This is a full unit of Saint-Saens’ The Carnival of the Animals, for use in K-6 music classrooms OR in a classroom for a teacher that loves music! INCLUDED: -17 page Teacher’s guide to this unit, full of activities that include movement, singing, writing rhythms and creating melodies, playing instruments, creating art, suggestions for literature connections and core connections, and much more! -25 slide colorful Powerpoint for use with your students! This carefully designed unit examines nine movements of Camille Saint-Saens’ The Carnival of the Animals. Each lesson includes a wide variety of activities that can be mixed and matched to suit your teaching needs- need a fun one class activity? Have an Aquarium class! Want to spend two weeks on The Royal March of the Lion? You’ll find everything you need here. Spend a week on Saint-Saens, or a whole semester! The resources are here to allow you to do either. Help your students to experience quality program music while learning key points of musical literacy. Pieces included: Introduction Movement I. Royal March of the Lion Movement III. Swift Animals / Movement IV. Tortoises Movement V. The Elephant Movement VI. Kangaroos Movement VII. Aquarium Movement IX. The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods Movement XII. Fossils Movement XIV. Finale As many of the activities are easily adaptable, this unit can be used in classrooms from Kindergarten through Grade 6.! As a bonus, I have included tips on creating a concert with your students that the parents will love, all based around The Carnival of the Animals! This unit would work wonderfully as a school project, where music teacher and classroom teachers work cooperatively, or as simply a music room or classroom based activity. Find out how EASY it is to get your students engaged in classical music, and let me handle the planning! All you have to do is decide which activities are most relevant to your students, since you know them best! Enjoy this unit, and please feel free to contact me for any more information.

Fifteen simple classroom tested music games for use with your students! Each of these is a student favorite. Included are games suitable from Pre-K all the way to Grade 6. These games use instruments, simple, familiar songs, movement, rhythms and much more to teach important music concepts. However, all of these games are so simple they require no prep, and are easy to pick up and play! There are many uses for these music games. Music teacher? Use these to end a class when you have those few extra minutes, or as a reward! Your students will be thrilled to play these games. Excellent to leave for subs, as you know that with these your class will still be learning important skills. Classroom teacher? Use these on a day when music class is cancelled. Or, maybe you just want to get some wiggles out and challenge your students with some fun, interesting and musical games! Substitute teacher? No plans? No problem. Keep the kids excited, interested, and engaged while teaching them valuable skills. No wasted time here! Feel prepared and ready going into any classroom, music or otherwise. There are games for everyone here, for all comfort and knowledge levels with musical instruction. Many of these games can be used to fill just a few minutes, or to fill a full class! Have fun and watch your students learn, laugh, and play! This high quality resource includes everything you will need, including resources for total beginners! Included in this pack: -The Freeze Game -Opposites -Rhythm Telephone (Easier) -Rhythm Telephone (Harder) -Jumpin’ Round the Boat -Everybody, play with me! (Easier) -Everybody, play with me! (Harder) -The Poison Game -Dance Statues -Body Shapes, Letters, and Numbers -Ball and Response -Musical Duck-Duck-Goose -Human Statue Obstacle Course -Guess the Rhythm! -Musical Hot or Cold AND -Creative Movement terminology resource -Simple Rhythm Guide -Simple Instrument Guide For each game, there is a list of items needed, instructions for the activity, guidance on what your students are learning, AND several variations. Make these fifteen games last all year with these fun variations!

