Posts Tagged ‘lessons’
SLOs for Orff Inspired Teaching
SLOs for Orff Inspired Teaching Student Learning Objectives: A Manageable “How To” Guide from the Trenches The process of crafting an SLO when kept logical and reasonable, can really be a positive force in your instruction and beneficial for your students. Don’t let the structure, all of the “official-ness” of the forms, and evaluation…
Read MoreLesson: Leaf Children
A beautiful children’s book and autumn leaves inspire creative movement and encourage children to make aesthetic choices about instrumental accompaniment to their leaf dance. A repeated refrain from the book provides an opportunity for vocal improvisation and the lesson also includes suggestions for creating an operetta. This lesson is suggested for children in grades K-1. Download…
Read MoreDo It Yourself: How to Take Something Simple and Make It Concert-Worthy
Who says you can’t perform what you’re doing in your classroom every day in a concert?! This is a real series of lessons I did with my first graders starting at the beginning of April and they performed the end product on their concert, May 15. Believe me, if I can do it, so can…
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