Teaching With Musicplay

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Report Card Comments

Some or our American teachers will be finishing school this week, but for many teachers you are into the home stretch and looking forward to the end of the school year. Report cards are not anyone's favorite job, but it's important to communicate how the students have progressed in music. If we don't assess, evaluate and report on what we've taught, it's possible that parents will look at music as a "frill" or "something extra" that we do if we have time, and not as a subject area that's really valuable to our students.

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Ideas for Earth Day

There are songs for Earth Day in all levels of Musicplay.
Musicplay K - #137 We've Got the Whole World
Musicplay 1 - #92 Let's Save Water
Musicplay 2 - #74 Garbage, #77 Recyle, and #29 Make a Difference
Musicplay 3 - #78 Walk, Run, Ride a Bike
Musicplay 4 - #73 Plant a Tree and #72 We've Only Got One Planet
Musicplay 5 - #81 Show you Care

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More Composition Ideas

Creating a Rondo

Why is teaching music so important for the students in our elementary schools? One of the reasons (and there are many!) is that we can help students develop creative thinking in our music classes.

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Tennis Ball Fun

Tennis Ball Fun and Relative Note Values
Create a chart that includes a whole note, two half notes, four quarters and 8 eighth notes. This activity is from the resource, Rhythm Instrument Fun.

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