Miss Carole of Macaroni Soup beating the bongo here!  Let's talk about drumming with Pre-K and K children!  You don't have to be a music teacher to engage your students in drumming exercises that will benefit their brains and bodies.  Today's blog will get you started.     Active Music stimulates every area of the developing brain.  Early ...

THE MONTH OF MAY! WELCOME!!!It's time to turn another page on your calendar. Debbie Clement of RainbowsWithinReach here. Queen of this collaborative effort. Happy monarch of sharing: rainbows, polka dots and learning new things. I'm so excited about today's article. It's FILLED with sights and sounds and inspiration and joy and color and ideas ...

By Laura Eldredge This month I have another story and music and movement activity to share with you ... and this one is about TRAINS!  Incorporating a music and movement activity with a story can enhance early literacy development in young children.  We have a series of ''Book & Boogie'' videos, where we bring together story themes with a music ...

KB...Konnected has recently posted a nice collection of resources for International Jazz Day (April 30th) - watch, read, learn and of course, listen and dance to jazz music!

“Journeys into Jazz” and other Great Resources for International Jazz Day (April 30th) #musicchat #jazz The interactive video Journeys into Jazz with Herbie Hancock is just one feature provided by Jazz in America.  You will also find lesson plans, handouts, photos, timelines, and more. SUPERB resource! You may also like… Smithsonian Jazz ...

HAPPPY END-OF-THE-SCHOOL-YEAR! HOW ABOUT A DANCE PARTY? Whether you want to kick up your heels with your students, or cut a rug with your students' friends and families, try any or all of these ideas: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.  WARM UP WITH ...

Hi!  I'm Miss Carole of Macaroni Soup! Active Music for Kids!  Today I'm going to let the pictures do most of the talking!  But a few wise words in preface: ''The more participation there is with music early on — through singing and movement — the more it simultaneously activates multiple levels of the brain. If you look at the corpus callosum ...

I subbed for a middle school math teacher today.  However, during what would have been my prep hour, I had to cover for a middle school band class. The whole class period involved the kids watching the Original Star Trek episode, The Return of the Archons.   They even had a worksheet to fill out as they watched! I don't know how this ...

Musical Paint is a wonderful iOS app for not only teaching students about different instruments, but it allows them to create digital art.  All a user has to do is click on a color and start painting to hear different instruments and sound.  Once a piece of digital art is completed it can be framed/saved or shared online.  However, my favorite ...

The other day, we were reviewing shapes.  For some reason, most of the shape names aren’t too tricky.  Circle – well we all know that.  Square and Triangle too. Rectangle can be challenging, but a little explanation of the two short and two long sides usually does the trick. It’s the darn Rhombus that gets us every [...]