Mrs Millson is a Primary Music and EYFS Music Specialist, with a passion for instrumental music and curriculum development. Mr Millson is a Band Director, specialising in Middle and High School Bands. Together, we create high-quality resources for all music classrooms, helping to make music simpler for other educators.
Mrs Millson is a Primary Music and EYFS Music Specialist, with a passion for instrumental music and curriculum development. Mr Millson is a Band Director, specialising in Middle and High School Bands. Together, we create high-quality resources for all music classrooms, helping to make music simpler for other educators.
Musician of the Month - Diverse Musicians - featuring 22 musicians, is perfect for displaying and discussing diversity within the music industries. We’re passionate about reflecting all musicians, and this packet features a range of BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and female contemporary musicians, among others, across classical, popular, and jazz music.
Musicians featured in this resource packet:
Adam Lambert
Alex Newell
Alma Deutscher
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Beyoncé
Caroline Shaw
Dolly Parton
Elton John
Esperanza Spalding
Hans Zimmer
Koji Kondo
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lizzo
Lucie Horsch
Ludovico Einaudi
Marin Alsop
Nandi Bushell
Nicola Benedetti
Twoset Violin
Wendy Carlos
Wynton Marsalis
Yo Yo Ma
Perfect to be used as posters, or as a discussion point in a lesson.
Included in the packet:
22 Musician Posters
Listening suggestions with links
PDF files
Please note, while the listening suggestions might be OK to use in our classrooms, we always recommend you listen to them first, to make sure they are suitable for your classroom and school.
These sleek and simple posters are designed to help students learn about the Elements of Music. Featuring 12 different musical elements, so that you can chose what to emphasise in your classroom, from primary through to secondary school:
Tempo
Dynamics
Pitch
Form
Melody
Harmony
Pulse
Texture
Timbre
Tonality
Rhythm
Duration
This product file features:
Zip File
Landscape posters
A4 size original document (8.3 x 11.7 inches)
B&W and Color versions
US and British spellings
PNG and PDF formats
Winter Rhythm Composition Flashcards. Perfect for a Winter/Christmas rhythm activity. Featuring 18 different words/phrases, this pack is perfect for rhythm assessments of quarter and eighth notes, a center activity, or a fun composition lesson that is suitable for English Language Learners too.
This pack includes cards with:
Pictures only
Pictures with words
Words only
Pictures with rhythms
Words with rhythms
Rhythms alone
Students can match the rhythm to the picture or words, or create compositions using the rhythms. There is the option of having 6 cards per page, or 12, and features American and British terms where applicable.
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Ireland: Musical Traditions is perfect for exploring the music and traditions of Ireland. It makes a great, informative addition to a St. Patrick’s Day lesson, or as part of a unit exploring music from around the world.
Presentation Features:
Ireland - geography and fun facts
St. Patrick’s Day
Traditional Irish Music
Traditional Irish Instruments
Irish Dancing
Included in the packet:
Colorful Presentation
Black and White version to make student booklets
4 connected worksheets
Booklet template
Suggested links for examples of music, dancing, and some related activities
PPT and PDF files
Want some St. Patrick’s Day activities for your elementary students? Check out the St. Patrick’s Day Music Activities. For a variety of themed music worksheets.
Steel Pan 101 - a method specifically created for the popular Jumbie Jam one octave steel pans.
This product includes 5 warm-ups, and some beginner tips for getting started. They are all based off of what I found successful in my classroom, with students aged 6-11. This is the first in a string of resources I’ll be creating for Jumbie Jam Pans, which will extend to a range of pieces (some with backing tracks), for differing levels of ability.
This product comes in Power Point format, and PDF format, so you can present it, or print it out. It is also available in colour, or greyscale.
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An original, upbeat Calypso-style piece for Jumbie Pan or Steel Pan players, using the notes G-D. This pack includes a colour and print-friendly version of Jolly Old Pans, in 5 differently notated options (including coloured notes in boomwhacker colours, and letters). It also includes 2 backing tracks with different tempos, which can be used during rehearsal and performance. File formats are MP3, PPT, and PDF.
