bri hendrickson

This presentation goes along with the book "So Much Snow!" by Kristen Schroeder and Sarah Jacoby. Throughout the book, there is a snow storm that lasts 1 week, and then throughout the following week, the snow melts and goes away. I use this book to talk about dynamics and crescendo/decresendo for the first few times with my younger grades. We start with body percussion/movement to show the increase/decrease in snow, then we move to Orff instruments to learn how to imformally roll on them and get

Beautifully Me is a book written by Nabela Noor, and is a story about a young girl named Zubi who starts having body image issues and opens up that conversation with your students of how words can be hurtful as well as how we should love our bodies. While the book itself is not musical, I used this book to have a Social/Emotional learning talk with my older students as well as do some affirmations. We then turn to our Orff instruments and improvise using those affirmations, and create a song wit