#1 ACADEMIC INTEGRATION OF MUSIC AND OTHER DISCIPLINES: (includes Art-- Computers & Music-- General Curriculum Ideas-- Geography-- History/Social Studies-- Mathematics-- Reading/Writing/Language Arts-- Poetry-- Physical Education-- Resources Science-- Whole Brain Teaching (article)-- Project to Increase Test Scores: First Grade;)
#2 AFRICAN AMERICAN (Composers--Books--Drumming--Follow the Drinking Gourd - Ideas--Instruments--Lessons and Ideas--Movement and Dance--Program Ideas--Songs--Recordings--Videos--Web Sites--Dr. Martin Luther King--Decorations--Pronunciation--Using Recorders;)
#4 AMERICAN SONG HISTORY (Songs: Alphabetical--Songs by Era--Colonists--Revolutionary War--Appalachian Mountains--Pioneers--Pioneers: Lewis & Clark--Pioneers: John Colter--Pioneers: Hugh Glass--Pioneers: Wagon Trains--Pioneers: Lost Caravan--Pioneers: Donner Party--Native Americans--Slavery--Civil War--Inner U.S. Shipping (Great Lakes--etc.,)--Whaling--Cowboys--Railroads--Country Music--Star Spangled Banner--Gold Rush--Erie Canal--Great Lakes--Stephen Foster--Minstrels--Early 1900's--Patriotism--State Songs--Blues--Jazz See also JAZZ #23--Bluegrass--Folk-- Rock and Roll--Script-"The White Table," Also see decades alphabetically in file #53 THEME IDEAS E-O/Forties (* Fifties)--#53 Theme Music Ideas: A-D and for Sixties/Seventies see #55 Theme Music Ideas: P-Z--(For "Star Spangled Banner--see --General Ideas--Bibliography--Additional Web Sites--Lessons--Books--Videos)
#5 BULLETIN BOARDS (Bulletin Boards--Chalk Boards ,Dry Erase Boards/Whiteboards--Room Decorations ,Magnetic Boards--Music Stands--Room Designs)
#6 CENTERS (Ideas--Organization ,Names of Centers ,Hardware: Earphones--etc., Evaluation--Star Spangled--Banner Center--Workgroups --Resources)
#7 CHINA • Books Songs ,Dance ,Dragons--Ideas--Lessons ,Chinese New Year ,Percussion ,Resources--Recordings--Ideas--Videos--Web Sites--Links)
#8 CHURCH MUSIC Adult Choirs--Banners--Bible Songs--Bible School--Camp--Children & Youth Repertoire-- For Chimes: see# 43 Pitched/Chimes--Combined Adult/Children's Choirs--Contemporary Worship--Drama--Drumming--Easter (Resources) --E-mail Lists--Funeral/Memorial Music--Gospel Music--Grandparents Program--Guitar/Ukelele Groups--Handbells/Tone Chimes--Liturgical Dance--Multicultural--Musicals--Orff Sacred Repetoire--Collections--Books--Pentecost Resources--Planning--Resources--Robes--Starting a New Choir--Suggestions & Ideas--Wedding Music Repetoire--Youth Choir)
#9 COMPOSERS - Also see file #2 African--African-American --#23 Jazz; [For #33 OPERA]-- Leroy ANDERSON--J. S. BACH[Activities--Worksheets--Websites]--"Johann S. BACH Becomes a "Bach" (script)--L. von BEETHOVEN [Web sites--Ideas--Fifth--Sextet in Eb(Rondo)-Call Chart--Fantasia 2000]-- L. BERNSTEIN--BIZET--J. BRAHMS [Idea--Variations on Haydn Theme-Call Chart]--B. BRITTENJohn CAGE--F. CHOPIN [Websites--Bio]--A. COPLAND [Bio Workseet--Ideas--Websites]--H. COWELL [Ideas--Banshee Lesson]--P. M. DAVIES--C. DEBUSSY--M. DEFALLA--P. DUKAS[Websites]- -A. DVORAK[Websites]-- -D. ELLINGTON [Website]--M. FISH--S. FOSTER[Websites]-- GERSHWIN--P. GRAINGER--[Website]--[GRIEG: see #46 Peter and the Wolf/Peer Gynt --F. J. HAYDN--Steve HEITZEG--G. HOLST [Planets Worksheet]--Charles IVES--Scott JOPLIN--D. KABALEVSKY--Karl KING--Zoltan KODALY--Franz LISZT--G. MAHLER--Felix MENDELSSOHN--W. A. MOZART [Web Sites--Ideas--Magic Flute--Recordings--Books--Videos--Twinkle Little Star--Serenata Nocturna]--M. MUSSORGSKY- For "PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION" see: #25 Listening/Pictures at an Exhibition--PACHELBEL--PROKOFIEV [Websites][See also file #36 Peter and the Wolf/Peer Gynt]--Maurice RAVEL [Website]--RESPIGHI--N. