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Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT #178: Continuation Songs Announcement: May Membership Upgrade Giveaway at Buy Me a Coffee! We are excited to offer our listeners support and resources through our new Membership site on Buy Me a Coffee. We have two membership options: Solo Single Shot ($5/month) and Duet Double Shot ($15). Check out our  Buy Me a Coffee membership site  for all the details including the perks you get with each level of membership. We are doing a giveaway in May: anyone who becomes a Solo Single Shot member this month will be eligible for a drawing for a free upgrade to the Duet Double Shot Membership for one year! Be sure to join by May 31st to be eligible. We appreciate you supporting our work! Main Theme: In this episode, Carrie and Tanya share their favorite songs and performance ideas for Kindergarten and 5th grade (or 6th grade) Continuation ceremonies. Kindergarten: Each of Us Is a Flower  What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong I’m Growing ...

Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT #160: Peek at Our Week: Kindergarten   Main Theme: Peek at our Week - Kindergarten plans Tanya: These songs and activities were used over two 45-minute lessons with a focus on practicing routines and procedures, preparing loud and soft, preparing the 4 voices, and having fun! That's a Mighty Pretty Motion - movement When Dogs Wake Up - vocal exploration Hickety Pickety Bumblebee - name game Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee Won’t you say your name for me?  (child says his or her name) Bye Low, Baby-Oh and Here's a Little Baby finger play - preparing loud and soft Grizzly Bear - preparing loud and soft Cuckoo - singing voice Very Lonely Firefly   and Firefly - picture book and listening Johnny Works with One Hammer - steady beat movement Come Along Everybody - following movement Listen, Listen Here I Come - Playing drums Peanut Butter and Jelly - picture book and preparing 4 voices Carrie: These songs and activities were used over 3 days of ...

Music Teacher Coffee Talk · MTCT #143: Primary Lesson Segments: Recipes for Sucess Pt. 1 Main Theme: Primary Lesson Segments (Recipes for Success, Part I) We are starting up a new series all about lesson planning called Recipes for Success and today's episode is all about lesson segments for primary grades.  Think of daily lesson plans as a layer cake and the lesson segments are like the foundational layers of the cake. What are lesson segments? Lesson segments are the foundation of your lesson and include the songs, games, and activities you do in your room. Lesson segments can be tied to a specific conceptual focus, or can just be for joy and musicking. In a Kodály-inspired classroom, the songs and conceptual focus of lesson segments are chosen from song lists and concept plans and are laid out time-wise from your yearly plans and/or district pacing guide.  How many lesson segments should there be? How long should they be? In a Kodály-inspired classroom, a typical 45-minut...

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 #79: Top 3 Episodes for our 3 Year Anniversary   In this episode, Carrie and Tanya discuss our top 3 episodes as a celebration of our 3 year podcasting anniversary! We discuss what things are still relevant and helpful in these 3 episodes as well as things that we would say or do differently now. Thank you to all of the listeners who have been with us for these 3 years. We appreciate your support! Main Theme: Our top 3 most listened to episode throughout the years #3: Episode 49: Focus on Kindergarten #2: Episode 22: Songs, Games, and Activities for the First Days of School #1: Episode 4: Classroom Management “When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will gr...

In this episode , Carrie and Tanya share 2 sample lesson plans based off of their long-range planning as mentioned in Episode 56.   Tanya shares a Kindergarten lesson focusing on steady beat and high/low.  Carrie shares a 4th grade plan focusing on ti-ta-ti (syncopa) and high do.   Songs and Activities mentioned in this episode: *Clap Your Hands* Looby-Loo with percussion Hop Old Squirrel Here's a Nest for Robin Here's a nest for robin, Here's a hive for bee, Here's a hole for rabbit, And here's a home for me! Two Little Puppets Two little puppets, one on each hand, Isn't she lovely, isn't he grand? Her name is Bella, his name is Bo, She says "Good morning" (or afternoon), and he says "Hello!" "Personages with Long Ears" from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens *Old King Glory*   The Ants Go Marching  Illustrated by Dan Crisp ...