Take Note Music

  • Home
  • Music Teacher Resources
    • Music Writing
    • Music Making
    • Music Reading
    • Music Listening & Responding
    • Other Resources
    • eBooks
  • Digital Resources
  • Music Lesson Plans & Ideas
    • Music Teacher Resources
    • Music Lesson Plans
    • Classroom Music Resources
    • Primary Music Lesson Plans
    • Kodaly Method
    • Book List Planning
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Music Teacher Resources
    • Music Writing
    • Music Making
    • Music Reading
    • Music Listening & Responding
    • Other Resources
    • eBooks
  • Digital Resources
  • Music Lesson Plans & Ideas
    • Music Teacher Resources
    • Music Lesson Plans
    • Classroom Music Resources
    • Primary Music Lesson Plans
    • Kodaly Method
    • Book List Planning
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

PRIMARY MUSIC LESSON PLANS

​We teach music because we love being in the classroom! We know every teacher enjoys honing their skills as teachers and supporting the students to be the very best musician they can be. The onerous planning, assessment and admin that accompanies your role takes a great deal of time and reduces your capacity and energy to focus on the students and to plan with joyous music making in mind.
 
Take Note Music was born out of this struggle to maximise teaching time and reduce planning time! The aim was to develop a sequential, developmental curriculum based on the Kodaly approach with well-scaffolded activities and primary music lesson plans that ensure each child would successfully develop their musicianship and musical understanding.

Take Note Music Writing Books 1 - 5

The teacher books underpin all your primary music lesson plans for both long term planning and assessment and daily lesson planning for your singing based program. Our step by step, sequential books are designed to support you in providing engaging activities developing students' musical understanding and meta-cognition skills in the music classroom. We save you time and energy by providing advice and suggestions in our primary music lesson plans to ensure activities are presented in a well-scaffolded manner, thus ensuring successful outcomes for your students.
​
​Through our succinct primary music lesson plans, our aim is to nurture the practice of music literacy; students activate their seeing ear and their hearing eye - their musicianship is developed so that they can analyse what they are hearing and imagine it on the page. 
The primary music lesson plans in the Teacher Books provide preparation lesson segments to be done in prior lessons before coming to do the written task. This ensures a comprehensive understanding of the concept prior to the writing stage. They also provide you with ways to foster in students critical thinking and listening, creativity, collaboration and communication in the classroom through the language of music.
 

Primary Music Lesson Plans
Music lesson plans are essential in the development of a quality music program and they’re extremely important if team teaching or sharing a year level as part of a bigger music department. Let Take Note Music provide you with the core for your curriculum planning. Join the more than 150 Independent, Catholic and Education Department schools around Australia who base their primary music lesson plans on the Take Note Music program. Music literacy is not all we do! We further assist you by providing resources to broaden your curriculum to include movement, listening, analysis, creativity and performance.
 
The Music Writing program enables you to do what you do best…teach! Each student has their own book, and the feedback from our teachers is that students absolutely LOVE their books. They really enjoy the clearly set out written activities and through the primary music lesson plans provided to you the teacher, students always feel confident to complete the written task. For the teacher it means no more standing in front of the photocopier at school, loose worksheets scattered around the place or time spent in class gluing or stuffing sheets into books or display folders. They are truly a joy to use!
 
Watch the video which showcases our Take Note Music Writing teacher books - Plan Your Curriculum - showcasing how the primary music lesson plans are included at each level.
 
The teacher books also provide you with ways to cater for individual needs in your primary music lesson plans.  These extension ideas are mostly performance activities designed to further the students’ capacity to perform using the rhythmic or melodic concept on which the page is based. The books provide you with cleverly scaffolded primary music lesson plans to help you lead some of the core classroom music games designed to develop your students’ musicianship.  These include: Sol-fa Knockout, the Hand Staff, Correct the Teacher and Splash.

Music Writing Teacher Book 1

A$39.00

2nd Edition Primary Years Classroom Music Literacy



See pics for Repertoire Table, Content Table and Sample Teacher Pages

See Student Book for further details


These music teacher books support Primary School teachers by offering a developmental program, designed to foster music literacy whilst ensuring enjoyable, thoughtful and stimulating lessons. Our material broadens students’ understanding of music, promoting joyful, attentive and sensitive young musicians.

​

We support teachers by providing insightful teacher manuals which offer useful hints, tips and guides on the sequential development of musical concepts, methodology, course planning overviews, lesson planning and assessments for Kodaly Music Programs.


