Workshop Schedule

I hope to see you sometime this year! If your chapter is looking for a workshop, please email me at musicquilt@hotmail.com. Booking now for 2025-2026!

Centers and Rotations! The What, Why, How, Who, and When!

Get ready!

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Summer Music Workshops!

Hi music teacher friends! Here we go- summer workshop registration starts today! If you are in my Patreon community, these are included! $20 each or both for $35 All materials, presentation slides, video recording, and 1.5 or 3 hours PD certificate included. 

Click HERE to register.

Woodland Freeze Singing Game

One amazing thing that came out of our isolated time during Covid was new connections with music teachers around the world. Heather Nail and I finally got to meet in person last year and we just "clicked". She shared this Woodland Freeze singing game with my Patreon community recently and my students LOVE it! Seriously- they request it over and over again! Check it out here:

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Sailor, Sailor on the Sea

I love this singing game!

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Singing Games - WHY? WHAT? HOW?

 Have you ever wanted to try more singing games but are stuck in the questions that arise about which ones work well and how to manage students in the midst of games?  And why do we even do these?  

Well... here you go!! 

Victoria Boler and I sat down for a lengthy conversation around the what, when, where, why, and how of singing games.  Go have a listen to the podcast or watch the video HERE! 

Need more? 

HERE are all 23 tagged and labeled posts on the blog with singing games - scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Older Posts" when you have finished with each page and it will load all the other posts with "Singing Games". 

I will also be posting more in the next couple weeks on TikTok and Instagram so check those out, too! 

Enjoy,

Five Eggs

Spring is one of my favorite times of year - each morning on my walk I hear birds singing and see rabbits hopping on fresh sprigs of green grass.  And the flowers! Well, if you know me at all, you know how much I love flowers and especially irises.  I have so many flowers planted around my house and particularly love the 20-something varieties of iris I currently have!  

This is a perfect rhyme and fingerplay for spring.  

Fingerplays are so underrated! Teach them to younger students as a fingerplay but bring them back to teach or reinforce rhythmic elements in first grade and as a canon experience for second grade, or add a So Mi or So La Mi melody, eventually adding in an ostinato or two.  Transfer the rhyme and ostinati to non-pitched percussion, add timbre changes for each line and allow the students to decide how to perform it.  For older students, use these as a basis for melodic improvisation or to walk the beat while clapping the rhythm or add a B Section with the names of egg layers - birds, fish, insects, turtles, platypus, echidna, reptiles, and lizards.  Or have small groups of students create a movement story of one type of animal and perform for other groups to guess the animal.  So many possibilities!

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Enjoy!