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These songs and poems are perfect for celebrating autumn! This set contains 15 songs and poems about fall, with cute illustrations that can easily be used on a flannel board. (To use the illustrations on a flannel board, just cut them out and attach a piece of felt to the back.)

Flannel boards (or felt boards) are a fabulous method of sharing music and rhythm with children by using visual props along with songs. My collection of songs and poems will help you to use your flannel board to its fullest potential.

Please note: These are NOT holiday songs.

“Autumn Leaves”

“The Leaves are Falling Down”

“Pretty Leaves”

“Five Little Squirrels”

“The Floppy Scarecrow”

“Have You Ever Seen an Apple?”

“Two Little Crows”

“The Turkey”

“Leaves are Twirling”

“The Acorn Song”

“Pumpkin, Pumpkin”

“The Leaves on the Trees”

“Grey Squirrel”

“When the Leaves”

"All the Leaves”

This project is designed for students to create their own original artist/band and to market their newly formed artist(s). It is appropriate for middle school students (grad 6-8) and is always a crowd pleaser!

Students submit a band/artist portfolio which includes a profile about their artist/band, a concert poster, album cover art, and a jingle. The jingle can be performed using an instrumental track to a piece that they enjoy. Included are some examples of products that they could write a jingle about. A rubric for assessment purposes is included and you could even extend this project further by creating an art assessment piece for the album cover art and concert poster.

This assignment typically takes approximately 5-10 classes to complete, from introducing it to completing the final jingle performances. It is handy to have students to complete a rough copy of their work before submitting their good copy to ensure their best quality work is submitted.

Elevate Your Audition Process with the Play & Musical Theatre Audition Notes Tracker!

Transform the way you handle auditions with our dynamic and user-friendly Google Sheets template, designed specifically for theatre educators and directors who demand both efficiency and equity. Packed with innovative features, this Audition Notes Tracker is your all-in-one solution to streamline and enhance your casting process.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Auditioner Information: Capture essential details with ease, ensuring you have everything you need at your fingertips.
• Efficient Form Management: Simple checkboxes to track required forms, keeping you organized and on top of all paperwork.
• Multi-Select Dropdowns: Seamlessly evaluate Acting, Vocal, and Dance abilities with pre-filled, customizable options. Ensure every auditioner is assessed fairly, promoting an inclusive and equitable evaluation process.
• In-Depth Notes Section: A broader notes area allows you to jot down those unique impressions that make each performer stand out.
• Automatic Callback & Cast Lists: Let our tracker do the heavy lifting! Once you program your character list formulas, watch as your callback and cast lists are auto-generated, saving you precious time and ensuring accuracy.
• Full Tutorial Video: We’ve got your back! Our comprehensive video guide walks you through every step, helping you unlock the full potential of the tracker.

Why Choose Our Tracker?

As a theatre educator and director myself, I understand the complexities and nuances of casting a show. This template is crafted with an energetic blend of creativity and functionality, designed to support your artistic vision while keeping the mundane tasks in check.

Join the Revolution!

Say goodbye to messy paperwork and hello to a seamless, stress-free audition process. Whether you're casting for a school play or a community musical, our Play & Musical Theatre Audition Notes Tracker is your backstage pass to casting success. Grab your copy today and take the first step toward a more organized and equitable audition experience!

Let the magic of theatre shine through—effortlessly.

How to Access

This product is delivered via a file download. You will receive links to access the Google Sheets template. If you have trouble with the file please email me at classroomtocurtain@gmail.com.

To utilize the Google Sheet, a free Google account is required.

If don't have a Google account, you can create a free one here: https://accounts.google.com/signup/v2/webcreateaccount?flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=SignUp

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Are you searching for a simple-to-use program booklet template for your upcoming chorus or band concert? Look no further than our winter forest-themed design template, compatible with Google Slides™! Easy customization options allow you to add or remove pages to create a 4 or 8-page (or more) program booklet that will make a wonderful keepsake.

Features:

• Compatible with Google Slides™ to easily edit
• 11"x8.5" US letter size, landscape orientation, folds into a half-sheet 5.5"x8.5" booklet
• Print or share electronically
• Choose to print in black-and-white or color
• Includes instructions on recoloring any design feature
• Easily add important information like your school name, date, location, and time
• All resources use Google Fonts™ and can be downloaded for free from fonts.google.com

Printing directions: Adjust your print settings to US letter size and landscape orientation. To print two-sided, flip on the short edge. Printing one sheet front-and-back creates a 4-page folded booklet; printing two sheets front-to-back creates an 8-page folded booklet, and so on.

