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Music is a Language

9/30/2013

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Music changes children.
Children change the world!

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The Parent Guide K-4 for Folsom's Music Class

8/8/2013

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Parents,
I love teaching music to your children! As you know, I have taken Ms. Craig's position at Dan Mills and I am so excited about helping your children learn math, language, reading, history and science through music. I have been teaching with MNPS since 2008. I wanted to let you know what your student will be learning this year and what you can do at home to help. Please take a look at the guide below.

In music class, for behavior, I will expect your children to adhere to MUSIC (M- Make good choices and do the right thing. U- Use good manners and be nice. S- Speak when the teacher allows it and raise your hand. I- Involve yourself in activities. C- Care for the music room equipment.

I am looking forward to meeting all of you! I am ready for a fantastic year!

Thank you

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Bulletin Boards

8/3/2013

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It's a new year and I am at a new school. I have loved meeting some of the parents and students at our "Meet the Teacher" night. The faculty here at Dan Mills are superb.

I thought I would share some of my bulletin boards from present to past. I wish I could find some of my other favorites, but I've been teaching too long. Lol

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Egg Note Match

5/11/2013

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Students can work by themselves matching the eggs, or with partners. I used a Sharpie and so far it's not rubbed off. Let's see how long they last.

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This week I have used flags to teach the form of a song. The students loved using the flags! It was a great way to see if the students could really identify the sections of a song. They did extremely well! It was a blast!

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Paper Assessments vs Performance Assessments

4/29/2013

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These are just a few (very few) of the paper assessments that were given in my music class. I use a variety of ways to assess the students because we are all so different. In my opinion, no classroom teacher should only use ONE method of testing their students, that's why I use multiple types of assessments.

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Duple and Triple Meter

4/15/2013

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I LOVE it when 100% of my students GET IT! This week my 4th and 3rd graders demonstrated basic rhythmic patterns in duple and triple meter. They ROCKED it. I wish I would have taken some audio because it sounded fantastic.

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MIOSM - Music In Our Schools Month

3/15/2013

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Check out my new bulletin board for MIOSM. My music classes consist of music lessons that explore math, language, history, reading and science.

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Classifying Instruments of the Orchestra

3/5/2013

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6.2.2 Identify, visually, teacher-selected orchestral instruments and group into families.

The students had a great time during this lesson. There was a lot of communicating between students, so it was not a particularly quiet lesson, but it was informative, cooperative, and beneficial. After the teams classified the instruments, I then asked them to organized the families from the highest pitched instrument, to the lowest sounding instrument.

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Welcome to Mrs. Folsom's music web site. Did you know that by being involved in music class, you can learn several things that can help you in real life? When you study music you learn math, language, history, reading skills and science. Music teaches teamwork, discipline, responsibility and helps build self esteem. I hope this site increases your knowledge in music, math, science, history and reading.

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Music is a Language

The Parent Guide K-4 for Folsom's Music Class

Bulletin Boards

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Egg Note Match

Form with FLAGS

Paper Assessments vs Performance Assessments

Duple and Triple Meter

MIOSM - Music In Our Schools Month

Classifying Instruments of the Orchestra

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