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Looking to add fun to your chorus classroom? Adding choir games is the answer to motivate your students.
I am happy to report that I am typing this post from my big, cozy orange chair at HOME, enjoying my first official day of summer! Before I get to the "meat and potatoes" of my post, I want to take a quick moment to celebrate the work we do as Kodály educators. I have now had the chance to work in several buildings where I was the first teacher to use the Kodály method of instruction and the folk literature that accompanies it and, after finishing my first year in a new building, I can say with certainty that it is amazing! I heard parents comment all year with statements like, "Sarah won't stop singing at home" and "Drew can't wait to find out what the next rhythm you will be learning is!" I listened as students told me about how they taught their brothers and sisters at home the songs we learned in music. I saw kids playing music games on the playground and at girl scouts, watched as kids connected the dots of music literacy, and experienced the joy that comes from singing and playing together. Aileen posted about the upcoming opportunities for taking your Levels classes here. If you haven't already completed your levels, I can't recommend it highly enough! Okay...back to business. After reading Karla's last post, I was inspired to take a minute (well, many minutes) and reflect on my school year. As I tried to brainstorm what I could post about that would be helpful during this time of year, I decided to share some of my favorite choir pieces from this past year for you to consider as you plan for your concerts in the upcoming year! I would describe myself as a "Children's Choir Fanatic." I just love the sound of children singing together! I have directed children's choirs for the Denver-based Young Voices for Peace, the Spokane Area Youth Choirs and currently serve as the Preparatory Choir Director for the Boulder Children's Chorale. When it comes time to choose repertoire, I spend hours and hours wading through piles of octavos and playing through piece after piece. I often find it helpful to keep a running list of possible song ideas and use a concert planner, because it can become overwhelming to keep track of all the music that is available! I have a sample concert planner that you can download for free here and I'm working on a new and improved one that will be available soon! This year, I conducted a few of "tried and true" favorites and found some new gems, too! I hope you will find one or two new ideas or at least be reminded of an old favorite that you can use in the future! I have posted the links to the scores below, but I always encourage people to search YouTube if you want to hear a full recording! For Unison Choirs 1. Path to the Moon by Eric Thiman I consider this a must have for every children's choir library. Beautiful melodies, beautiful poetry, and great opportunities to teach breath control, phrasing, and dynamics. 2. The Little Birch Tree arr. Mary Goetze* This is based on the traditional folk song, which is a great way to make a connection to your classroom teaching. I also love to draw the connection between this melody and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. Great for teaching vowels (especially oo), dynamics, and phrasing. *Mary Goetze has a wonderful collection of folk song octavos for children's choirs. Some of my other favorite titles by her are Piglet's Christmas and Fire. You can see some of her other titles here. 3. Wee Little Piute arr. Heirholzer I taught this song for this first time this year and loved it. It is in a great register and has a lot of references to Native American traditions and language. Plus, it has some amazing "ahs" to help your young singers open up their head voice. 4. A Great Big Sea arr. Lori-Anne Dolloff A fiddle player and a spoons player are a must for this piece. The text painting in the piano is wonderful and opportunities to work on larger vocal leaps are great! For Two or Three Part Treble 1. The President's Tea by Tom Benjamin This is a piece by a modern composer filled with fun language like "sassafras silk" and "pillykin." It has several tempo and meter changes, making it a great piece to work on following the conductor! 2. Dodi Li arr. Doreen Rao (one of my favorite arrangers!) This piece sits beautifully in the child's voice. The piano is energetic and rhythmic, and it is great for teaching form to your singers. 3. Skylark and Nightingale arr. Audrey Snyder (another one of my favorites!) I already mentioned this piece in a previous post, but it is just so beautiful. It has an optional glockenspiel part which is pentatonic improvisation (perfect for tying in your classroom teaching) and the text is just lovely. 4. Kokoleoko arr. Donnelly and Strid I taught this for the first time this year after hearing the folk song in my Orff Level 1 class. It has very approachable harmonies and a fun, upbeat feel. It is a little bit long (I ended up editing one section out), but it is very easy to teach! I added some drums and other percussion to my performance to make it an energetic opener! 5. Fod! arr. Miller I love the humor and nonsense in this song, and my kids had fun singing it, too! 6. Windy Nights arr. Cynthia Gray Great poetry, 6/8 meter, and minor! My students really enjoyed this piece and it was a great way to break up the collection of major, duple meter pieces available for children's choirs! I could go on forever! I intentionally left out my Winter/Christmas/Hanukkah songs to post later in the year, but these were definitely some keepers from the year! I am always on the hunt for a new and wonderful song, so I would love to hear some of your favorites, too! And now...back to my summer book. I hope you have a great week!
