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3rd Grade is focusing on just Treble Clef and 4th Grade is focusing on Treble and Bass Clef.  Here are some practice links.
Treble Clef Helphttp://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_help_treble_clef.htm
http://www.musictechteacher.com/aq_treble_clef_notes/quiz.html,
http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_travel_treble_space001.htm,
http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_word_warrior_treble.htm
Bass Clef Helphttp://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_help_bass_clef.htm, http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_bone_up_bass_notes.htm,
http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_bass_invaders.htm,
http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_bass_clef_baseball.htm,
BOTH Treble & Bass Practice;http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_lines_and_spaces_hoopshoot.htm,
http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_music_note_name_invaders.htm,
http://www.musictechteacher.com/aq_lines_and_spaces/quiz.html

I bumped into Ms. Tracey at Walmart last night while I was picking up some stuff for the Beauty and the Beast musical.  She told me about this music learning/quizzes/game site and it is awesome!  Check it out! http://www.musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes.htm

This is a fun interactive tool we are using in class to learn about opera.  Try it out with your kids!
Click here to experience Hansel & Gretel INTERACTIVE Design your own Opera!

This is a website where you can listen to music from the Hansel & Gretel Opera for free, no downloading necessary.  http://www.last.fm/music/Engelbert+Humperdinck/Hansel+and+Gretel

1.STORMCHASERS!http://www.musiclearningcommunity.com/Free%20Game%20Pages/FREEStormChasers%20Level%201%20-%20Practice.htm

2.METEORMATCH!http://www.musiclearningcommunity.com/Free%20Game%20Pages/FREEMeteorMatch1.htm                      

3.SONGBIRDS!http://www.musiclearningcommunity.com/Free%20Game%20Pages/FREESongBirdsDR-Practice.htm      

4.PAGETURNER!http://www.musiclearningcommunity.com/Game%20pages/PageTurnerLetterNames/Treble%20spaces/PgTurnLettersTrebleSpaces-Practice.htm  

Here is a fun site that has a beat box mixer!

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Jonanin/beatbox-v1-0

First and second grade students enjoyed a shadow puppet
performance of "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev.  The
performance was by a small group, Growlight Productions, headed by Ms.
Bisberg's sister Dhyana Bisberg.

Music Stations!  We warmed up our musical minds by working at 9 music activity stations around the room.  Students were engaged in various music activities such as; reading books, hot potato, matching sounds, matching terms and symbols, identifying rhythms, playing Boom Whackers and electric pianos, discovering musical instruments from around the world CD Rom, and a listening center.  Currently, we are working on song tales and poetry.  In the future, I am planning on using a new computer music tool called Groovy Music.  It is a piece of software used to help students create different forms of music through shapes and sounds.  Come and check everything out!

Click to see info on 6-8 Music Project Due November 21st!

  Movin' around, huh!