Books/Teaching Aids

Create compelling rhythm-based events for groups of all kinds! Learn the art of drum-circle facilitation from master percussionist, educator and award-winning drum circle facilitator, Kalani. The interactive DVD includes activities, games, an instrument guide and inspirational interviews. Participants will also gain essential life skills, including..

Games Galore is a collection of 27 reproducible music activity sheets (with answer key) for Grades K-6 complied by Erika Popp.  Topics include: Notes and Their Pitch Names (6 activities); Rhythm (6 activities); Music Vocabulary (5 activities); Instruments (10 activities)    ..

This familiar standard by English composer Benjamin Britten has become the classic introduction to the sights and sounds of the orchestra for young people. Enhance music appreciation and explore the unique qualities of the instruments in a symphony orchestra with your students with this creative collection of visuals and strategies. Created fo..

La La La Learn presents "Hello" starring Krista Hewson. 54 page book and two CDs - one with all of the songs as sung in the book, and one without the lead vocals to allow you to make up your own lyrics. "Hello" is a resource for parents, music therapists, and early childhood educators working with children up to six years old..

Rockin' with arithmetic is what it's all about! Reinforce basic math concepts that support Common Core State Standards and promote higher level learning, while rockin' to the beat. From Hal Leonard's popular Rock 'n' Learn series, this study for Grades 3-5 explores the 4 basic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide), computing the area of..

Rockin' with arithmetic is what it's all about! Reinforce basic math concepts that support Common Core State Standards and promote higher level learning, while rockin' to the beat. From Hal Leonard's popular Rock 'n' Learn series, this study for Grades 3-5 explores the 4 basic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide), computing the area of..

Music Time Primary: 33 quick-start lessons for the elementary music class from the writers of John Jacobson's "Music Express". Compiled by Tom Anderson. It's music time! No problem! Bring the joy of music to your classroom with this one-of-a-kind resource created for music teachers-in-training, beginning music teachers..

Process and Play: Using Barred Percussion to Develop Musical Skills is a compilation of 12 lessons by Orff masters Brian Hiller and Don Dupont. These nuanced and engaging lessons originally appeared in the music education magazine Activate!. Compiled by Erika Popp. Contents include:   Beginning: Lucy Locket (K-1); Turkey, Turke..

“Shake It Up With Shakespeare” is part of the “Rise and Shine Series”. This musical for 2-part voices will provide your students with a fun and unforgettable introduction to English literature's most famous writer, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare not only wrote a wide range of plays and sonnets that touch upon all aspects of the “human condition,”..

Set the groove with Remo's Sound Shapes and other percussion instruments! These professional quality pretuned drums are colorful building blocks for performance, education, recreation and FUN! Creative arrangements (This Old Man) and partner songs (Pay Me My Money Down and Hey Lolly, Lolly) are combined with exciting and authentic rhythms..

Welcome to another publication in the popular Thirty Days curriculum series by Betsy Henderson that teaches basic music concepts with self-guided lessons and ready-to-use reproducible activity sheets - ideal for general music classes, homeschoolers, choirs, bands and orchestras.  Each of the thirty lessons is presented in a l..

Welcome to another publication in the popular Thirty Days curriculum series by Betsy Henderson that teaches the basics of rhythm in a practical easy-to-use reproducible kit - ideal for general music classes, homeschoolers, choirs, bands and orchestras.  Each of the thirty lessons is presented in a logical sequence with g..

Timbales! Mbira! Shofar! World Instrument Bingo by Cheryl Lavender has gone DIGITAL! Now you can explore instruments from around the world with full color projection, authentic sound samples, interesting fun facts, games and assessment activities.  Students are first introduced to 24 world instruments through a series of collabora..