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV--ROSSINI [Videos--William Tell Lesson--Bio Lesson--Rossini's Ghost Worksheet][for C. SAINT SAENS-Carnival of the Animals--see #44 Saint Saens ]--SD. SCARLATTI [Websites]--SCHOENBERG--F. SCHUBERT [Websites--Theme & Variations Call Chart--G. SCHULLER--R. & C. SCHUMANN--Ruth SEEGER--J. SIBELIUS--J. P. SOUSA[Website]--William STILL--STRAUSS--STRAVINSKY[Firebird]--N. STOOKEY--F. von SUPPE--R. VAUGHN WILLIAMS--G. VERDI--H. VIEUXTEMPS--H. VILLA LOBOS--A. VIVALDI [Websites]--R. WAGNER--A. WEBER--< A HREF="#WILLIAMS">John Williams-- WOMEN COMPOSERS--General Web Sites--General Books General Videos--Composer Birthdays-- GENERAL CLASSROOM IDEAS (inc. curriculum--games)--Composer Room Rally
#10 COMPOSITION/IMPROVISATION (• Composition--Improvisation--Question-Answer Phrases --Rhyming--Composing Text--Rhythm Composition Rubric--Web Sites--Resources)
#11 CURRICULUM (Music Appreciation--Books--Resources ,Choral Curriculum ,Computers in Classroom--Cooperative Learning--Goals ,Music One Day per Week--Mapping--Multi-age Classrooms--Music Newsletter--No Texts!--Required Repertoire ,Routine ,Student Notebooks ,Submitting Required Plans ,Song Lists--Teacher Planning Notebooks--Web Sites)
#12 ELEMENTARY REPERTOIRE (Age Level Songs--Ballads (list)--Beginning of Year Songs--Boys--Call Response Songs--Camp Songs--Christmas/Winter--Echo Songs----Favorite Songs--General Repetoire-- (For "Graduation," see Program Ideas I (A-M))--Graduation--Grieving --Healing--Tragedy--Heroes--Inner City School--Lullabies--Multicultural --Music Folder--Musicals (Note: for Christmas musicals see: Holidays)--Musicals for Lower Elementary--Musicals for Upper Elementary--High School Musicals--Orff Songs--Ideas--Instruments--etc.----Piggyback Songs--web site--Sign Language Songs--Songs Eliminating Words--Star Spangled Banner (ideas)--Songs Children Should Know before 7th Grade--Train Songs--Websites)
#13 EVALUTATION & RECORD KEEPING (Audience Behavior Rubric--Evaluating--Goals--Keeping Track, Record Keeping--Rubrics--Self Assessing--Testing)
#14 FINGERPLAYS (Apple Tree--Bear in the Cave--Brow Benty--Climb Up the Ladder--Cobbler, Cobbler--Elf's Coat--Eye Winker--Five Little Puppies--Funny Little Man--Here Are Baby's Eyes--Here Sits Lord Mayor--Grandma's Spectacles--Here is a House--My House--Two Little Houses--I see theWind--Jack in the Box--Little Groundhog--Little Red Box--Little Miss Muffet--My Eyes Can See--The Garden--Round the Garden--My Hands--Rain--My Little Rabbit--My Little Snowman--Round About Wee Mouse --Showing Features--Slide in the Sea--Ten Little Firefighters--There Was a Little Turtle--Tom's House--Two Little Blackbirds)
#15 FIRST YEAR/FUNDRAISERS/MUSIC ON A CART/SPLIT GRADES (First Year Teacher--Fundraisers--Music on a Cart--Open House at School--Split Grades)
#16 FORM & OTHER ELEMENTS(Form ABA--Form AB--Form AABA-- D.C. al Fine, al Coda, Repeat, etc.,--Emotion--Fermata--Style--Fugue--Sonata--Theme & Variations--Question & Answer--Rondo--Tone Color, Texture--Online, Interactive--General Form Ideas)
