playing them and the videos are very helpful.

Learning about how lesson planning is incorporated helped. I think I don’t always do the best job of making sure I am preparing past, present, AND future activities.

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Glad to announce my husband's grandmother seems to be doing alright, just a bit confused. Her levels are improving and the doctors are sure she'll recover well! Sorry I missed dinner I hope you all had fun!

Breathe for singing cue already encourages looking at a conductor.

Curwen hand signs are not necessary if your students are truly getting that full ear training before eye, but can be a help for those who need it.

We need a past, present, and future literacy objective.

Doing! Literacy! About! Doing!

Joy of musicing #1 priority.

I am a queen speedwalker and very competitive.

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Folk Dancing serves students best when you wait until 2nd grade (second semester 1st can be acceptable).

Again, don't teach music through theory is a reccuring theme.

Remeber to accomodate writing with visual cues such as manipulatives and boxes.

Remember to keep revisiting 2/4 when working on 6/8 visa-versa.

B is only for unfamiliar.

Literacy (Moderate amount),   Joy / doing music (Large amount),  About Music (Very small amount)

Focus in elementary = joy and literacy

Might be able to find a pay it forward page in our area for neat school supplies (Like light sabers).

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Sight read music on rhythm syllables, then teach the dance —> “I’d the By’s”

Phyllis Weikert —> No folk dances until 2nd grade

Pacing at the secondary level could move very quickly. If you see your kids daily, a unit could be covered in 1 week.

I really loved the improvisation with constraints where 4 fingers were held up, and students had rules they had to follow when improvising 4 consecutive solfège syllables.

It’s so “z-c” to read quarter rests!

Don’t ever forget to be artful! We are all musicians who happen to also be educators. I truly believe our students mirror our artfulness, and it’s so easy to get into the thick of the year and only worry about notes, rhythms, and checking boxes. Artfulness should be evident throughout.

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Series: Conversational Solfege

Description:

Sing in Parts, Volume 2 contains ten more easy-to-read but slightly more challenging folk song arrangements for two- and three-part treble voices with piano accompaniment-perfect as concert pieces for elementary and middle school choirs or for sight-reading practice in the general music classroom.

Each arrangement includes reproducible sheet music, full performance recordings, piano-only accompaniment practice tracks, and rehearsal notes. The songs also coordinate seamlessly with the rhythmic and melodic skills taught in John M. Feierabend's Conversational Solfege Level 3 curriculum but work equally well as standalone collections.

Come read and sing in parts with these delightfully original arrangements!

Repertoire:

1. One Elephant

2. Lavender's Blue

3. Long, Long Ago

4. Haul Away Joe / The Tailor and the Mouse

5. Early One Morning

6. Way Up High

7. Hi-Di-Ho / Higgledy Pig!

8. A Branch of May

9. Waltzing Matilda

10. Yankee Doodle's Noodles

Richard Charlton is an award-winning composer with a varied career as teacher, conductor, performer, and arranger. He was director of music performance for nearly twenty years at Ascham School in Sydney, where he composed and arranged music for all ages. His works are performed by many leading Australian and international players and have been featured on more than thirty commercial CDs.

John M. Feierabend, PhD, has spent decades compiling songs and rhymes from the memories of the American people in hopes that these treasures will be preserved for future generations. He is a leading authority on child development in music and movement and served as Professor and Chair of the Music Education Department of the Hartt School of the University of Hartford.

Hear the music in this resource performed at the 2024 VMEA Elementary Choir Festival. Livestream provided by Gary Lambert and Ken Hypes.

Categories: Children/Youth, Sight-Reading

Number of Pages: 92

Format: Softcover

Discipline: Choir, General Music

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Sing in Parts, Volume 2 | Ten More Easy-to-Read Folk Song Arrangements for Treble Voices by Richard Charlton, John M. Feierabend, Book. Includes reprint rights! Sing in Parts, Volume 2 contains ten more easy-to-read but s...

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Series: Conversational Solfege

Description:

Sing in Parts, Volume 1 contains ten easy-to-read folk song arrangements for two- and three-part treble voices with piano accompaniment-perfect as concert pieces for elementary and middle school choirs or for sight-reading practice in the general music classroom.

Each arrangement includes reproducible sheet music, full performance recordings, piano-only accompaniment practice tracks, and rehearsal notes. The songs also coordinate seamlessly with the rhythmic and melodic skills taught in John M. Feierabend's Conversational Solfege Level 2 curriculum but work equally well as standalone collections.

