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Changing Meter

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Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States
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A 10-year veteran teacher specializing in vocal music. I have taught K-12 general music and choir as well as private piano and voice lessons. In my "free time" I direct musical theater, both in the educational and community theater settings.
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Preview of Name That Tune: a Solfege Review (Volume 1)

Name That Tune: a Solfege Review (Volume 1)

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Practice your solfege and sight-singing with this team game designed for intermediate singers. Game Categories Include: Children's Songs Choir Skills Christmas Carols Disney Popular Oldies *BUNDLE ALERT: This game is included in the Choir Games Growing Bundle* *This product is a power point presentation*
Preview of Sing It! Charades

Sing It! Charades

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This group activity encourages students to sing solo without risk of judgement. Each clue in Sing It Charades is a musical artist or band. Students may act out the clues or sing the suggested song to lead their team to a correct answer. Games includes 150+ clues and 10 blank cards.
Preview of Bell Ringers for High School Choir

Bell Ringers for High School Choir

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40 slides full of bell ringers for choir students. Each day is themed (e.g. "Future Friday" or "Warm Up Wednesday") with a question that students can write responses to. Some questions are personal ("what is your favorite...") while others relate to the content discussed in class ("map your range on the chart..."). There are ample critical thinking questions! Each slide also includes a "Song of the Day" for each slide to be played while students write or discuss their responses.
Preview of Name That Tune: a Solfege Review (Volume 2)

Name That Tune: a Solfege Review (Volume 2)

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Practice your solfege and sightsinging with this team game designed for intermediate singers. Game Categories Include: Choir Classics Jazz Standards Famous Bass Lines Broadway Tunes Seasonal Songs *BUNDLE ALERT: This game is included in the Choir Games Growing Bundle* *This product is a power point presentation*
Preview of Blend & Balance Choir Activity

Blend & Balance Choir Activity

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Document includes a short vocabulary refresher for your choir with instructions to the activity. In the activity, students select words to describe their tone while receiving anonymous feedback from others. Great critical thinking exercise, allowing students to reflect on achieving balance and blend in an ensemble. A wonderful exercise for those singers who stick out in your choir and don't know they do! *This assessment is included in the New Teacher Starter Pack*
Preview of Sight-Singing Bundle

Sight-Singing Bundle

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Engage your singers in sight-reading with practice and competition. Use Solfege Wars: Beginner and Solfege Wars: Intermediate to introduce music reading concepts and challenge students to sight-sing at their own pace. For group assessment, try the Name That Tune games.
Preview of Choir Word Wall- Confetti Theme!

Choir Word Wall- Confetti Theme!

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Using contrasting orange and navy colors, this word wall will enhance your classroom (virtual or otherwise!). Each word prints on a 4"x8" card and can be printed in color or black and white. Terms are divided into 7 categories, allowing for easy application of the grid. There are over 50 terms total! Terms include (but are not limited to):Diction- Articulation, Diphthong, Liquid Consonants, Triphthong Elements of Music- Dynamics, Pitch, Rhythm, Texture Score Reading- Coda, da Capo, Fine, Measure
Preview of The Attitude Game

The Attitude Game

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Let's face it: who hasn't experienced a bad case of "diva soprano" in their choir? What director hasn't had to put out fires concerning concert dress code, clashing personalities, or seemingly biased audition results? In this game, students must come up with positive and negative reactions to classroom scenarios designed to help them navigate the subjective world of performance. 16 scenarios are included. *This game is included in the Choir Games Growing Bundle*
Preview of Solfege Wars: Intermediate Level

Solfege Wars: Intermediate Level

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A long-term resource for inspiring sight-singing in your choir. There are three levels of Solfege Wars:Beginner: The key is identified for singers. Emphasis is placed on recognizing stepwise motion, skips, and leaps. Intermediate: Students must identify all 12 major key signatures. Emphasis is placed on understanding sharps and flats and finding “Do”. Advanced: Students must identify minor key signatures and accidentals within major/minor keys. Emphasis is placed on major/minor relationships and
Preview of Interval Ace: 3 Games to Review Sight-Reading Intervals

Interval Ace: 3 Games to Review Sight-Reading Intervals

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If your choir struggles to recognize intervals on paper, try these 3 simple card games designed reinforce intervals in common keys and clefs. It's a great activity for a substitute or for small group instruction time. Deck A may also be used as flashcards. Includes 2 Decks of Cards and 3 Games: Pitch Pipe (similar to Spoons) You Wish (Go Fish) Tri-Tone! (similar to Old Maid)
Preview of The Attitude Game: 2nd Edition

The Attitude Game: 2nd Edition

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Following in the footsteps of The Attitude Game (First Edition), the 2nd edition focuses on interpersonal conflict and self-confidence. In this game, students must come up with positive and negative reactions to classroom scenarios designed to help them build confidence and work together. 16 scenarios are included. *This game is included in the Choir Games Growing Bundle*
Preview of Villains: a Comprehensive STEAM plan (Unit 3 Only)

