My name is Jennifer & I am an elementary music teacher, clinician, & blogger with 30 years experience. My goal is to provide sequential, student-centered resources that are simple to execute & engage students!
In the Hall of the Mountain King is an elementary music favorite! This listening resource includes: Information about the composerInformation about themeInformation about dynamicsInformation about tempoIt also includes opportunities for: Focused listeningRhythmic readingMelodic directionThis file is in PowerPoint. You will need PowerPoint to play one important aspect of this resource. Due to copyright, the recording of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is not included. You may also be inter
Do you love using children's literature in your elementary music classroom? Explore some of my favorite books and the lessons I use to teach musical concepts & skills! From simply singing, to exploring Dynamics and Tempo, music vocabulary, timbre, and instrument families - there is something for every grade level! Resources included in this bundle: Fancy NancyDown By the BayFiddle-I-FeeListen to the RainMeet the Marching BandThe Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of AnythingThe Remarkable Fark
Do your students love singing games in music? Jingle, Jingle is a passing game, where a student has to guess who has the jingle bell! Your students will love singing and passing the jingle bell around the circle! To extend the activity, there are also slides exploring the different bells used in music and connecting them to the percussion family. Students can explore steady beat by playing the bells along with the song. Students can also learn the historical significance of why horses wore b
Do your students love singing games in music? Pass the Candy Cane is a passing game, similar to Pass the Witches Broomstick. Your students will love singing and passing the candy cane around the circle! To extend the activity, there are also slides exploring traits of a melody. Using the method of "testing a hypothesis" - your students will discover all the traits of a melody used within Pass the Candy Cane. Additionally, there are coloring sheets and a Traits of a Melody Assessment included
Super Sonic Tonic Turkey is a tonal pattern sorting game for the Music Learning Theory Inspired classroom. The game is designed to help reinforce active listening, audition, labeling of function and music vocabulary. Students hear a tonal pattern sung and must sort the pattern based on what they hear. When the correct answer is given, the turkey does a funny dance. When the wrong answer is given, the turkey is served for dinner. This fun game is perfect for students of all ages! This game was c
Do your students love singing games in music? Snowball is a passing game and a call & response song! Your students will love singing the song and having a snowball fight at the end of the song! To extend the activity, there are also slides exploring the musical styles, call & response. Additionally, there are coloring sheets and a Call & Response Assessment included in the set. Snowball comes as both a PDF and PowerPoint and is compatible with Google Slides. ********************************
Who doesn't love getting a special letter or note in the mail? Postman is a fun interactive rhythm pattern reading activity! Students click on a letter to open it up to find a rhythm pattern. They can practice reading the pattern or to provide an additional challenge, students can improvise a new pattern. Level 1 contains patterns using quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rest patterns in duple (4/4) meter. Level 2 contains patterns using sixteenth notes and sixteenth notes combinations
Singing Snowmen is a fun, easy way for students to practice their audiaition and discrimination skills through tonal patterns. Game One - Students listen to two tonal patterns and decide if they are same or different. Game Two - Students listen to a tonal pattern and classify it as major tonic (any combination of Do-Mi-So). Game Three - Students listen to a tonal pattern and classify it as major tonic or dominant (any combination of Do-Mi-So or So-Fa-Re-Ti). Game Four - Students listen to a t
Rhythm Reindeer Games (MLT Edition) is a fun, easy way for students to practice their audiation and rhythmic reading skills! Students will listen to a rhythm pattern chanted and have to choose from one of two rhythm patterns pictured below the reindeer. Get a correct answer and you just might get on Santa's Nice List! This resource was created in PowerPoint and requires that program to play. Workarounds for teachers without access to PowerPoint may on my blog post, Workarounds for Microso
Rhythm Reindeer Games (MLT Edition) is a fun, easy way for students to practice their audiation and rhythmic reading skills! Students will listen to a rhythm pattern chanted and have to choose from one of two rhythm patterns pictured below the reindeer. Get a correct answer and you just might get on Santa's Nice List! This resource was created in PowerPoint and requires that program to play. Workarounds for teachers without access to PowerPoint may on my blog post, Workarounds for Microso
Rhythm Reindeer Games (MLT Edition) is a fun, easy way for students to practice their audiation and rhythmic reading skills! Students will listen to a rhythm pattern chanted and have to choose from one of two rhythm patterns pictured below the reindeer. Get a correct answer and you just might get on Santa's Nice List! This resource was created in PowerPoint and requires that program to play. Workarounds for teachers without access to PowerPoint may on my blog post, Workarounds for Microso
