Dance resources for SMART Notebook

This SMART NOTEBOOK Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 4 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the sugar plum fairy dance her way from one section to the next. Students will be expected to read simple rhythmic notation including quarter notes, quarter rests, and paired eighth notes, repeat signs, as well as visual icons to help navigate their way through the map. Included in this lesson is a YouTube link to

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K - 8th

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The Nutcracker Suite-Waltz Of The Flowers (A Listening Map)SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students in grades 3 and up and is part 9 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will be expected to identify the 4 musical themes heard in this dance tune as well as the instruments that play each of those themes. Students will also be able to identify the main form of the piece as ABA form. Activities included in this file are a very colorful vibrant listening map, a theme identification activity, a form labeling activity, a

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K - 8th

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Tchaikovsky & The Nutcracker Suite: Intro. To Composer/Ballet-SMARTBOARD/NOTEBK

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This SMART NOTEBOOK Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages. This is the 1st lesson of a 9 part unit and is also sold as an entire BUNDLE in both PPT or Smart Notebook formats in my TpT store. This particular lesson is just the introduction part of the unit. In this lesson, the students will be introduced to Tchaikovsky, the history of ballet, and the story of the Nutcracker. There are also extension activities and suggested apps and websites that are listed for the teach

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K - 8th

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Be A Brain Break Explorer

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A group of brain breaks at your fingertips on your smart board! Just press the button and you are on your way. - Um Bop! - Macarena Math -If You're a kid... - Move to the sounds - Dinosaur Stomp - Kung Foo - Gummy Bear - Crocodile Rock -Sid Shuffle - Lion Sleeps tonight This document can be edited

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Dance, Education, Music

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PreK - 5th

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Aaargh You Ready For a Brain Break

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A group of brain breaks at your fingertips on your smart board! Just press the button and you are on your way. - Um Bop! - Macarena Math -If You're a kid... - Move to the sounds - Dinosaur Stomp - Kung Foo - Gummy Bear - Crocodile Rock -Sid Shuffle - Lion Sleeps tonight This document can be edited

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Dance, Music

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PreK - 5th

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The Nutcracker Suite - Russian Dance (A Listening Map) SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 5 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the Russian dancers prance around as if they are flying through the air. Students will be expected to read simple rhythmic notation including quarter notes and quarter rests as well as repeat signs. Included in this lesson is a YouTube link to a short video clip of the Russian Mariinsky Ballet Company performing th

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K - 8th

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Don't Need Friends Drama Activity

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This Smart Board activity is designed to go with the reading of the children's book "Don't Need Friends" by Tim Carolyn Crimi. Each page is an activity for the day. You may follow the attached lesson schedule to know what page to read up to, then open the Smart Board activity and focus on that activity for the period. You can do more than one per period or take more time on one activity, the time is manageable and up to you.Will require Smart Notebook 11 or older to open this lesson.

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Dance, Drama, Reading

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K - 3rd

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Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Interactive Notebooks

Big Red Barn Smartboard activitiy

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Circle time on a Dime

Circle time activity for Big Red Barn Unittargets socialization, motor, communication skillsprek skillsspecial education

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Dance, Math, Reading

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PreK

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The Nutcracker Suite - The Overture (A Listening Map) SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 2 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will identify 4 musical themes represented by 4 different fictional characters in the famous tale of the Nutcracker. Students will be expected to identify these musical themes by their specific designated assigned instrument(s). Students will also be able to identify the form that these musical themes create. A reinforcement character to instrument match

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K - 8th

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The Nutcracker Suite - Arabian Dance (A Listening Map) SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 6 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the Arabian dancers gracefully and mystically glide throughout the piece. Students will listen for entrances of instruments and groups of instruments and observe the order that this occurs in. Students will be expected to recall this order as well as the mood this piece creates. Included in this lesson is a YouTu

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K - 8th

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Dance, Drama, Physical Education

Listening Map and Movement Activity for Ecce Gratum from Carmina Burana

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Lemonade Music by Leah

Let Carl Orff's music captivate your students as they follow this original map, while using/reviewing music terms along the way (beat, rhythm, melody, fermata, legato, staccato, repeat sign, accent). Map and explanation can be projected on the SMARTBoard, or you can print copies of it for each child. This file also includes a patterned movement activity that requires whole-class cooperation to perform correctly! (Recording of Ecce Gratum not included per copyright guidelines.)

