Musicplay Middle School Teacher's Guide & Digital Resources
Musicplay Middle School Teacher's Guide
Musicplay is an award-winning music curriculum for elementary schools. Musicplay is a sequential curriculum with lessons that follow the calendar year. The weekly lesson outlines the new concepts that will be taught, those that will be reviewed, and includes seasonal and holiday repertoire. The planning is done for the teacher!
Lesson Planning
Year Plans are included for each grade.
Monthly Lesson Outlines give you the month at a glance.
40 weekly detailed lessons offer you a menu of musical activities. There is more than enough material in the lesson plan for two thirty-minute music classes. The lesson plans are like a menu. There are many song choices and for each song, there are activities to choose from. You choose the songs and the activities that teach the curriculum concepts required by your state or province. (Musicplay is aligned to all state and provincial curriculums!) You choose the songs and activities that hold the most appeal for you and your students.
Feel free to substitute freely - Musicplay provides the framework - you get to make the choices.
Recordings
Recordings are included in the teacher's guides! (Download Audio MP3's)
Musicplay for Middle School CDs has more than 100 musical selections! Teen and adult voices are used, and there are licensed recordings as well. Accompaniments include Orff arrangements, piano accompaniments, and orchestrated accompaniments. Performance songs have both performance tracks and accompaniment tracks - you can use the accompaniments only for your performances. Multicultural songs feature authentic performances - the songs are in original languages and are sung by native singers. Many of the multicultural songs are game songs that appeal to children even though the language and sound may be unfamiliar. Many rounds are included so your students can begin singing in parts. Musicplay for Middle School includes a wealth of choral selections and folk songs in unison as well two and three parts.
Assessments
Assessment Suggestions are given throughout the teacher's guides.
Checklists of important skills are included if your district requires the use of them. Reproducibles are included in Musicplay for Middle School. The Musicplay for Middle School teacher's guide includes SATB recorder ensembles. Musicplay for Middle School reproducibles include 47 worksheets for music writing practice and assessment.
Musicplay supports and enhances science, social studies, and language arts curriculums. In middle school, songs to teach vowels and consonants are included. The Musicplay for Middle School student books or Digital Resources are a wonderful literacy tool providing many opportunities for shared reading. Students will develop reading skills while they learn music. Poetry is included in Musicplay for Middle School.
Musicplay for Middle School includes projects for middle school students. A pop song project accompanies the Avril Lavigne song, "SK8ER BOI." A composition project moves students from creating rhythm compositions to writing their own 12 bar blues and raps.
Materials Included:
- Musicplay Middle School Printed Binder / Audio MP3s
- Musicplay Middle School Digital Resources
- History of Jazz
Song List
1. Barges 2. Why Shouldn’t My Car 3. Rufus Rufus 5. Mango Walk 6. Now We’ll Make the Rafters Ring 7. Love my Baseball 12. Song For the Mira 16. Fish and Chips 18. Joy 19. Dollar 21. Above a Plain 22. Scarborough Fair 23. Greensleeves 24. Oh My Darling 25. Dona Nobis Pacem 26. La Bamba 30. Hanky Panky 31. Suo Gan 32. Hagdalena 35. Wild Mountain Thyme 36. Mary Mac 37. Round and Round 38. Angels 39. Who Did? 41. Hineh Ma Tov 42. Il est ne, le divin Enfant |
43. Snowflakes 44. Christmas at the Hop 45. Christmas Line Dance 46. COFFEE 47. Here’s a Song That’s Really Neat 48. It’s a Whacky Kind of Sound 49. Paper Scissors Rock 50. Missus Murphey’s Chowder 51. De Colores 52. Hockey Song 54. She’s Like the Swallow 55. A Great Big Sea 56. Oh My Love 57. Love Sombebody 58. Hi Ho the Rattlin’ Bog 59. Tell My Ma 60. A Wuni Kuni 61. Hymn To Freedom 62. Wai Bamba 63. Wade in the Water 64. John B. Sails 65. Arupusu 67. Fillimiooriooriay 68. Black Socks 71. Gypsy Rover 73. Found a Peanut |
74. Entendez-vous 75. Tumbalalaika 76. A Ram Sam Sam 78. She Waded in the Water 79. Corner Grocery Store 92. Gerakina 96. Shanty Boys 97. Jubilate Deo 99. Laugh Ha Ha 100. Sippin’ Milkshakes 101. Take Time in Life 102. Sihayamba 108. Squid Jiggin’ Ground 109. Nova Scotia Song 110. De Ump 112. Mi Gallo 113. Take Time 114. My Landlord 115. She Sailed Away 116. Cockles and Mussels 117. Un elephant 119. Blood on the Saddle 120. Home on the Range 122. O Canada 123. Star Spangled Banner |
Digital Resources
For teachers with a computer/projector.
What’s included:
Every musical selection that is in Musicplay 4 is given:
1. PowerPoint with audio (PowerPoints include music notation, lyrics, and concepts.)
2. Videos of the music (notation) - just click and the song plays, switching the slides for you.
Included on one disk you'll find:
- Music notation illustrated song lyrics, and one slide lyrics
- Color-coded Boomwhacker® melodies for many songs
- Slides to teach students many musical concepts (all national standards!)
- Kids demo movies of many of the singing games
- Orff arrangements, searchable Excel index, and links to excellent websites
Samples:
Audio: Barges
Audio: Bach Cello Suite
Audio: Bat Boy
Audio: Mango Walk - Orff Arrangement
Book: Musicplay for Middle School
Projectable: Barges
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