CLASSROOM MUSIC MANAGEMENT MADE EASY

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1 CLASSROOM MUSIC MANAGEMENT MADE EASY Sharon Burch Elementary Music Education FaceBook: Sharon Burch Twitter: SharonBurch WEBSITES Online Games and Coloring Pages Teachers More about Sharon ipad App Freddie The Frog

2 WHAT MAKES CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT EASY? TEACH WITH PASSION! But you can only teach with passion when the room/group is in control your control. PLAN learning experiences that teach concepts through doing. PREPARE. Be organized with materials ready and at hand. SEATING CHARTS efficient use of time and order. ENGAGE KIDS in challenging and fun learning experiences! ASSESSMENT Are they learning? Need to re-teach? CONNECT with students, teachers, staff, parents, and community. FUN! Make learning music and concepts challenging and fun! PLAN Age-appropriate concept level and activitie/teaching strategy. Google Calendar, or other Internet calendar (GREAT w/smart phones and ipads!) Music Plan It book by Janet Day (Hal Leonard Publishing) Map out the year with standards/concepts, performances, and performance prep. Concept/standards checklist for teaching. Set rules and procedures for EVERYTHING. Every desired behavior needs planned and trained. PREPARE Organize materials before class begins. Ready and at hand. Transition times between activities and class groups. Performance before, during and after organization details and directions. Train/practice EVERYTHING. Every step of desired behavior in every situation. SEATING CHARTS Prepare seating charts prior to the first class-adjust as needed. Essential to sense of belonging and each person has a space. Make an extra set for the substitute teacher. Include classroom teacher s name. ENGAGE Experience the concepts! People retain what they experience, not what their told. Experience it, and then label it. Fun and challenging experiences at their level. 2

3 Address students with respect and kindness, and firm when necessary. (Don t talk down to students.) ASSESSMENT What did they learn? Need to re-teach? Formal assessments Individual assessments Student check-off lists (Beyond the Books by Sharon Burch, Hal Leonard Publishing) Informal assessments Assessment reports for students and parents CONNECT Connect with students, parents, teachers/staff, and the principal Seek to understand before being understood. Work together by understanding other s positions and schedules. Connect with every student with eye contact, name, smile, and personal interaction when feasible and appropriate. Individual assessments (student connection) Assessment reports (powerful parent connection) Newsletters Facebook fan club or group page School website s FUN! CAPTIVATING STUDENTS AT EVERY LEVEL Pre-school 1 st Grade Puppets! Stories and make-believe: Freddie the Frog stories, Koomzaal Multi-cultural Storybooks with CD Silly voices Short, hands-on activities: Musicmaps, stick rhythm patterns Silly songs Singing games: Closet Key, Lucy Locket 3

4 Simple folk dancing: Bobolinka Acting out stories: Hansel and Gretel (opera), Dooby, Dooby, Moo, The Muffin Shop, Peter and the Wolf Classroom instruments Movement First day of music class idea for kindergarten: A PUPPET: MEET FREDDIE THE FROG Greet FREDDIE THE FROG Hello, Freddie (National Standards: 1b, 1d,1e) (sung to the tune of Where is Thumbkin? ) Hello, Freddie. Hello, Freddie. Who are you? Who are you? We are the kindergarten. We are the kindergarten. How are you? (This later becomes Freddie s solo line which is silent with his mouth moving.) We are fine. THE TOP BY BIZET AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA At the bottom of the sea All the fish are swimming. Here and there and everywhere, Oh,,, we love you. SCRAMBLE GAME MIRROR GAME DOWN IN THE VALLEY from Down in the Valley CD (New England Dancing Masters Productions, 2000) BOBOLINKA from Down in the Valley CD (New England Dancing Masters Productions, 2000) GREAT first folk dancing experience! FREDDIE S MYSTERY SONG 2 Solve the Mystery? Play the Game 4

5 (Closet Key) d d m m d d m d d m m r m I have lost my closet key in my lady s garden. d d m m d d m d d m m r d I have lost my closet key in my lady s garden. Easily change lyrics for holidays, such as, I have lost my jingle bells in my Santa s workshop, or I have lost my lucky charm in my music classroom. 2 nd - 3 rd Grade Stories and make-believe: Freddie the Frog Some puppets Silly voices Hands-on, interactive activities: stick rhythm compositions, Miss Mary Mack (Miss Mary Mack adapted by Mary Ann Hoberman/illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott) Challenging songs for their age Partner songs, canons and rounds: Hello, Freddie in a round Singing Games Folk Dancing: Alabama Gal Acting out stories: Peter and the Wolf, The Bremen Town Musicians, The Sorcerer s Apprentice Classroom instruments, barred instruments Movement Active Listening: Peer Gynt from The Hall of the Mountain King Hand-clapping games BULLDOG variation from New England Dancing Masters, Jump, Jim Joe (Nat l. St.: 1b, 1c, 1e, 6e) After playing as a large group, divide into small groups. Establish rotation order. At the end of each bulldog, the one person that is out moves to the next group in the rotation. 5

6 APPLE TREE GAME FOLK SONG S s m s s m s s l l s s m Ap-ple tree. Ap-ple tree. Will your ap-ple fall on me? I won t cry. I won t pout. If your apple knocks me out. 4 th 5 th Grade Active listening to music Short, hands-on activities: Rhythm compositions/12-bar Blues improvisation Canons, rounds, simple two-part songs More complex folk dancing: World dances, Jig Acting out stories at their level involving reading and singing Pitched classroom instruments/recorders/piano/keyboard units Drumming Orff instruments Musicals Movement HAMBONE Beat vs. Syncopation (Nat l. St.: 5c) 1. Ask students to say syn-co-pate and clap. 2. Add actions on the two words (side hop to the rhythm of syncopate ; clap and clap ). 3. Now, replace syn-co-pate and clap with pine-ap-ple, pecans. 4. Tell the students we are going to add some Hambone to your pineapple and pecans. 5. Play Hambone from Down in the Valley CD (New England Dancing Masters Productions, 2000). 6. Do the syncopation during the response. 7. Add stepping the beat during the leader s part (call); step the syncopation during the response. 8. Label beat and syncopation so the students know the difference. 9. Can change the chant to syn-co-pate, and clap. JIG from New England Dancing Masters CD (New England Dancing Masters Productions, 2000) 6

7 6 t h - 8 th Grade Hands-on projects that span several lesson periods: Creating a veggie orchestra, Stomp Relevant songs Songs and music that challenge Musical theater Piano/keyboard units Drumming Orff instruments Projects with technology: Flip camera, ipad 2 documentaries, artists/musicians Movement to music at their level Applied music theory that unlocks creativity in playing/performing/composing/improvising. Music Video teams YouTube projects Composition projects Performance projects Music Webinars GREAT RESOURCES Ice Breakers by Valerie Lippoldt Mack (Shawnee Press, Inc.) Order from Chaos by John Jacobson & Cristi Cary Miller (Hal Leonard Publishing) Beyond the Books by Sharon Burch (Hal Leonard Publishing) Sequential lessons for K-3 music Assessment tips, tools and files Reproducible student flash cards Coloring pages 7