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No Prep! Do you need engaging activities to accompany "The Nutcracker?" Students can note their favorite elements from "The Nutcracker" with this scrapbook-style journal/coloring page!

Favorite Boxes Include:

1. Dance
2. Scene
3. Costume
4. Moment
5. Character
6. Music

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The Nutcracker Listening & Match Bundle

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► We know you'll love helping students create meaningful connections to classical music, so we are happy to share these free listening activities with you today!

No Prep! Word search activities offer many benefits for students. They can help students learn new vocabulary, improve spelling skills, and develop problem-solving abilities. These word search activities are great for reviewing musical concepts in a fun and challenging way! Word search activities also make engaging brain breaks and bell-ringers.

Do you need engaging activities to accompany your Vivaldi/The Four Seasons unit or composer studies? Students can search for Vivaldi-themed words in this 15x15 word grid. 18 words can be found up, down, or across! Answer key included.

Eighteen Vocabulary Words

• up
• down
• across

Word Search Benefits

• Vocabulary: introduces learners to new words and their meanings, which can help to expand their vocabulary.
• Spelling: teaches the correct spelling of words.
• Visual perception: students scan a grid and identify patterns, which can help to improve their visual perception skills.
• Problem-solving: helps students develop problem-solving skills by challenging them to find words that are hidden in a grid.
• Focus: Word searches can help students focus and concentrate, which can be helpful for other academic tasks.
• Memory: helps improve memory by requiring students to remember the words that they have already found.

Unlock the musical genius of Duke Ellington with this printable word search! Challenge your students to search for Ellington-themed words in this fun, engaging activity, perfect for any music or history lesson. Explore the influence of Duke Ellington in shaping American music and explore his fascinating life story with this exciting word search!

No Prep! Word search activities offer many benefits for students. They can help students learn new vocabulary, improve spelling skills, and develop problem-solving abilities. These word search activities are great for reviewing musical concepts in a fun and challenging way! Word search activities also make engaging brain breaks and bell-ringers.

Students search for Ellington-themed words in this 15x15 word grid. 15 words can be found up, down, or across! Answer key included.

Fifteen Vocabulary Words

• up
• down
• across
• diagonally

Word Search Benefits

• Vocabulary: introduces learners to new words and their meanings, which can help to expand their vocabulary.
• Spelling: teaches the correct spelling of words.
• Visual perception: students scan a grid and identify patterns, which can help to improve their visual perception skills.
• Problem-solving: helps students develop problem-solving skills by challenging them to find words that are hidden in a grid.
• Focus: Word searches can help students focus and concentrate, which can be helpful for other academic tasks.
• Memory: helps improve memory by requiring students to remember the words that they have already found.

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Share stories, create conversations, and spark a deeper appreciation for the arts all month (and all year) long! Explore ALL of the Black History Month composer packs, activities, and digital resources.

No Prep! Word search activities offer many benefits for students. They can help students learn new vocabulary, improve spelling skills, and develop problem-solving abilities. These word search activities are great for reviewing musical concepts in a fun and challenging way! Word search activities also make engaging brain breaks and bell-ringers.

"My students enjoy doing something different in Music Class. This is the first time I used a word find. The students were engaged right away. I needed something to use after our Christmas performance. It was perfect and saved me a lot of time." - Bonnie L.

Do you need engaging activities to accompany "The Nutcracker?" Students can search for Nutcracker-themed words in this 15x15 word grid. Eighteen words can be found up, down, or across! Answer key included.

Fifteen Vocabulary Words

• up
• down
• across

Word Search Benefits

• Vocabulary: introduces learners to new words and their meanings, which can help to expand their vocabulary.
• Spelling: teaches the correct spelling of words.
• Visual perception: students scan a grid and identify patterns, which can help to improve their visual perception skills.
• Problem-solving: helps students develop problem-solving skills by challenging them to find words that are hidden in a grid.
• Focus: Word searches can help students focus and concentrate, which can be helpful for other academic tasks.
• Memory: helps improve memory by requiring students to remember the words that they have already found.

