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Middle school music composition resources for parents
Band Postcards
Improve parent/teacher communication while encouraging your band students! Pass them out directly to your students at school or surprise them by mailing it via USPS! This postcard collection contains 5 ready-to-print postcards and 1 editable post card (in Microsoft Word) for personalization. ⭐These postcards are included in our money saving End-of-Year Bundle for Band Directors⭐Your band parents are your biggest supporters and advocates. Let them know when their child is doing something RIGHT
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: End of Year Bundle for Band Directors
Music Choice Board for Independent Learning (Band, Choir, Orchestra)
Struggling with music ideas that your students can do at home with limited access to sheet music or instruments? This choice board gives students creative options with a variety of materials they are likely to have at home. Some of the topics covered on the choice board:music listening/appreciationmusic compositionlyric writingmusic terminologymusical theatresoundtracks and playlistsinstrument creationmusic in a foreign languagevirtual field tripsClick "View Preview" to view the product before p
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4th - 12th
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Mr. Everybody's Musical Apartment Book Two
Mr. Everybody's Musical Apartment Book Two introduces Good Guy, Always Awfuland Bad Boy as characters and notes. Each note is used in a new song which also review the characters from book 1. Concepts such as 1st and 2nd ending, repeat signs, sharp signs and quarter rests are introduced in the new songs. The concept of the 3 new characters being used together as the word Gab helps the student with rapid recognition of notes. You will be amazed at fast paced increase of notation reading.
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1st - 7th
Halloween High Low Listening Exercises
This is a Halloween-themed High and Low Notes worksheet and their consecutive mp3 audio tracks.These audio tracks contain Halloween sounds for students to get a spooky yet fun experience.Practicing to find out what sounds are high and what sounds are low is crucial when doing music. And it is hard to do it in a fun way.So here are some fun interactive activities for music teachers.Includes 10 listening activities per sheet and there are 2 worksheets. And the answers are in the QR codes.
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Beginning Band Instrument Purchasing Guide
This editable document is a guide for future band parents to help them purchase the best instrument for their child. it includes how to navigate several options: 1. Local Music Stores2. Music Websites (NOT AMAZON)3. Family Owned Instruments4. facebook Marketplace5. Thrift Stores and Pawn ShopsThere is also an extensive list of quality instrument and reed brands to guide parents in their search.
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5th - 7th
Note to Parents about Good Behavior in Music
This is a note I love to keep on hand! Anytime a student does a good job in class, I give them a note like this. Check off why they are being given the note, and make sure to write their name! You can add more information onto the back. This is a great positive incentive for elementary music class. You may also like:Five PBIS Incentives for the Music RoomElementary Music Lesson: Que LluevaOcean Animals Rhythm Cards in Spanish and EnglishLet's be friends!Blog: Becca's Music RoomEtsyInstagramPinte
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PreK - 12th
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String Orchestra Concert Program Templates - Editable in Google Slides
These are four editable concert program templates for string orchestra. Edit the text in Google Slides, download the program as a PDF, print them double-sided, and hand them out for a very easy, visually appealing orchestra concert program!All text and text color/positioning is editable, the images are not editable.Included in this product is:A program title page with school name, concert name, director, principal and superintendent. Two inside pages with names of ensembles, performance pieces,
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4th - 12th
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Major Scale and Arpeggio Rubric - Google Doc
For choir, vocal music, or general music classes.Rubric for singing a major scale. Option to sing scale on solfege or "ah" with solfege hand signs.For more advanced vocal students, optional requirement to add a major arpeggio with solfege hand signs. Space to give individualized feedback to student. Could be printed or completed on the google doc - Google Classroom Friendly!!EASY to edit and customize for your classroom setting.
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6th - 9th
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Band Concert Program Templates - Editable in Google Slides
These are four editable concert program templates for concert band. Edit the text in Google Slides, download the program as a PDF, print them double-sided, and hand them out for a very easy, visually appealing band concert program!All text and text color/positioning is editable, the images are not editable.Included in this product is:A program title page with school name, concert name, director, principal and superintendent. Two inside pages with names of ensembles, performance pieces, and stude
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4th - 12th
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Peter and the Wolf (short bio and worksheet)
Introduce your students to Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev who is famous for his symphony Peter and the Wolf. Written especially for children, it tells the story of a little boy, Peter, who saves a bird. Characters are represented by various instruments as a narrator guides the listener through a musical story. A delightful story, it also serves as a beautiful introduction to classical music and the types of instruments in an orchestra.For older students this is an opportunity to discuss who S
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3rd - 8th
Careers In Music
Perfect for Career Week! This slide show is embedded with the Berklee School of Music Careers in Music Website. It is chalked full of information, resources and pictures. The slide show also has some embedded interviews with various folks in the music world. Feel free to edit and add your own information as well.
