Artie's Workshop Descriptions

All Aboard the Recorder Express
This clinic features a multitude of tips and techniques to help your students become confident music readers via the recorder. The games and activities are very fun for students, while reinforcing basic music skills. These developmentally appropriate recorder materials will energize your music classroom. All Aboard!

The Thrill of the Drill (Theory that's Fun!)
Lead your students to music literacy with these activities and games that address the basics of rhythmic understanding. Session includes introductory, review and assessment strategies for a variety of levels.

Can You Hear Me Now?
A collection of exciting experiences to activate children's listening via movement, flashlight painting, parachute play, ribbon dance, super stretchy and more! Concepts addressed include steady beat, rhythm, form, expressive qualities and style. Music includes the William Tell Overture, Offenbach's Can Can, Kodaly's Viennese Clock and more.

Mallet Madness
An exciting mallet rotation experience that reinforces mallet technique as well as musical learnings in the areas of rhythm, melody, timbre and form. Mallet Madness offers your students the opportunity to explore the entire instrumentarium while focusing on the building blocks of music. Songs, games, and movement experiences are included.

Concept Collage
This fast-past session includes many kindergarten through sixth grade, field-tested ideas for illuminating the building blocks of music. Voices, mallet percussion instruments, non-pitched rhythm instruments, recorders and movement are the avenues to learning in this very activeclinic.

Artie's Idea Bank: 100 Great Ideas for Your Classroom
This informative clinic (half or full day) features a wealth of Artie's teaching visuals, manipulatives, bulletin board ideas, poster games, bag games, centers, lessons and more. These child-approved materials will greatly enhance your classroom teaching in the following concept areas: melody, harmony, rhythm, form, vocabulary, timbre, guided listening, and more. Artie will demonstrate the materials via teacher participation, then attendees have time to circulate through the resource displays.
 

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