2024 Music With Feeling, Supplementary Learning Resources
2024 Music With Feeling, Supplementary Learning Resources
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Composition
2025 Music of the World Learning Resources
2025 Music of the World Learning Resources Keep the fun and learning going with our downloadable Music of the World Resource Packet! Inside, you’ll find activities for kids aged 3-12, a playlist of the music you heard today, and more! Spanish MOTW Resource packet Música del Mundo Paquete de Recursos
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Diverse Colorado Resources
Tiny Tots: Diverse Colorado In this Resource Packet for Kids, we’ll explore the rich and diverse musical landscape of Colorado! Inside, you’ll find activities, Composer Spotlights, a link to a Diverse Colorado Playlist, and more!
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Ocean Adventure Resources
Tiny Tots: Ocean Adventure Dive into the depths of orchestra music with our downloadable Ocean Adventure Resource Packet for Kids! Inside, you’ll find songs from Tiny Tots, DIY percussion instrument guides, links to playlists, and more!
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Behind the Scenes: Tiny Tots Music
Inside the Orchestra is starting the year off strong with big plans for Spring Tiny Tots: Ocean Adventure! In these programs, children and their families will sit encircled by our 30+piece orchestra and go on an immersive, interactive musical adventure! Let’s go behind the scenes with our Music Director and Arranger, Daniel Leavitt, aka Conductor
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Xylophone Composition
Xylophone Composition This composition activity combines music and math is such a smart and simple way. Children will get to flex their creativity and work on their basic addition or subtraction skills all at the same time. This blog post goes into even more detail, but the basic steps are as follows: Grab an instrument
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We’ve Got the Blues
We’ve Got the Blues Use this activity to have students create their own blues story. Students can listen to “I’ve Got the Blues” by Sam Myers to get a sense of how lyrics and storytelling can happen over a basic blues line. Then, using this backing track video, have students create their own blues story.
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Melody Maker
Melody Maker Create a melody as a class with nothing but a white board (or chalkboard) and your imagination. One by one, students can choose which note should come next in the melody. It is easiest to just stick with quarter notes. Once you have filled up the number of bars of music you chose
Rhythm Words
Music Salad! Activity Say the name of each fruit and vegetable out loud. Clap out each syllable. For example, “beet” gets one clap, “lettuce” has two, and “watermelon” has four. Once you’ve practiced each word through, point to an image and have your students say and clap it. As soon as they finish that rhythm,