Here's a fun game to help you practice your recorder at home. If you create a login, come share your username with Mrs Stroup and she'll have a surprise for you! Creating a login is free, and it will record your progress. For internet safety, never use your real name when creating a login.
Call me crazy, but the fourth grade recorder unit is my favorite part of fourth grade music! I love watching students as they grow as musicians. We all know those beginning sounds a new recorder player may make, but those sound soon fade as students learn to play familiar songs with good intonation. Students amaze me with their progress every year, and sometimes I'm hard pressed to keep up--finding new challenges to offer.
I've been doing a program called recorder Karate with students. We start with a simple, three tone song. When a student scores a three or higher on our recorder karate rubric, they earn a new belt for their recorder. The songs become more challenging as students progress through the belts. Click the image above to visit a website with sample recordings of the songs.
I've been doing a program called recorder Karate with students. We start with a simple, three tone song. When a student scores a three or higher on our recorder karate rubric, they earn a new belt for their recorder. The songs become more challenging as students progress through the belts. Click the image above to visit a website with sample recordings of the songs.
In the spirit of friendly competition, I am posting a graph of class progress through the Recorder Karate belts. This graph represents how many students in each class have completed the belts (individual student progress will not be displayed).