Bate Bate Chocolate is a traditional children’s rhyme. As with many children’s rhymes, it has different versions. Some lyrics describe cooking mole sauce (a delicious sauce native to Mexico), while others describe stirring chocolate. My favorite version is...
The best advice I can ever give new elementary music teachers is to keep them moving. Use every opportunity you have to expend their energy. Movement has so many benefits, just a few being that it’s great for steady beat practice, expressiveness, and keeps...
Los Esqueletos is a children’s song from Costa Rica, and it’s all about skeletons. The thing I love the most about this song is its lyrics. I love the multiple verses, which describe skeletons doing ordinary activities, such as eating rice, going to the...
The Maple Leaf Rag is a fantastic piece to teach students about steady beat, syncopation, and the genius of Scott Joplin. The concern I hear from most teachers, is that they just don’t know where to begin when it comes to incorporating Western art music into...
Wouldn’t you love to feel like the kids in that picture? They’re running around with not a care in the world, longing for their next ice cream fix. Come to think of it, that describes music teachers pretty well, minus the “not a care in the...
STEADY BEAT MOVEMENT For the first hearing, have students move to the beat of the music. You can use locomotor or non-locomotor movements depending on your room size. Download the movement worksheets below for movement vocabulary and ideas. If you have scarves or...
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