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5 Little Owls
You and your students will have a hoot with this one! The hooting of an owl is a sound that kids are all familiar with and love to...
Jenny Ferris
Feb 23, 20181 min read
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Where's Joseph? He's HAYDN! Surprise!
I'm sure many of you are familiar with Haydn's Symphony No. 94, the "Surprise Symphony" - especially the 2nd movement. If you're not,...
Jenny Ferris
Feb 18, 20183 min read
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Peanuts the Elephant
I'd like to introduce you to a Kodaly Crafts regular - Peanuts the Elephant. Peanuts usually makes an appearance in one of my first prep...
Jenny Ferris
Feb 18, 20182 min read
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Kodaly Crafts Song Files: Caterpillar crawling round...
This song is a cute little staple of my Junior School teaching. Methodologically speaking, it's great for taa & ti-ti, so & mi,...
Jenny Ferris
Feb 11, 20182 min read
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2018 Classroom Reveal
Well, it's that time of year again! A new school year, a new classroom design. I also have the added pleasure of starting work at a new...
Jenny Ferris
Feb 7, 20183 min read
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A krash kourse in Kodaly
Something occured to me the other day as a result of a conversation about Kodály. I was talking to a friend of a friend who teaches piano...
Jenny Ferris
Feb 6, 20184 min read
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Closet Key
We work a lot on singing voice and solo singing opportunities with younger students (at least I know I do, it's a big focus of my...
Jenny Ferris
Feb 4, 20182 min read
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Froggy Went A Courtin'
The school I was working in last year was new to the Kodaly approach and had suffered lots of disruptions to their music program in the...
Jenny Ferris
Jan 26, 20183 min read
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Great ways to develop inner hearing
As Kodaly himself famously said, "we should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining...
Jenny Ferris
Jan 20, 20182 min read
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5 Cheeky Monkeys
I have a fingerplay for prep students that I'd love to share with you - check out a recording of this fingerplay in the video below: You...
Jenny Ferris
Jan 15, 20181 min read
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Freebies!
To celebrate some milestones in growing the number of subscribers to Kodaly Crafts, we're spreading the Kodaly Crafts love a little...
Jenny Ferris
Jan 15, 20181 min read
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Bee yourself
One of the best pieces of advice I ever received in my Kodaly training was about the importance of transitions between activities. When...
Jenny Ferris
Jan 14, 20184 min read
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Welcome songs
Hello there. Bonjour. Aloha. Ni Hao. "Sup? So many ways to greet people these days! Have you ever thought about how you greet each class...
Jenny Ferris
Jan 14, 20182 min read
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICECREAM!
I'm sure that, unless your ears are lactose intolerant, you are familiar with the chant that goes: This chant is a well-known one, but an...
Jenny Ferris
Jan 9, 20182 min read
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Mr. Fuzzy
This is Mr. Fuzzy. Mr. Fuzzy is currently looking a little worse for wear. This is because it is the end of the school year and Mr....
Jenny Ferris
Jan 3, 20181 min read
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Son Macaron
Oh, how I love this game! Son Macaron is a beat-passing game where students lay their right hand palm up in the hand of their right-side...
Jenny Ferris
Dec 31, 20171 min read
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Rhythm Dictation Wallets
As the school year has wrapped up and the craziness of report-writing season has died down, I am left thinking about assessment and the...
Jenny Ferris
Dec 31, 20172 min read
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Spooky puppet makes some not-so-spooky sounds
Getting your young students to discover and develop their singing voice is one of the first (and sometimes one of the hardest!)...
Jenny Ferris
Nov 19, 20172 min read
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Hickory Dickory Dock
So in conjunction with my much-loved Mousie puppet (check out a post about her here) I also use this great clock puppet for the nursery...
Jenny Ferris
Nov 8, 20171 min read
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Sammy Snail
So I'm going to cheat a little bit here and talk about a puppet that isn't one of my own creations - but it's so cute that I can't help...
Jenny Ferris
Oct 29, 20172 min read
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