If interested in other pieces for Jumbie or Steel Pan, there are more pieces in the ‘Winter Festival’ collection.
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Carols for All
Perfect for Winter/Christmas concerts. Carols for all features a selection of 8 pieces in the Key of F (or G or Eb), arranged to include any and all common school instruments, including brass, woodwind, strings, percussion, guitar, piano, recorder and ukulele. So, no matter which instrumentalists you have in your school or ensemble, they can all be included.
The download includes the scores, and parts for all instruments.
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Perfect for Winter, Christmas, or Seasonal concerts and performances!
Winter Festival contains a selection of traditional holiday songs, and original compositions, for recorders. These pieces would also work for boomwhackers or hand bells.
Pieces include:
Jolly Old Pans
Winter Chills
Winter Calypso
Jingle Swing
Each piece comes with 2 backing tracks at different tempos, has the option of unison melody or 2-part, and is notated in several different ways to help different learners. File includes PDF, PPT and MP3.
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Autumn/Fall Squirrel themed vocal explorations.
Syril the Squirrel is trying to find acorns to store for the winter. Help Syril find them by following the arrow with your voice!
Perfect for Primary and even Preschool children, these explorations are perfect to start a lesson, and are sure to bring some joy into exploring pitch in the autumn.
Includes:
10 themed explorations
5 themed blank slides, for students to create their own (great when projected to a smart board/whiteboard/screen)
3 black and white worksheets for students to draw their own squirrel vocal explorations
This product contains PDF and PPT documents.
Steel Pan 101 - an original curriculum for Jumbie Jam pans and Steel Pan.
Whether you are new to pans, or in need of some fresh ideas, this curriculum is for you.
After living and teaching in the Caribbean for several years, we have created Steel Pan 101- Level One, a complete guide to teaching the pans, with: 22 pieces, backing tracks, assessment rubrics, Learning Objective ‘I Can’ statements, Essential Questions, and Teacher Guidance Notes, to help other educators to teach the steel pan. With over 120 pages of material, this curriculum has a lot to offer.
Written with the Jumbie Jam pans specifically in mind, Level One takes students through the first 5 notes of the pan, introducing a variety of rhythms and skills (including improvisation and harmony playing), through Caribbean inspired pieces.
The Essential Questions and ‘I Can’ statements help to organize learning from the very beginning, while the rubric enables you to appropriately assess students at the end of the course. The teacher notes offer guidance on each piece, and on the concepts introduced during the curriculum, as well as further ideas on how to introduce them successfully.
If you’re just getting started with the Jumbie Pans, this is a great place to begin. Check out the Jumbie Jam warm-ups for more ideas on getting started!
This download contains PDF, PPTx, and MP3s.
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Perfect for post-concert and end of term lessons! This Bingo sheet is the perfect accompaniment for Disney+ The Hip Hop Nutcracker, helping to keep students engaged throughout as they watch and look out for certain elements.
If you like this, you may also like the Bingo sheet for the Pentatonix: Around the World for the Holidays.
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Happy music-making!
Perfect for post-concert and end of term lessons! This Bingo sheet is the perfect accompaniment for Pentatonix: Around the World for the Holidays, helping to keep students engaged throughout as they watch and look out for certain elements.
If you like this, you may also like the Bingo sheet for The Hip Hop Nutcracker.
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Happy music-making!
St Patrick’s Day themed worksheets. Including:
Rhythm assessment
Rhythm composition
Notation assessment
St. Patrick’s themed composition manipulatives
Connection between English and music with a traditional Irish song and poem
14 worksheets, in a variety of styles.
Project idea:
KS1: Create a composition using the St. Patrick’s Day manipulatives, and play it using body percussion/percussion instruments.
KS2: After finding the words for the song or poem by filling in the missing letters, create music to help tell the story!
This product contains a PDF document.
Heart Beat rhythm composition set.
