Closing Activities are an important part of routine for both students and teachers in Kindergarten music. We want to leave students with a positive, music making experience as they leave the music room. Included in these closing activities are often opportunities for reviewing the learning objectives for the day, as well as the actual nuts and bolts of managing students through the transition of leaving the music room and rejoining their teacher. You as the teacher can decide whether the students need something higher or lower energy at the end of class to make that transition successful.

In this episode of Teaching Music Tomorrow, Anne shares the book, "The Old Black Fly" and Victoria shares the game "Zapatitos Blancos."

Steady Beat, like the other concepts explored in this series, is a foundational concept for all music making. It is unique, as it is often what we think of first when we think of “Kindergarten music.” Remember that exploring steady beat should be experienced based, where students work with pulse as well as the overall flow of music.

Consider ways to keep and show the steady beat in creative ways that also take into account musicality and musicianship, such as using spider fingers or other visual prompts that encourage flow through space and time.

In this episode of Teaching Music Tomorrow, Victoria shares an activity for "Dale Dale Dale" and Anne shares "The Itsy Bitsy Spider."

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In this episode of Teaching Music Tomorrow, Victoria shares an activity for "Oh My Aunt Came Back" and "Old Mister Rabbit."

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Vocal Exploration is one of the first musical experiences in Kindergarten. The goal of these activities are to allow students opportunities to use their voices in many different ways, many of which they may or may not have experienced before. Over time, this affords students the experiential vocabulary to draw upon when it comes time to differentiate between labeling different ways of using their voices, including but not limited to singing voice. These activities are used to help students explore those different ways to use their voices, work toward accessing their singing voices, and eventually on to matching pitch.

In this episode of Teaching Music Tomorrow, Anne & Victoria share the activities "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe," & "Doña Araña."

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria discuss extractable patterns: what they are, why they are important, and how to use them meaningfully in individual lessons and your curriculum overall. Listen in for ways to think about digestible chunks for your students’ music learning and how to decide which song to use for which extractable pattern.

Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria continue the conversation on transitions by discussing how to move students from one space to another. As you’ll hear, there are many different ways to implement these types of transitions into your music classroom, but they do take practice just like any other musical skill. These transitions are still musical, but serve as transitions from space to space by giving students a job.

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria discuss how to successfully move from one activity to another using musical transitions. Musical transitions tend to focus predominantly on one rhythmic or melodic concept, whether or not it is “known” to students. Listen for some ideas for how to implement critical thinking skills for your students in the margins of your lessons, but with intention.

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria continue the conversation on how to successful scaffold movement or a game-like activity in the elementary music classroom with movement. Following a discussion about what makes this episode different than the two previous in our movement sequence, we’re sharing a couple of our favorite movement & folk dance inspired activities. Victoria shares Sashay the Donut with implications for using creative movement and creating opportunities for student choice. Anne shares Zemer Atik and how she scaffolds it based on form and duration. See a video of the full Zemer Atik dance here.

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Today on the podcast, Anne & Victoria continue the conversation on how to successful scaffold movement or a game-like activity in the elementary music classroom with “play parties.” Anne share “The Old Brass Wagon” and how she uses it for a movement vocabulary builder, adaptable to many different circumstances and grade levels. Victoria shares how to scaffold “Alabama Gal” in a way that allows for students to be successful right off the bat.

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