This engaging, no-prep worksheet is designed to combine piano note identification with problem-solving skills. Ideal for piano and music theory students, the worksheet includes three different pages, each with a unique focus:

1. Three-Letter Word Riddles Page: Students solve riddles where the answers are three-letter words. To find the solution, they must identify the notes on the piano keys shown. Each key corresponds to a different note, and deciphering the notes will reveal the answer to the riddle.
2. Four-Letter Word Riddles Page: This section features riddles with four-letter word answers. Students will use their note recognition skills to identify the notes on the piano keyboard, which will help them solve each riddle and uncover the four-letter word answers.
3. Phrase Riddles Page: In this section, students tackle riddles that lead to musical phrases. They will identify the notes on the piano keys to determine the correct phrases, integrating their note identification skills with their understanding of musical terminology.

Features:

• Answer Key Included: An answer key is provided for all pages, allowing for quick verification and efficient feedback.
• Easy No-Prep Activity: This worksheet is ready to use with minimal preparation, making it perfect for classroom use or individual practice.

This worksheet offers a fun and interactive way for students to practice piano note recognition while solving riddles and uncovering musical answers.

This Key Signature Speed Test product is a great tool for helping students quickly identify key signatures. It includes three different tests, each with a focus on different types of key signatures, and comes with answer keys for easy grading:

• Test 1: Flat key signatures
• Test 2: Sharp key signatures
• Test 3: Mixed key signatures (flats and sharps)

Designed to measure how quickly students can identify key signatures or see how many they can correctly identify within a set time, these tests are ideal for tracking progress. They can be used repeatedly throughout the year to help students improve their key signature recognition speed and accuracy.

Add a fun and educational twist to your music lessons with our Staff Spelling Bee! This engaging resource includes five different practice pages to help students master note names and improve their spelling skills using bass and treble clefs.

• 2 Treble Clef Pages: Practice spelling with three-letter and four-letter words.
• 2 Bass Clef Pages: Practice spelling with three-letter and four-letter words.
• 1 Challenge Page: A combined exercise featuring both bass and treble clefs with five or more letter words for added difficulty.

Each page comes with an answer key for easy grading or self-assessment. This versatile resource can be used as a fun classroom game, a targeted practice session, or a valuable homework assignment. Perfect for reinforcing note reading and spelling in a creative and interactive way!

Enhance your students' musical skills and make learning fun with the Staff Spelling Bee!

This Note Name Speed Tests product on TeachShare is perfect for helping students master note identification. It includes three different tests, each with 45 questions per page, along with answer keys for easy grading:

• Test 1: Treble clef only
• Test 2: Bass clef only
• Test 3: Mixed clefs (treble and bass)

Designed to measure how quickly students can identify notes or see how many they can correctly identify within a set time, these tests are ideal for tracking progress. They can be used repeatedly throughout the year to help students improve their note-reading speed and accuracy.y students can identify notes or see how many they can correctly identify within a set time, these tests are ideal for tracking progress. They can be used repeatedly throughout the year to help students improve their note-reading speed and accuracy.

Enhance your students' solfege skills with this comprehensive practice resource designed to reinforce note reading and pitch recognition in the keys of C, F, and G. This product includes a set of practice sheets, each featuring six lines of exercises per page.

• First 3 lines: Treble Clef
• Last 3 lines: Bass Clef

Each set of lines includes:

1. Major Scale: The top line guides students through a simple major scale.
2. Stepwise Motion: The second line focuses on stepwise motion, reinforcing smooth transitions between notes.
3. Skips: The third line challenges students with skips, helping them to develop their interval recognition.

Students are given the starting solfege syllable (Do) at the beginning of each line and are provided with spaces to write in the correct solfege syllables for each note. An answer key is included for easy grading or self-assessment.

This resource is versatile and can be used in several ways:

• Timed Tests: Challenge your students to complete the exercises within a set time to improve speed and accuracy.
• Classroom Learning: Use the sheets as part of your curriculum to teach students how to read music and understand solfege.

Whether for individual practice, in-class exercises, or homework assignments, this resource is ideal for building and reinforcing solfege skills in a structured and sequential manner.

Get your students confident in their solfege practice with this targeted and effective tool!

