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Mrs Clef 1 & 2
Treble Clef Farm ebook Series -eBooks & Apple books
Filled with opportunities for vocal exploration, this engaging eBook series is written as a farmyard story with embedded sound files which model then allow for student response. It is the perfect starting block for developing an understanding of music notation in the treble staff.
A must-have for any music schools, classrooms or homes that are musically minded. See sample books via the Apple Books links below.
Available for PC - Download includes:
- eBook 1
- eBook 2
- Photocopiable Worksheet Masters with Teacher Notes ** Purchase separately or as a full package
- Class set of 30 copies for ONLY $299
Available for MAC on Apple Books
Photocopiable Black line Masters with Teacher Notes available for purchase below.
eBook 1 - Mrs Clef's Chicken Coop
Opportunities for Vocal exploration
- Bees buzzing high and low in the chicken coop (embedded audio file) can be used as inspiration for the students to vocally explore the concept of high and low in the stave
- Each chicken sings a ‘Bok’ (embedded audio file) as it lays an egg in a specific ‘space’ in the chicken coop. Students are encouraged to echo this sound, which matches the correct pitch in the ‘stave’.
- The chickens ‘hum’ the ‘A’ (embedded audio file), produced by the tuning fork. Students are encouraged to echo this sound.
eBook 2 - Mrs Clef's Vegetable Garden
Opportunities for Vocal exploration
- Bees buzzing high and low in the chicken coop (embedded audio file) can be used as inspiration for the students to vocally explore the concept of high and low in the stave.
- Each magnified mouse (embedded audio file) corresponds to the specific pitch of the ‘line’ in the ‘stave’. Students are encouraged to echo this sound, which matches the correct pitch in the stave.
- The rhyme EGBDF is repeated six times: in a whispering voice, a loud voice, a low voice, a squeaky voice, a high voice and a singing voice. Students are encouraged to echo this rhyme whilst exploring the timbre of their voices.
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Music Listening & RespondingMrs Clef’s Vegetable Garden – Treble Clef Farm eBook 2
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On the surface, Treble Clef Farm looks like a normal, ordinary, everyday farm, but it isn’t! Embedded in this picture story book series are many musical concepts relating to traditional notation. The teacher notes will illuminate the opportunities for discovery learning as you and your students explore this engaging music classroom resource.
We begin our story with an invitation to explore Treble Clef Farm. From the very beginning, students are invited to discover the uniqueness of this new setting. The use of repetitive language and questioning offer the opportunity for students to engage vocally with the teacher as the story is read. Embedded audio files enhance this process. Encouraging the students to be inquisitive, with phrases such as ‘but was it?’ and ‘curious don’t you think?’ opens the door to the introduction of the following musical concepts.
As an all-embracing exercise towards the end of the book, children then listen to and echo Mrs Clef’s singing of I See the Moon as she sings it to her chickens at night. Children can then sing the song and show the melody in the air by looking at the melodic contour represented by the moons.
In book 2 it is Basil, the leader of the five fast field mice, that sings Starlight with the melodic contour represented by the series of stars.
The inspiration behind the writing of this musical eBook series was the chicken coop on Davina’s farm in Victoria’s western district. Recorded and trialled by the clever children in the area, the voices of Mrs Clef and the mice have become favourites with children everywhere as they enjoy listening to, then echoing, the embedded sounds and songs in the books.
