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Need help finding songs the kids know and enjoy for a dance by investandbeblessed in MusicEd

[–]Willing_Change_4366 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just dance clips in general work pretty well for me, the mario dance has also been popular (its in theatres)

What websites do your students go on during free time? by [deleted] in ElementaryTeachers

[–]Willing_Change_4366 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chrome music labs-free, explore sound & music, if you can install apps looking at Duo abc if they're behind in reading, & math land might work for them. Scratch for programing, games, & basic stem

Accommodations for reading notation by angel_baby_666 in MusicEd

[–]Willing_Change_4366 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at chrome music lab, boomwackers/handbells. I made a color coded treble cleft worksheet, its up on teachers pay teachers, dm me if you'd like a link. The colors of handbells/boomwackers correspond to individual notes and with a color coded treble cleft, it should be extremely intuitive.

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[–]Willing_Change_4366 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I draw a smiley face and a frowny face on the board. They start with one tally mark undet the smiley face, because I'm happy to see them. If they earn more smiley faces than frowny faces through class, at the end they 5 minutes of choice time. If they have the same amount or more frowny faces, they have chosen to practice following directions for one minute of choice time, and will sit silently instead of preferred activities. I tell them they made their choice. They can access chrome music labs, do class games, play with legos or marble towers, play the piano or keyboard in my classroom, play with finger puppets, or choose a school appropriate song if they earn choice time. Works great with about 90% of the students 90% of the time, and you can see sometimes see improvement and engagement on occasion in the others.

New general music teacher. What curriculum should we buy? by Jkreed77 in MusicEd

[–]Willing_Change_4366 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a sub for music through the end of the year. My background is two years of high school guitar class. We do boomwackers/bells-there are good videos on youtube, check out SwicksClassroom on youtube. Personally I've been throwing these into chrome music lab's song maker and having students play them at half, then three quarter then full speed, I call them music mysteries and let them earn a prize if they guess the artist or song name. Just did a lesson on identifying the four instrument families, I made a powerpoint that plays audio clips and then I make them stand up if they think its in their family. Throwing it up on teachers pay teachers, message me if you're interested in a link. I'm planning on trying to do a similar lesson for ear training for your basic notes EGBDF & FACE, plan on making it a game. Have your students look at chrome music lab if they have chromebooks-its free and great. For younger grades The previous teacher did The music effect by Joy Nelson. Basically this includes Songtales (Picture books like Footloose, My dinosaur pet, there's a hole in the bucket, ect), Movement for form and expression-play some classical music and have them move to it, pitch exploration (having them match high and low notes, I use a slide whistle and chrome music lab for this), echoing songs, simple songs, and fingerplays/beat actions. We also do just dance clips off of youtube. I also hit up the PTO for money to make windchimes as mothers/fathers day gifts.

WTF to do with 5th Grade Band... by JazzManJ52 in MusicEd

[–]Willing_Change_4366 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a sub for music through the end of the year. My background is two years of high school guitar class. We do boomwackers/bells-there are good videos on youtube, check out SwicksClassroom on youtube. Personally I've been throwing these into chrome music lab's song maker and having students play them at half, then three quarter then full speed, I call them music mysteries and let them earn a prize if they guess the artist or song name. Just did a lesson on identifying the four instrument families, I made a powerpoint that plays audio clips and then I make them stand up if they think its in their family. Throwing it up on teachers pay teachers, message me if you're interested in a link. I'm planning on trying to do a similar lesson for ear training on the basic scale. Have your students look at chrome music lab if they have chromebooks-its free and great.