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    Music Teaching Tips: Teaching about Peter and The Wolf in the Music Classroom

    Monday, August 1st, 2011

    Share I’ve just stumbled across this set of very cool YouTube videos which would be relevant for teaching upper primary about Peter and the Wolf and the Instruments of the Orchestra. Click here to check out the story of Peter and The Wolf on Video   This is the story of Peter and the Wolf [...]

    Keeping Students Engaged in Music Lessons

    Saturday, June 18th, 2011

    Share I’ve just found  a very nice  article written by a talented K-8 music teacher, Monica Attel who shares some of here her best tips and tricks with teaching young children. In the article, she suggests that wearing hats works for her, because it’s a way of providing a gimmick or a comic theme (referred [...]

    Why Jazz and Blues should be taught in the Music Classroom

    Monday, January 31st, 2011

    Share Since we’ve been making music teaching resources, we’ve found out through our surveys that topics like Jazz and Blues hardly ever get covered in the junior high school or middle school. Even looking back on my own personal teaching experience, I have to now ashamedly confess, it was a topic I never taught much [...]

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