Come read and sing in parts with these delightfully original arrangements!

Repertoire:

1. Pitter Patter

2. Go to Sleep

3. Rocky Mountain

4. Great Big House

5. Dog Tunes

6. Lonesome Dove

7. A Branch of May

8. The Woodsman's Alphabet Song

9. Lightly Row

10. Wishy, Washy

Andrew Himelick has taught elementary music for thirty years in Carmel, Indiana, and has been an assistant director with the Indianapolis Children's Choir for twenty-four years. He is an Endorsed Teacher Trainer with the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME).

Patrick Fata is a pianist, composer, writer, and educator. He studied piano performance at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rueil-Malmaison in Paris and served on the faculty of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

John M. Feierabend, PhD, has spent decades compiling songs and rhymes from the memories of the American people in hopes that these treasures will be preserved for future generations. He is a leading authority on child development in music and movement and served as Professor and Chair of the Music Education Department of the Hartt School of the University of Hartford.

Hear the music in this resource performed at the 2024 VMEA Elementary Choir Festival. Livestream provided by Gary Lambert and Ken Hypes.

Categories: Children/Youth, Sight-Reading

Number of Pages: 90

Format: Softcover

Discipline: Choir, General Music

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Andrew Himelick, Patrick Fata, John M. Feierabend

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Sing in Parts, Volume 1 | Ten Easy-to-Read Folk Song Arrangements for Treble Voices by Andrew Himelick, Patrick Fata, John M. Feierabend, Book. Includes reprint rights! Sing in Parts, Volume 1 contains ten easy-to-read folk song arrangements...

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1-Page Writing Worksheets (created by John Crever)

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1-Page Writing Worksheets (created by John Crever)

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Instrumental Timbre Preference Test (for my band friends)

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Instrumental Timbre Preference Test (for my band friends)

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Description:

Reduce the dropout rate of beginning band students - improve the performance of beginning band students

This test objectively assists students nine years of age and older in selecting an appropriate brass or woodwind instrument to learn to play. Studies show that students who play instruments that match their timbre preference perform better and have a 50 percent lower dropout rate than students who play instruments not matched to their timbre preference. (See manual and research monograph.)

The Instrument Timbre Preference Test requires less than 30 minutes to administer. Students listen to a CD recording of different sounds and indicate on an answer sheet which ones they prefer. Kit includes 100 answer sheets, CD, scoring masks, class record sheets, and three research monographs. May be machine scored, and GIA Publications, Inc., scoring service is available.

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Reduce the dropout rate of beginning band students - improve the performance of beginning band students This test objectively assists students nine years of age and older in selecting an appropriat...

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I used iDoceo to manage classes. It’s great for seating charts, attendance, managing data, and behavioral notes. Also has a random picker embedded in the program as well as a scheduler.

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The balance is different for elementary/secondary.

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I do not need to explain things so thoroughly

I need to make the beginning FUN (this isnt a warm up/exercise only process)

Using manipulatives and visual cues to see where the beat is will help many learners.

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Kindergarten Books - Supplemental Materials

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Kindergarten Books - Supplemental Materials

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I love these books by Joy Nelson. She was one of my Kodaly level instructors. The Surprise Symphony reminded me of an activity that my kids love from here. She has a lot of awesome things in these books that I still pull from for K-1.

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From Alfred Music Publishing
by Joy Nelson
The Music Effect is an engaging, ready-to-use resource for teachers who want to lead children toward music literacy, as well as lifelong enjoyment and participation in music. Designed for the kindergarten classroom, The Music Effect includes a wealth of energizing and imaginative multi-sensory activities, focusing on increasing students' musical knowledge, skill, and conceptual development. The creative, sequential lesson activities range from easy to challenging and correlate with the National Standards for Music Education.

Lessons include connections to speech, language arts, storytelling, visual arts, creative drama, dance, poetry, science, social studies, math, and nature. Reproducible copy masters enhance the lessons, making it easy to prepare and have students actively engaged in the lesson. Assessment is reinforced through simple and effective charts for measuring students' musical growth and progress. The accompanying audio contains recordings of all the chants, songs, and orchestral pieces included in the lessons and activities.

