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Music resources that make your teaching easier

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I am SO grateful for so many things this month and especially some of the great teachers I have learned from!

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I am going to tell you about three resources; one of my own, one of another fantastic teacher, and one of someone else on Teacherspayteachers.

A wonderful resource I made last year and have had so much fun with is my Around the world- Hanukkah set. My theme for last year was “Music Around the World”. I did a whole year of ideas, intertwined with my regular curriculum of music from various countries.

My kids weren’t familiar with Hanukkah or music from Israel, so we had a fun unit on Hanukkah, where we sang a fun Hanukkah song and did the rhythm and solfa, learned a bit about why they celebrate it, played with dreidels, and did a craft. I have added a new edible craft that we might try this year. This pack include all of the following:

-Music for “I Have A Little Dreidel”
-Directions on how to play the Dreidel game
-Fun facts about Hanukkah
-Solfa and rhythm for the dreidel song
-A promethean flip chart of the music and 2 more verses plus rhythm/solfa
-A Powerpoint of both the music, plus the rhythm and solfa
-I Have a Little Dreidel song sheet to use with recorder or just for easy singing
-jpeg files of the music and rhythm/solfa so you can make a smart board flip chart
-A 8 1/2 x 11 poster of the Israel map and some famous icons associated with it
-Video link for a great explanation about Hanukkah
-Craft Idea
-Edible Dreidel with video of how to make

I LOVE the Nutcracker. My daughter danced in it when she was young and it is such a magical Christmas tradition. I am excited to try out this new pack I bought recently from Tanya Lajeune. What I like about this pack is the variety and amount of fun and great learning activities. It has vocal play, rhythm play along, movement, AND form activities. I can’t wait to try it in the next couple of weeks!
Finally, I have found some wonderful clip art to use in my files. I love the clipart of Edusong and have used in many of my files, including my greatly popular Chinese New year packet and a recent making butter file I added to my Fairy Seed packet. Here is the awesome Chinese New Year clipart:
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Enjoy!!
Linda Seamons (Floating Down the River on the Ohio) [email protected]

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    2. Tanya LeJeune

      Thank you for the shout-out! I've been purchasing a lot of Edusong clipart lately, too. She has so much variety in her sets.
      Your Dreidel resource looks very thorough; I love that you include a craft!

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      • Linda

        Tanya, I have been sick for the last couple of days and we have really enjoyed using your nutcracker pack, along with some videos (see my most recent post) to learn about the nutcracker without talking too much. It was a big success. I try to occasionally do a crafty thing in class as enrichment. It just adds to the full experience of the music.

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