Just an Old Fashioned Love Song

Young musicians experience song, dance, and play of the Jamaican culture. Scholars listen for and recreate beats, they play tunes, make up original dances, and play a game that challenges pupils to pass stones to a specific beat.

Students dramatize the story, Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. In this readers theatre lesson plan, students read the story and then dramatize the events during readers theatre. There is an included script.

Whether new to the Kodály Method of music instruction or an experienced veteran, you'll find much to make your heart sing in a teacher guide that was designed for a music appreciation project. 

Third graders recognize a round in singing groups and apply to choreography movements.  For this rounds lesson, 3rd graders memorize movements with songs at specific places.  Students perform a three part round.

This video shows how to do an old card trick called the Three Card Monte. Because the trick uses three cards you can use this trick to talk about odd and even numbers after completing the trick. The vocabulary can be incorporated into...

  Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. Macbeth’s witches provide young actors an opportunity to try their hand at small ensemble acting. Using Act I, scene I of Shakespeare’s play, groups of three take...

This Groundhog Day add a bit of rhythm and rhyme with 23 songs and poems that put a spotlight on the holiday's shining star, the groundhog.  

Finally, watch this video for more tips to taking a good photo. This is the third, and last, video of a three-part series. After watching all three parts, have your class share their own photos!

This is the first video of a three part series that instruct how to take a good photograph. These are fantastic videos to show to your photography students.

An important factor to consider when taking a good photograph is to include angles. Watch this video to learn about the various types of angles in photography. This is the second video of a three part series.