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Welcome to another 2/4 Tuesday (or Wednesday)! Better late than never!  Thanks to those of you who created a 2/4 Tuesday post already. It's much appreciated. Please link up at the end of my post! 1 . Winter Rhythm Manipulatives I saw these at Dollarama as soon as the Christmas stuff came out. Thanks to my awesome student teacher Lauren for writing out the rhythms!  Snowflakes for grade 1/2 (I am going to trace and cut out royal blue rests). Snowmen for grade 3. They will also be given snowflakes to mix and match rhythm compositions. 2. Arf on the Housetop! This is the musical I have chosen to do with my grade 1-3 students this year! I am so excited! It looks super cute and it just came out this year. We will be having auditions on Friday and will be starting our songs next week. Yippeee!

It's 2/4 Tuesday! Link up and share your ideas! See below for the linky party deets! Yup- fun with glowsticks!  1. Barred Instruments and GLOW STICKS  Last week my grade 4 students played "Skin and Bones" on the barred instruments. To make it extra creepy and Halloween-y, we played the instruments with glow sticks instead of mallets! Woohooo! 2. Glow Sticks for Singing Warm-ups Last week I also used glow sticks with the kids for vocal slides. A student leader would wave a glow stick around and the rest of the class produced a vocal slide accordingly! Yeehaw! So fun! 3. Glow Stick Freeze Dance Another hit! We danced around to "Thriller" with our glow sticks. When the music stopped, kids had to freeze or they were out of the game. FUN-tastic! Whoop whoop! Hope you save these fun extras for next Halloween or when you are in the mood for glow-in-the-dark fun! Join my link party! And check out the other blog posts!

At our school, students with special needs come to Music with their class, but come to an extra music on top of that where we focus on non-music goals through doing musical activities. I found these videos on Youtube and they are great!  These would be useful in Music classes as movement warm-ups and I will be using them to reinforce gross motor goals in our extra music classes. Walking Song Hopping Skipping Song