Music Teacher Coffee Talk

Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT Episode #87: New Favorites for 1st Grade and Kindergarten   In this episode, Carrie and Tanya discuss their new and renewed favorites for 1st Grade and Kindergarten. Main Theme Tanya has been working a lot with Kindergarteners on the difference between beat and rhythm, aka "the way the words go." She mainly uses chants when doing beat vs. rhythm such as Engine Engine #9, Two Four Six Eight, and Queen Queen Caroline. She has also been doing spring themed pony songs and activities such as See the Pony Galloping (great triple meter song for steady beat) and moving to the Wild Horseman by Schumann. For 1st grade, Tanya has been focusing recently on rest using repertoire such as Bow Wow Wow, Pease Porridge Hot, and Just From the Kitchen . She also isolates patterns with rest using repeated phrases from picture books. For example, " Please Baby Please " is ta ti-ti ta rest, and " Click Clack Moo " is ta ta ta rest. Another new

Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT Episode #86: New Favorites in 2nd Grade In this episode, Carrie and Tanya discuss our new and renewed favorites for 2nd grade. We talk about our general curriculum for the year, and a few specific songs and activities that we have done this year, or will be trying soon. Main Theme Carrie started her 2nd grade year with a focus on SEL through music, identifying emotions in music, and reviewing instrument families and instruments of the orchestra. If you are interested in ideas and resources for teaching about instruments of the orchestra, check out our Episode #31 . Next we moved into rhythmic review of ta, ti-ti, and rest. One new favorite for teaching/reviewing rest is Zapatitos Blancos. After reviewing rest, we moved on to new material and I presented half note, aka "two." One favorite song for this are Button You Must Wander, assuming you are using the version that holds out the half note rather than a quarter-rest. In the second part of