#17 GAMES (Bingo Markers, ETC.,--Board Games --Concentration--Cup Games --Dynamics--Ear Training--Jeopardy --Melody & Rhythm--Movement --Multipurpose--Online Interactive Games --Passing Objects to a Beat --Puzzles --Resources--Rhythm--General Game Rules--Board Staffs --Floor Staffs --Musical Symbols)
#18 HALLOWEEN Web Sites--Books--Activities--Movement--Background Information--Programs--Games--Songs--Peer Gynt (See also: #36 Peter and the Wolf/Peer Gynt) Other Halloween Listening, CD's--Jokes--Recipes)
#19 HELLO-GOODBYE SONGS & GAMES (Animal Game--Barnacle Bill parody--Books--Farmer in the Dell parody--Goodbye-parody--Greeting Song--Hambone parody--Hasta la Vista--Hello There--Hey, Who's in Town?--Hi There--Kindergarten Farewell--Name Game--Row Your Boat parody--Say Hello (Greg & Steve)--Song Suggestions--Welcome Back to School--Welcome Everyone--Who's That Knocking at My Door?--Who's Under the Blanket--Yoo Hoo)
#20 HOLIDAYS (For Halloween see #18, for Hanukah, see #32 Multicultural Music/Jewish Culture) (Fall--Thanksgiving--Winter--Las Posadas--Holiday Sing-Along--Christmas ALTERNATIVE--Christmas Web Sites, Books--Christmas Ideas--Christmas Jokes--Christmas Games, Activities--Christmas Songs--Christmas Musicals & Skits--Faculty Christmas Songs--Dances--Caroling--Christmas Gifts (for kids)--Kwanzaa--Groundhog Day--Valentine's Day--Presidents Day--Earth Day--St. Patrick's Day--Easter--May Day--(For Mother's Day, see #54 Theme Music Ideas: E-O)--Cinco De Mayo)
#21 INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA (Activities, Classroom Ideas --Curriculum --Games --Books --Clip Art--History --Listening Examples --Names of Instruments --Song --Videos--Web Sites, Bulletin Boards, Powerpoints --Private Instrumental Lessons --Other Instruments)
#22 INTERVALS (Lessons--Games)
#23 JAZZ ( Louis Armstrong--The 'Blues' --Books, Apps. --Curriculum, Activities, Lessons --Duke Ellington --George Gershwin--Jazz Humor --Improvisation --Movement & Dance Activities --Musicals --Jazz Projects --Jazz--Recorder--Swing, Scat, Bebop --Songs, Musicals--Videos --Websites --Worksheets)
#24 JUNIOR HIGH/MIDDLE SCHOOL (Advice--All Boys Chorus and Class--Boomwhackers----Composers (Note: MOST ideas are at #9 Composers)--Composition--Curriculum--Composer Project-- Discipline Music and Drama--Drumming--First Day--Games--General Ideas--Graduation--Guitars and Ukuleles--Ice Breakers & Introductions--Karaoke --Keyboard Class--Lessons and Units--Listening--Limericks Lesson--Motivating Students--Movement and Dance--Multicultural Ideas--Musicals (Repetoire) Listening Worksheets for Musicals [Blast, King and I, Phantom, Pirates of Penzance, Sound of Music]--Note Reading --Private Piano students--Unit on Rap Music--Rehearsals--Resources--Rap Music Unit--Recorders--Recording Engineering (learning about)--Repetoire and Programs--Resources--Rhythm Instruments--Singing-- Stomp!!--Substitues--Ukuleles--Videos--Vocal Warmups--Websites)
#25 LISTENING (Ballet--Blast--Books--Listening Centers--Changing Tempos-- Comparing Different Versions--for Danse Macabre-Dukas see #9/Dukas--Emotions and Music Fantasia, Fantasia 2000-- General Lessons, Activities--Home Listening Project for Students Journals, Logs --The King and I--Messiah, The--The Moldeau--For Musicals and Opera, see #33, Opera and Musicals Music in Hitchcock's Films--Night on Bald Mountain--Phantom--Pictures at an Exhibition--Pirates of Penzance Sound of Music-worksheet--For SQUILT, see General Lessons, Activities and Journals, Logs-- Star Wars--Stomp!!