APPENDIX 2: SUGGESTED ELEMENTARY (5-9 yrs.) TEACHING MATERIALS
GIANT (60" x 17½") ERASABLE STAFF -
FAMILIES OF INSTRUMENTS Posters & Reproducibles
INSTRUMENT CHARTS
PITCH EXPLORATION STORIES CARDS-
11 stories on 11" x 17" cards that ask children to explore their vocal muscles with their responses. Some are original and some you may know. Stories are printed on the back of the picture card.
Maestro Classics: PETER & THE WOLF CD
In this award-winning audio series, narrator Yadu and the London Philharmonic Orchestra introduce great music and classic stories to stir young imaginations, develop listening skills, and inspire a love of music. The stories display humor and dramatic bravura (even musical parody), interweaving narration with expressive sounds, sensitive silences, and marvelous scores that incorporate many musical styles. CDs includes bonus tracks on what to listen for in the music, composer bios, & more, plus colorful 24-pp. activity booklets. CDs Peter & the Wolf.Extra tracks on Russian folk music and on Prokofiev.
OTHER MAESTRO CLASSICS CDS: SWAN LAKE, THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE & 4 OTHERS
PETER AND THE WOLF DVD & REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITY KIT
The "story within a story" leaps to life with Chuck Jones' animation and Prokofiev's music played by the RCA Symphony, Musical instruments also emerge as playful personalities. Bonuses include a captivating introduction to the symphony orchestra. The animated storyline is just 30 minutes long, perfect for a class period.
49 min.
PETER AND THE WOLF Hardback/CD & DVD Set
A Prokofiev Fantasy Video Narrated by Sting, with Claudio Abbado conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and incorporating the lifesized Spitting Image puppets. DVD
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hardback and CD illustrated by Peter Malone. The story with a softer ending and dreamlike paintings. CD features the Cincinnati Pops playing Prokofiev's music.
Bernstein Favorites: CHILDREN'S CLASSICS CD
Peter and the WolfandCarnival of the Animalsare narrated by the great conductor/educator, with marvelous insights about the stories and what to listen for in the music. We hear the original Offenbach "Can-Can", for example, then he explains how Saint- Saëns simply slowed it down and gave the melody to other instruments to make it seem fitting for a tortoise.
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestrais narrated by young Master Henry Chapin.
75 min. CD
CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS Hardback & CD
Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky's original poems inspired by Saint-Saëns'Carnivalstir our imaginations as we listen to both the poetry and the music on the CD, performed by the author and the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra. Hardback & CD
FAMOUS MUSIC STORIES: Peer Gynt Suite/The Nutcracker Suite DVD
Hear the famous tales and the beautiful music these stories have inspired. Features two selections, and includes the narrated story as well as excerpts from the music, illustrated with colorful drawings.See onlineteacher's guidewith suggested activities, vocabulary lists, and a bibliography. Six reproducible student worksheets are included to actively involve students in the presentation through creative activities, as well as reading and vocabulary comprehension. Answer key included.
60 SILLY SONGS Paperback & CD
Collection of 60 creative and silly songs are arranged for easy piano with lyrics and include chord symbols and optional easy parts for added instrumental participation.
Paperback & split track CD.
GETTING' DOWN WITH MAMA GOOSE (PB⁄CD)
by Mark Burrows. Mother Goose is becoming 'cool' again because the rhymes are such great teaching tools. This creative collection features 10 rhymes with musical, stylistically different, catchy tunes.
Songs use body percussion, Orff, movement and all have useful, simple and unusual extension activities with suggestions for special learners. ForOld King Cole⁄Hey Diddle Hoedownyou could make a kazoo, learn the Cotton-eyed Joe, or do a surrealist art project. Reproducible student sheets. PB & CD
JUST JAMS: A WORLD OF RHYTHMS FOR DRUMS, PITCHED PERCUSSION
By Mark Burrows. 29 diverse jam pieces, based on rhythm patterns from around the globe, use a variety of percussion, plus occasional boomwhackers, found objects, and Orff instruments. Meaningful speech parts allow for a teaching process connecting speech to body percussion to playing, and performance tips make them concert-ready. Strengthen students' rhythm skills, enliven drum circles, or offer a change of pace in a choir concert. Jams celebrate cultures of Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Ireland, Cuba, Japan, Hawaii, India, USA & more. Jams, and a world map, arereproducible. For ages 7 through 11. Paperback.
