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Here are the key concepts we have focused on so far:

EVERYONE!

Steady Beat

Singing with your Head Voice

Good Posture

Mallet Technique-Pinch, Wrap, and Elbows Out!

Ostinato: Repeat that Motto!

Bordun goes with that Tune (Do and Sol on the steady beat)

Composing-Winter Shapes or Winter/Holiday Word

Instrument Families

K-2

Unpitched Percussion-Does it shake, scrape, or strike?

FORTE! & piano

I can be a Conductor!

Improvise! Don't plan, just play

Celebrate the Presidents!

Somebody's Knockin' at Your Door

Yankee Doodle

Sol-La-Mi

EXPRESS! Viennese Music Clock by Kodaly 

3-5

Drumming Q&A

Duple vs. Triple Meter

Letters of the Staff-

EGBDF and FACE

Do-Mi-Sol

Recorder Karate

EXPRESS!  "Blue Danube" or "Hungarian Dance No. 5"