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The Week In a Nutshell, Friday Sept. 30, 2011, Primary
In first and second grades this week, each grade had their own literacy lesson, and then both learned the same song. Grade 1 worked on “A Sailor Went to Sea,” still a steady beat song, but since the...
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Friday, October 28, 2011…The Week in a Nutshell, Primary
Hi Friends, This post is late due to circumstances beyond my control. Over the weekend we had a late October snowstorm that delivered about 10 inches of snow, weighed down and broke hundreds of trees,...
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Friday, Nov. 11, 2011: The Week in a Nutshell
I had to change lessons mid-stream this week. On Monday I mistakenly thought that I could rely on the students remembering all of their solfege from last year without reviewing it, and would be able to...
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Friday, November 18: The Week in a Nutshell: Intermediate
I made a couple of new animations this week, since we’ve now switched composers, from Bach, to Tchaikovsky. I try to get the basic information that I’d like the kids to learn into the video. So far...
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January 16-20, The Week in a Nutshell, Primary
First Grade In First grade this week we continues working on our new notes, sol and mi. As soon as we’re done warming up we use the hand signals as we sing “sol is higher, mi is lower” several times,...
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March 5-9, The Week in a Nutshell, Intermediates
Here’s what I did this week, with success in some places, and not so much success in others. Grade 3 Some of my 3rd graders have completed their second recorder test, playing “G and A Blues”...
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March 12-16, 2012, The Week in a Nutshell, 1-5.
Lots going on in school this week – 2nd grade program rehearsals have begun, and grades 3, 4 and 5 are taking PSSA’s – the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests in reading and math. In...
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March 20-23, The Week in a Nutshell
Welcome, student teacher, Rebecca Weber! Rebecca spent Tuesday and Wednesday observing and getting the lay of the land, and began teach ing some of my plans on Thursday and Friday. On Monday she...
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March 25-29 2012, The Week in a Nutshell, Primary
Ms. Weber will only be with me for a month, and had a great 10 week teaching between January and the beginning of March, so she jumped right in with both feet this week. Primary I wish that I had a...
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April 18-23, 2012, The Week in a Nutshell
I’m back to teaching on my own. Ms. Weber has gone of to graduate and become a certified Music Educator. She did an excellent job. Grade 3 3rd grade was easy in terms of planning. We just...
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