--Stomp Unit (Melissa Marchman)-- Tempo--Texture Lesson--Theatre Organs Viennese Musical Clock--Videos--Websites--Creating Worksheets ) #26 LITERATURE and MUSIC (BOOKS: Alphabetical List --Big Books (Giant Books) --Chapter Books--Christmas Books --Top 40 or So (favorites)--Books about Instruments --BOOKS with Song Texts --BOOKS with Accompaniment Music --Books with Repeated Text--BOOKS for Upper Elementary --Ideas for Integration --Plays, Scripts --Enhancing Reading --Song Stories for the Very Young --Websites)
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#27 MAKING AND USING INSTRUMENTS (Bass--Handbells-Making--Books (followed by COCONUT SHELLS) --Making Boom Whackers, Thunkers, Boom Pipes--Cornstalk Fiddle and Shoestring Bow --Cowbells--Curriculum --Didgeridoo--Drums, Drumming -- General Teaching IdeasGlass Harmonica --Jews Harp--Kazoos--Lummi Sticks, Tinikling Poles --Sand Blocks--Oboe-demonstrateShakers, Maracas, Tambourine, Rhythm Sticks--Rainsticks (Making)-- Rainstick Games, Songs & Activities--Double Reed-Making--STRINGED INSTRUMENTS --Trumpet--Boomwhackers, Etc.,: Ideas, Books, Websites, Teaching, Introductions --Web Sites)
#28 MEDIEVAL (Lessons, Ideas--Books--Costumes--Dance Songs--Websites)
#29 MELODY & RHYTHM (Beanbag Ideas--Beanie Babies-- HREF="#BOOK">Books--GENERAL TEACHING OF ELEMENTS--Notation--Dynamics--End of Year Activities--FIRST Day of School--Ear Training--Floor Staffs, Floor Keyboards--Inner Hearing--Intervals-- Just for Fun--Hand Manipulatives--Key Signatures--LAST Day of School--Legato, Stacatto, Slurs--Marker Boards--Pitch, Melodic Direction, Step-Skip--Meter--Moving Rhythmically--Note Names--Puppets-- Pitch Matching--Phrases--Rhythm Games--Rhythm Values--Scale Songs, Chords, etc.,--Sharing Instruments--Sight Reading--Sixteenth Notes--Steps, Half Steps and Skips--Steady Beat --SYMBOLS--Syncopation and Off Beat--Tempo/Meters-- Transposing--Two against Three--General Ideas for Upper Elementary--Worksheets, Flashcards, Video-Creating--Writing - No Desks)
#30 MOTHER GOOSE (Books--Characters(Old King Cole, etc.,)--History--Ideas and Suggestions --Musicals--Programs--Rhymes • Skits and Plays)
#31 MOVEMENT, DANCE, DRAMA (Song Choreography--MK8 Song/Musicals Choreography --Books--Broom Handles--Circles Without Chaos--Dance Ideas--Mathematics--Dance Instructions (Alphabetically)--Drama--Folk Dance--Holding Hands--Choosing Partners--Marching --Mirroring--General Movement Ideas--Poems & Movement--Posturing Statues --Recorded Music Movement during Testing--PROPS--Balloons, Balls, Plates, Ribbons[For Beanbags, see #29 Melody & Rhythm]--Broom Handles--Flashlights--Hoops--Jump Bands Maypoles --Parachutes--Scarves--Skipping, Galloping --Streamers--Stretchies--Noodles --Tinkling Poles--Websites--Yarn Balls)
#32 MULTICULTURAL MUSIC (General Ideas--For AFRICA see #2 --Anarctica--Arabia--Australia--Bali--B'Hai--Cajun--Canada--Caribbean--For China, see #7--For 'Central' America, see South & Central America--Czech Republic--Denmark--Ecuador--Egypt--England--Eskimo--France--Germany--Greece--Hawaii--Holland--Hungary--Iceland--India--Indonesia--Iraq--Ireland--Italy--Japan--Israel (see Jewish Culture)--Jehovah Witness--Jewish Culture--Korea--Kwanzaa--Lebanon--Mexico/Spain--Muslim Culture--New Zealand--Scandinavia [Norway, Sweden & Denmark]--Olympics--Philippines--Puerto Rico--Russia--Scotland--Shakers--South & Central America--Spain--Switzerland-- --Ukraine--World)
