A big shout out to Radik Tyulush, a truly gifted Tuvanese musician who gave me permission to use his photograph in my A-Z Musical Instruments Poster Pack. (I is for Igil!) He learned throat singing and playing the Igil from his grandfather and since graduating from the Kyzyl School of Arts performed in the folk groups “Tyva”, “Yat-
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A-Z Musical Instruments Poster Pack
I’ve been looking for a set of A-Z musical instrument posters for our music room. But most sets seem to skimp on the difficult instruments (quick- name an instrument beginning with I, N, Q or Y!) and many are just line drawings. So I’ve created my own with all letters represented including I for Igil,
Tags: musical instruments, PostersFree Music Resources
Matthew Hindson, Composer. Deputy Dean at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Curator, Australian Music Program has a number of useful free music resources on his blog. Free Manuscript Paper: Five different styles including a compact 18 stave version. Free Music Fonts: There are 14 different fonts including a recorder fingering font, a guitar strings font,
NASA Audio Files
NASA have greats election of audio files at NASA: Connect > Audi and Ringtones. My Year 7/8 students selected then edited these in Audacity to create loops for a soundscape to accompany the Apollo 11 Moon landing. NASA Videos are available at Apollo 11 HD Videos.
Tags: resources, Soundscape, SpaceAustralian Curriculum General Capabilities Checklist
I needed a quick way to record my use of the general Capabilities in my my programs. I tried a few different configurations, but this one seems to work well. There’s a title section at the top for unit title, year level and date. The capabilities are in two sections: ‘Supporting students to become successful learners’
Tags: Australian Curriculum, General CapabilitiesWanikani Radicals Levels 1-10
A cheat sheet for those studying Wanikani; all the radicals (in glorious blue!) of levels 1-10. Wanikani Radicals 1-10 pdf
Tags: WanikaniOkeanos Ocean Explorer
The Okeanos Explorer is a US federally funded research ship, assigned to ‘systematically explore our largely unknown ocean for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge’. There’s a live feed happening between April 27 and May 19, 2017 where the ship will collect information about deepwater areas in the Pacific. During that time the
Tags: living things, ocean explorationRainbow Tone Rows
My Year 6 music class experimented with serialism and tone-rows but using a diatonic scale (A B C D E F G) rather than a chromatic one (ie with all the semitones). I used the phrase ‘Rainbow Tone Row’ to link in with out use of BoomWhackers. Although this does somewhat negate serialsims goal of
Tags: curriculum, music theory, serialism, vocabularyNew Australian Readers’ Theatre series published.
Yay! Blake Education’s new ‘Australian Readers’ Theatre’ series has arrived from the printers! It’s been great fun working as series consultant with editor Vanessa Barker and publisher Lynn Dickinson and to have six plays included alongside those of the talented Sandie Eldridge, Catherine Bauer and Elizabeth Klein. It’s a great series (all photo-copiable) with lots
Tags: Blake Education, drama, Readers' TheatreRed Beach School New Zealand Compass Rose Performance
A big shout out to Jill McTeigue and the students of Red Beach School. Loved your photos from Compass Rose! Your sets and costumes look gorgeous and I hope you had a great time putting it on! One lovely touch; Red Beach borrowed our original prop ‘Compass’ (to the right in the featured photograph) and