ep#12 movement in early years - TEACHING TIPS & TEA

This week's Teaching Tips and Tea episode showcases two of Ruth's favourite movement resources for teaching early childhood, lower primary and elementary students. This may be a useful tip that you could use in your music classroom! Check out the new video here.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

Hi music colleagues.

Today, I'd like to share with you some movement ideas that I incorporate in my music classroom. In the primary years, so embedding the joy of movement into your music classroom offers an amazing host of opportunities for student learning.

Firstly, you've got the understanding of musical concepts especially beat and form then you've got artistic expression and creativity, socialisation and mindfulness I'd like to share with you two of my most favourite resources. The first is Kids Can Listen, Kids Can Move by Lynn Kleiner, and it's a gem for your younger years.  Prep to 2 even some ELC. There are a few pieces in here that you can begin seated and then take them travelling, as the students become more able. A couple of my favourite ones are track one the syncopated clock and track seven, the children's march. So look these up and explore them with the kids. They are amazing and give beautiful, rich opportunities for exploration of this gorgeous recorded music.

The other two are Move It one and two by John Feierabend, his artistic expression included in these beautifully choreographed pieces allows for stationary movement. So, the students do not have to be able to travel and not touch and manage themselves in a large space. Track three and four, especially for the younger students. Beautiful artistry with Respeghy and Satie, and I've got the boys from as young as prep doing these, and I love them so. This one, the in the hall of mountain king, is brilliant for your year five six seven eight sort of age group. They encourage moving mindfulness I like to call it because the students can come in really ratty from a windy recess, and they start this and off they find their positions and once at the end of it and I see sitting on my mat, and they sit down and go. They're ready to focus, and it's its like the taming, going on, somehow it's really, really special. They love it, it's a good way of encouraging them to listen more broadly. Write the name of the composer on the board etc. when you're going to do it. If you see the teaching tips and tea, previous episode to this one, you'll see some musical cues for the aiding of the transition from sitting to moving etc., which are really helpful to lessen the verbal context in your classroom.

​Okay, so I hope you enjoy them. Happy teaching!

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Kids Can Listen, Kids Can Move

A$75.00

Lynn Kleiner's teacher reference for encouraging young musicians to engage with and respond to classical music is our early years movement 'bible'.

The author suggests ideas which can be included in your music lessons as short segments of creative delights, fostering sensitive responses to classical music.

No movement or dance training required! 

Suitable to both boys and girls.

Lynn Kleiner presents her creative ideas and stories for movement and percussion playing as she delights preschoool through primary age children with orchestral favourites.

Dance, create, march, trot, walk, skip, jump, hide, sleep, play instruments, come in, say goodbye. This book and CD will allow teachers and parents to capture children's interest in orchestral music for a lifetime.

The enclosed CD contains 25 tracks including:

• Syncopated Clock by Leroy Anderson
• Forgotten Dreams by Leroy Anderson
• Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson
• Lieutenant Kije -Troika by Prokofiev
• Hungarian Dance No. 6 by Brahms
• Memories of Childhood by Octavio Pinto
• Children's March - Over the Hills and Far Away by Percy Grainger
• Creatures of the Garden by Herbert Donaldson
• The Wild Horseman by Schumann
• Selections from Tchaikovky's The Nutcracker
• Selections from Bizet's Carmen
• Viennese Musical Clock by Zoltan Kodaly
• Selections from Saint-Saen's Carnival of the Animals
• Largo from Dvorak's New World
• Adagio from Brahms' Symphony No 1
• Theme and Variations from Haydn's Surprise Symphony
• A selection of 'goodbye' songs

My top favourites are:

• Syncopated Clock
• Children's March
• Selections from Saint-Saen's Carnival of the Animals

We hope you thoroughly enjoy these activities with your children as we've done for nearly 20 years!