As a “Veteran” choir teacher, finding the perfect balance between fun and productivity can be a challenge. But fear not! Embrace the power of games in your middle and high school choir classroom and witness the transformative magic unfold.
All About Me: Choir Edition! Looking for something to give your students the first day or week of choir? This back to school product includes 3 worksheet designs with "get to know you" type questions related to singing. This product is 100% editable. Use as is or personalize for your classroom. You may also like... ⭐️ Activities for the First Days of Choir ⭐️ Ultimate Choir Sub Plan Bundle ⭐️ Save time and money with the Beginning of the Year Choir Bundle! Please leave a review to share your experience! With each review you write, TPT gives you credits to get future purchases for free! Please check out other middle school and high school music resources in my store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Sellers-Im-Following/Add/Savvy-Ellie-Music Copyright © Savvy Ellie Music ❤️ All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Not for public display. Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.
I think I am finally done with my classroom for this year! It was so much easier the second time around! Here are some pictures! First, my new curtains! I reused some sheer panels from last year and made 2 panels from fabric we found at Wal-Mart. The valence is actually a vinyl table skirt that we found at a going out of business sale! It already had the peel and stick feature so all we had to do was cut it off to fit the window. The ukulele cart is now between the windows. I added a vinyl sticker that my husband bought for me. Last year, I had an old tv on a wooden cart there. After an entire year of not using it, I gifted it to another teacher in need. So, I had a big open space to fill this year. This was on the first day getting back into my room. Thanks to Pinterest, I am using book covers on the backs of my chairs to house pencils, expo markers and erasers. I think that will save time when transitioning between activities. Also, the cabinets I covered in a scene-setter background last year are now serving as an additional bulletin board. I covered them with a vinyl tablecloth and used magnetic tape to attach my border! Very Easy!! Thanks to Cara at Miscellaneous Me for the anchor charts! These are so great and fit my classroom perfectly. You can get them from her blog here. My piano will work so much better here! BUT, I needed wheels so I could roll it out. The scooters were just for moving purposes but it gave me a great idea.... Furniture movers! I found these at Big Lots for $9.00! And they are the perfect size! When I looked at an actual piano mover/roller/cart, I could get one for $350.00! I'm also loving the new cover on the piano bench. I love that pattern. I bought these genre posters last year and placed them above my board; however, that was just too high to use them. So, this year they are more accessible and I'm so glad. They will really help during the 6th grade History of Rock unit. I debated about using Recorder Karate and finally decided to try it. I didn't want to go overboard with the karate theme so it is very subtle. Again, thanks to Pinterest, I found so many recorder resources so I didn't have to reinvent the wheel! (which has made my summer so much more relaxing) Thanks to... Lauren at Rhythm and Glues for the recorder fingering charts. You can visit her blog here! Emily at The Sweetest Melody for the Recorder Job Lanyards. You can visit her blog here! The recorder rules picture from Pinterest! See it here! (If it is yours, let me know so I can give credit!) I created an 11x17 chart to keep up with who has passed off which belt. You can write the students' names in the blanks and fill in the appropriate box once they have passed off that song. Download it here. I also made a chart that lets everyone know which song correlates with which belt. I had a fear that students would be asking a million questions about this so I made this chart. You can download it here. My choir section of the board. I included the choir tips charts and the singing shapes posters as well as a dry erase calendar from the Dollar Tree. Finally, the ukulele section of my board. This one is not totally complete. I kinda just stuck it up there. I have my student expectations and the 4 chords we are going to (hopefully) master. Also, love that little ukulele chihuahua. My one and only formal bulletin board. I wanted to use birds in my room this year so I am calling them song birds. Song birds sing solfege so their word bubbles are do, re, mi. I made the birds from scrap paper that matched my theme with inspiration from Carson Dellosa's Boho Birds (they kinda scared me a little...weird eyes) Here is a close up of the poster in the middle. I want to print it 11x17 but that requires a trip to Office Depot. I'll get to it... This came from here! My door!! I kinda love how it turned out! I wanted to do an advocacy type door for Back to School Night when parents will be buzzing about. I just cut out a thought bubble from poster board, added some letters and cut out some question marks. Here is an up close of the answers to the question! You can download them here! Unrelated to my room, are these two pictures. The guidance counselor and I have teamed up to make a bulletin board for parents and students to identify ways they can get involved. I added band and choir and she wanted to include a Get Fit program. Between the two of us, we came up with other programs we already had at school to include on our board. Also, the librarian and I came up with a no curtain, no blinds, no sew, window covering for her windows in the library. We coordinated our fabrics, covered cut pieces of foam board, attached the fabric with no sew double sided fabric tape and stapled the corners (essential upholstering the foam board). We cut the board the exact size of the window so the squares fit snug in the window.
