Hello 2015!

What a great start to 2015! Tried a few new lessons today and they went extremely well.

Grades k-2 did a lesson called brown bear based on eric Carl's book brown bear brown bear: what do you see. First we read or should I say sang the book. Then we passed out my animal friends and I didn't realize I had so many. I even went through the growing pile at home that my daughter never touches. Then we played the brown bear singing game. Each child got to sing a solo. It was super fun to hear their beautiful voices!

3-4th grade are finishing up music centers we started before the holidays. We even added a new one called "treble twist up". It's a version of the game twister with a musical twist. Loved watching them play today. 4th grade is working on reading those notes on the staff so we can start recorders next week. Our centers right now are:
1. Worksheet- they complete a note name test
2. Color- they complete a winter color by music symbol worksheet
3. Treble twist up- a fun note name game
4. Musical pairs- a card game that helps learn treble and bass clef notes
Extra-
5. Talk about tunes- a discussion game
6. Read me a song- if we don't have time to start a new center or the whole group isn't finished they get to get a book from our library and read
7. Rhythm center- a matching game where they have to read rhythmic patterns
8. Musical pairs- matching game
9. Abc sing with me- mostly used with grade 2 but it's a fun singing game that uses rests and synergizing

Now I'm exhausted because we just had 2 weeks off. It's a good exhausted though!