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Mindfulness Guides, Repertoire Suggestions, and Research References

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Kindergarten Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes

Objectives: Students will use their singing voice and speaking voice. Students will create a shape using pipe cleaners (or yarn). Students will demonstrate melodic contour by singing their shape in…

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Fourth & Fifth Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes

Objectives: Improvisation: Students will use a blues scale to improvise melodies in question and answer form. Students will improvise 16 beat phrases over a moving bass line. Form: Students will…

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Fourth Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes

Objectives: Students will improvise movement that reflects a variety of positional levels, weighted movements, and space. Students will respond to the formal structure of a folk dance through choreographed and…

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Third Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes

Objectives: Vocal Development: Students will explore their head voice through a vocal exploration activity with a ribbon wand. Melody: Students will sing, decode, and read solfège notations do, re, mi,…

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Second Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes

Objectives: Students will echo sing on so-mi. Students will create quarter note (ta), eighth notes (ti-ti), and quarter rest rhythms using popsicle sticks. Students will respond to music using a…

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First Grade Curriculum Design: Using the Same Repertoire for Many Purposes

Objectives: Students will identify and label rests in a familiar song. Download this resource to learn more.

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Hill Day 2024 group photo at Capitol

Hill Day 2025 Participant Graphics

Downloadable graphics (Click on link and right-click on image to save to your device) Facebook: Option 1 Option 2 Instagram feed: Option 1 Option 2 Instagram story: Option 1 Option…

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NAfME Hill Day 2023 group photo of advocates in front of the U.S Capitol

Hill Day 2025 Shareable Graphics

Downloadable graphics (Click on link and right-click on image to save to your device) NAfME Virtual Hill Day Social Media Toolkit Title I: Facebook Instagram Title II Facebook Instagram Title…

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Two Documentary Films and Lesson Plans: Dr. Eddie Henderson: Uncommon Genius and Awadagin Pratt: Black in America

Access Two Documentary Films and Lesson Plans: Dr. Eddie Henderson: Uncommon Genius and Awadagin Pratt: Black in America NAfME is very pleased to be able to provide access for music…

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