Book 1 concentrates on beat, soft and loud, tempo, and rests. Book 2 focuses on rhythm patterns, sounds around us, high and low, and melodic patterns. ( Handbook will contain the online access code.)

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Product Detail: Music Effect, The in the MusicK8.com Marketplace, home of music teaching ideas and music teaching resources for kindergarten through grade 8 school music teachers and home schoolers.

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I enjoyed learning about all the new concepts and methods to use in class. Although I will admit I am a little overwhelmed by all of what I am learning because it is a lot of information. I can't wait to reflect on all of this and centering all of these concepts and methods around the music we will use for middle school.

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My key takeaways for the day:

Music aptitude cannot be developed after around 2nd grade. Birth to 7/8 years is so important!

Nothing can replace active music making.

Optimal skill learning tempo for young students is 120-136 BPM.

Even at the high school level, students need to be taught and reminded of the process for notating. Giving them an order (note head, stem, beam) will allow for higher levels of success when notating.

I loved the fly swat game! It’s proof that age is relative. Kids of all ages deserve to have fun when learning.

Child-like v. Childish: Frame activities as child-like and buy in will be easier.

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Wow this padlet is filling up!

I liked seeing the PMMA and learning about testing musical aptitude. I think that could be a really useful tool for tracking student progress!

It was very satisfying to see your rubrics, assessment formats, and see how you really can PROVE that this method works. It's not like you're just a corporate person trying to sell us a book and a program. Thank you for making it real and sharing real data!

I super loved Heel Toe Polka, Old Raggy, Kings and Queens, and the rhythm reading walk today! I think I could use all of those in my class this year!

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My favorites from today:

1. The Heel-Toe! I also loved the incorporation of pop music (Try Everything) with the mvt.

2. The Fly-Swatting rhythm game. I can see my students having so much fun with this.

3. A different way to play "Old Raggy" that won't send students to the nurse :)

4. The Kings/Queens dance!!

5. Creating rhythm patterns with the colored paper in a scattered formation, moving around the room to classical music.

6. Reading rhythms in a circle. Using "no man's land" for creating opportunities.

My attempt to implement CS without any training....I think I was boring myself and the students. I'm loving all the ideas for incorporating games!

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I so appreciate all the resources you are sharing with us Chris and everyone else! And this course is a GREAT refresher for me. We are so very blessed to have this training right here in Bryant and Kudos to Delynne and Tanner for making it happen.

I am excited to get back to school and really dig in with my students in making music and learning the language of music. Honestly, I believe that we have the FUNNEST job in the entire school. I'm looking forward to digging into the database that Chris shared tonight.

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I enjoyed getting to eat lunch with you all today! I’m looking forward to tomorrow night!

Sing for them, not with them. This is something I struggle with and the next thing I know I have a whole section of my choir dependent on my voice. I would like to commit to working on this and I hope my co-teacher will hold me accountable!

I loved the differentiation between child-ish and child-like. This summer, I watched an auditorium full of high schoolers sing along to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I strive to have a learning environment that even my high school singers feel comfortable and empowered to be child-like!

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Effortless Assimilation. I forgot that phrase from before and if you work the program, it is exactly that.

Just because you aren't explicitly teaching a unit doesn't mean you don't expose students to the material. Fill the pot whenever possible.

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14 reactions | Looking forward to FAMECON24 in July. A favorite moment from a #FAMECON that I return to again and again is when Robin Chenot and Chris Powers break out with this improv with Humpty Dumpty in Conversational Solfege Games and Techniques. #FAMECON24 #MusicEducation | John Crever | John Crever · Original audio

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Resource: Teaching Kids to Sing - Kenneth H. Phillips

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Resource: Teaching Kids to Sing - Kenneth H. Phillips

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This is a book my Elementary Music Professor swears by. It is a great resource on teaching the young voice and developing it along with FSIM and CS for vocal, ear, and musical development!

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Loved our day today! I learned a lot about Conversational Solfege and its applicability to the primary and secondary age levels. The amount of resources and databases we learned was AMAZING! I definitely will be utilizing the Feierabend Repertoire Database in my future classroom (elementary and middle school). I'm loving the amount of instructional tools and games I learned today are irreplaceable. Always incorporate Unit 4 when doing Units 1 & 2. Yay!

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I really need to go back and mark in where I am saving some songs for unfamiliar rep.

