January 10, 2022.

Welcome back everyone!  I hope the holidays were restful., and that the extra week was a bonus! This week’s listening selection is the overture from the opera Ruslan and Ludmila.

Click here for the orchestral version.

Click here for a pipe organ version.

Click here for a lovely zoom version on woodwinds and a few other random instrument.

Click here for the best one, all accordians.

For body percussion this week, let’s bring back Butter from BTS!

Click here for Mr. Henry’s Wintertime Rap!

Click here for Mr. Noe’s scarf activity.

Click here for Mario rhythm play along.

Click here for easy Minecraft rhythms.

Click here for “Celebration”, an easy rhythm song to celebrate 2022!

Click here for a Winter Play Along using tika tika.

December 13, 2021.

This week’s listening song is March of the toys by Victor Herbert.

Click here for a scene from the movie.

Click here for another animated scene.

Click here for an orchestral version.

Click here for a pipe organ version.

Click here for Barney’s version!

Click here for the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, easy rhythm version.

Click here for Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy with tika tika’s.

Click here for Dance with ti tika’s.

Click here for Trepak, easy rhythm version.

Click here for Holly Jolly Christmas easy rhythm.

Click here for a 2 part rhythm activity to O Christmas Tree.

Click here for Mr. Henry’s Santa Rap!

November 22, 2021.

We are really excited to be working on our class numbers for the Virtual Christmas Concert!  Here are some warm up activities to keep you in the holiday spirit.  We are also enjoying Pachelbel’s Canon in D as our music listening selection this week.

Click here to practice our finale, “We Wish you a Merry Christmas” using ASL signed English!

Click here Division 4 for Carol of the Bells.

And click here for “Angels We Have Heard on High”.

Click here for “Jolly Old St. Nicholas”.

Click here for “Jingle Bells”.

Click here for “Snow Day” simple mode.

Click here for “Snow Day” challenge mode.

Click here for an easy rhythm activity to “Sleigh Ride”

Click here for a super challenging version of “Sleigh Ride”

Click here for “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” rhythm play along.

Click here for an easy rhythm version of “Let it Snow” by the Pentatonix.

Here’s Feliz Navidad body percussion and rhythm play along.

Click here for “Sleigh Ride” easy body percussion.

Click here for another version of “Jingle Bell Rock” for body percussion.

Click here for “Last Christmas” body percussion and rhythm play along.

Click here for a piano and cello version.

Click here for a beautiful harp version.

Click here for an orchestral version.

Click here for a piano version on computer.

Click here for Christmas Eve in Sarajevo” by the Trans Siberian Orchestra.

Click here for “Run Run Rudolph” by Chuck Berry.

November 15, 2021

Yes, it’s time to begin our preparations for the Winter Concert!  It will unfortunately have to be virtual again this year, but it will be equally spectacular!  We are hoping to film the first week of December and send the link out to families right before the holidays.  The link will expire in the new year so you are welcome to enjoy it again and again over the holidays!

Click here for “Holly Jolly Christmas” an easy rhythm activity.

Click here for another easy rhythm play along with “snowman” and “bell”.

Click here “Jingle Bell Rock” body percussion in the original song.

Click here for the Glee version of “Jingle Bell Rock” body percussion.

Thank you Mr. Henry for the “Holiday Rap!”  (9 minutes)

For Division 3, click here for Purcell’s Canon on Orff Instruments.

Division 3, here is a ukulele version.

Click here for a piano version.

Click here for a little BTS…smooth like butter.

Click here for our opening number song, Takin’ Care of Christmas!

Click here for our music listening selection of the week, John Williams, “Superman”

Here is John Williams himself conducting “Superman”

Click here to hear a piano version.

November 8, 2021

Click here for the orchestral overture.

Click here for a shorter orchestral version.

Click here for a version using period instruments.

Click here for some pictures from the opera.

Click here for the pipe organ overture.

Click here for our new body percussion of the week, Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke”

Click here for an old favourite, “Can’t Stop the Feeling”

Click here for the rhythm stick version of “Can’t Stop the Feeling”

Click here for a rhythm stick challenge, “Bye, bye, bye!”

Click here for The Weekend body percussion.

Click here for the Star Wars Scarf Movement.

November 1, 2021.

Welcome to the first week of November.  As we begin our preparation for the holiday season, here is an uplifting song, Trumpet Voluntary, written by Jeremiah Clarke,

Click here for the trumpet, orchestra and organ version.

Click here for a live version from Vienna.

Click here for a piano version.

Click here for a pipe organ version.

And finally, click here for a string quartet.

For body percussion for Divisions 8 and 9, click here.

For Divisions 5,6,7 body percussion click here.

Click here for rhythm activities for Divisions 8 and 9.

Click here for rhythm activities for Divisions 5, 6, and 7.

October 25, 2021

Welcome to Halloween Week!  What better way to celebrate this spooky time than to listen to one of the most well-known pieces of organ music in existence? And there are so many ways this composition has been performed, from the harp, to the accordian!  Thank you JS Bach!

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor on the gorgeous pipe organ.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor, a scary, shorter version on the pipe organ!

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor with computer graphics.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor with a full orchestra.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor on the harp.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor with solo violin.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the marching band version.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor with the acoustic guitar.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor on the accordian.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor with the accordian and the bandura.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor by the rock band “Sky”

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor on a huge piano keyboard.  Short, but sweet.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor on the xylophone.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor from “The Phantom of the Opera”

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor for a saxophone sextet.

Click here to listen to Toccata and Fugue in D minor with 3-D animation.

October 18, 2021

Click here for an image and this beautiful guitar song.

Click here for a “vinyl” version of this song.

Click here for some beautiful scenery.

Click here for a live performance.

Click here for a piano performance.

October 18, 2021.

Welcome to Halloween this year!  Here are some fun activities you can try.  They are also in my virtual room as well that is posted on the front page.  Boo!

1.   Click here for a Halloween pattern of sevens.

2.  Click here for Halloween Percussion Play along.

2a.  Click here for a more challenging percussion play along.

3.  Click here for Monster Mash body percussion.

4.  Click here for The Skeleton Rap from Mr. Henry!

5.  Click here for the Great Candy Hunt (easy)

6.  Click here for the Great Candy Hunt (challenging)

7.  Click here for Mr. Henry’s Halloween Rap!

8.  Click here for an easy Pumpkin Rhythm play along.

9.  Click here for an easy Ghostbusters percussion song.

9a.  Click here for a challenging Ghostbusters percussion song.

10.  Click here for Spooky Scary Skeletons easy rhythm song.

11.  Click here for Spooky Scary Skeletons body percussion.

11a.  Click here for the original Disney Spooky Scary Skeletons!

12.  Click here for This is Halloween with tika ti!

13.  Click here for Thriller body percussion!

14.  Click here for Mr. Noe’s Halloween rhythm activity.

15.  Click here for Mr. Noe’s Scarf activity.

15a.  Click here for another Halloween scarf activity.

15b.  Click here for one final scarf activity.

16.  Click here for The Space Jam percussion.

17.  Click here for Hap Palmer’s Witches Brew!

18.  Click here for Sesame Street’s Batty Bat!  Let’s all count!

19.  Click here for Would you Rather Halloween version!

Please enjoy my virtual room for 2021!  Muaaahhhhhh!