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Need to connect with your kids with their pop music through general music? Involve them in bucket drumming with the hit song from Zedd and Alessia Cara, "Stay"!

There are three all-color coded slides along with the form identifiers listed next to each phrase. Discuss form with the students and teach them (by rote) the rhythms on the powerpoint with the corresponding repeats (most are repeated 4 times). Then, apply it to drums!

All regular notation is to be played on the buckets (or drums, or ground, however you wish), and the X notation (with a down stem) are played as stick clicks above their head (or you could apply it to a tambourine or other auxiliary instrument)

Here's the track so you can play along...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS2ifrLAadU

Have fun with this and let us know how it goes!

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Need a last-minute activity to cover time in your class? This MARCH Hidden Word coloring worksheet is PERFECT for your music students who need a quick review of note and rest values while filling those last few minutes of class.

The Hidden Word coloring worksheet has students identifying Quarter Notes, Quarter Rests, Half Notes, and Whole Notes to reveal the word: MARCH. You will only need FOUR colors for the worksheet!

This worksheet is perfect to review these note values, filling time in class, or place into your sub tub when you need emergency sub-activities! The best part is that all you need to do is print, copy, and color!

The worksheet is licensed for duplication, however, you may not share this resource with another teacher/school/studio. Please do feel free to encourage your colleagues to purchase their own copy.

As always, your feedback is very welcomed on our products so we can better serve your needs! You may reach out to us where you purchased this product, or by reaching out to us with the means below. Your support is greatly appreciated. Be on the lookout for more worksheets just like this one!

Need a fun summer activity for either the end or the beginning of the school year? Check out this rhythm and solfege decoding lesson for Pete the Cat Screams for Ice Cream! Recently published, this book is great for getting kids excited about summer or easing out of it as they re-enter the classroom in the fall. Use either the chant or song to have students chanting or singing along as you read the story to them! Great for grades PreK-2nd.

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Boost your choir students' confidence and positivity with our Choir Room Affirmation Station! This product is designed to create an uplifting environment where students can start each day with encouraging messages.

Product Features:

• Cut-Out and Laminated Designs: Easy-to-use affirmations that can be cut out, laminated, and placed around a mirror for a daily boost of positivity.
• Sunny Songs Color Palette: Designed to match the acoustic tones color palette of other products in our store, creating a cohesive and stylish look in your choir room.
• Uplifting Messages: Includes a variety of affirmations to inspire and motivate your students, helping to build their self-esteem and confidence.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for use around mirrors, bulletin boards, or anywhere in your choir room where students can see and be encouraged by them.

Benefits:

• Create a positive and supportive environment for your choir students.
• Help students start their day with confidence and a positive mindset.
• Enhance the visual appeal of your choir room with stylish, coordinated designs.
• Easy to implement and durable for long-lasting use.

Transform your choir room into a space filled with encouragement and positivity with the Choir Room Affirmation Station! Download now to start inspiring your students every day.

Are you ready to introduce (or reintroduce-let’s face it, we all know they forget from year to year) your students to the captivating world of the Elements of Music? Then you’ll enjoy the Elements of Music Vocabulary Mystery Word Match Activity! This engaging lesson is designed to help students familiarize themselves with some essential music vocabulary associated with the elements of music in a fun and interactive way. We all know that students generally love games so they’ll enjoy the gamification of this activity. As they match vocabulary words with their definitions, they’ll discover some letters that they will need to unscramble to find a mystery word.

Activity Overview:

In this activity, students will match vocabulary words to their corresponding definitions related to the elements of music. Each correct match will reveal a letter, allowing students to unscramble and discover the mystery word. This interactive feature adds an extra layer of excitement and challenges to the vocabulary learning experience.

Included in this Activity:

With this activity you will get an interactive worksheet with some words related to the elements of music (e.g., Elements of Music, Duration, Pitch, Dynamics, Timbre, Texture/Harmony, Form and Tempo) and the corresponding definitions and explanations for each mystery word.

When students have completed and found the mystery word, you can provide them with a blank template and have them find additional words related to the elements of music and their corresponding definitions so that they can create their own. You can use this for earlier finishers, as an extension activity or to dig a little deeper for everyone into the elements of music.

