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ESCAPE FROM THE MALL_Music Escape room

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 Here is an escape room with music challenges. My 6th grade students invented the story and I added the challenges.  I created 2 of the challenges (the 1st and the last), 2 challenges are games from Dr Musik and 1 is a video from Youtube.  The images were created in ChatGPT and the presentation in Canva and Google Slides. I'd love any feedback, comments and suggestions! Enjoy! Chrysi

Melody Sequencer for "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

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As many of you are rushing around a Winter holidays concert or witer holidays activities, I present a short interactive game created with Canva AI.  It's a melody sequencer for the first 8 measures of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" with notes on the staff.  Have a look at the video to see how it works!  Melody Sequencer_how it works Play in this link: https://interactivemelodygame.my.canva.site/ Enjoy!

December SALE in TPT!

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A 2-days sale is just about to happen in TPT, so l et me give you a quick tour of my shop! A boat full of sounds I have created quite a few resources in number, but most of them are collections that cover more than one lesson. Some of them cover all year activities!  Let me pinpoint some of them which can be easily used as  Music Centers , as they include a variety of resources for the same theme! 1. Greek Traditional Carols for Christmas and the New Year 3 weeks before Christmas enjoy an insight to Greek culture and children's Carolling. 2 super easy Carols for metallophone. Easy to use in Music Centers; Presentation of the Greek Christmas customs / images of foods and instruments / Coloring pages / scores and simple orchestration / play along videos with scrolling notation / suggested listenings / pages for Reflection so that your students find similarities and differences between Greek customs and their favorite Christmas customs. 2. My top-seller Listening Maps and Teachin...

Back to School SALE in TPT!

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  Back to School Sale in Teachers Pay Teachers!  Grab your resources for a creative school year!  Have a look to my best seller book with Listening Maps for Vivaldi's THE FOUR SEASONS. Try the games I've created about this famous work and download all the FREE material! 

SPRING resources

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Do you feel Spring? The sounds, the smells, the colours... Have look at my free e-book about Vivaldi's Spring! Learn how to create Spring's motiv!  See how to create a rondo form with spring ideas Move and dance with Spring mvt 1 Follow the listening maps,  draw, create and enjoy! TES shop TPT store

NEW RECOURCE! Musical Forms for K-3, part 1

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  Look at the video to learn more about the resource Presentation and Worksheets to introduce Musical Forms to children from K-3. The idea of form is presented in a simple way through many images and examples. The presentation can be completed in one teaching hour and is ideal for substitute teachers too.  The basic idea of the 1st part is to recognise the ideas of Same , Similar & Different in music. Since forms are created when combining same, similar and contrasting ideas, its very important for everyone to have this crucial ability. Movement and play are very important in learning at these ages. Young children have to move and play listening to music and aurally recognise the changes or the repetitions between the parts of a musical work, even without knowing anything about forms and any other terminology. This has to become an essential part of our music lesson.  Adding to the experiential way to learn about forms, the 28 Worksheets deepen the understanding with ...

ΝEW BOOK! The Crab in his Hole

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 Summer is over but we can keep its spirit up with a story! Meet a little Crab who loves adventures and plays with new friends. TPT link TES link                       Two fairy tales where our Crab meets other animals from the mainland and from the sea. He discovers noe things as he is open to new experiences.  The book can be read on its own by any teacher, parent or child. In each fairy tale children will also find an empty page to add an adventure of their own and draw it on the book. Μusic teachers may use this book to teach musical forms in early ages (K-3)  (Binary, Ternary, Rondo, Theme & Variations). The idea is that each adventure corresponds to a section of the music. This way children get an idea of form in music while listening to the music and dramatizing the story. The stories are accompanied by happy Greek traditional music specially recorded for the book by some of the most prominent sol...