Fireworks is an adorable chant to get kids moving, chanting and playing with vocal exploration. Chants and nursery rhymes provide a rich context of rhythm, steady beat, vocabulary development, and storytelling! Rhythm & Rhymes provides music teachers with a variety of tools to teach our youngest students beloved nursery rhymes in a musical setting. Each set includes Slides with the nursery rhymeSlides with rhythmic notationSteady beat trackersStory sequence cards Rhythmic puzzles with notat
Singing Snowmen is a fun, easy way for students to practice their audiation and discrimination skills through tonal patterns. Students listen to two major tonal patterns and have to decide if the tonal patterns are the same or different. There are 24 tonal patterns in all. This resource was created in PowerPoint and is saved as a .ppsx file. Workarounds for teachers without access to PowerPoint are also included. *************************************************************************** Cust
Rhythm Reindeer Games (Kodaly Edition) is a fun, easy way for students to practice their inner hearing and rhythmic reading skills! Students will listen to a rhythm pattern chanted and have to choose from one of two rhythm patterns pictured below the reindeer. Get a correct answer and you just might get on Santa's Nice List! #musiccrewkodaly This resource was created in PowerPoint and requires that program to play. Workarounds for teachers without access to PowerPoint may on my blog post,
Snowball Fight is an interactive rhythm game to help reinforce active listening, audiation, reading and improvisation skills. Throw a snowball and a rhythm pattern will appear. You can read the pattern for students, have them read it for themselves, practice labeling function or improvising new patterns. This fun game is perfect for students of all ages! This game includes patterns with quarter notes, eighth notes and quarter rests. This game was created in PowerPoint and requires that program
Singing Snowmen is a fun, easy way for students to practice their audiation and discrimination skills through tonal patterns. Students listen to a major tonal pattern and have to classify the tonal pattern as major tonic or no. There are 24 tonal patterns in all This resource was created in PowerPoint and is saved as a .ppsx file. Workarounds for teachers without access to PowerPoint are also included. *************************************************************************** Customer Tips:
Snowball Fight is an interactive rhythm game to help reinforce active listening, audiation, reading and improvisation skills. Throw a snowball and a rhythm pattern will appear. You can read the pattern for students, have them read it for themselves, practice labeling function or improvising new patterns. This fun game is perfect for students of all ages! This game includes patterns with dotted quarter notes, eighth notes and dotted quarter rests. This game was created in PowerPoint and require
Colorful Recorder Fingering Charts are the perfect addition for any music classroom! This Distressed Wood set includes six different colors that can be mixed or matched in any combination that suits you! Recorder fingerings included are: C, D, E, F, F#, G, A,A#/Bb, B, high C, D, and E. You might also be interested in SingToKids Recorder ItemsMatching Anchor Charts for the MLT Inspired Classroom*************************************************************************** Customer Tips: Did you kn
Singing Snowmen is a fun, easy way for students to practice their audiation and discrimination skills through tonal patterns. Students listen to a major tonal pattern and have to decide if the tonal pattern is a major tonic or major dominant pattern. There are 24 tonal patterns in all. This resource was created in PowerPoint and is saved as a .ppsx file. Workarounds for teachers without access to PowerPoint are also included. ******************************************************************
Singing Snowmen is a fun, easy way for students to practice their audiation and reading skills through tonal patterns. Students listen to a major tonal pattern and have to read the two patterns below to determine which one they heard. There are 24 tonal patterns in all. This resource was created in PowerPoint and is saved as a .ppsx file. Workarounds for teachers without access to PowerPoint are also included. *************************************************************************** Custome
My name is Jennifer & I am an elementary music teacher, clinician, & blogger with 30 years experience. My goal is to provide sequential, student-centered resources that are simple to execute & engage students!
Teaching style
K-5 Elementary General Music
Early Childhood Music
Music Learning Theory
Educational Technology
Awards & shining teacher moments
I am co-author of Q & A for MLT and the Jump Right In: Kindergarten Music Series, as well as a contributor on several other publications. I was named Michigan Music Educator of the Year and Arts Educator of the Year in 2018. I am part of the faculty for the Gordon Institute for Music Learning (GIML) and a clinician for music education conferences throughout the United States.
My own education history
I hold a B.M. in performance from Michigan State University, teacher certification from the University of Houston, and a M.M. Ed. from Temple University. I am an early childhood and elementary general music instructor for the Gordon Institute for Music Learning and is level one certified in Orff-Schulwerk.
Additional biographical information
I live in Farmington with my son, three dogs. I enjoy gardening, walking, biking, swimming, yoga, and being active in my community.
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