#33 OPERA & MUSICALS (OPERA--Books--General Lesson Ideas--Aida--Amahl & the Night Visitors--Carmen--Cosi Fan Tutte--Creating Your Own Opera--Gilbert & Sullivan--Hansel & Gretel--Magic Flute, The--Oratorio--Phantom of the Opera--Porgy and Bess--Rigoletto--The Telephone--Treemonisha--What's Opera Doc?--Videos--Web Sites, Links--For Mozart/Magic Flute and Wagner/Ring, Die Meistersinger See #9 Composers ORATORIO: Curriculum--MUSICALS: (Musicals: Unit Study--Fiddler on the Roof--Mary Poppins--Music Man--Oklahoma--Seven Brides for Seven Brothers--Sound of Music --West Side Story--Musicals - Resources)
#34 NATIVE AMERICAN (Activities--Videos and Recordings--Books & Other Resources--Native Flute - Classroom kits--Dance --Songs--Web Sites, Links)
#35 PARTNER SONGS AND ROUNDS • Partner Songs--Rounds & Canons--Books & Other Resources--Song Melodies)
#36 PEER GYNT--PETER AND THE WOLF (Cinderella & Classical Symphony [Prokofiev] --Peter and the Wolf [Prokofiev] --Romeo & Juliet [Prokofiev] --Peer Gynt [Grieg]
#37 POWERPOINTS (Games--Powerpoints,Smartboards, Notebooks--Instructional Powerpoint--For Listening--Powerpoints for Songs)
#38 PRESCHOOL-KINDERGARTEN (-Activity--Beanie Babies --Books--Hand Motions, Choreography --Circles, Lines, Routines--Curriculum--Discipline --Drumming--Dynamics--Evaluation, Grades--Games --Getting K's to Sing!!--Hour Long Kindergarten Sessions --Help!! Kindergarten Disaster!!--Kindergarten Graduation --Hi-Low Concepts--Instruments --Large Classes--Left and Right! --Listening (See also: Listening)--Movement, Dance --Musicals --Learning Their Names! --Orff --Phonics--Puppets, Stuffed Animals, Beat Buddies --Recordings--Recorders--Rounds --Repertoire --Pitch, Melody Concepts --FOR PROGRAM IDEAS AND ISSUES see: Program Ideas I (A-M) and Program Ideas II (N-Z)--Rhythm --Getting the Kids to Sing!--Songs --Singing Game (See also: Singing Games)--One and Two Year Olds (Toddlers) --Three and Four Year Olds--Shoe Tying --Warmups--Web Sites --Whining!)
#39 PROGRAM IDEAS A-M (General Ideas--Alphabet Program--After the Concert--Announcements at a program--Assessing Programs--Attendance (Student)at Program--Audience Etiquette--Barbershop--Blacklights: SONGS--Blacklights: GLOVES--Blacklights: LIGHTSBroadway Review --(For Bulletins see #40/Program Bulletins) --Achievement Certificates--"The Colors of Music"--Chicken Little--Circus--Community--Costumes & Props--Cowboys--Cup Game[see also #17 Games/Cup Games]--Drugs--Entrances--Faculty Skits--Fairy Tales--Fainting--Fog & Fog Machines--Folk Song Program--Food and Dance(Skit) --Food Songs--Graduation-- Groundbreaking Ceremony--High School Theme Ideas--Holiday Alternative--Thanksgiving--Hanukkah--Christmas--Las Posados--Kwaanza--Santa Claus--Christmas Humour Program-Chinese New Year--Ramaden--Informance Programs--Instruments During Concert--"Holiday Lights"--"Season of Light" (Script to buy) --"Lighten Up"--"Make Merry Music"(script)--"It's a Small World"--Jokes and Skits--Lighting--Learning and Memorizing Song Texts--Microphones, Sound Systems--Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM)--Mother--Of Mice and Mozart(musical)--Multicultural--Musicals--Musical Symbols--Music Through the Decades)
