Picking Great Action Songs for your Educational Music Games
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Teaching music to children can be a very challenging task since kids have very short attention span. If children in your class are bored they will quickly get fidgety and disruptive to the rest of the class. If you use your creativity in music classes like this you’ll quickly become a very effective teacher. Using [...]
What is the Kodaly Method?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010The Kodaly Method, which is also known as the Kodaly Concept, is an approach to music education, developed in Hungary during the mid 20th century. It was named after the Hungarian educator and composer Zoltan Kodaly. Though the method is named after him, it wasn’t actually created by him. The Kodaly concept of music uses [...]
Technical Q&A about Music Theory Fun Sheets
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Technical Questions How long do i need to wait until I get access to the product, and do I need to wait for email confirmation? Our members area uses the Amember management system – this allows you to choose your own username and password, and once your payment is confirmed you should be able to [...]
What to do if a student refuses to complete their music theory worksheet
Monday, March 29th, 2010Learning Music Theory is an essential part of becoming a musician. Like it or not, music students are going to have to face the fact that there is no other choice but to sit down with a pencil in the hand and make the music theory study happen. A search for “music theory” on twitter [...]
What exactly ARE Music Theory Fun Sheets?
Monday, March 29th, 2010What exactly ARE Music Theory Fun Sheets? Music Theory Fun Sheets are Worksheets designed for music teachers to use in music classes and for individual theory instruction. They are supplied in Digital Format so that you self print them – as many times as you need! Music Theory Fun Sheets are not normal worksheets because: [...]
Using Music to help preschoolers.
Monday, March 29th, 2010A wonderful time in most children’s lives is the preschool years. The preschool child is protected a lot from the outside world, and they have no exams to do or great expectations of them at school or kindy. If music is a part of a child’s life they can blossom into a fine adult in [...]
Making your lesson plans fun for primary school children
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010If you’ve been a teacher of young children’s classes you’ll know one very important thing: you always need have a lesson plan. That is, if you want to end the day in a positive frame of mind! A lesson plan doesn’t have to be complex, and teachers who have been in the game a while [...]
A classroom music lesson about Franz Joseph Haydn
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Planning music lessons? here are a couple of ideas to help you create some fun music resources for your lessons. Encourage the students to pretend that they are Prince Esterhazy, and that they are looking for a new Kapellmeister. Ask them to write a job advertisement outlining the duties of the position and the type [...]
Classroom Music Games – Music Treasure Hunt
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Select 4 contrasting instruments (any that you like…for example a scraping sound, a hitting sound, a shaking sound and a pitched percussion or barred instrument) Each instrument will represent a sound (left, right, forward, backward). Practice moving around the room to the sounds. Choose 4 students to play instruments, 1 to be the “treasure hunter” [...]
A great listening idea for learning about Franz Joseph Haydn
Thursday, March 18th, 2010A recording of this work can be found on video at
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