The Take Note Music text books provide a set of thorough sequential and practical lesson guides for music teachers. The program offers teachers a succinct, step-by-step guide for developing students' musical understanding and meta-cognition skills with long and short term lesson planning for teachers.


The focus is on developing competence in music literacy, theory, music appreciation and experiencing the joy of music for a diverse range of musical abilities. These readily accessible resources for the classroom provide for clear understanding and diverse student abilities within the classroom context. Extension activities provide more able students with performance extension around the set written task.

Shop

Music Writing Teacher Book 2

A$39.00

2nd Edition Primary Years Classroom Music Literacy


See pics for Repertoire Table, Content Table and Sample Teacher Pages

See Student Book for further details


These music teacher books support Primary School teachers teachers by offering a developmental program, designed to foster music literacy whilst ensuring enjoyable, thoughtful and stimulating lessons. Our material broadens students’ understanding of music, promoting joyful, attentive and sensitive young musicians.

​

We support teachers by providing insightful teacher manuals which offer useful hints, tips and guides on the sequential development of musical concepts, methodology, course planning overviews, lesson planning and assessments for Kodaly Music Programs.


The Take Note Music text books provide a set of thorough sequential and practical lesson guides for music teachers. The program offers teachers a succinct, step-by-step guide for developing students' musical understanding and meta-cognition skills with long and short term lesson planning for teachers.


The focus is on developing competence in music literacy, theory, music appreciation and experiencing the joy of music for a diverse range of musical abilities. These readily accessible resources for the classroom provide for clear understanding and diverse student abilities within the classroom context. Extension activities provide more able students with performance extension around the set written task.

Shop

Music Writing Teacher Book 3

A$39.00

2nd Edition Primary Years Classroom Music Literacy


See pics for Repertoire Table, Content Table and Sample Teacher Pages

See Student Book for further details


These music teacher books support Primary School teachers teachers by offering a developmental program, designed to foster music literacy whilst ensuring enjoyable, thoughtful and stimulating lessons. Our material broadens students’ understanding of music, promoting joyful, attentive and sensitive young musicians.

​

We support teachers by providing insightful teacher manuals which offer useful hints, tips and guides on the sequential development of musical concepts, methodology, course planning overviews, lesson planning and assessments for Kodaly Music Programs.


The Take Note Music text books provide a set of thorough sequential and practical lesson guides for music teachers. The program offers teachers a succinct, step-by-step guide for developing students' musical understanding and meta-cognition skills with long and short term lesson planning for teachers.


The focus is on developing competence in music literacy, theory, music appreciation and experiencing the joy of music for a diverse range of musical abilities. These readily accessible resources for the classroom provide for clear understanding and diverse student abilities within the classroom context. Extension activities provide more able students with performance extension around the set written task.

Shop

Music Writing Teacher Book 4

A$39.00

3rd Edition Primary Years Classroom Music Literacy


See pics for Repertoire Table, Content Table and Sample Teacher Pages including a pic of the notation for Kookaburra Laughing - our new 3E song replacing Dinah.

See Student Book for further details or print the song here


These music teacher books support Primary and Middle School teachers by offering a developmental program, designed to foster music literacy whilst ensuring enjoyable, thoughtful and stimulating lessons. Our material broadens students’ understanding of music, promoting joyful, attentive and sensitive young musicians.

​

We support teachers by providing insightful teacher manuals which offer useful hints, tips and guides on the sequential development of musical concepts, methodology, course planning overviews, lesson planning and assessments for Kodaly Music Programs.


The Take Note Music text books provide a set of thorough sequential and practical lesson guides for music teachers. The program offers teachers a succinct, step-by-step guide for developing students' musical understanding and meta-cognition skills with long and short term lesson planning for teachers.


The focus is on developing competence in music literacy, theory, music appreciation and experiencing the joy of music for a diverse range of musical abilities. These readily accessible resources for the classroom provide for clear understanding and diverse student abilities within the classroom context. Extension activities provide more able students with performance extension around the set written task.


Kookaburra Laughing - our new tikatika drm s song is in the 3E Teacher Book 4 & 5.

Shop

Music Writing Teacher Book 5

A$39.00

3rd Edition Primary Years Classroom Music Literacy


See pics for Repertoire Table, Content Table and Sample Teacher Pages including a pic of the notation for Kookaburra Laughing - our new 3E song replacing Dinah.

See Student Book for further details or print the song here


These music teacher books support Elementary, Primary and Middle School teachers by offering a developmental program, designed to foster music literacy whilst ensuring enjoyable, thoughtful and stimulating lessons. Our material broadens students’ understanding of music, promoting joyful, attentive and sensitive young musicians.

