Hello one and all! Thought I’d take a minute and post some of the documents I’ve been working on for the start of the school year. They are free to download and use as you please, but I ask that you give me credit if you are using them for more than personal or classroom use, thank you! I will also put these in the Documents section of my page for future reference.

SQUILT Form- This is the graphic organizer I created for 3-6 grades to experience daily listening lessons. The S.Q.U.I.L.T. activity is described in more detail in the archives of Musick8.com.

Circle Seating Chart – I created this with Word to coordinate with my new Noteworthy Music Rug (which I love!!) There are spaces for 24 students on the outer ring and I put extra students in the middle on the staff lines (I have no more than 27 in a class this year since we are under-enrolled- good for class size, bad for budgets…but that’s another blog post!) The center darkened ring is for recording assessment data in a “fishbowl” style. Before photocopying each chart, I used a pencil to draw the music symbols from the rug on each square so they would lightly show up underneath each student’s name.

Charlie Over the Ocean PPT- a graphic powerpoint to show the S-M pitches of Charlie Over The Ocean from Gameplan 2. by Kriske and DeLelles.

Knuffle Bunny PPT- a quick powerpoint of the song adaptation of the book “Knuffle Bunny” (Sung to the tune of John the Rabbit). Thanks to Thom Borden for this lesson idea!

Orff Curriculum Planning Resources Excel Workbook- AKA my BIBLE for planning using Orff pedagogy and concepts aligned with our district goals! It is a multi-sheet workbook in Excel that includes our old and new state and district standards, planning guides for other subject areas, calendar, Orff sequences from Jane Frazee and Barbara Grenoble, a Music and Movement scope and sequence for K-6, some psychological development stages to consider(Piaget, Vygotsky, Gardner), DPS Content Standards, Comparison of National/State/District standards, a basic kid-friendly rubric for standards self-assessment, Movement Sequence modeled after Phyllis Weikert’s language and rhythmic levels, Basic Breakdown of Lessons (Lesson Plan template), Year Long Plans for grades 1-6 developed from the GamePlan curriculum goals, and finally, a SQUILT scope and sequence for grades 3-6. A BIG thank you and SHOUT OUT to my friend and colleague Zachary Rupp for creating parts of this document!