Teaching Resources

Both poster and spinner have PDF Activity Guides with many suggestions for teaching and games involving both color and keys.

A compact and versatile collection of teaching tools, all in a handy cart!

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As you teach the note names, play the pitch on the ladder bells, which also demos low to high.

Create rhythm grooves, choose patterns of rhythms and instruments to create a sound story or chant, set up a groove, select instruments and ensembles groupings, listen to music and guess the ensemble.

A versatile collection of teaching tools, with staff and keyboard wall charts and grand staff and keyboard floor mats!

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Step on the keyboard and grand staff as you learn the note names and hear the pitches on the bells. Kinesthetic learning makes concepts stick.

Introduce staff reading with solfege gradually from 1 to 5 lines, adding magnetic strips as singers progress.

Identify major & minor keys in both clef.

Learn about ensembles: terminology and how many in each. Cross over to math, too.  Both are more fun with manipulatives.

Perform rhythm patterns with body percussion and up the challenge with different groups playing only certain rhythms.

 One die each of 2-,3-,and 4-beat patterns.

Perform hands/feet rhythm patterns in grooves, play twister, more.  Plenty of activities in our PDF Activity Guides.

These 3 MGR Rhythm sets allow for the greatest flexibility in teaching, notating, orchestrating, and composing rhythms and patterns.

Mary Ann Stewart has developed this step-by-step approach that offers concrete “hand holds” to explore all aspects of rhythm.  With Activity Guides Downloads.

A coral reef baby animal counting book  by Marianne Berkes, illus. by Jeanette Canyon