I feel a lot better about assessment, seeing how another and how often a teacher is assessing in their room. I used to worry I wasn’t giving enough time for formal assessment.

I think sometimes I get so bogged down in “getting the work done” with literacy, that I forget I can add the simple techniques instead of a whole game. #programtime

I think the rhythm walk was one of my favorite things today.

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Hambone Brothers

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Unit 2 Step 7

Visual for Masterwork Connection

Vocab: retrograde

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J.S. Bach - Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip

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Link to Level 1 CS Audio - CD & MP3 Options

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Link to Level 1 CS Audio - CD & MP3 Options

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Description:

Conversational Solfege is a dynamic and captivating first-through-eighth grade general music program that enables students to become independent musical thinkers with the help of a rich variety of folk and classical music. It is organized around increasingly complex rhythmic and melodic content. Each new rhythmic or melodic element is discovered first in patterns and then reinforced with folk songs, rhymes, and classical examples.

Central to the Conversational Solfege program is the use of music harvested from our rich and diverse American musical history. This variety of music serves as a common thread that spans and bonds generations. Each book contains varied song material so the teacher can select appropriate music for the lower grades or older beginners. This 12-step teaching method carefully brings students from readiness to, ultimately, creating music through inner hearing and then transferring their musical thoughts into notation-in other words, to compose music!

This CD provides 29 classical selections referenced in Conversational Solfege Level 1.

These examples provide reinforcement for emerging literacy skills, and they also enable students to listen to wonderful classical examples with greater attention.

Listening to classical music can be challenging for elementary students. With nothing to hang onto, the many notes can be too much to comprehend and attention soon wanes. But with minimal literacy skills, students will have enough musical information to discover that classical music can be accessible and appealing.

In the included booklet, timings are given for each selection and the portions of the music that are readable by the students are reproduced. Click HERE to download the booklet for free.

Whether using this CD with Conversational Solfege instructional materials or simply as a resource of classical music with simple to read rhythmic and melodic material, both teachers and students will delight in discovering this wonderful music through literacy.

This series is a complete, innovative approach to teaching music that will stay fresh year after year.

Contents:

1. Accompaniment for rhythm chanting in 2/4 meter * Johann Sebastian Bach * Suite in g minor, Allemande 2. Accompaniment for rhythm chanting in 2/4 meter * Camille Saint-Saëns * Carnival of the Animals, Finale 3. Accompaniment for rhythm chanting 6/8 meter * Ottorino Respighi * Ancient Airs and Dances, Saltarello e Canario 4. Accompaniment for rhythm chanting in 6/8 meter * Johann Sebastian Bach * Suite in g minor, Prelude

Conversational Solfege Unit 1: 5. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky * The Crane 6. Camille Saint-Saëns * Turtles from Carnival of the Animals; 7. Jacques Offenbach * Can-Can

Conversational Solfege Unit 2: 8. Johann Strauss * Kaiser Waltz (excerpt); 9. Johann Strauss * Roses from the South (excerpt); 10. Ludwig van Beethoven * Symphony # 5, 3rd Movement (excerpt); 11. Franz Schubert * March; 12. Maurice Ravel * Boléro Ostinato

Conversational Solfege Unit 3: 13. Paul Dukas * The Sorcerer's Apprentice (excerpt) 14. Ferde Grofé * On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite (excerpt); 15. Léo Delibes * Notturno

Conversational Solfege Unit 4: 16. Georges Bizet * The Carillon Ostinato from L'Arlésienne Suite

John M. Feierabend is Professor Emeritus and former Director of Music Education at The Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, Connecticut.

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But DON'T buy her a coffee..........

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Mrs. Powers Music Room is Creating fun activities for the music room!

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I'm Chris Anne Powers I have dedicated nearly three decades of my life to teaching music! From the littles in Kindergarten to graduate-level college students, I have shared my love of music with all

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Use for writing and practicing notes. You can screen shot and have them add the picture to google classroom.

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Selmer Music Guidance Survey - Student Music Aptitude Test - Nottelmann Music Company

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The Selmer Music Guidance Survey student aptitude test is no longer in print, but below are all of the elements a music educator needs to administer the test. Print out the Student Sheet, play each of the four parts recorded below, and use the answer key to grade the completed Student Sheets.

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Same story, second verse.

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Activities to be used with Conversational Solfege

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I'll say this - I was never a huge fan of music history. I struggled through it. But I really enjoyed the history lesson yesterday!

