My collection of resources are below published by Heritage Music Press! Please feel free to email me with any questions!
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Awesome Books with Musical Hooks uses a lot of children’s literature obviously! West Music has created great sets of the books used in both resources! Click on the button below to bring you to these awesome sets to purchase easily in one spot!
This is a recording of my lesson with the song Allegretto, composed by: Karl Jenkins. In the video you won’t hear the audio of the song, however, you will see how the movements play out for the lesson. This lesson is found in Magical Movement and Music, Oh my!
Social Media Fun!
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Book and Bar Basics Lesson in ONE!
This amazing book by Scott M. Fischer was made for the music classroom! Check out my lesson for it below to use with your primary kiddos!
Activate Magazine:
Another great resource that I’m a regular contributor to is the magazine Activate! Many teachers from around the US contribute their ideas and lessons to the book and for a yearly subscription. I believe they are pivoting to a completely online resource but they are in the process of getting that together. Please check in with Heritage Music Press if you would like to get back issues or see when the new volume will come out! 🙂
Positive Tags/Stickers
My aunt, Artie Almeida used papers with paper clips to give to children that were doing an amazing job in her classroom so they could wear it proudly! My kiddos now-a-days fiddle with the paper clip and the paper falls off or the paper clip gets bent beyond belief. So instead, I’ve created some positive stickers using the very popular Avery return address label template. This template has 30 labels per sheet and if you use Avery 5979 they come in fluorescent colors! Your kiddos will be beaming with these special stickers to show off! They are in a word document format so if you don’t have the font I used, you may need to adjust! 🙂
Big thanks to Sabrina from Detroit Orff for giving me the idea of the body percussion sticker! 🙂
Concert Checklist
Whenever you are putting on a performance there are so many logistics that you need to think about! I use the following checklist to make sure that I’ve crossed all my T’s and dotted all my I’s.
Scope and Sequence
Below is a rough scope and sequence of how I plan out my school year. This of course ebbs and flows from year to year, however, the skeleton of my planning is still very similar to this. Hopefully it helps you to see the planning from week to week and helps you get organized if your are looking for something like that! 🙂
Katie Grace Miller 
