More beginning of the year songs and games here:
Music Teacher Coffee Talk #22: Songs, Games, and Activities for the First Days of School
Also check out this episode:
Music Teacher Coffee Talk #23: Back to School Procedures
Book: Little Green
King's Land: The King went to Boston (I don't know where or when I changed this to London!)
Omochio Tsukimasho
Translation:
Omochio Tsukimasho: We are going to make smashed rice.
Petanko: The sound of smashing the rice.
Konete: The sound of flattening the rice.
Tom tom tom: Just a sound.
Hand Clapping Game:
Partners face each other. One person maintains the pulse with left hand out palm up and right hand gently
tapping with a large distance in between. The second person will do the following:
m.1-2: Tap the 8th note rhythm with right hand on top of flat left hand.
m.3-4: Gently tap the right hand on the left for all the downbeats and tap the partner's outstretched hand on
the upbeats when speaking the -an of Pentanko.
m.5-6: Gently tap the right hand on the left for all the downbeats and when speaking -te of Konete and
"draw" a flat circle with the right hand above the partner's outstretched left hand when speaking the upbeats
for kone- of Konete.
m.7-8: Clap hands together below, between, and above the partner's pulse in the following pattern: bottom,
middle, top (wait); top, middle, bottom (wait); bottom, middle, top, middle, bottom, middle, top.
YouTube video with slightly different pattern: https://bit.ly/2YWXXTO
Boom Snap Clap!
Adams Family Cup Passing Game
Shameless Plugs!
Tanya's upcoming 2019 workshops:
Sept. 7th
Rocky Mountain West Orff Chapter: Singing Games to Jump Start Your School Year
Sept. 21st
AKTS (Arizona Kodály Teachers Society)
Music Literacy for all! Songs, Games, Manipulatives and Assessments in the Music Classroom
Sept. 28th
OKE (Oklahoma Kodály Educators)
Musical Intentions: Incorporating Mindfulness and Including Scaffolding in the Kodály Classroom
University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma
Carrie's upcoming workshop:
Sept. 28th (Fort Collins, CO) :
ROCKE presents Keep Them Engaged! Student Engagement and Classroom Management in the Elementary Music Classroom
Coda (what we are enjoying in and out of the music room)
Happy musiking!Tanya's upcoming 2019 workshops:
Sept. 7th
Rocky Mountain West Orff Chapter: Singing Games to Jump Start Your School Year
Sept. 21st
AKTS (Arizona Kodály Teachers Society)
Music Literacy for all! Songs, Games, Manipulatives and Assessments in the Music Classroom
Sept. 28th
OKE (Oklahoma Kodály Educators)
Musical Intentions: Incorporating Mindfulness and Including Scaffolding in the Kodály Classroom
University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma
Carrie's upcoming workshop:
Sept. 28th (Fort Collins, CO) :
ROCKE presents Keep Them Engaged! Student Engagement and Classroom Management in the Elementary Music Classroom
Coda (what we are enjoying in and out of the music room)
Carrie:
Tanya:
