by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
Johann Strauss Junior is famous for his waltzes. Many of them are performed at the annual New Year’s Eve gala in Vienna. Polkas are dances, too, but they are in 2-time. This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in the classroom. (.pdf...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
Johann Strauss Junior is famous for his waltzes. Many of them are performed at the annual New Year’s Eve gala in Vienna. Polkas are dances, too, but they are in 2-time. This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in the classroom. (.pdf...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
Johann Strauss Junior is famous for his waltzes. Many of them are performed at the annual New Year’s Eve gala in Vienna. Polkas are dances, too, but they are in 2-time. This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in the classroom. (.pdf...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock and The Waltzing Cat were composed in the 1940s and 1950s by Leroy Anderson. This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in the classroom. (.pdf file 155KB) Download File This resource was created by...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock and The Waltzing Cat were composed in the 1940s and 1950s by Leroy Anderson. This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in the classroom. (.pdf file 155KB) Download File This resource was created by...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock and The Waltzing Cat were composed in the 1940s and 1950s by Leroy Anderson. This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in the classroom. (.pdf file 155KB) Download File This resource was created by...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
The Little Train of the Brazilian Countryman was composed by Villa-Lobos after he had taken a journey on a country train in Brazil. It is a steam locomotive and it has to cross mountains in order to get to its destination. This handout for the teacher contains...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
Le Bal (French for ‘The Ball’) and is the final movement of twelve short pieces in Jeux d’Enfants (Children’s Games) by Bizet. This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in the classroom. (.pdf file 64KB) Download File This resource was...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
Le Bal (French for ‘The Ball’) and is the final movement of twelve short pieces in Jeux d’Enfants (Children’s Games) by Bizet. This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in the classroom. (.pdf file 151KB) Download File This resource was...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
March of the Toys is taken from the musical, Babes in Toyland. Imagine all your toys marching along! They would need a big fanfare to announce the march and a good steady beat to keep them from tripping into each other! This handout for the teacher contains...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
The March of Siamese Children is an instrumental piece from the musical, The King and I. In this scene, the King of Siam presents 67 young princes and princesses to their new nanny, Anna. This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in...
by admin | Oct 22, 2010 | Apps, Technology
Writing some poetry was a theme in our English work during the past couple of weeks with my class of seven, eight and nine year olds. We had written some cinquains and octopoems to a greater or lesser degree of success. Co-incidentally, at the same time I read a blog...
by admin | Oct 20, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
Ravel’s Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty is the first movement from The Mother Goose Suite. Ravel originally wrote this work as a piano duet (where two people play one piano at the same time). This handout for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the music in...
by admin | Oct 20, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
Kodaly wrote an opera in which the main character, a soldier called Hary Janos, describes his heroic adventures, which are exaggerated or simply not true. Kodaly used some of the music from the opera in an instrumental work called The Hary Janos Suite. Viennese...
by admin | Oct 20, 2010 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Infants, Music
Debussy wrote the music for a ballet called The Toybox in which the characters include a doll, a brave soldier and a wicked Punchinello (similar to the Punch character in Punch and Judy). The doll dances the Little Waltz. This handout for the teacher contains...
