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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">This is a quick card game that I learned from a high school maths teacher. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">So much fun - fill in activity - maybe played backstage to help occupy waiting performing groups as it can be relatively quiet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I thought I would give it a music twist.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">Give it a go and let me know if you like it, or what variations you create.</span></span></div>
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questions to one student at a time, each time drawing a card after they have
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The winners are the students left standing - the ones that have guessed all four questions correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Fire</b> or <b>Smoke</b> (red or black card) Sing the word fire to a given melody, eg dms
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hello,"
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Yes," said
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<em><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So they walked along
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This fabulous little rhyme is lots of fun for your young students. I begin with using index fingers to represent the tortoises as they walk along and talk. You can give one tortoise a 'high' voice and one a 'low' voice if you want to practice those comparatives. For a bit more interest, you can introduce a manipulative. Print these little guys on green cardboard, cut them out and laminate them for durability. Then sticky tape of hot glue gun them to paddle pop sticks. Each student can have two to dramatise the rhyme, or they can sit in pairs and have one tortoise each.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bernadette
is a music teacher from California who moved to Okinawa, Japan in 2014.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When
Bernadette moved to Okinawa and began working with Japanese students, she
realized that they were very enthusiastic about music, but their English
language skills were very limited. This was affecting the students’ ability to
receive music instruction. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
students Bernadette left behind in California also contacted her asking if they
could continue learning from her somehow. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">With
this in mind, Bernadette had to find a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">very
simple and digital </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">way to teach music to her new English
Learners and her former students. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i>This is why Bernadette created the YouTube channel, Bernadette Teaches Music.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In
this channel, Bernadette has created a library of YouTube videos, most of which
are under 3 minutes long, where she focuses on ONE concept at a time. There are
even videos for teachers who need help setting up and maintaining an ukulele
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Facebook Like Page: <u><a href="http://www.facebook.com/bernadetteteachesmusic">www.facebook.com/bernadetteteachesmusic</a></u></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Teachers: <u><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Bernadette-Teaches-Music">www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Bernadette-Teaches-Music</a></u></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/plazi/">https://www.instagram.com/plazi/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Twitter: <u><a href="http://www.twitter.com/plazi">www.twitter.com/plazi</a> </u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">YouTube Channel: <u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/bernadetteteachesmusic">www.youtube.com/bernadetteteachesmusic</a></u></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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beginning recorder and I wanted to spend time playing our first note and
focusing on tone, but I also wanted to make it creative and interesting.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I witnessed some great learning, creating and discussing.</span></div>
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rhythmic elements<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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eight beat rhythmic pattern on the board.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clapped the rhythmic pattern we
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I played the rhythm on the
recorder on one note, G. <b>G WHIZ</b>, we created a piece of music. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The whole class payed the rhythm on G focusing on tonguing and lovely tone. </span></li>
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pattern with a partner using paddle pop sticks. (I LOVE my paddle pop sticks!)</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another great outcome from the activity was</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the fabulous discussions. I heard students working on playing together, how they would count in, where they made errors, which parts they wanted to change and why and what they liked about the compositions of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why not make the most of this craze that is still lingering? Even my sons, at 19 and 23, still occasionally get on and play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These three Minecraft hidden pictures
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Included is a special blank grid for your
students to create their own Minecraft picture!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So easy to use. The
students identify and shade just one note in the grid lines – voila – a
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great for sub tubs, early finishers, to
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I gave them out this year to my choir students and they were delighted. I was a bit worried about giving them something so 'old school' in our digital age, but they seriously were chuffed to receive this little memento of our year together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided to use the new bookmarks from Crescendo Music Education. (Why not use my own products?) There are two sets, one is free - so go for it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I then created a simple message in a shape in a word document, using a colour I liked - a nice gradient blue. I made it</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just the right size to go in the middle of the back of the bookmark, and had several to a page. A bit more therapeutic cutting...</span></div>
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