Are you getting ready to teach The Nutcracker Ballet, but need some ideas for fun activities help your kids really connect with the music? This Nutcracker Ballet Bundle has everything you need to make the music to The Nutcracker come to life!

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Start with 66 Nutcracker lesson slides, which guide you and your students through an immersive unit on the most iconic songs of The Nutcracker.

The Nutcracker listening glyphs and listening maps are a great way to introduce and listen to each song. Listening maps make following along with each piece of the Nutcracker ballet easy and fun. Listening glyphs guide students through key elements from the song as they color along. And with listening resources to eight (8) of the most popular songs from The Nutcracker Ballet, you will have plenty of listening options!

You can learn about Nutcracker composer Peter Tchaikovsky with a variety of biography resources for individual and small group learning.

Use the Write the Room Activity to help your student learn a little more about the history of the Nutcracker Ballet.

This bundle is great for holiday lessons, or quick and easy activities to print out when your voice is gone or you have a sub.

The Nutcracker Ballet Bundle: Product Details

The Nutcracker Ballet Bundle contains:

• Nutcracker unit lesson with 66 PowerPoint slides
• 8 listening maps to music from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
• 8 listening glyphs (guided coloring)
• Tchaikovsky biography activity pack
• Nutcracker Ballet Write the Room Activity
• Nutcracker Story Comprehension Worksheets and Activities

This Nutcracker Ballet Bundle contains the listening glyphs AND listening maps for eight (8) of the most popular songs from The Nutcracker:

• March
• Spanish Dance
• Arabian Dance
• Chinese Dance
• Russian Dance
• Dance of the Reed Flutes
• Waltz of the Flowers
• Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

The Nutcracker Lesson Slides guide you through a full unit on The Nutcracker Ballet. The unit includes ...

• Biographical information on Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• Background on the Nutcracker Ballet
• Overview of the story of The Nutcracker
• Story review & musical predictions
• Nutcracker March - listening & parachute activity
• Spanish Dance - listening & scarf dance
• Arabian Dance - listening & beanbag activity
• Chinese Dance - listening & beanbag activity
• Russian Dance - listening & parachute activity
• Dance of the Reed Flutes - listening & balloon activity
• Waltz of the Flowers - listening & parachute activity
• Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - listening & scarf dance

The Nutcracker Ballet Bundle also contains the following activities and worksheets on Peter Tchaikovsky:

• composer biography presentation slide
• fill-in-the-blank composer biography worksheet
• composer facts flipbook
• resident expert activity + fact pages
• quiz and swap review activity + 24 review cards
• composer rate and review worksheet
• composer word search
• composer lesson exit slip

The Nutcracker Write the Room activity contains 8 posters (color and b&w formats) and a student worksheet. Students search the room for the posters and learn about the history and story of the Nutcracker.

Resources are in pdf format.

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