Hump Day Hilarity
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Five Favorite Pins of December
Hard to pick only 5. I can get lost for hours in Pinterest (If I let myself!)
Here I go:
1. I have to start with funny ones. Humour helps me cope with my job - in fact with life in general.
You can download this set for free on my web site: HERE
or on TpT: HERE
2. A pin that leads you to a board full of music education ideas.
3. Wishful thinking Pin. I wish I had time to make things like this - for now I content myself with pinning the picture and hoping one day I will have the time to make them, and things like them.
4. A lovely gift idea for parents of young ones!
5. And the final pick is one that reminds me of what I have always said about my own learning journey. The more I know, the more I realise that I don't know!
When I started this post, I thought it would all be about teaching ideas, but it became more philosophical. Nothing wrong with a bit of self reflection I say.
Happy Holidays everyone - and hopefully you can find a little time to relax and maybe even reflect upon what is important to you, personally and professionally.
Monday, December 7, 2015
High/Low Contour Flashcards
This is from a set downloadable for Crescendo members HERE . I have a copy printed in colour and laminated, but I also use them on the data projector. We can sing through them as a group, half class, individual, play them on two chime bars, on two boomwhackers…all part of the steps to teach reading writing and understanding high and low notes a minor third apart.Sunday, December 6, 2015
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Saturday, August 15, 2015
Take a Song
Chicken in a Fence Post
The key to a good teaching is a solid
core of a sequential list of elements and good pedagogical practices. For me
that is definitely a teaching sequence based on hear, feel, see and write where
concepts are prepared, named and then practiced. Here, I will focus on the practicing of elements through the
use of just one song.
2. Sing in Solfa
3. Sing in Rhythm Names
4. Sing with text, solfa and rhythm names (Switcheroo)
5. Create New Words – keeping as close as possible to the rhythmic pattern.
Here are
some ideas....
- Music teacher stressing can’t sleep at all x3 Time to have a holiday!
- Marsha, Jan and Cindy, Bobby , Peter x3 Greg and Alice, Mum and Dad
7.
Missing notes
8. Find
the mistakes
9.
Play on boomwhackers
10.
Play on tuned percussion
11.
Create rhythmic ostinati
12.
Create melodic ostinati
13.
Create arrangement
14.
Aural Analysis - questions like...
What is the metre? How many beats in the song? how many phrases? How many different notes? What notes do you hear? What is the final note? what is the starting note?...
15. Written Analysis - instructions and questions like...
Circle the time signature. How many bars? Find the double bar line? Circle two notes that are next to each other and a major second apart. Are there any bars that are the same?...
16. Writing – the rhythm
17. Writing – the solfa under the rhythm
18. Writing – the song on the staff
19. Writing – transposing from one position on the staff to another
20. Writing – the stems onto the note heads on the staff
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
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