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Welcome to my music room - just open the Blue Door! Covid is on the wane (we hope) and now is the time to visit new music for your primary classroom! These songs contains themes that will delight young children - and the Remembrance Day song is suitable for any Elementary school age choir. Most of them include optional actions, either body, non-pitched, or pitched percussion instruments. Complete with guitar chords and piano accompaniment! Give it a try and have fun!

This teacher-friendly product takes an innovative look at the word 'entitlement'. Intended for students grades 6 through 8, The Entitlement project is hands-on. The objective is for students to understand entitlement by walking in someone else's shoes. The project can be completed over several weeks, or a full term and involves stories, small and large group activities, writing, studying the world and its environment, and an art component. This thoughtful project has been enjoyed by gra

This activity challenges your students to re-write the lyrics to three well-known Christmas songs/carols. They will enjoy working individually or with a partner to test their rhyming skills and their creative abilities! This seasonal activity can be incorporated into a larger lesson on poetry or creative writing!

A great in-class or online activity!! The power of the expressive and invisible voice that has been lost in our visual age. In the 1940s radio's sightless voice was both news and entertainment! Radio Hallowe'en allows students to practice their expressive voice by reading short stories (included in product). Reading from behind a screen, or just with a flashlight in a darkened room, how do we use our voices, and what is the most powerful - the visible or the invisible? This activity really

A great activity for students grades 2-4 who have a natural interest and ability in writing, or as a whole-class activity for older students, Mixed-up fairy tales introduces students to story summary while enjoying the fun of the fortune-teller game. Students draw scenes, and record 8 summary sentences onto a paper fortune teller and enjoy re-telling their story with friends - but all mixed up! Works very well with small groups - gifted and talented.

A great addition to your music class - or classroom! A hallowe'en-themed song that offers up a great song, class participation and a re-producible drawing component as well. You can even extend this song for older students and discuss nouns and adjectives! A classroom-tested success!

What has happened to Valentine's Day? Work through the story, clues and activities to discover how to find the answer to this mystery! Ideal for grade 5/6 students, this activity is suitable for both individual and group work. Draw, write, and create and explore Valentine's Day! Lots of fun!

WASH YOUR HANDS! This is a perfect chant for music class! Ideal for primary classrooms, it uses the Who, What, Why, When, Where, and How to discuss the importance of washing our hands! Scored as a chant, with suggested non-pitched instruments, it works equally well with body patsching. In these challenging times of COVID-19 this piece is suitable for small groups - and later on for whole class learning. Please enjoy! In keeping with the ethics of not copying sheet music, 3 copies are inclu

Initially designed for advanced learners in primary grades, Scarecrows in difference places can also be applied to the general classroom. This activity allows children to be creative with design and Hallowe'en characters, while at the same time applying their knowledge of geography, as they take their scarecrows out of the cornfield and into diverse parts of the world!

Turtle Bell is the delightful song about a quiet little turtle swimming in the deep blue sea. Scored for SA choir, this song-video supplements the choral arrangement and is the perfect addition to any primary level music class. It features Lily-June Meyer as vocalist, with Bonnie Ishii on ukulele. With its singable music and thoughtful lyrics (captioned on video*) children will enjoy hearing about little Mary Myrtle! Turtle Bell music and lyrics, and illustrated video were created and produ

Moo's No-Moosic Music is here to offer you another great song to re-style as a chant while we wait for COVID to clear! This song will attract upper intermediate/lower secondary school students with its driving rhythm. It offers plenty of opportunities to explore word articulation, dynamics and the power of the voice. Students will enjoy collaborating with the teacher to develop unique sounds as they chant the lyrics. Scored for unison voice, with piano accompaniment and chords, if offers mul

Creative thought is not limited to the Language Arts domain. We need to be good writers across the curriculum. Micro-Macro is a writing activity designed to encourage Primary age students to ask questions that evoke their imagination, curiosity and sense of wonder - in the Sciences. Originally designed for Primary-age enrichment students, this simple activity is not limited to select pupils. **At this age level, children are not always physically comfortable writing, but they can still ask t

A great reproducible! Creative writing activity for intermediate students. Taking ordinary, things and re-imagining them! This package features 6 everyday things and asks students to write about them - not as they typically see them - but as something out of the ordinary! There can't be a wrong answer here so students are not at risk of getting it wrong! All they have to do is apply their imaginations to these objects and then share with their peers what they saw, when they looked beyond!

This activity is great for small groups of students, such as advanced learners. You are running for Mayor of the city. You are going to be faced with some tough, possibly unexpected questions and you will need to be able to answer them! Not only do students develop the ability to think on the spot - it also connects to public speaking - a part of many Elementary school upper intermediate curricula!

Poor little Missy! Her life is a mess! Until she is rescued from a dog shelter by two loving and caring people! See how her life changes! This charming video, based on the Missy-the-One-Eyed Dog book series, will inspire lots of comments and questions from your students as they follow Missy's real-life adventures. An excellent beginning to a classroom discussion on caring and respect, Missy-the-One-Eyed Dog has been enjoyed by many primary school students already!

While the world waits for COVID to fade, let's sing we and CHANT it! This fun piece works extremely well as a chant! Add simple hand movements, and it's a sure hit with students aged K through 4 (and maybe even older!) Scored for voice with piano accompaniment and chords. Enjoy!

Covid! Why not write about it? This creative writing activity references Ovid's The Metamorphoses in conjunction with Covid. Intended for secondary students, although also possible with upper intermediate students - as an extension of a social studies unit on Ancient Rome. Additionally it can be linked to a scientific investigation of the Covid virus as part of a larger integrated study into the virus. This writing assignment is intended to encourage students to write creatively about somet

Fine-motor skills are a challenge for many students. This free resource offers students the fun of writing their thoughts in words, and in a picture. Enlarge the paper and turn it into a longer-term class activity or use as a language arts warm-up!