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Move It 1 DVD & CD

A$113.00

Choreographed Expressive Movements to Classical Music 

by Peggy Lyman Hayes & John Feierabend

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This vibrant and innovative DVD, CD and guidebook contains everything you need to inspire students of any age to move to great classical music. Teaching young children and students of all ages the joy of moving to classical music!

Containing 20 works in a wide variety of styles, this is certain to appeal to early childhood specialists, elementary music teachers and dance educators. Every movement is demonstrated on the DVD, recorded on the CD for use in class, simply detailed in the illustrated guidebook, and features a projectable colourful background for performance.

The expressive movements reflect both the form and the expressive quality of the music, embodying John M. Feierabend's theories of music and movement development and Peggy Lyman's belief in the emotional power of gesture. Move It 1 is also perfect for use with senior citizens and the physically challenged.

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Peggy Lyman is an acclaimed Principal Dancer for the Martha Graham repertory.

John M. Feierabend is considered one of the leading authorities on music and movement development.

Includes:​

1. Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1
2. Brahms, Waltz in A flat
3. Satie, Trois Gymnopedie #1
4. Respeghi, Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3 ‘Siciliana’
5. Prokofiev, Lt Kije Suite, Op. 60
6. Saint-Seans, Carnival of the Animals ‘Aquarium’
7. Dvorak, Humoresque
8. Saint-Seans, Carnival of the Animals ‘Swans’
9. Chopin, Minute Waltz
10. Beethoven, Bagatelle ‘Fur Elise’
11. Schumann, Traumerei
12. Kabalevsky, The Comedians ‘Pantomime’
13. Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite ‘Anitra’s Dance’
14. Beethoven, Minuet in G
15. Bach, Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042 ‘Allegro Assai’
16. Rameau, Suite and Dances ‘Premiere et deuxieme’
17. Rubinstein, Melody in F
18. Kreisler, HLiebesfreud
19. Mozart, Sonata in A Major K.331
20. Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 Op 48b

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Move It 2 DVD & CD

A$113.00

Choreographed Expressive Movements to Classical Music 

by Peggy Lyman Hayes & John Feierabend

​

This vibrant and innovative DVD, CD and guidebook contains everything you need to inspire students of any age to move to great classical music. approach to teaching young children and students of all ages the joy of moving to classical music! 

​

Containing 23 works in a wide variety of styles, this is certain to appeal to early childhood specialists, elementary music teachers and dance educators. Every movement is demonstrated on the DVD, recorded on the CD for use in class, simply detailed in the illustrated guidebook, and features a projectable colourful background for performance. 

​

The expressive movements reflect both the form and the expressive quality of the music, embodying John M. Feierabend's theories of music and movement development and Peggy Lyman's belief int he emotional power of gesture. Move It 2 is also perfect for use with senior citizens and the physically challenged.

​

Peggy Lyman is an acclaimed Principal Dancer for the Martha Graham repertory.

John M. Feierabend is considered one of the leading authorities on music and movement development.

Includes:

1. Schumann, Kinderszenen, Op.15
2. Delibes, Sylvia
3. Faure, Pelleas and Melisande
4. Beethoven, Six Ecossaises No. 1
5. Haydn, Sympohny No. 94, Mvt 2
6. Rachmaninoff, Italian Polka
7. Mozart, 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'
8. Bach, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
9. Brahmns, Hungarian Dances, No. 5
10. Bizet, L'Arlesienne Suite, No. 1
11. Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty, Op.66
12. Bizet, Carmen Suite, No. 1
13. Bach, Partita No. 3 in E Major
14. Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67
15. Vivaldi, Gloria in D, RV 589
16. Gliere, The Red Poppy
17. Boccherini, String quintet in E,Op. 13, No. 5
18. Grieg, 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' Op. 46 No. 1
19. Orff, Camina Burana
20. Bach, Suite No. 2 in b minor
21. Gounod, Funeral March of the Marionette
22. Khachaturian, Gayane Suite, No. 3
23. Soldier's Joy (traditional)

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