17-05-21 Easy Assessment for End of Year 
 
Winners of Win a Trip to Artie and Denise #8
in Las Vegas July 25-26th
 
Congratulations to our winners!
Debbie MacGilvray, of Denver will receive flights, hotel rooms and free registration to the Artie and Denise workshop #8 in las Vegas, July 25-26th!!!
 
Our other winners will receive a Musicplay Teacher’s Guide and CDs for the grade level of their choice!  If you attend the conference, you’ll get your free Teacher’s guide at the conference - if not, we’ll mail it to you!
 
Grand Prize WINNER!!!
Debbie MacGilvray, Denver, CO
 
Six Second Prizes - A Grade Level of Musicplay  (your choice)
1.  Tamara Choate, Dept. of Defense
2.  Jenna Shilliday, Lethbridge AB
3.  Nicole Pace, Lees Summit MO
4.  Jennifer Atchue, Annaheim, CA
5.  Aubrey Gamble, Rockledge FL
6.  Katie Boyd, Hueytown, AL
 
Two days of inspiring and motivating sessions for elementary music educators with Artie Almeida, Denise Gagne, and Thom Borden
 
Register now for Artie and Denise #8!   
Information -  USA teachers .         Canadian Teachers - Info
 
 
Easy Assessments for End of Year Report Cards:
For some of our American teachers, you're already at the end of the school year.  For many Canadian teachers the last day is June 30th.
 
I hope everyone's had a great school year.  
These are  skills that I hope students will develop during the school year:
Sing, Play, Move, Listen and Analyze, Read/Write, and Create.  So, these are the areas in which I want to assess student growth at the end of the year.  Where possible, I've been doing assessments throughout the year so I can now see student growth.
 
Sing in Tune
1.  Hello Attendance:
- sing "Hello" to students, and they sing "Hello" back to you.  (on so-mi)
- use this as your attendance
* . With all of these assessments, it's easiest to line children up in class-list order!
2. Three Second Listen:
- put on a recording of a song the children have worked on for several listens
- line students up in class list order, and listen to each child for a few seconds
- this is all that's need to tell if they match the pitch of the recording
3.  Guessing Games
- play one of the Musicplay guessing games, where children sing solos
- assess pitch matching as the children sing the solo
Gr. 1 - Mr. Potato, Gr. 2 - Doggie, Gr. 3 - Closet Key, Number Concentation . Gr. 4 - Jolly Rhythm,  Gr. 5 - Concentration
 
Play to Steady Beat
1.  Give students unpitched instruments.  Play a piece of recorded music and have them play along.  Observe and assess on your class list.  (Can use #36-37 in listen Kit 1)
Move to Steady Beat
1.  Play a drum or a woodblock, and tell your students to move to the beat.  Observe and assess.
2. Invite students to be leaders in the Copycat game. In the Listening Kit 1 these include:  (All in the listening section at www.musicplayonline.com)
28 “Balletmusik,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
29 “Contradance II,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
30 “Balletmusik IX,” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
32 “Galliard Battaglia,” Samuel Scheidt
36 Gigue, Handel
37 Gigue, Handel
38 Minuet from Water Music Suite, Handel
You could also play the Copycat game - 4 students each repetition can be assessed.
 
Create Movement
1.  Play a drum or a woodblock, and tell your students to move to the beat.  When the beat stops tell them to freeze and make a statue.  
2.  Find a short listening example and invite all the students to create movement to the recording.  Use the above examples for creating movement.  In the Mozart Examples listed above, the sections are 32 beats long - invite the children to create movement for 32 beats, and then try the movement with the recording.
 
 
Rhythm Reading
1.  put 8-10 pairs of flashcards in the pocket chart.  Have individual students read and assess.
2.  Use the Rhythm Reading Assessments activity in the Rhythm Practice section of www.musicplayonline.com    There are movies with 4 beat and 8 beat assessments.  Each movie is less than 5 minutes long and has enough examples for a class of 25-35 students.
 
Solfa Melody Reading
1.  put 8-10 solfa flashcards in the pocket chart.  Have individual students read and assess.
2.  Use the Read Notation activity in the Solfa Practice section of www.musicplayonline.com    There are movies 8-10 solfa patterns.  Each movie is less than 2 minutes long. Repeat as needed.
 
 
Rhythm Dictation
1.  Give students paper and pencil and have them number the paper from #1-5.  Clap a pattern.  They clap back, then write down what they heard.
2.  Use the Rhythm Dictation Assessments activity in the Rhythm Practice section of www.musicplayonline.com    There are movies with 4 beat  assessments that give both questions and answers.  
 
Melodic Dictation
1.  Give students paper and pencil and have them number the paper from #1-4 or 5.  Sing (to loo) or Play on a keyboard a solfa pattern.  so mi so-so mi  Students write down what they heard:  s m ss m
 
2.  Use the Melodic Dictation Assessments activity in the Solfa Practice section of www.musicplayonline.com    There are movies with solfa assessments that give both questions and answers.  
 