This is a full unit of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, for use in K-6 music classrooms OR in a classroom for a teacher that loves music! This unit includes not only a 25 slide Powerpoint for use with your students, but also a 17 page Teacher’s Guide to this unit, full of activities that include movement, singing, writing rhythms and creating melodies, playing instruments, creating art, suggestions for literature connections and core connections, and much more. This carefully designed unit examines 8 movements of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Each lesson includes a huge variety of activities that could be used to simply spend one class on a movement, or to spend two weeks on each movement. Spend a week on Mussorgsky, or a whole semester! The resources are here to allow you to do either. Help your students to experience quality program music while engaging in Russian history and art. As many of the activities are easily adaptable, this unit can be used in classrooms from Kindergarten through Grade 6, and even up into 7-9! As a bonus, I have included an outline of a one hour concert focused on Pictures at an Exhibition that includes students from K-6. This unit would work wonderfully as a school project, where music teacher and classroom teachers work cooperatively, or as simply a music room or classroom based activity. Find out how EASY it is to get your students engaged in classical music, and let me handle the planning! All you have to do is decide which activities are most relevant to your students, since you know them best! Enjoy this unit, and please feel free to contact me for any more information.

The long-awaited follow-up to 15 Simple Music Games , this is ten MORE simple classroom tested music games for use with elementary students! There are no repeat games, each package contains totally unique games! Each of these is a student favorite. Included are games suitable from Pre-K all the way to Grade 6. These games use instruments, simple, familiar songs, movement, rhythms and much more to teach important music concepts. However, all of these games are so simple they require no prep, and are easy to pick up and play! There are many uses for these music games. Music teacher? Use these to end a class when you have those few extra minutes, or as a reward! Your students will be thrilled to play these games. Excellent to leave for subs, as you know that with these your class will still be learning important skills. Classroom teacher? Use these on a day when music class is cancelled. Or, maybe you just want to get some wiggles out and challenge your students with some fun, interesting and musical games! Substitute teacher? No plans? No problem. Keep the kids excited, interested, and engaged while teaching them valuable skills. No wasted time here! Feel prepared and ready going into any classroom, music or otherwise. There are games for everyone here, for all comfort and knowledge levels with musical instruction. Many of these games can be used to fill just a few minutes, or to fill a full class! Have fun and watch your students learn, laugh, and play! This high quality resource includes everything you will need, including information resources for total beginners! Included in this pack: -Be My Echo -Fill the Beats -Note Naming Relay Race -Play Around the World -Celebrity Instruments -Guess My Move -Cuckoo, Where are You? -Who Makes that Sound? -Pass It Along -Music Memory AND -Creative Movement terminology resource -Simple Rhythm Guide -Simple Instrument Guide For each game, there is a list of items needed, instructions for the activity, guidance on what your students are learning, AND several variations. Make these ten games last all year with these fun variations!

This pack of music teacher essentials includes a variety of manipulatives for you to use in your classroom with your students. Included is: -A full pitched percussion instrument with moveable bars that plays the correct pitch when a bar is tapped. Included on the side are F#s and B flat, just like on your student’s xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels. Use to show the setup of instruments, demo a melody, or show borduns. -A color-coded Do-Do’ set of solfege cards, all moveable, with hand signs included with which to cue your students. -A set of moveable solfege cards that extends down to Low So for use with your older students. -A body percussion creator, so you or your students can choose four beat body percussion rhythms to use as a class. -A three line staff which which to show simple melody building with your younger classes. -A simple five line staff to demonstrate simple melody building with your older classes. -A five line staff with a variety of rhythm types so as to demonstrate melodies, write music, or guide your students through simple music writing or analysis. -Heartbeat rhythm creators for younger and older students -Time signatures demonstrated in heartbeats (4/4, 2/4, 3/4, 6/8) -Many of the non-pitched percussion instruments in your classroom, separated into families. Would be fun to do as an instrument sort with your students, or use to show instrument families, or to assign instruments to students. -Orchestral instruments divided into families, with pictures and names included. Would be good as an instrument sorting activity, or as a visual guide for students. I personally cannot wait to use this product in my own classroom. I hope you enjoy this product, and please let me know if you need help or have any questions. NOTE: You MUST have smartboard technology in your classroom to use this product as a manipulative. You can also access all smartboard files from http://express.smarttech.com/, even on a computer that is not hooked up to smart technology.