Streamline your music performance preparations with this versatile music concert program template! Customize the design for a wide-range of musical performances such as band, chorus, choir or recitals. Compatible with Google Slides™️, save hours of design time and create a professional-quality program that highlights your event details and performers. No graphic design skills required – just customize, print, and impress!

Perfect for music educators, school music directors, choir leaders, band directors, and performance coordinators who want a quick solution for their next musical event program.

Features:

• Compatible with Google Slides™ for easy editing
• Standard US letter size (11"x8.5", landscape) - folds to 5.5"x8.5" booklet
• Choice of two cover options: color and black and white
• Simple color customization to make the design your own!
• Print or share digitally
• Easily add all your event details
• Uses free Google Fonts™ (available at fonts.google.com)

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In this charming resource for your little ones, your students will see a bumblebee navigate his way through the powerpoint presentation, up... and down... and UUUUUUUUUUP, and downnnnnnnn, and all around!

Have your students mimic the movement of the bee (autonomously animated) throughout 10 different slides and assess their vocal exploration!

For extensions and variations, have them try it with

• Dynamics (loud and soft)
• Rhythm Sticks (fast and slow)

Tap away your finger number problems with these tapping pages we call FINGER TAPZ!

Finger Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on learning their finger numbers as well as finger dexterity.

Finger Tapz Set 4 includes 125 exercises on 25 pages that all start with Finger 4.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Finger Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have them tap those fingers either on a solid surface, their lap, or even on the keys! You can also keep these digitally and pull them up on a tablet if you so choose!

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students place their hands on different spots on the keyboard!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Finger Tapz today and get working with your students' fingers!

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Discuss what being quiet means while teaching the difference between rhythm and steady beat! Use a puppet or move the puppet that comes with the book to talk like the main character. Use the beat and rhythm chart to show differences between the two as well as introduce the quarter note rest. Adaptable for grades PreK-2nd grade. Feel free to use in combination with "Suki the Loud Bunny" (see my other listings) or another lesson on loud volume of your own choosing.

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1. If you have any questions about this product or any of my products, feel free to email me at creatingmusicalliterature@gmail.com

2. Your purchase of this product is for SINGLE USE ONLY. Please purchase additional licenses to share with other teachers. Copyright © 2022 Creating Musical Literature. All rights reserved.

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Enhance your choir's understanding of musical tempo with our Tempo Posters! These posters cover essential tempos, helping students grasp the speed and feel of different pieces.

Product Features:

• Comprehensive Tempo Coverage: Includes Grave, Largo, Adagio, Andante, Moderato, Allegro, Presto, and Prestissimo to support a wide range of musical instruction.
• Easy-to-Read Layouts: Each poster features clear and concise information, making it easy for students to understand and apply tempo markings.
• Sunny Songs Color Palette: Designed to match the acoustic tones color palette of other products in our store, ensuring a cohesive and stylish look in your music room.
• Visual and Engaging: Bright, attractive designs that capture students' attention and make learning musical tempos enjoyable.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for classroom walls, bulletin boards, or any prominent space where students can easily reference them.

Benefits:

• Improve your choir's understanding and application of various tempos in musical performance.
• Provide a visual aid that reinforces tempo markings and enhances musical interpretation.
• Create a cohesive and visually appealing learning environment with matching acoustic tones designs.
• Support musical education and performance practice in a fun and engaging way.

Empower your choir to master musical tempos with the Tempo Posters! Download now to bring clarity and professionalism to your music instruction.

Do you have an upcoming concert at your school? Use this circular-music-note-themed program booklet template to assist you with your next concert, chorus, band or recital. Compatible with Google Slides™, we've taken the guesswork out of the design so you can focus on your event, and most importantly, your young musicians!

Features:

• Compatible with Google Slides™ to easily edit
• 11"x8.5" US letter size, landscape orientation, folds into a half-sheet 5.5"x8.5" booklet
• Print, save or share electronically
• Choose to print in black-and-white or color
• Includes instructions on recoloring any design element
• Easily add important information like your school name, date, location, and time
• All resources use Google Fonts™ and can be downloaded for free from fonts.google.com

Printing directions: Adjust your print settings to US letter size, landscape orientation. To print 2-sided, flip on the short edge. Printing one sheet front-and-back creates a 4-page folded booklet; printing two sheets front-to-back creates an 8-page folded booklet, and so on.

