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12/100 I won a worm

Posted on February 29, 2016 by

No, not seriously (although I have just won a diary in an on-line competition…) This game has nothing to do with music, as far as I can see, but fills in a spare few minutes at the end of a … Continue reading →

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Issue 104: The “Deda Robot” Game, and the “Cyborg” game

Posted on September 22, 2013 by

On the whole I try and post about things that anyone can do without having bought expensive CDs and books. I’m wary of encouraging people to buy a particular resource, especially when it costs around £30. However the ACBlack “Developing Music … Continue reading →

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Issue 26: Kodaly and Orff Music Teacher’s blog

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

This is a blog I have been following for a while: http://www.herdingcatsgeorge.blogspot.com/ It is called the Kodaly and Orff Music Teacher’s blog and has some inspirational ideas in it. The current entry has video clips of a couple of pulse/circle … Continue reading →

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Issue 26: Partner Percussion

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

This is a video of a Memphis City Orff Music concert; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvpFgUMBiqQ from the Kodaly and Orff Music Teacher’s Blog; www.herdingcatsgeorge.blogspot.com In the front right hand corner of the stage, during a song near the end of the clip, there … Continue reading →

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Issue 22: Don’t clap this one back

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

This is an incredibly simple little listening game, which quickly sorts out the classes that have learned focus and self discipline from those that have no idea! Keeping an internal pulse going all the time, the leader claps a four-beat … Continue reading →

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Issue 7: Class music – keystage 1 – Castles

Posted on October 1, 2011 by

“Our topic this week is castles – can you do something about castles in music this afternoon?”  Umm; I am completely out of ideas for songs about castles; the only music I can think of is “The Old Castle” from pictures … Continue reading →

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Issue 6: The Name Game

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

This game is a real oldie, and we all tend to do it at the start of every year in a vain effort to learn classfuls and classfuls of names in the first week of term.  This week I watched it … Continue reading →

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