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Dance, Music, Spring

Grades:

3rd - 5th

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Interactive Whiteboard

Daily Physical Activity Notebook Lesson

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Stephanie Girard

This smart board activity includes music and it is interactive. It proved to be fun for Kindergarten up to Grade 4.

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PreK - 4th

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Activboard Activities, Interactive Notebooks

Bodacious Brain Breaks

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A group of brain breaks at your fingertips on your smart board! Just press the button and you are on your way. - Um Bop! - Macarena Math -If You're a kid... - Move to the sounds - Dinosaur Stomp - Kung Foo - Gummy Bear - Crocodile Rock -Sid Shuffle - Lion Sleeps tonight This document can be edited.

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Dance, Math, Other (ELA)

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PreK - 5th

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The Nutcracker Suite - Dance Of The Reed Pipes (A Listening Map)SMARTBRD/NOTEBK

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 8 of a 9 part unit. In this listening lesson, students will be able to identify the difference between moods in music, specifically using musical terms "major" and "minor." Students will also be able to identify when one mood/section ends and another begins by hearing the changes in the music. At the end of the lesson, students will check their understanding of the activity by answering some simple

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K - 8th

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The Nutcracker Suite - Chinese Dance (A Listening Map)-SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.

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This Smart Notebook Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 7 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the Chinese dancers spring about, dancing joyfully to their bouncy happy tune. Students will recognize the variations of high and low sounds and what instruments represent those sounds in the piece. Included in this lesson is a YouTube link to a short video clip of the Russian Mariinsky Ballet Company performing thi

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K - 8th

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Teaching Through the Grades

Brain Break Dance Movement Songs

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This is a Smartboard file that contains 18 pictures that directly link to youtube videos for your students to dance to. Some examples include.... -Shake Your Sillies Out -Peel the Banana -Tooty Ta -Pancake Manor Songs

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Dance, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy

Grades:

PreK - 1st

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Songs, Activboard Activities

The Nutcracker Suite - The March (A Listening Map)SMARTBOARD/NOTEBOOK ED.

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This SMART NOTEBOOK Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 3 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will identify and label the 2 main sections of this march as AB form. Students will also be able to use imagery with the music to describe what is happening in the story as they hear the music being played. This lesson is also available in a BUNDLE KIT in my TpT store that includes all 9 lessons at a discounted price when purchased as a BUNDLE. Be sure

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K - 8th

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Zooming Into Brain Breaks

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A group of brain breaks at your fingertips on your smart board! Just press the button and you are on your way. - Um Bop! - Macarena Math -If You're a kid... - Move to the sounds - Dinosaur Stomp - Kung Foo - Gummy Bear - Crocodile Rock -Sid Shuffle - Lion Sleeps tonight This document can be edited

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Dance, Education, Music

Grades:

PreK - 5th

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Dance, Music, Other (Math)

April Calendar

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KinderChemist

Interactive calendar for the month of April. Pages include a calendar to fill out daily, graphing the daily weather, and practicing patterns and more. Complete with links to songs to get kids moving.

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PreK - 2nd

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Activities, Activboard Activities

Where the Wild Things Are Smart Board Activity

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This Smart Board activity is designed to go with the reading of the children's book "Where the Wild Things are" by Maurice Sendak. Each page is an activity for the day. You may follow the attached lesson schedule to know what page to read up to, then open the Smart Board activity and focus on that activity for the period. You can do more than one per period or take more time on one activity, the time is manageable and up to you.Will require Smart Notebook 11 or older to open this lesson.

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Dance, Drama, Reading

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K - 3rd

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Sound Guess Dance Activity

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Dance, Drama, Physical Education

In this activity, the students will get to guess the sound of the instrument that plays when you press the button. Then they will have to perform a prescribed dance to a song clip that plays set out below.Will require Smart Notebook 11 or older to open this lesson.

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PreK - 8th

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"Trupp" Smart Board Activity

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This Smart Board activity is designed to go with the reading of the children's book "Trupp" by Janell Cannon. Each page is an activity for the day. You may follow the attached lesson schedule to know what page to read up to, then open the Smart Board activity and focus on that activity for the period. You can do more than one per period or take more time on one activity, the time is manageable and up to you.Will require Smart Notebook 11 or older to open this lesson.

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Dance, Drama, Reading

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K - 3rd

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