I apologize, this school year has had just a crazy start! And I can't seem to get caught up, but hopefully I'm finding a groove and will be back to blogging on a more regular schedule!
In my last post I mentioned this product but didn't go into too much detail, so I thought I'd share some snippets of it:
It's a Collection of Songs and PDF's for Halloween. Right now there are 18 songs (although there are 2 more that I want to add) and 8 PDF files (which will be added to, maybe not this year but next for sure).
The 8 songs that have PDFs are:
1. Miss White, which is a GREAT chant for ta and ti-ti with first grade. I LOVE that each line has a different rhythm! Here's a rhythm Prep Slide:
2. This one if from the "Pumpkin Patch" song, which contains low la & low ti, but is GREAT for third grade for reading tika-tika. Here's a couple rhythm preparation slides:
And here it is practicing tika-tika:
I've also included the melodic slides that students can read from, if they know ti.
3. Black Cat: this is great for 1st and 2nd grades. Melodically they can't read it (and it's too immature for the upper grades to read) but it has a great descending melodic line at the end that you can have them play on step bells and there's also a small Orff accompaniment part included in the song packet.
Rhythmically, it's great for teaching quarter rest. Here's an iconic preparation slide:
4. El Reloj do la Calavera. This is a favorite of mine! I learned it from Carol Brown during my level IV Kodály class at Portland State University, over 10 years ago and I use it EVERY year!
My third graders aren't able to read ti-tika and we're not preparing it yet, so I use it for review with my 4th and 5th graders. It's fun to act out.
The clock strikes ONE
There are ti-tika preparation slides (as shown below) as well as practice slides. It's a chant, which helps make the Spanish a little more accessible to non-Spanish speaking students. I use to teaching in a 75% Spanish fluent school. At my current school 99% are English speaking with less then 1% ESL.
5. This is an all-time favorite of mine and I include two versions. I know it as "Witch, Witch," but a lot of people know it as "Old Mother Witch." A PDF is included for both versions:
Both PDF files include a lyric slide:
Beat slides,
Iconic rhythm slides:
Iconic melodic preparation slides (without the staff)
Iconic melodic preparation slides on the staff:
Notational melodic practice slides.
6. Pumpkin, Pumpkin, another favorite. Okay, I admit it, I love them all! This is great for do-pentatonic reading and also for tika-tika.
A lyric slide,
Rhythmic iconic preparation slides
Rhythmic iconic preparation slides with known rhythms:
Rhythm practice slide:
Melodic preparation slides:
Melodic preparation slides with known solfége
Melodic presentation slide:
Melodic iconic practice slides
Melodic notational practice slides in F-do:
7. Old Mother Witch (is similar to Witch, Witch)
8. Halloween, Halloween, which also has an Orff accompaniment.
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