MTCT #32 Teaching Dynamics and Tempo

In this episode, Carrie and Tanya discuss their favorite resources and strategies to teach dynamics and tempo.

Dynamics

Songs:
Grizzly Bear
Going on a Bear Hunt
Lullabies - video of kids from Zimbabwe rocking their shoes
Lucy Locket
Blacksnake
Hey Betty Martin (find source for B section)

Resources:
Denise Gagne Listening Books
Sew Much Music TPT Coloring by Dynamics

Listening Lessons:
Percy Grainger: Over the Hills and Far Away (Children’s March)
Mozart: Overture to Marriage of Figaro
Haydn: Surprise Symphony
Elgar: The Wagon Passes
Music K8 Forte Piano song   

Books:

All the Pretty Little Horses

Hush Little Baby

Thump, Thump, Rat-a-Tat-Tat

Mortimer

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Tempo

Songs and Chants:
Engine Engine #9
She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
Page’s Train

Jim Along Josie

Cobbler Cobbler

There’s a Cobbler Down the Street

Sarasponda

Old Joe Clark

Resources:

• David Row Word Wall

Listening Lessons:

Sweet Honey in the Rock - Little Red Caboose

Villa-Lobos - Little Train of the Caipira

Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King

Books:
Little Engine that Could

Songs:

Page's Train

Engine Engine #9

Jim Along Josie

Cobbler, Cobbler

There's a Cobbler Down the Street

Sarasponda

Movement/Dance

The Kindergarten Reel notes from the Amidons (New England Dance Masters)

(scroll down to the middle of the page for the recording!)

Kindergarten Reel
Fjaskern (Shenanigans)

Work Smarter, Not Harder

Aileen Miracle Brass Slideshow

QR code generator

Coda

Book: Station Eleven

“Because survival is insufficient.”

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