Here is the recorder anchor chart I made today. As we start Recorder Karate, these are things that students will need to master. Eventually, all of these things will be automatic for them! If not, they will always have this to refer to! Hooray for anchor charts!
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Buckle your seat belts! This week, 4th graders started Recorder Karate! This is the 11th year I have taught this method and I love it more each year.
I will get into more detail about how I teach it and what the students are working on throughout the year, but I thought I'd show the snazzy bulletin board that I made to track their progress. Kids like to practice and test during their recess time, so I always post the music and a fingering chart on the wall. This year, I also included the recorder graphs from the Rhythm and Glues blog to track each class' progress and encourage a little positive peer pressure. :) More to come! Want an easy lesson idea that incorporates singing a major scale using solfege? Here it is! Last week, 3rd graders learned the song, "Over the River and Through the Wood." We set up the hand chimes in a C major scale matching the pitch syllables on our music rug (one of the reasons I LOVE our rug!). Students sang a descending scale to create harmony and also added the chimes. The pattern goes like THIS: Do' Ti La So Fa Mi Re Re Do' Ti La So Fa Mi Re Do Fun and reinforces the standards. SCORE! If you don't have fancy hand chimes like the ones in the picture (ours are Schulmerich) you can use regular tone chimes, melody bells or even your Orff instruments. Our second graders just began learning the songs for their grade level program, "It's a Jungle Out There!". The students are excited and so am I! Here is a description of the show from the publisher: King Leo is a victim of the corporate jungle! He has money, power, and fame, but he still has not found happiness. His trusty servants, Spot and Stripes, ever loyal to the King, begin a quest for the key to happiness. Do the monkeys have the answer? Or maybe the hyenas? Perhaps the secret lies with the elephants. Who knows? This heartwarming musical play will help your students see that the true meaning of happiness is not money, power and fame, but treasured friendships and life's simple pleasures. I love how the musical ties in with our school's emphasis on character. It is sure to be an experience the students will remember for a lifetime! The show will take place on Thursday, January 31st at 7:00 pm in the NPE gym. Hope to see you there! Anchor charts in music class? Why not? The challenge is having multiple classes contributing to them on different days. Solution? I had several classes list characteristics that we had learned about folk songs we were singing. We put that list on the white board and I took a picture after each class. That way, the board was fresh for new ideas and thinking the next day. I consolidated the info and pared it down and it became what you see in this picture...a completed anchor chart about folk music that I can have students refer to when we categorize songs that we work on in class. If you teach many, many classes like I do and still want an "authentic" anchor chart (not just one you devise on your own without student input) I would urge you to try this method! Then let me know how it goes! :) Also, be sure to check out my friend Mark's blog post on anchor charts! His are so nice and neat! |
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