What's New in Musicplay with Denise Gagne

MusicplayOnline

Song List

• Lollipop Tree Mini Book has been updated with a new style
• Noche Bueno - Grade 3
  • New kids demo uploaded
• Shine a Light for Peace - Grade 4
  • New kids demo uploaded

Our kids had way too much screen time during lockdowns, and we are still seeing the effects. How do we keep children's attention in a classroom, when they are used to watching 6 second TikTok videos? Even Disney movies are moving at a pace that's much greater than they used to.  In this newsletter, I'm going to begin a discussion on increasing engagement in your music classes. This is too large a topic for just one newsletter, but this is very necessary for our tired, hard-working, dedicated music teachers.

MusicplayOnline

Features:

• Search now includes documents (e.g.: search for solfa worksheets)
  • These documents are downloadable as PDFs or you can print from the website
• PDFs can be added to a "My List"
  
  • The "+ Add to My List" button is on the bottom right of the documents

Units:

• Alphabet Songs and Activities
  • Long Vowels videos and concept slides have been added to the unit
  • Concept Slides from Alphabet Songs have been linked in the unit
• Musicplay Madness 2023
  • New unit added to MusicplayOnline
  • Uploaded pre-made bracket for class use, which coincides with the Musicplay Madness 2023 song selections 
  • Uploaded blank template bracket for class use

Song List:

• Updated "The Old Gray Cat" Illustrated Minibook
• Uploaded Canadian and American coin word rhythms
  • Linked to Shiny Penny
  • Linked to Johnny Lost a Quarter

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Units:

• Peter and the Wolf:
  • Updated Peter and the Wolf Minibook

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Units:

• Programs:
  • Added Friends Forever, A Musical Revue
  • Added Composing America, A Musical Revue 
• Listening Units:
  • Added Level 1 Worksheets to Rossini's Ghost
• Theory:
  • Added custom word rhythm tool to Composition Unit

Song List:

• Chumbara
  • Added word randomizer tool to Interactives

MusicplayOnline

• Song List
  • Added Kids Demo to "Take My Little Car"
  • Added Kids Demo to "Tommy Thumb"
• Black History Month
  • Added concept slides for Back American Musicians and Composers, with links to Safeshare and Youtube
• Our Musical World
  • Added "Notre monde musical - Livret passeport" (Our Musical World Passport Minibook) to extra resources in each country unit
• Lesson Planning
  • Added "I Can Statement" flashcards for Kindergarten through Grade 5 to Lesson Planning Overview
• Solfa Practice
  • Added Echo Sing activities to Level 8 (drm sl d')

A teacher in the Musicplay Teachers Group on Facebook asked what I thought was a great question.  Why teach solfege?