I love the encouragement of lifelong musicality - being tuneful, beatful, and artful past high school.

I've done some rote teaching in my day. I've used some of similar techniques. I love the idea of giving the singers something to do while they are listening.

I'm excited to see our elementary music teachers in a united front and excited to be teaching a common curriculum that encourages singers to move and not stare at a computer screen.

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You have to have the link since it isn’t public, but here are all my videos for FSIM. Many Move-its are here also. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKZaWw20retwPTwU-cOfT2zg9bpCPT_nU&si=kDOq3uYg3B9JfaCF

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Activities to be used with the First Steps curriculum

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Students must be Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful before you can start Conversational Solfege.

Sheet music is notation, not music.

I was surprised with how much I remembered from the music history of today, but there was also a bunch of new information I didn't know.

Repetition is key! The 12 steps basically have built in repetition.

I'm excited to look at Level 3 for high school!

Our district's elementary music specialists are the backbone of our fine arts programs. I'm so grateful to be here with them and learning the language of conversational solfege so we may carry the baton when the students get to secondary!

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Welcome

Fun, life affirming music

I heard this CD while substitute teaching at a private school. This is really fun, life affirming music. Thanks!

Norm Milstein, Richmond, CA

Easy to teach

I am a fairly new music teacher with virtually no experience with dance and I found the dances in the book to be easy to teach (even for someone uncoordinated like me!) and the kids loved them! Watching the DVD was very helpful for me to learn tips to teach the dance steps to the children. Thanks again for a truly wonderful resource for the elementary school music teacher.

Mara Barker, Music Specialist
Joyner Elementary School
Greensboro, NC

2017-10-09T16:50:45-05:00

Mara Barker, Music Specialist
Joyner Elementary School
Greensboro, NC

I am a fairly new music teacher with virtually no experience with dance and I found the dances in the book to be easy to teach (even for someone uncoordinated like me!) and the kids loved them! Watching the DVD was very helpful for me to learn tips to teach the dance steps to the children. Thanks again for a truly wonderful resource for the elementary school music teacher.

Students loving every minute of class

I am currently doing a dance unit with my 2nd and 3rd grade students, and they are loving every minute of class. We have just begun, and . . . I am amazed at how quickly these students are picking this up. Their classroom teachers are equally amazed.
Keep up the great work you are doing.

Keith L. Hetzel, West Allis, WI.

2017-10-09T16:55:05-05:00

Keith L. Hetzel, West Allis, WI.

I am currently doing a dance unit with my 2nd and 3rd grade students, and they are loving every minute of class. We have just begun, and . . . I am amazed at how quickly these students are picking this up. Their classroom teachers are equally amazed. Keep up the great work you are doing.

Parents and kids dancing and laughing together

I am an elementary music teacher who just finished a PTA program using three of your dances from Chimes of Dunkirk. Over 150 parents and kids dancing and laughing together. Wow! This may become an annual tradition. Thanks for producing such wonderful material.

Mark Montgomery, Columbus, GA

Changed my teaching approach to dancing

Thank you for all of your books and CD companions. They have absolutely changed my teaching approach to dancing. I especially love the new Assembly CD. My students are loving all of the music on the CD, especially since it has a modern feel.
Thanks again for such a positive influence on my school!

Andrea Hasley, Music Teacher
Opequon Elementary School, Martinsburg WV

2017-10-09T17:00:11-05:00

Andrea Hasley, Music Teacher
Opequon Elementary School, Martinsburg WV

Thank you for all of your books and CD companions. They have absolutely changed my teaching approach to dancing. I especially love the new Assembly CD. My students are loving all of the music on the CD, especially since it has a modern feel. Thanks again for such a positive influence on my school!

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Welcome I heard this CD while substitute teaching at a private school. This is really fun, life affirming music. Thanks! Norm Milstein, Richmond, CA I am a fairly new music teacher with virtually no experience with dance and I found the dances in the book to be easy to teach (even for someone uncoordinated like me!)

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Don't be a one buttock musician!

Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining?

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-Understanding how little time the elementary teachers have with every student has really fired me up! And it allows me to further appreciate and use every second I have with my students.

-Students singing in class every day is very important.

-I appreciate the music history refresher, because if we understand the past, we can understand where we want to take our students in the future.