Villains: a Comprehensive STEAM plan (Unit 3 Only)

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Villains is a comprehensive STEAM unit of study geared toward middle and high school students. This resource includes the third of five units in the comprehensive plan. Lesson 1 provides students with vocabulary related to scenic design and construction. Lesson 2 uses measurement and practical math to understand the process of creating an appropriately-sized 3D model. In Lesson 3, students will combine this new knowledge to create a 2D or 3D model of their villain's lair. Included in this downlo
Preview of Art Song Show & Tell

Art Song Show & Tell

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This resource is an unique project designed for the choir director who wears many hats. While preparing individual students for contest, use this activity to engage students in learning about vocal literature from the 20th century and earlier. Google Slide project includes: project instructions, examples of student work, 100+ song suggestions, and separate Google Form used to navigate students through the research process. After purchase, please download your individual copy of the Art Song Goog
Preview of Art Song Show & Tell

Art Song Show & Tell

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Changing Meter
This resource is an unique project designed for the choir director who wears many hats. While preparing individual students for contest, use this activity to engage students in learning about vocal literature from the 20th century and earlier. Google Slide project includes: project instructions, examples of student work, 100+ song suggestions, and separate Google Form used to navigate students through the research process. After purchase, please download your individual copy of the Art Song Goog
Preview of Villians: a Comprehensive STEAM Unit (Unit 2 Only)

Villians: a Comprehensive STEAM Unit (Unit 2 Only)

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Villains is a comprehensive STEAM unit of study geared toward middle and high school students. This resource includes the first of five units in the comprehensive plan, with a sneak-peak at the complete STEAM resource (available November 2019). Unit 2 (Lessons 1 & 2) provides students opportunities to explore famous themes and songs sung by and about villains. Students will analyze texts from songs to develop an understanding of a specific character's motives, appearance, and character traits.
Preview of Scale Builders Relay Race

Scale Builders Relay Race

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Entertain your music classes with this face-paced music theory review game. Teams must race against each other to construct scales and win points. Game includes 40 major, natural minor, and harmonic minor scales in bass and treble clef. (Alto clef available by request...please contact me). Each round of the game gets progressively harder and can be played as a final assessment in one sitting, or as unit assessments throughout the school year. *This product is included in the Choir Growing Game
Preview of Villains: a Comprehensive STEAM plan (Unit 1 Only)

Villains: a Comprehensive STEAM plan (Unit 1 Only)

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Changing Meter
Villains is a comprehensive STEAM unit of study geared toward middle and high school students. This resource includes the first of five units in the comprehensive plan, with a sneak-peak at the complete STEAM resource (available November 2019). Unit 1 (Lessons 1 & 2) provides students with background knowledge about villain archetypes. Students will practice crafting an origin story for a Broadway villain, using cause and effect to explain the transformation into villainy. Included in this dow
Preview of Post-Concert Circle-Share

Post-Concert Circle-Share

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Think outside the box this concert season by ditching the standard post-concert discussion for a more hands-on approach. Use the Circle-Share to get small groups of students talking about the quality of their performance after a concert.
Preview of Choir Summative: Cantate Domino by Pitoni

Choir Summative: Cantate Domino by Pitoni

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This product accompanies the free CMP lesson plan for "Cantate Domino" by Guiseppe Pitoni. Allow students to track the information gathered while rehearsing or use as a summative assessment or concert makeup assignment.
Preview of Black History Month: Popular Music Bingo

Black History Month: Popular Music Bingo

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Celebrate Black History Month all year long with this bingo game featuring black music and artists. Each bingo card features the name and image of a popular black artist. Each clue gives detailed information about the following topics: Composers Cultural Movements Historic Compositions Instruments/Instrumentalists Genres Landmarks Musicals/Operas Performers Vocabulary CCSS (Iowa Music Ensembles and Social Sciences) provided with works cited.
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About the store

Experience

A 10-year veteran teacher specializing in vocal music. I have taught K-12 general music and choir as well as private piano and voice lessons. In my "free time" I direct musical theater, both in the educational and community theater settings.

Teaching style

I'd call my teaching style "eclectic". I like to work with my students to understand their interests and I use music to enhance those interests. Sometimes this means warming up a choir with yoga set to Gregorian chant. Other times, it means being downright silly with first graders or playing rock band instruments with middle school. No matter what, I definitely have lot of fun exploring teaching with my kiddos!

Awards & shining teacher moments

I had my first "Hey, Mrs. Fisher, I'm going to college to be a Music Teacher" moment this year! One of my 4-year choir students who was always the odd-kid-out finally found her niche and will be studying to become a music teacher. I couldn't be more proud!

My own education history

B.A. in Music Education, Augustana College 2010 M.M.E., Choral Pedagogy, Illinois State University 2017

Additional biographical information

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