Enhance your students' rhythm skills with Rhythm Note Duration Speed Tests, a fun and effective way to reinforce note duration knowledge! This product includes two different types of speed tests designed to help students quickly and accurately identify the number of beats each note and rest receives, building their confidence and fluency in music reading.

What’s Included:

1. Single Note Duration Speed Test:

• Each square contains one note or rest.
• Students must quickly identify how many beats the note or rest gets.
• Notes and rests included: quarter note, eighth note, half note, dotted half note, whole note, and their corresponding rests.

1. Combined Note Duration Speed Test:

• Each square contains two different notes or rests.
• Students must quickly identify how many beats each note or rest gets, then add them together.
• Notes and rests included: quarter note and rest, eighth note and rest, half note and rest, dotted half note, whole note and rest.

Bonus:

• Answer Key Included: An easy-to-use answer key is provided for both types of speed tests, making it simple for teachers to check students’ work quickly and accurately.

How It Works:

• Engaging Practice: These speed tests are perfect for quick drills, timed tests, or competitive games to see who can identify note durations the fastest.
• Reinforce Learning: The first test focuses on individual note durations, helping students solidify their understanding. The second test challenges them to combine durations, improving their ability to add and recognize rhythms in a musical context.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for classroom activities, homework, or as a fun, timed challenge during lessons.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Boosts Speed & Accuracy: Designed to help students quickly recognize and calculate note durations, essential for sight-reading and performing music.
• Simple & Effective: Easy to implement in any music lesson, with clear instructions and a focus on key rhythmic concepts.
• Versatile Resource: Suitable for a wide range of music students, from beginners who are just learning note values to more advanced students who need a quick refresher.

Perfect for:

• Music Classrooms: A great tool for reinforcing rhythm skills in a group setting, encouraging friendly competition and rapid learning.
• Private Lessons: Use these worksheets as a quick warm-up or challenge to keep students engaged and focused.
• At-Home Practice: Parents can use these speed tests to support their child's music education in a fun and interactive way.

With Rhythm Note Duration Speed Tests, you’ll give your students the tools they need to become rhythm masters. Plus, with the included answer key, you’ll save time and ensure accurate grading. Add this resource to your teaching toolkit and watch as your students' speed, accuracy, and confidence with rhythm notation soar!

Help your students master intervals with the Intervals Speed Test! This engaging and challenging resource is designed to reinforce interval recognition, ensuring that students can quickly and accurately identify both the interval number and its quality.
What’s Included:

1. Interval Number Speed Test:

• Students identify the interval number (e.g., 2nd, 3rd, 4th) for each given pair of notes.
• Covers all intervals from Perfect Unison to Perfect Octave.

1. Interval Number and Quality Speed Test:

• Students identify both the interval number and its quality (e.g., Major 3rd, Minor 6th, Perfect 5th).
• Includes all interval types from Perfect Unison to Perfect Octave.

Bonus:

• Answer Key Included: An answer key is provided for both speed tests, making it easy for teachers to quickly check students’ work and provide feedback.

How It Works:

• Interval Recognition Practice: These speed tests are perfect for drilling interval identification, helping students to internalize interval patterns and improve their sight-reading and aural skills.
• Two Levels of Difficulty: Start with the Interval Number Speed Test to build a solid foundation, then progress to the Interval Number and Quality Speed Test for a more advanced challenge.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for timed quizzes, classroom competitions, or individual practice.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Boosts Speed & Accuracy: Designed to help students quickly and confidently identify intervals, a crucial skill in music theory and performance.
• Simple & Effective: Easy to incorporate into your lessons, with clear instructions and a focus on essential interval concepts.
• Versatile Resource: Suitable for students of all levels, from beginners who are just learning intervals to more advanced students who need to refine their skills.

Perfect for:

• Music Classrooms: An excellent tool for reinforcing interval recognition in a group setting, encouraging friendly competition and rapid learning.
• Private Lessons: Use these worksheets as a quick warm-up or challenge to keep students engaged and focused.
• At-Home Practice: Parents can use these speed tests to support their child’s music education in a fun and interactive way.