Enlarge and print this poster for your choir classroom. Encourage active rehearsal participation and listening during all rehearsal moments! Great for secondary students. Post near your pencil sharpener or other areas where students might be tempted to "wander". ...
Boost your choir class with this comprehensive bundle of classroom management tools and student engagement activities for the First Days of Choir. Perfect for middle and high school choir teachers, this editable resource includes three quick and fun ways to get your students excited about choir while building a positive classroom environment and getting to know your students. This bundle includes: Choir Room Procedure Review Game #1 & #2: Establish classroom management and create a fun classroom environment with these games, which can be used year-round for review. Getting to Know You sheet: Quickly gather information from students about their voice type and vocal goals with this editable handout. Choir Bingo: Get students up and moving with this interactive game, which includes several variations for customization. BONUS: A list of 20 Quick and Easy songs to teach your choir in one class period! You may also like… ⭐️Beginning of the Year Choir Bundle- Save time and money! ⭐️Choir Games, Activities and More Bundle!- perfect for the new teacher! ⭐️6th Grade Choir Curriculum Monthly Worksheets, Quizzes & Answer Keys FULL YEAR Please leave a review to share your experience! With each review you write, TPT gives you credits to get future purchases for free! Please check out other middle school and high school music resources in my store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Sellers-Im-Following/Add/Savvy-Ellie-Music Copyright © Savvy Ellie Music ❤️ All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Not for public display. Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.
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Singing games are a great way to teach musical concepts, incorporate movement, and give children an opportunity to sing alone and with others. They're perfect as gathering activities, ice-breakers, or a quick change-of-pace in the middle of rehearsal. A few months ago, I shared seven fun
Hello everyone! So summer has officially ended and we are back in the swing of things! I always love the excitement of a new school year, but am definitely in denial that it’s happening. One thing that always helps me ease back into the year is decorating my classroom. I think it’s kind of like...Read More
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Turn those blank walls into something worth looking at!
10 great examples of music classroom decor: Includes ideas for organization, instrument storage, and more!
Welcome to our Music Room! Let me show you around... We are so fortunate to have SMARTboards in our classrooms! I don't know how I could ever teach without one now! Here is our instrumentarium! I am always looking to expand my Orff collection! :) Our Musical Word Wall... More classroom instruments and our music textbooks... Our Music Essential Questions posted... The Music Standards (in kid-friendly language) are also posted for each class. The 4th and 5th graders spend a few minutes during each class learning about various composers each month. They are just now finishing up a study on John Williams. They really enjoy learning facts about each composer, listening to their compositions, and playing Composer Jeopardy at the end of each study. Each class has a chance to earn stickers for good behavior each time they come to music. After they earn 6 stickers, they receive a class karaoke party! Fun times! I hope you enjoyed the tour! Check back soon for more updates on the Music Room fun!
I created these pencil cups my first year teaching. I laminated them and they have lasted 7 years and show no signs wear. It is just one way I try to reinforce music vocabulary through everyday tasks. Students are not allowed to use my pencil sharpener because it disrupts instruction and because many students do not know how to use an electric pencil sharpener properly. So, if their pencil breaks, they put it in the flat can and get a new one from the sharp can. FREE PRINTABLES
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My Favorite Warm-ups for Children's Choir. Organized Chaos. So many amazing warmup exercises for elementary choral ensembles!