-Sequencing is very important and is something we are working on in the middle school band department. This continues to support what we have known is key to student success.

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CS Unit Selection Template Helpful Hints

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CS Unit Selection Template Helpful Hints

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CS Unit Template - Google Friendly & Editable (make a copy!)

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CS Unit Template - Google Friendly & Editable (make a copy!)

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We chatted a little about combining units today. A couple years ago Delynne and I did some work going in that direction. Here's what we have at the moment. I haven't fully implemented this but have used some of it.

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Song list for planning concurrent rhythm_tonal units

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Wow!! I am in so much awe of the elementary world! I love that Bryant School District is adopting CS and hopefully FISM. I didn’t realize the applicability of CS to the secondary level, which is something I learned today. The Pedagogy/History was my favorite part of learning, as I am fascinated with the why: why is music important to the schools? Why should we as a school district support music? They are valid questions that, unfortunately, are being asked and pondered in other states that do not value a well-rounded music education. Something I’ve noticed is the increased use of passive music education (i.e. Quaver-only classrooms). So glad to see so much active and fun music making in Bryant! Looking forward to bringing my knowledge learned to Baylor in the fall!

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My reflection from today - I am so very excited to have this training for our teachers here in Bryant. When I found John Feierabend's work about 10 or so years ago, I knew I had found a curriculum that was truly the best for students. Backed by research, igniting the imagination and allowing students to be a part of musicing makes for the best musical environment. I had taught students "about music" for a long time whereas FSIM & CS is doing music. The beautiful thing about CS is that students learn the language of music in the same manner that they naturally learn language itself. I hope that all our teachers in Bryant will embrace what we are learning. Let's all drink the kool-aid cause it's not just fluffy. This is the BEST for our students because it truly allows them to be a part of music and dig deep into understanding it. Though this material is a review for me, I know I will learn new things and new ways to do it even better!

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TUNEFUL: Sing Me Another (Feierabend - Book of Canons)

BEATFUL: Kings & Queens (NEDM - Alabama Gal)

ARTFUL: Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty (Move It! DVD)

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Description:

Two aptitude tests designed to diagnose and measure music potential:

* The only brief, longitudinally valid music aptitude tests for Grades K-6.
* Crucial in helping music teachers adapt instruction to the individual musical needs of their students.
* Requires no reading or music skills. The administration time is at most two 20-minute periods.

Both tests have a similar design. The "Primary" test is recommended for use with younger children (K-3). The "Intermediate" test is recommended for older children or younger children who find the "Primary" test too simple.

Test materials and how they work:

1. Children take the test by simply listening to a tonal CD and a rhythm CD. Each CD is only 12 minutes in duration.

2. Questions on the tape are identified on the answer sheet by pictures, not numbers or words. The children must decide whether pairs of tonal or rhythm patterns they hear sound the same or different. They indicate their choice by simply drawing a circle around the picture on the answer sheet. These tests require no reading skills.

3. The answer sheets can be corrected quickly by using scoring masks. Raw scores are directly converted to percentile ranks in the manual.

4. A profile card is used for each child for individual documentation and the interpretation of scores. The tonal and rhythm results are graphically compared for each child.

5. A class record sheet helps interpret the test scores for the entire class.

6. The manual gives complete information for administering, scoring, and interpreting test results. The manual also makes suggestions for formal and informal music instruction, and includes a discussion on the nature and description of music aptitude, as well as a comprehensive bibliography.

Complete kit includes: 100 rhythm answer sheets, 100 tonal answer sheets, CD with tonal and rhythm tests, introduction to testing booklet and two research monographs, one set of scoring masks, manual, 100 student profile cards, and four class record sheets. Items also available separately.

Categories: Assessment/Testing, Children/Youth

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primary measures of music audiation - complete kit

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Primary Measures of Music Audiation - Complete Kit

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Primary Measures of Music Audiation - Complete Kit | K-Grade 3 by Edwin E. Gordon, Instrument/Accessory. Two aptitude tests designed to diagnose and measure music potential: * The only brief, longitudin...

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1. I enjoyed the music history refresher today! More importantly, all the history I learned today really helped me to see how music education has developed to best meet the needs of students from so many different countries!

2. I loved the sequencing for learning "Bate Bate Chocolate" while playing a game. I can't wait to try it with my own students.

3. 'If children were only allowed to speak once a week, they would never learn to speak or write.' - really resonated with me!