​

We support teachers by providing insightful teacher manuals which offer useful hints, tips and guides on the sequential development of musical concepts, methodology, course planning overviews, lesson planning and assessments for Kodaly Music Programs.


The Take Note Music text books provide a set of thorough sequential and practical lesson guides for music teachers. The program offers teachers a succinct, step-by-step guide for developing students' musical understanding and meta-cognition skills with long and short term lesson planning for teachers.


The focus is on developing competence in music literacy, theory, music appreciation and experiencing the joy of music for a diverse range of musical abilities. These readily accessible resources for the classroom provide for clear understanding and diverse student abilities within the classroom context. Extension activities provide more able students with performance extension around the set written task.

Shop

Take Note Music Resource Kits 1 - 5

Take Note Music Resource Kits are available to accompany each book. These superb kits are a selection of song pictures, song shapes, word cards and rhythm, solfa and staff flashcards. By providing you with quality, ready-made resources to explicitly support the implementation of the Take Note Music Writing program, we free you up from the photocopier and laminator. No more wasted time trying to create your own resources with shrivelling plastic laminating pouches and ruined resources due to poor equipment. These kits provide the visual confirmation of each aural concept.

Resource Kit 1 2nd edition

A$165.00
Shop

Resource Kit 2 2nd edition

A$155.00
Shop

Resource Kit 3 2nd edition

A$135.00
Shop

Resource Kit 4 3rd edition

A$120.00
Shop

Resource Kit 5 2nd edition

A$110.00
Shop

Take Note Music Making teacher and student books

​The Take Note Music Making student and teacher book is a group performance resource that takes place within the context of a regular singing-based primary music classroom. The teacher book includes primary music lesson plans for each page to support all teachers in delivering engaging lessons. The student and teacher books are designed with online audio access so students can practise at home in-between lessons and are therefore well supported with a good musical model and some really sensitive and engaging backing tracks to accompany their playing. The program provides a guide to performance skill development with explicit learning intentions that are achieved through singing and sequential transference onto recorder and/or tuned percussion. The primary music lesson plans in the Take Note Music Making teacher books provide carefully scaffolded lesson segments for thorough understanding and successful performance outcomes.
 
Students learn to perform a variety of styles of music from around the world including the 12 bar blues. There are primary music lesson plans supporting singing, playing, reading, writing, listening, responding and creating along with assessment guidance and rubrics.
 
More than ever educators understand that exploring creativity stimulates our sense of well being. Your students will LOVE the carefully guided primary music lesson plans supporting them to improvise and develop their creativity!

Digital Listening & Responding Kit - Peter and the Wolf

​Provided as an emailed pdf, this digital resource consists of worksheets, primary music lesson plans, audio and notation resources for listening activities in the music classroom.
 
The Compositional Elements diagram is used as a point of reference for Peter and the Wolf as students focus on Timbre - the unique tone colour of individual instruments. Students match instruments to the descriptive words given to describe the tone of each.
 
The written activities included in the primary music lesson plans are targeted for beginner level and designed to be used over 3 different lessons where the students revisit the recording.

Peter & the Wolf Digital Listening Kit

A$40.00

NEW RELEASE!!


Listening and Responding - Digital - Beginner Level


See video demo:

https://youtu.be/cDojyeYdXYM


Provided as an emailed pdf, this digital resource consists of worksheets, lesson plans, audio and notation resources for listening activities in the music classroom.


The Compositional Elements diagram is used as a point of reference for Peter and the Wolf as students focus on Timbre - the unique tone colour of the individual instruments. Student match instruments to the descriptive words given to describe the tone of each.


The written activities are targeted for beginner Primary/Elementary level and designed to be used over 3 different lessons where the students revisit the recording.


Contents:

  • Photocopiable Worksheets (A4) x 3
  • Teacher Notes
  • Youtube suggestions to watch an orchestra and then ballet performing the music
  • Audio Recording of each character theme, photo and diagram along with music notation of each character's instrumental theme


For each Character there is a

  • Picture of the Character
  • Picture of the instrument
  • Photo of the instrument being played
  • Audio and music notation for each character's theme music


Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf is a programmatic work that was written with the intention of introducing children to orchestral instruments. As the children listen to the story, told by a narrator with orchestral accompaniment, they become familiar with 7 interesting characters that are depicted by 7 instruments.

​

Tell the children the story using the picture story book (retold and illustrated by Ian Beck) available from Take Note Music. This engaging resource brings to life the story prior to the children delving into the Listening Kit activities.

Shop
© COPYRIGHT 2022. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.