#40 PROGRAM IDEAS N-Z (9/11(Twin Towers)--"Name That Tune!"--Nursing Home Concert--OCEAN--Ocean Song List--Participation--[for Patriotism, see file #55 Theme Music O-Z] --People--Plays and Musicals--Private Students Performing at Concert--Program Bulletins--Projecting-Getting Kids to Project Their Voices--Recitals for soloists--Retirement--Risers and Flipforms --Scenery & Props--School Days--Science Program--Scripts--South America--Speaking Parts--Spring is Here--Staff Skits--NO Stage--Students as the Audience: Rubrics--Talent Show--Honoring Teachers--Memorizing Song Texts--Valentine's Day--Veteran's Day--Volunteers--Understudies--Warmups On Stage--We're Under Construction--Willaby Wallaby Woo--Winter--"Wonders of the Earth"--World of Music--Y2K)
#41 RECORDER (Adaptive recorders (special needs) --Advanced Students--Age Level for Teaching --Alto Recorder --Articulation--Baroque vs. German Fingering--Brands of Recorders --Recorder Cases, Necklaces --Recorder Learning Centers--Cleaning Recorder--Composition --Concerts --Covering the Holes --Curriculum --Easy Songs --Exercises--Evaluation --Fingering Chart--Forgotten Recorders --Games--Groups, Independant --Half Hole Notes--Recorder Karate(Award System) --Learning a New Piece--Right vs. Left Hand --Muting or Softening Volume --Name Labels --Note Names--Practice at Home --Songs --For 'Special Needs' Students see #50 Special Needs/Recorder --Recorder Repair --Repertoire--Second Grade Recorder --Storage --Swabs --Teaching Two Parts at the Same Time --Techniques, Advise, Ideas, Games--Tenor Recorder -- Tone Production, Overblowing --Thumb Spots for right hand --Tooting Out-of-Turn --Resources --Web Sites, Links)
#42 RESOURCES (Books --Cameras--Warped Cd's-Repair--CD'S then WHAT? --Charts: Storing, etc.,--Copyright Laws --Educational Software--Educational Grants--File Conversions --Fonts--Furniture --Graphics and Clip Art, Free--Music Graphics, Free --Ipods--Itunes --Internet Lingo--Keyboards, Purchasing, for Teacher use--Microphones --Midi & Music Software, etc.,--Music Writing Software --Music Advocacy--Children's Radio(Michigan) --Recommended Recordings--Making Recordings, Cassette Tapes to CD's --Research--Sheet Music Online, Staff Paper --Song Websites--Sound Systems --Changing Speeds--Music Stationery --Blank Cassette Tapes --Books--Texts --Videos & Video Recording, Windows Media Player)
#43 RHYTHM & PITCHED INSTRUMENTS (PITCHED INSTRUMENTS
Autoharp--Chimes, Bells, Handbells--Dulcimers--Glass Harmonica--Kazoos--Keyboard Instruction
Keyboard Brands--Homemade Mallets--Mandolins--Marimbas--Xylophones--Rosewood Xylophones(in favor of)--Cleaning Xylophones--Xylophone Activities--Violin Instruction
#43 RHYTHM & PITCHED INSTRUMENTS (Teaching Ideas--Keeping Instruments Quiet!--Passing out Instruments--Sharing Instruments--Lummi Sticks, Tinikling--Cowbells--Drums --Finger Cymbals--Spoons--Sandblocks--Sticks-Rhythm, Drum--Triangle--Rhythm Tubes--Recordings--MALLETS: Mallets: Brands, Making, Repairing, Using.--MICROPHONES: Karaoke)
[Note: for Making and Using Kazoos, Bass, Trumpet, Bells, Oboe, Wind, Brass, Glass Harmonica, Marimba, Pipes, Boomwhackers, Thunkers (etc.,) Didgeridoos and Making Instruments, see #27 Making Instruments]
#44 CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS & DANSE MACABRE (CARNIVAL IDEAS: Aquarium--Cuckoo--Persons with Long Ears--Fossils--Hens and Roosters--Kangaroos--Lion--Mule--Pianists--Swans--Tortoise--Books, Videos, Recordings, CD's--Websites--DANSE MACABRE IDEAS: Lessons, Curriculum, Powerpoint--Poems, 'Parodies'--Listening, Call Chart--General Ideas--Websites)