PEANUT BUTTER JAM Classroom Kit
Learn basic drumming technique along with world music in this tasty, creative intro to the popular World Drumming curriculum. Experience multicultural songs & ensembles with calypso, rock, swing, Middle Eastern patterns and more! 128-pp.
Teacher's Book includes score, reproducible student parts, lesson plans, strategy and supplements. Jammin' goes from smooth to crunchy! ages 7 through 10
Classroom Kit includes: Teacher's Bk. Plus performance/accompaniment CD.
SING & DANCE AROUND T' WORLD PB⁄CD
Music, dances, and games from Hawaii, Italy, Quebec, Israel, Indonesia, Japan, Greece, Ghana, Germany. Learn the Hula and Hora, outline an opera, discover fun facts about each country, learn a percussion piece, answer a crossword.
Reproducible pages and the music on CD. 48 pp. PB & CD
THE SINGING SACK
28 stories from around the world, each containing a simple song that children can sing as the story unfolds. Most songs are presented in the original language, but children will pick them up easily from the CD. The stories are from live storytellings and are easy to dramatize. A very useful collection! Paperback & CD
WORLD RHYTHMS: MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES OF SONGS AND ENSEMBLES-
An exciting musical journey of ethnic rhythms, instruments, and cultural heritages from around the world--USA, Central and South America, Ireland, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and South Pacific. The book featuresreproduciblesongsheets with pronunciation guide and translations, informative notes, lesson plans, assessment and extension activities, and 2 CDs include recordings. Each rhythm ensemble is presented in 2-3 parts for younger students and 4-6 parts for older students. So mix ages or levels for a performance! The instructional DVD shows how to play the different instruments and rhythmic patterns. Book, CDs & DVD
This site provides all the following & more:
- practical, effective activities for ages 5 through 10 to help you teach the basics of music to your students. Portions of the lessons can also be used by classroom teachers. They are based on national and state standards as well as on Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Each set of lesson plans focuses on an individual classical music composer and a selected piece of music.
- Activity sheets for free download
- Here you can listen to every instrument imaginable & read a short description.
- an interactive chart of the instruments of the orchestra as well into families and categories.
- music learning games!
- composers by name, country, period, & a timeline!
- A complete archive of Classics for Kids programs, as well as a selection of classical music pieces.
- Listen to special web programs about periods in music history! (depending on connection/internet availability)
- Tips & advice for parents.
- Many excellent books, videos and games that deal with music are currently available for children. Classics for Kids® has compiled a list of some of these resources for you.
- lists great classical music websites.
- Training resources will help you become acquainted with various music education methodologies.
Children's artists to investigate: Elizabeth Mitchell, Raffi. Ella Jenkins, Schoolhouse Rock!
ANIMUSIC DVDs SET
Like an animatedSTOMPorBlast, these music-driven computer animations have enormous appeal for kids and adults alike. It's fascinating to watch the movement of the futuristic "instruments" as you listen to the interplay of rhythms and melodies. Follow the flow of the music with both your eyes and ears, as you experience the perfectly synchronized animation and sounds, obeying the natural laws of physics.
LikeFantasia, Animusicstimulates the senses and imagination, and is another landmark in music-driven animation. If any film ever brought to life the concept that "music is frozen architecture," this is it. You grasp the overall relationships of time, movement and space, and get an image of musical form as architecture, as in Cathedral Pictures, based on Mussorgsky'sPictures at an Exhibition. With bonus features and online downloadable PDF teaching guides.
AUTISM: The Musical DVD
CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS DVD
HOUSE OF MAGICAL SOUNDS DVD
FAMOUS MUSIC STORIES Peer Gynt Suite/The Nutcracker Suite DVD
MAKE MINE MUSIC & MELODYTIME DVDs
PEER GYNT Activity Kit & DVD Set
PETER AND THE WOLF DVD
PUPPET CLASSICS Peter and the Wolf DVD
PUPPET CLASSICS The Nutcracker DVD
AMAZING MUSIC VOL.1: Emotions in Music
AMAZING MUSIC VOL.2: Pictures in Music DVD
SPARKY'S MAGIC PIANO DVD