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Musicplay is an award winning music curriculum for elementary schools. Musicplay is a sequential curriculum with lessons that follow the calendar year. The weekly lesson outlines the new concepts that will be taught, those that will be reviewed, and include seasonal and holiday repertoire. The planning is done for the teacher! Important concepts are taught through play. Each week in Grades 1-5 a n... More

Musicplay is an award winning music curriculum for elementary schools. Musicplay is a sequential curriculum with lessons that follow the calendar year. The weekly lesson outlines the new concepts that will be taught, those that will be reviewed, and include seasonal and holiday repertoire. The planning is done for the teacher! Important concepts are taught through play. Each week in Grades 1-5 a new singing game is featured. The songs and games are chosen to teach musical concepts, to teach children about cultures around the world, and to provide songs for special days and performances throughout the school year. The most important factor in selecting songs for this series, is that songs appeal to children! The Musicplay teacher's guides include CD recordings. Each teacher's guide includes 4-6 full length CDs with more than 100 musical selections per grade level. Children and adult voices are used, and there are many recordings licensed from popular children's entertainers. Accompaniments include Orff arrangements, piano accompaniments and orchestrated accompaniments. Performance songs on the CD's have both performance tracks and accompaniment tracks - you can use the accompaniments only for your performances. Multicultural songs feature authentic performances - the songs are in original languages and are sung by native singers. Music specialists with training in Orff or Kod�ly will find that Musicplay works well with either methodology or as an integrated approach using both. Music reading songs are presented sequentially in every weekly lesson throughout the curriculum so that the students become literate musicians. Musicplay supports and enhances science, social studies, and language arts curriculums. Many of the songs are charted, so that students will develop reading skills while they learn music. Poetry is included in Grades 2-5. Science concepts are taught as well - each grade includes songs that teach about the environment.

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