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Miss White as a four corner game will be perfect to add to the “morning movement” I will teach this year four days a week for October.

I love the history of the methodologies and pedagogies. It makes me want to dive back into The Tuneful, Beatful, Artful Music Teacher podcast and her fabulous interviews.

Kodaly and Bartok going out into Hungary to record folk songs always makes me think of The Carter Family. A.P. Carter did the same thing in the Appalachian mountains but for the purpose of his family band having material to record.

Bate Bate can be played as a clapping game as well. In first grade, I teach it with just a 2 part pattern, lap/together, and then hands together on “uno, dos, tres”. When they spell Chocolate, they clap their partner’s hands. For 2nd grade, I make the pattern harder by going “lap/together/out/together”.

I wish we could start music lessons in pre-k and have local baby classes. The kids really do come to us “musically starved” for the most part in this age of “music consumerism”.

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Podcast episode about teaching Tonal & Rhythm units simultaneously

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Podcast episode about teaching Tonal & Rhythm units simultaneously

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:29 - 101.6MB)

FAME Endorsed Teacher Trainer Chris Anne Powers outlines how she and her district colleagues successfully combine rhythm and tonal units of Conversational Solfege starting in 2nd grade.

The post Conversational Solfege: Teaching tonal and rhythm units simultaneously | S1E07 appeared first on Feierabend Association for Music Education | A tuneful, beatful, artful learning community.

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Conversational Solfege: Teaching tonal and rhythm units simultaneously | S1E07

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:29 - 101.6MB) FAME Endorsed Teacher Trainer Chris Anne Powers outlines how she and her district colleagues successfully combine rhythm and tonal units of Conversational Solfege starting in 2nd grade.

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You can print this out and add it to the Unit 1 section of Book 1

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Greenwich Public Schools Scope & Sequence

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Greenwich Public Schools Scope & Sequence

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GPS Grade Level Tonal & Rhythm Skills (1)

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Worth the 30 minutes!

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Everyone is Tuneful, Beatful, and Artful, they just don't know it yet!

Our job is to awaken the possibility of music making potential in our students.

I enjoyed learning the history and origins of FSIM and CS.

HUGE importance of using songs & sequencing as related to our "mother tongue" and country.

I'm going to be looking for that super valuable book of singing games at every thrift store I go to!!!

I'm sorry we didn't all get to spend time together with the teas! I didn't know there weren't any seats in there! But my sweet coconut and strawberry passion tea hit the spotttttt. 10/10

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1. "Put up the flag pole."--A cooler way to say "raise your hand if you need a partner."

2. Definitions: "Notation" vs. "Music."

3. Playing "Closet Key" REVERSE style--brilliant for students singing more musically. Instead of getting louder (and risk of yelling...), students get softer when closer to the key.

4. Using the 4 Corners elimination style to play a game, while getting those reps in.

5. Game for "Bate Bate Chocolate." Many of us use this during Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15), but how fun to add a game!

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I learned Conversational Solfege is a 12 step method of music literacy. Unit 1 should begin each school year regardless of students grade level. As students progress through this system, the beginning units can be used as a review which will allow students to progress through the more challenging units of study.

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Kodaly - You must teach your children the way children are in your country.

If children were allowed to speak only once or twice a week, they never would learn to speak, read, or write.

Loved the addition of Bate, Bate to CS!

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Dinner at my house on Wednesday, 5:30 pm

1155 Smokey Ridge Rd Benton, AR 72109

Menu - Barbeque chicken

Reply back with what you want to bring!

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If you can read musical notes, you can sing any song or play any piece. But musical notes have not always been here. Long ago, songs were memorized. If songs were forgotten, they were lost forever.
Thanks to one man, Guido d'Arezzo, music now can last forever.

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Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo

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If you can read musical notes, you can sing any song or play any piece. But musical notes have not always been here. Long ago, songs were memorized. If songs were forgotten, they were lost forever. Thanks to one man, Guido d'Arezzo, music now can last forever.

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WELCOME!  My posts will be in green so you can find them easily :)

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WELCOME!  My posts will be in green so you can find them easily :)

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TUNEFUL: Morning Is Come (Feierabend - Book of Canons)

BEATFUL: Sasha (NEDM - Alabama Gal)

ARTFUL: Schumann - Kinderszenen, Op. 15 (Feierabend - Move It DVD)

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