"Tideo" and away you go! Utilize one folk song for learning a play party, for full-pentatonic solfege practice, for playing barred instruments and tubano drums, for a framework for call and response improvisation, and more!
Hula hoops are a valuable movement prop to incorporate into your music lessons. Freedom Brass shares her tried and true hooping activities that are guaranteed to make your students smile!
Kanisha Howard's lesson Block, Paper, Rhythms will work well for children who are learning in person, hybrid or online. This is a fun way to review songs and rhythms and explore composition.
Roger Sams and Michael Vasquez share two free lessons from their book Percussive Play: Building Rhythmic Skills Through Partwork, Poetry, and Movement.
From their book, Percussive Play, Roger Sams and Michael Vasquez share this fun lesson that is sure to delight your students as they play with excuses and reasons for not going to bed!
Aimee Curtis Pfitzner shares a colorful lesson plan from her book, Painted Music, which uses children's literature to explore connections between art and music.
