Wednesday Wishlist

On this Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we should take time to give thanks for the many gifts in our life. I am so thankful for my darling daughter who is 16 months old and running, giggling, singing, dancing, and climbing all over the house. I am thankful for my loving and supportive husband. I am thankful for my family and friends. I am blessed with a job I love and that I get to make music with beautiful children every day. I am thankful for the music teachers who have inspired me and showed me what a joy teaching music can be. I am also thankful for the online world of music teachers who collaborate and share ideas on facebook groups, pinterest, blogs and TPT. I have gained so many new ideas for my classroom this year and I feel so honored that other teachers are using the materials I create with their students in their classrooms. As of this morning I have 600 teachers following me on TPT! Thank you so much for the support. 

I am so excited to announce the huge Teachers Pay Teachers site wide Cyber Monday and Tuesday sale (Dec. 2-3). Enter the promo code: CYBER to receive 10% off your purchase. Plus most of the items in my store will be 20% off, so with the promo code you can get up to 28% off the original price! 

I am hoping to make several purchases of my own and need to get my wish list ready! So what's on your wish list? Comment below or link up your blog to share what you are excited to buy on Cyber Monday - not limited to TPT things.

Here are some of the things on my wish list right now, but I'm sure there will be more to come once I have some time to look!

This set by Linda McPherson looks so cute! This looks like a great practice activity for sol-mi!

My kids are practicing loud/soft and I'm looking for a few new ideas, so I am looking at this set by Aileen Miracle:

I'm also thinking about this set of songs and activities for teaching half note: 

PLUS lots of fun clip art for upcoming projects! :)

Looking for some Wintery/Christmas materials to add to your wish list?

Check out these:

Rhythm slides for Jolly Old Saint Nicholas: a traditional song that can be used for teaching half note

It includes slides for lyrics, steady beat, rhythm icons, and slides for presenting and practicing ta-a as tied quarter notes as well as half note.

Beat Charts:

Trim the Tree Rhythm Games- available for each rhythm concept or as a money-saving bundle:

and Vocal Exploration for Christmas:

What is on your wish list?

If you are a regular classroom teacher or do homeschooling, check out Rebecca Reid's Wishlist Wednesday here:

You can link up on her lovely blog or if you want to join the music edition, feel free to link up below!

1. Write a blog post including my Wednesday Wishlist picture with a link back to my blog post.

2. Add your link below

Happy Holidays,

Lindsay

And the Winner Is...

Jalylene, you are the winner of my Trim the Tree: ta and titi set!

It is on its way to your via email right now. I hope you enjoy using it with your students! Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway!

Lindsay

200 Facebook Likes Giveaway

I have passed 200 likes on my Facebook page this week. I am loving all the comments and ideas being shared there! If you have not found my Facebook page yet, you can check it out here: Lindsay's Kodaly Inspired Classroom

The winner of this giveaway will receive a new game, "Trim the Tree: ta and titi" which will be very fun to play during the Christmas season as another way to practice reading ta and titi. 

If you have already purchased this game, you can still enter to win and I will send you another concept of the game or any other file up to $1.50 from my store.

   If the entry form doesn't show up click here:   a Rafflecopter giveaway

This game is also available for the following rhythm concepts:

ta rest

half note

tiri-tiri

ti-tiri

tiri-ti

syncopa (flash freebie until 9:00 AM Central time 11/21/13)

As always, I love to hear feedback from you on the freebies! :)

Please let me know if you would like to see any other concepts added to my store for this game!

They are also available in one big bundle that way you can play it with several grades and differentiate for each grade level. 

Thank you so much for stopping by,

Lindsay

Monday Music Manipulatives

I think it is time for another Monday Music Manipulatives Link Up! 

If you are a music teacher blogger, feel free to join the link up (directions at the end of the post). If you a blog reading music educator, please make sure to follow any other blogs that link up at the bottom of this post for more great music manipulatives ideas.

I am trying to use the American Methodoloy and Yearly Plans books this year more in my planning and sequencing. 

During sol-mi prep one of the things it suggests is having the students place the text of the song on the board to show "high" and "low". I put the words for the song, "Rain Rain Go Away" on umbrella die cuts and placed magnets on the back. 

I was able to use this with practicing steady beat as well as having students place them on the board to show which words (or parts of words) are high and which were low.

Here are some pictures:

Students place umbrellas above the heart beats to show steady beat.

Pass out umbrellas and have students put the song in order with their umbrella either showing high or low. We talk about spacing just like when we do it on the individual student high/low charts. 

Don't have access to umbrella die cuts? Download this freebie in my TPT store.

I want to hear about and see all the fabulous manipulatives you are using in your music room! Please link up below. 

Here's how:

1) Write a blog post about your manipulatives in the music room

2) Include my Monday Music Manipulatives picture in your blog post with a link back to this post.

3) Sign up below to have your finished blog post linked to mine! 

Lindsay