#45 SCIENCE OF SOUND (Ideas, Lessons, Activities--Units--Web Sites--Videos (including worksheet for Magic School Bus --Books)
#46 SEATING CHARTS, RULES Aides in the Classroom (Chairs or No Chairs?-- Class Control/Discipline --Dismissal --Entering Room Without Chaos --Groupings --Large Classes--Lines and Circles Without Chaos--Motivating Students --Mystery Person(Reward system)--Memorizing Students' Names --Organization of Charts, etc.,--Passing Out Materials --"Personal Space" --Resources --Rewards --Rules --Seating--Storage of Materials--Student Helper --Talking)
[Note: for "Circles Without Chaos" see: #31 Movement,Drama,Dance]
#47 SINGING GAMES (Resources--Not Singing during Game-- The Apple Tree--A Tisket, A Tasket--Ball Tossing-- Birthdays--[for 'Black Snake', click on 'Birthdays and scroll down]--Bumblebee--Chicken on a Fencepost--Cuckoo, Where Are You?--Dance of the Crazy Man--Ding Dong Diggi Diggi Dong--Farmer in the Dell--Freddy Oka--Freeze--Frog in the Meadow--Green Gravel--Hello Sir--Here Comes a Bluebird--Hide and Sing--Hokey Pokey--Icky Bicky Soda Cracker--I'se the Bye--Let Us Chase the Squirrel--Long Legged Sailor--Magic Sound--The Music House Game--My Lady's Garden--No Robbers Today--Old Grey Cat--Obiswana--Passing Game--Polly Wolly Doodle--Rattlesnake--Ronald McDonald--Roll That Red Ball Down to Town--Alternative to Running--A Sailor Went to Sea--School Songs--See Saw--Shoo Fly--Shoo Turkey Shoo--Sing Me a Monster--Snail, Snail--Snake Baked a Hoe Cake--Sol-Mi--Son Ma Caron--Strawberry Shortcake--Sur Le Pont--Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star--We All Live In the Ocean--Wolf in the Forest--Yoo Hoo)
#48 SONG HISTORIES (Ash Grove --Battle Hymn of the Republic --Blue Tailed Fly --Chopsticks --La Cucaracha --Day O --Dominique --Dona Nobis Pacem --Froggie Went a-Courtin' --Fum, Fum, Fum --God Bless America --Goin' Down to Cairo --Greensleeves --Hokey Pokey --Huron Indian Carol --Irish Washerwoman --Jamaican Farewell --Jingle Bells --John Henry --Joy to the World --Kookaburra --Little Miss Muffet --Old Dan Tucker--Pat a Pan --Paw, Paw Patch --Pease Porridge Hot --Puff, the Magic Dragon --Rattlin' Bog --Santa Lucia (Swedish version) --Scarborough Fair --She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain --Shenandoah --Silent Night --Solfeggio --Star Spangled Banner --Suo Gan --Sur Le Pont D'Avignon --Taps --Twas in the Moon of Wintertime/Huron Indian Carol --Twelve Days of Christmas --Websites)
#49 SOUND STORIES (Antonio --Ah Chu!! --The Little Caterpllar --Fall Story --The Ghost Catcher --Orff Tales --Teamwork in the Woods)
#50 SPECIAL NEEDS (ADHD--Allergic reactions--Alzeimer's--Asberger's Syndrome--Autism--Beat Buddies--Bipolar Disorder--Seeing Impaired, Blind--Breath Support--Cerebral Palsy--Curriculum(general)--Hearing Impaired--Developmentally Delayed--Dislexia--Down Syndrome--Emotionally Disturbed--EMI--ESL: English as a Second Language--Evaluation of Special Needs Student--Fetal Alcohol Syndrome--General Classroom Ideas--Gifted--Inclusive Classes--Learning Disabled--Mentally Handicapped--Mutism, Selective--Physically Handicapped--Preschool--Programs--Problem Singer--Song List--Stuttering--Tourette Syndrome--Other--Recorder, Teaching the--Recordings--Books--Web Sites & Other Resources)