Referencing the beat/pulse of the music with hearts throughout, this set is perfect for use all year round, or for Valentine themed lessons. Including 3 different styles of worksheets, this is perfect for:
Beginning composition
Rhythm assessment
Rhythm and beat manipulatives
The cut-out manipulatives help students compose in a hands-on way. They are ideal for centres, and for exploring different rhythms that can be created. Have students create rhythms in small groups and practise playing them, then create a new rhythm!
This product contains a PDF document of all of the elements included in the pack.
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Student-Centred Music Rubrics.
Perfect for displaying on the walls of your classroom, or using in class as a tool to help learners understand where they are, and what they can do to achieve their next steps. It can be used as a tool for student self-assessment, or for teacher assessment.
Comes with pre-created rubrics for Performance and Composition (K-2 and Grades 3-5), as well as completely editable Powerpoints for you to re-word or create new rubrics, to suit your classroom and teaching.
Using these in lessons, I found students had a really good understanding of how they could move from ‘Beginning’, through to ‘Intermediate’ and ‘Advanced’. Students, particularly in Grades 3-5, were able to take further control of their learning and work, to help themselves achieve their goals.
This document comes in PDF and PPT formats, with a color version, and a printer-friendly version.
These posters are designed to encourage students to self-regulate their behaviour in class. ‘We have a good time, but we don’t cross the line’ into silliness, disrespect, or whatever else is applicable in your room. Helping students to focus more on their responsibility in the classroom.
This product file features:
5 designs
Portrait and Landscape options
A4 or A3 size (8.3 x 11.7 and 11.7 x 16.5 inches)
PNG and PDF formats
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Music Lessons for Nursery through to EYFS children, aged 18 months - 5 years.
Whether just starting out, or looking for more resources, these themes, activities and lessons are perfect for either parent and child classes, or music classes in a nursery/preschool setting. The 90+ different activities will last you an entire term, or even more, alongside the 12 sample lessons, meaning less time spent planning.
This packet focuses on the following themes:
Farmyard
Forest/Nature
Ocean
Food
The approach in these nursery and preschool classes is to help develop the whole child in a musical way, developing an inner sense of steady beat, taking part in group activities, exploring their voices and using their bodies etc. The structure of the lessons and types of activities are inspired by my work teaching the Feierabend First Steps in Music curriculum.
Not sure what to aim for in delivering nursery and preschool music classes? Have a look at my Nursery and Preschool Music Guidance Statements.
Happy music-making!
Easter Rhythm Match - this chicken and eggs rhythm match game is a perfect addition to Easter lessons.
Print and cut out the chicken and egg manipulatives, and you’ve got a hands-on rhythm game. Put different egg notes together to add up to the number of beats on the hen! Or, you can use the eggs to create compositions. Ideal for a class rhythm activity, or for centers.
Extension idea: students try and play the rhythms using body percussion, or untuned percussion.
Product Features:
Black and white, or color versions of the hen
Note value, note symbol, or time signature options
16 different musical note eggs - whole note, half note, dotted half-note, quarter note, eighth note, sixteenth note, dotted eighth notes, triplets, and corresponding rests
Product contains PDF files
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A simple and clean poster to visually demonstrate basic music note values, in 2 different styles. The watermark is not present in the downloadable versions.
Offering an alternative, and hopefully more diverse holiday/winter/Christmas/December music playlist, for teachers and students, with a healthy inclusion of female composers, and composers/performers from diverse backgrounds and countries. Great for exposing students to some new music, with something for everyone of any age. Pieces are of a winter/Christmas/peace/religious/festivals/celebrations theme, so please note it isn’t all specifically ‘winter/Christmas’. Hopefully there will be some new pieces that you haven’t heard before!
Can be used to listen to for pleasure, or as a guided listening or cultural activity. Includes some suggested ‘Guided Listening’ questions.
Includes youtube links to suggested versions of the pieces - all links were working at time of posting, please let me know if this is no longer the case when you use it, and I will update.
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