 
Improvise Rhythms
1.  Do a question-answer warmup with your students.  Give each student a question using a variety of body percussion, and your students will improvise an answer.
2.  Have your students form a circle in class list order.  Keep a steady beat on a woodblock or cowbell.  Give the students Boomwhackers or other unpitched instrument.  Have each student improvise 4-8 beats (fewer for younger, more for older) and have the class echo the improvisation.  There is an example of this in the Musicplay 6 Digital Resources.
 
Improvise Melodies
1.  Do a question-answer melody warmup with your students.  Sing each student a question using melodic notes that they are familiar with, and have each student sing (improvise) an answer.  For example:  Sing - What did you eat for breakfast?  Student sings back - I ate a buffalo.
2.  Have the class sing a melodic pattern from a flashcard (or notate on the board), and ask individual students to improvise an additional 4 beats of melody.
For example:  All Sing - s ml ss m .   Child sings:  ss mm dd d
3.  If you have barred instruments, do the same activity on instruments.
 
Create Rhythm or Melodic Composition
1.  Use the rhythm composition template in Musicplay 3 #11 Shake the Papaya.  Have students write a rhythm composition to use as a B section with the song.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Critically Analyse a Listening Selection
Have students complete a listening log from one of the Listening Resource Kit and use this as an assessment.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Artie and Denise #8 in Las Vegas July 25-26th
Artie Almeida and Denise Gagne have offered workshops for the past 7 years:  #1 - Cruise ship, #2 - Las Vegas, #3 - Nashville, #4 - Orlando, #5 - Branson, #6 - Dallas/Houston, #7 - Chicago and now in 2017 back in Las Vegas.  Meeting rooms on the strip are way too expensive ($10,000/day), so we are meeting at Griffith Elementary. Uber prices out the ride from Treasure Island to the school at $8-11, so if 4 teachers share, as little as $2/person.  We'll bring in pizza and subs for lunch.  We'll pick out some shows for evenings, and if you want to join us, we'll have some great socializing time.
  • All teachers who attend will get a certificate of completion of 16 hours of professional development.  
  • We videotape the workshop and make the videos available to attendees so you can remember all the fun activities.
  • All teachers who attend will receive a one year subscription to www.musicplayonline.com!  (Value $150 US / $200 Cdn
Register now for Artie and Denise #8!   
Information -  USA teachers .         Canadian Teachers - Info
 
International Kodaly Symposium

International Kodaly Symposium
- Aug. 8-13, 2017 in Camrose, Alberta!
This is going to be an amazing conference, with beautiful choir performances and many internationally renowned Kodaly speakers, including Lois Choksy, Dr. Laurel Trainer, Jill Trinka, and many more.
 
August Workshops - Calgary, Edmonton
* Let’s Try Bucket Drumming!
* Ukulele is Fun! How to begin the ukulele, Folk songs and easy pop songs that you and your
students will love to learn! Bring your own uke, or borrow one of ours.
* Stories and So Much More! Music lessons based on storybooks that your students will love.
* Assessment made easy - tools and tricks for making assessments less work.
* choral octavos supplied by JW Pepper *new releases and very successful octavos
* Fun back to school ideas
 
Edmonton - Thursday, August 24th - Workshop Registration
 
Calgary - August 28th, 2017 - Workshop Registration
 
Toronto K-3 Workshop Day - August 30th - Workshop Registration
 
Toronto Gr. 3-6 Workshop Day - August 31st- Workshop Registration
 
New at www.musicplayonline.com .   
Denise Gagne
denise@musicplay.ca
(blog) www.denisegagne.com
 
Contact Us
Canadian Office
#2-4664 Riverside Drive
Red Deer, Alberta  T4N 6Y5
 
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Danville, WA, 99121
 
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(real people answer our phones!)
 
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www.musicplay.ca
K Graduation
We Did it!
Do you need a very cute song for kindergarten graduation?


Single Song Kits include piano/vocal score, vocal reproducible and mp3s of performance and accompaniment.  The Single song kit for We Did It! also includes a class book to use for early literacy.
Link to Canadian site
Link for USA teachers
 
We Did it Nancy Phillips  Rose copy.MP4
Artie & Denise 8th Annual
Artie and Denise Vegas 
 July 25-26, 2017  Chicago 
Join Artie Almeida, Thom Borden, and Denise Gagne for a 2 day elementary music conference that will give you ideas and inspiration for teaching your elementary music classes.  
Join Artie and Denise for the 8th annual summer symposium!  Two days of fabulous workshops and a day of sightseeing.   Canada - Click to Register Online .   USA Teachers - Link
 
Musicplayonline.com
More is being added each week to our online resource.  Look for the new Introduction to the Instrument activities!
* Introduction to the Instruments
* What Instrument Did I Hear?
* Instrument Bingo

http://musicplayonline.com/
Workshops
ARTIE AND DENISE Summer Symposium Las Vegas! July 25-26, 2017
Registration now open!   Information -  USA teachers .         Canadian Teachers - Info
 
International Kodaly Symposium - Aug. 8-13, 2013 in Camrose, Alberta!
This is going to be an amazing conference, with beautiful choir performances and many internationally renowned Kodaly speakers, including Lois Choksy, Dr. Laurel Trainer, Jill Trinka, and many more.

Themes & Variations  •  #2-4664 Riverside Drive  •  Red Deer, AB T4N6Y5

https://musicplay.ca

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