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Need to connect with your kids inside your general music class by infusing popular music from today?

Have your cake and eat it too when you involve them in bucket drumming with the music from the ever-popular Disney hit "Encanto" in "We Don't Talk About Bruno"!

There are three all-color coded slides along with the form identifiers listed next to each phrase. Discuss form with the students and teach them (by rote) the rhythms on the powerpoint with the corresponding repeats (most are repeated 4 or 6 times ). Then, apply it to drums!

All regular notation is to be played on the buckets (or drums, or ground, however you wish), and the X notation (with a down stem) are played as stick clicks above their head (or you could apply it to a tambourine or other auxiliary instrument)

You can find the accompaniment track here to play along:

https://youtu.be/-IFD4ozm1DA

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Need a last-minute activity to cover time in your class? This JANUARY Hidden Word coloring worksheet is PERFECT for your music students who need a quick review of note and rest values while filling those last few minutes of class.

The Hidden Word coloring worksheet has students identifying Quarter Notes, Quarter Rests, Half Notes, and Whole Notes to reveal the word: JANUARY. You will only need FOUR colors for the worksheet!

This worksheet is perfect to review these note values, filling time in class, or place into your sub tub when you need emergency sub-activities! The best part is that all you need to do is print, copy, and color!

The worksheet is licensed for duplication, however, you may not share this resource with another teacher/school/studio. Please do feel free to encourage your colleagues to purchase their own copy.

As always, your feedback is very welcomed on our products so we can better serve your needs! You may reach out to us where you purchased this product, or by reaching out to us with the means below. Your support is greatly appreciated. Be on the lookout for more worksheets just like this one!

Use "Too Much Glue" and "Baa! Moo! What Will We Do?" to teach your students about half notes in a fun and creative way! Have students clap, move and play along with the rhythms and then use the rhythm charts and decoding worksheets to have students practice writing the half note rhythm. Worksheets can be used as Easel activities. Adaptable for PreK-2nd grade.

REMINDERS

1. If you have any questions about this product or any of my products, feel free to email me at creatingmusicalliterature@gmail.com

2. Your purchase of this product is for SINGLE USE ONLY. Please purchase additional licenses to share with other teachers. Copyright © 2022 Creating Musical Literature. All rights reserved.

3. Leave a comment down below in order to earn TeachShare credits! I would love to hear how you and your students have been enjoying my products!

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Welcome your students in style with our Choir Room Welcome Banner! This eye-catching banner is designed to create an inviting atmosphere in your choir room, making students feel right at home.

Product Features:

• Cut-Out Designs: Easy-to-use banner pieces that can be cut out and posted on a bulletin board or wall for a warm welcome.
• Acoustic Tones Color Palette: Designed to match the acoustic tones color palette of other products in our store, ensuring a cohesive and stylish look in your choir room.
• Welcome Message: Boldly displays "Welcome to Choir," creating an inviting and positive first impression for students.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for bulletin boards, walls, or any prominent space in your choir room where students can see and feel welcomed.

Benefits:

• Create a warm and welcoming environment for your choir students.
• Enhance the visual appeal of your choir room with coordinated and stylish designs.
• Easy to assemble and durable for long-lasting use.
• Set a positive tone from the moment students enter the room.

Transform your choir room into a welcoming and stylish space with the Choir Room Welcome Banner! Download now to start greeting your students with warmth and positivity.

This music-note-themed program booklet template will prepare you for your next chorus or band concert! Compatible with Google Slides™, we've taken the guesswork out of the design so you can focus on the concert and, most importantly, your musicians!

Features:

• Compatible with Google Slides™ to easily edit
• 11"x8.5" US letter size, landscape orientation, folds into a half-sheet 5.5"x8.5" booklet
• Print, save or share electronically
• Choose to print in black-and-white or color
• Includes instructions on recoloring any design feature
• Easily add important information like your school name, date, location, and time
• All resources use Google Fonts™ and can be downloaded for free from fonts.google.com.

Printing directions: Adjust your print settings to US letter size and landscape orientation. To print two-sided, flip on the short edge. Printing one sheet front-and-back creates a 4-page folded booklet; printing two sheets front-to-back creates an 8-page folded booklet, and so on.

© EduDesign Savvy. All rights reserved by author. Licensed for individual use. Non-transferable and may not be used by or reallocated to a different individual or entity.