With the Intervals Speed Test, your students will develop the skills they need to recognize intervals quickly and accurately. The included answer key makes it easy to assess progress and ensure accurate learning. Add this resource to your teaching toolkit and watch as your students' interval recognition skills soar!

For use in your piano studio, here is an early version of the Piano Assignment Sheet that I used in student's lessons. On the sheet, there is space for vocabulary, a scale and a scale visual for students (small keyboard and fingerings). On the "playlist", you may put up to 5 items for students to work on between lessons. The N/M/R: New Piece, Memorized, Review. One of these would be circled so you and the student know the urgency in practice. The Plus, Minus, and Check are a small rating system for you to assess student preparation (on the next lesson). The practice log is for a student to show how much they practice, and on what day between their lessons. Should you want to make changes to the sheet, please e-mail me at zsmusiceducation@gmail.com, and I will customize the sheet for you, for $1!

Back by popular demand is the next listening calendar! Filled with 30 new songs for June, students can have fun listening to these songs and writing about them on their journals!

We're trying a new format where you can share this digital PDF to students and they can click on the song and be taken directly to our YouTube playlist.

You do have permission to share this with your colleagues and students as needed.

Thank you for your interest in our calendars!

Say hello to our November 2020 listening calendar! We've got some feel-good songs this month just in time for Thanksgiving.

Our calendar format allows you share this digital PDF to students and they can click on the song and be taken directly to our YouTube playlist.

You do have permission to share this with your students as needed. Please direct your colleagues here to purchase their own calendar.

Thank you for your interest in our calendars!

Our March 2021 Basic Listening Calendar is hand-selected and gives you a suggestion of a song to play for that day.

Our calendar format allows you to share this digital PDF with students if they would like their own copy. You do have permission to share this with your students as needed. Please direct your colleagues here to purchase their own calendar.

The basic calendar is no longer linked with each video. For that feature, plus a pre-made list of journal/entry prompts, click here to view our Premium listening calendar.

Thank you for your interest in our calendars, and thank you for supporting a small business!

Our first listening calendar of the year! Our February 2021 Basic Listening Calendar is hand-selected and gives you a suggestion of a song to play for that day.

Our calendar format allows you to share this digital PDF with students if they would like their own copy. You do have permission to share this with your students as needed. Please direct your colleagues here to purchase their own calendar.

The basic calendar is no longer linked with each video. For that feature, plus a pre-made list of journal/entry prompts, click here to view our Premium listening calendar.

Thank you for your interest in our calendars, and thank you for supporting a small business!

Back by popular demand is the next listening calendar! We've been taking your suggestions and have made adjustments for the October 2020 listening calendar! For this spooky time of year, we have filled this month's calendar with some tricks and treats!

We're trying a new format where you can share this digital PDF to students and they can click on the song and be taken directly to our YouTube playlist.

You do have permission to share this with your students as needed. Please direct your colleagues here to purchase their own calendar.

Thank you for your interest in our calendars!

Back by popular demand is the next listening calendar! We've been taking your suggestions and have made adjustments for the September 2020 listening calendar!

We're trying a new format where you can share this digital PDF to students and they can click on the song and be taken directly to our YouTube playlist.

You do have permission to share this with your students as needed. Please direct your colleagues here to purchase their own calendar.

Thank you for your interest in our calendars!

Our March 2021 Premium Listening Calendar is hand-selected and gives you a suggestion of a song to play for that day.

Our calendar format allows you to share this digital PDF with students if they would like their own copy. You do have permission to share this with your students as needed. Please direct your colleagues here to purchase their own calendar.

The Premium Calendar features links to videos in our YouTube playlist so your students can go directly to the song from the PDF. Included are also prompts for listening journals/assignments that you can copy/paste into your teaching platform. For the basic calendar without the links, click here.

Thank you for your interest in our calendars, and thank you for supporting a small business!

Back by popular demand is the next listening calendar! We've been taking your suggestions and have made adjustments for the August 2020 listening calendar!

We're trying a new format where you can share this digital PDF to students and they can click on the song and be taken directly to our YouTube playlist.

You do have permission to share this with your students as needed. Please direct your colleagues here to purchase their own calendar.

Thank you for your interest in our calendars!