Mark Goldstein

Modeling - The teacher will draw the five parallel liines on the board explaining that in music this is called a "staff" and that musical notes have names and are written on a staff. She can then proceed to assign the names to the lines: e g b d f. She can then proceed to draw a G clef on the staff explaining to the students how she is doing that - especially that the G clef ends on the line named "G" which is why it is called a G clef. Then I would suggest that she ha

This is a group lesson for students to rehearse and practice the rhythms of 1, 2 and 1 2 3 4. Have the students sit on the floor in a circle legs criss cross apple sauce. You the teacher should be part of the circle sitting on the floor with your students. You the teacher are leading the group in this exercise. Its important that everyone start and end together as you sing and clap the rhythms to the songs. This is primarily a rhythm exercise so it is important that students tap a ste

This lesson combines tapping and counting rhythms with stop n go dancing if time permits.Rhythm is basic to music so its important to continually reinforce time and tapping every week. In this exercise, the kids sit in a circle along with the teacher on the floor crisscross applesauce. They can use their hands to tap the rhythm 1 and 2 on their knees while they count out loud. After a minute or two of just tapping and counting, add a song to tap to beginning with, Tie My shoe, up

Many times thruout a school day, students end up having "free" time cos of perhaps they have finished their assignments early, "have nothing to do", there work needs to wait for something before they can go foreward, etc. I've found that many students do not use their free time in a productive way so I assign those students a writing assignment. Whatever the reason, writing can always fill up the slack in a classroom day. Students can write with pencil and paper for extra credit or ju