#51 SUBSTITUTES (Active Lessons --Books and other Resources --Centers --Games --Listening --Lessons --Materials --Recordings --Seating/Sub Folders --Singing --Student Teachers --Written --Videos)
#52 TCHAIKOVSKY (NUTCRACKER --Web Sites, Links---General Ideas---Videos---Worksheets---Books--NUTCRACKER SECTIONS --Arabian Dance----Chinese Dance----Dance of the Reed Pipes----Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy--Gallop and Dance of the Parents---March---March of the Toys---Little Suite---Trepak--BALLET--SWAN LAKE--SLEEPING BEAUTY--OTHER COMPOSITIONS--Symphony #2, Concerto in D)
#53 THEME IDEAS A-D (A,B,C's--American Revolution--ANGELS--"America the Beautiful"--Animals--Ants--Apples--Baseball--Beach--Bears--Beavers--The Beatles--Bedtime--Bees--Bells--Birds--Birthdays--For BUGS, see #54 Theme Music Ideas: E-O/INSECTS--Bulls--Body--Bullying--Butterflies--Camping-- Candy--Cars--Cats--Caterpillars--Celtic Music--Chicks, Chickens--Circles--Circus--Clocks--Colors--Columbus Day--Cookies!!--Cooperation--Continents--County Fair--Cows--Cowboys--Days of the Week--Dinosaur--Dogs--Dragons--Dreams--Drugs)
#54 THEME IDEAS E-N (Earth/Ecology/Rainforest--Every Day is Earth Day - (SKIT)--Earth Day Songs, Sites, Etc., --Earth Day Musicals--Eighties--Election Day--Electricity--Elephants--Fairy Tales, Fables--Farm--Father's Day---February--Fifties--Fire Safety--Fish--Flight, Flying--Food--Forties--Friendship, Love--Frogs--Fruit--Giraffe--Gorilla--Grandparents--Green, The Color--Groundhogs--Growing--Hats--Hippopotamus--Hollywood--Horses--Ice Cream--Island Songs--Insects--Inventions--Intergenerational--Jokes--Jungle--Kangaroo--Martin Luther King--Kites--Lights--For LOVE, see #55 Theme Music Ideas: P-Z/Peace--Machines--Maple Sugar--Mardi Gras--Mathematics--Mermaids--Mice--Monkey--Moon--Monsters--Months of the Year Ninties)
#55 THEME IDEAS O-Z (Olympics--100th Day of School--Owls--Patriotism [See also #55 Program Ideas O-Z/Veteran's Day AND #31 Movement,Drama,Dance]--Peace, Tolerance--Penguins--Pigs--Pirates--Plants--Positive Attitude--Presidents--Quilts--Rabbits--Rain--Responsibility--Rhinosaurus--Safety--FSailors--School--Seasons--Five Senses--Seuss (Doctor)--Seventies--Shel Silverstein--Sixties--Snow--Spiders--Spinning--Spring--Squirrels--Stars & Space--States--Superheroes--Technology--Teddy Bears--Teeth--Thankyou--Tolerance--Toys--Storms---Transportation(Trains, Planes, etc.,)--[for 'CARS,' see Theme Music Ideas: A-D/Cars]--Trees--Trumpet--Turtles-- (Roaring) Twenties----[for "WATER" see "OCEAN" at Program Ideas II (N-Z)] --Weather--[For Western theme see: Theme Music Ideas: A-D/Cowboys]--Where the Wild Things Are--Whistling---Witches)
#56 UNIFORMS ( #57 VOICE, WARMUPS, TECHNIQUES (• A Capella Singing --Books & Resources --Boy Singers & Changing Voices--Break in the Voice --Breath Control --Choir Ideas --Chorus, Community Chorus, Conducting, etc., [Also see file #24 Junior High/Rehearsals] --Ear Sensitivity to Sound--Finding Their Singing Voices --Fun Projects--Getting Kids to Sing Out --Head Voice--Hearing Difficulty (Teacher) --How Long Should Students Rehearse? --Lessons--Throat Problems, Lost Voice (Teacher) --Male Teacher Voice--Vocal Nodes, Voice Problems --Out Of Tune Singers, Pitch--Part Singing --Reflux Problem --Routines, Rehearsals--Reading Scores --Singing Solos--Singing, Problems, Rehearsal Techniques --Tessitura--Too Loud!! --Vocal Exploration--Voice Lessons --Warmups [Lower, Upper Elementary, Middle School]--Websites)