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Aileen Miracle
June 24, 2015

Pool noodle rhythms

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Today I'm once again linking up with Tracy King/ The Bulletin Board Lady at mrskingrocks.blogspot.com to write about a summer project: pool noodle rhythms! My summer project is actually inspired by the one and only Tracy King! I found this awesome blog post about  pool noodle rhythms  on her blog and decided I had to try it out.  There are so many reasons I think her idea is fabulous, but to list a few: It's a GREAT activity for those tactile learners! It's a wonderful way to show length of rhythms. It's a great way to practice meter/ time signature. It's a brilliant way to do gr…

June 14, 2015

Musical Road Trip: Rhythm

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Hi everyone! I'm excited to be the first stop on a blog hop with other music teachers, called "Musical Road Trip"! The idea of a blog hop is that each stop will be about a different musical topic. The first stop will be with me, in Ohio, about rhythm! If you are a blogger and/or TpT seller, make sure to read the directions at the end of the post to link up a blog post and/or a rhythmic product for sale! Rhythm is such an expansive topic. I've blogged many times about different aspects of rhythm, but today I thought I'd blog about different ways to approach reviewing and pra…

June 08, 2015

Solfa Cubes

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Hi everyone! I hope you are enjoying summer...or are very close to getting out of school! So I'm excited to be linking up with Tracy King at Mrs. King Rocks for her Summer Project Linky. I'm hoping to link up as often as I can, so I can force myself to prepare all of those ideas I've learned about at workshops, classes, or blogs, for use in my classroom this upcoming year! This week I am blogging about solfa cubes. I think I learned this from Joan Litman, my amazing Level III Kodaly instructor at Capital University....but I don't remember for sure. (And I just found out about thi…

June 07, 2015

All About the Books

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Hi everyone! So I've had a few of you request lyrics for a video I recently posted to my Facebook page. I figured I'd post it here so that everyone can read! Every year, my principal asks me to put together a skit for the end of the year, to either perform live at the end-of-the-year assembly, or record and show to the students and parents. The purpose of the skit is to promote reading throughout the summer. I had several teachers request that we perform "All about the books," based on Meghan Trainor's "All about the bass." I found this skit recorded by the Nashvi…

June 03, 2015

Five Favorite Pins of June

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Hi everyone! Today I'd like to bring my linky party, "Five favorite pins," back for the month of June! If you are a blogger, feel free to link up. Just see the directions at the end of this post. #1: Folk music anchor chart Being a Kodaly-inspired teacher, I use folk music ALL THE TIME. So I love the idea of making an anchor chart all about folk music! Sometimes, when a discussion about folk music is not had, kids end up thinking that I make up all of the songs, which is really funny and endearing but of course not true. We want our kids to know all about folk music, and what a grea…

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