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5th - 12th
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Piano Lesson Progress Sheets Bundle
All 4 of the progress sheets are in this bundle. There is room where the teachers may also write in their assignments. Since dates can be written in, the teacher and the parents can compare the student's improvement through time.
The PIANO LESSON PROGRESS SHEET FOR BEGINNER STUDENTS includes keeping track of things such as memorizing finger numbers, names of the white keys, which clef is for higher or lower sounds.
The PIANO LESSON PROGRESS SHEET FOR LEVEL 1 STUDENTS is intended to help re
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1st - 12th
Virtual Classroom-F.R.I.E.N.D.S Theme : Guardian Information/Staff Room
Are you singing the theme song yet? This Virtual Classroom is a great resource for Parents and Guardians to access! Also, staff and fans of the show will enjoy this! Could I BE any more excited?⭐Replace constant notices that never get read (or brought home!)⭐Add in a homework link so families have access to homework if it is forgotten ⭐Important Dates⭐Save you time and EMAIL questions from guardians ⭐Examples of what to add to the board
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Chord Speller Key for Major, Minor, Augmented and Diminished Chords
This is a handy key to help students easily locate chords. Thinking through the half step/whole step pattern for chords or any of the other methods students are taught to find chords can become taxing. This is a helpful reward for my students who are enjoying playing chords or lead sheets but not yet automatic with chord recognition. This chord key includes the basic chord qualities of major, minor, diminished, augmented and dominant seventh. The first page is organized according to the circle o
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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Beginning Piano Composition Pre-Reading Create Your Own Sight-Reading Card
This worksheet guides students to create their first miniature compositions! They simply draw note values in the boxes. This reinforces stem-up/stem-down notation for pre-reading students. They can also select what key map they want to use. And they get practice writing in what finger numbers they want to play with. An easy way for pre-reading students to write their own piano exercises.
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PreK - 6th
Student Composition Brag Sheet
This is a take home assignment for parents! A great way to improve communication with parents and let them know what students are learning in music class. Students enjoy "bragging" about their music compositions, building pride and feeling a sense of accomplishment. A win, win for everyone! Students are asked to share their rhythmic composition with parents discussing concepts learned in class and the composition process. Parents complete the reflection questions and the students return the wo
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2nd - 12th
Holiday Piano Practice - Twelve Days of Piano Practice
This worksheet helps students develop their practicing skills and provides ways for students to keep practicing during a break from lessons. This includes listening to linked videos and many other activities! It also gives opportunities for students to teach their family and provides multiple ways they can practice their assigned pieces.
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
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Positive Postcard - Music (Positive Reinforcement)
As teachers we reinforce and aim to positively encourage students in our class. A 'Positive Postcard' can be given directly to students with a message, sent home via post to the student and parents. A great way to encourage your budding musicians to continue their amazing learning in class and let parents know their child is performing well.
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K - 12th
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Positive Postcard - Music (Positive Reinforcement)
As teachers we reinforce and aim to positively encourage students in our class. A 'Positive Postcard' can be given directly to students with a message, sent home via post to the student and parents. A great way to encourage your budding musicians to continue their amazing learning in class and let parents know their child is performing well.
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K - 12th
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Fire Safety Songs
Three fire safety songs to sing with your class or to send home for them to learn!
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PreK - 7th
Elementary Open House PowerPoint
This powerpoint has the basics of an elementary music class for parents. I let this loop in the background while parents walk around my room and ask questions.Currently, it is filled out with some of my information which I left in to provide examples. The first three slides are generic.
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PreK - 6th
Rhythm Wars: In the Beginning PowerPoint Edition
Rhythm Wars: In the Beginning is the epilogue for a high tech counting game that spans sixteen chapters allowing students an up close and personal look at counting rhythms. A great assistant for visually impaired students, it magnifies the measures so that all students can count and clap in tandem on a Smartboard, Promethean, PowerPoint, or even a projector. For more active fun they then compete against each other to find a class champion. Each class champion can then compete against the upper a
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1st - 10th
Piano Music Lesson Progress Sheet For Level 1 Students
This progress sheet is for beginning students who are at the Level 1 in their piano method books. It is to help teachers, students, and parents keep track of what the students are learning and at what pace.
(For the very beginner piano student, please refer to my PIANO MUSIC LESSON PROGRESS SHEET FOR BEGINNER STUDENTS which link may be found here.) Piano Music Lesson Progress Sheet For Beginner Students
In learning to play music on the piano, certain disciplines and skills may be called upon
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1st - 12th
Generic High School Music Theory Syllabus
This is a two page syllabus for the high school music theory course I taught for four years. It gives a basic overview of the class mission, expectations and goals I have for my students and myself, required and optional supply list, and bell schedule/other pertinent information.
My students and I reviewed a copy of this at the beginning of the year; additionally, I had it uploaded on my teacher page and emailed it to all parents.
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8th - 12th
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