1,000 TpT followers Giveaway

Wow! I cannot even believe I'm writing this right now. Just a year ago I was celebrating 400 followers and now I have OVER 1,000 followers. What a humbling experience. I'm so grateful for each and every one of you that has followed me, so I'm throwing a BIG HUGE giveaway!

SIX FABULOUS prizes up for grabs:

1. $25 TPT Gift Card to be spent on anything site wide
2. $15 credit to my TPT store
3. Ready for School Bundle: Watercolor Music Word Wall (donated by Lindsay Jervis @ Lindsay's Kodaly Inspired Classroom) and Music Teacher Binder (donated by Aileen Miracle @ Mrs. Miracle's Music Room) (approximately worth $17.50)
4. Listening Activities Bundle: Carnival of the Animals - Listening Journal & Fact Sheet (donated by Cori Bloom @ Rhythm & Bloom), Peter and the Wolf - Storybook Powerpoint (donated by Shelly Tomich @ Pitch Publications), and Flight of the Bumblebee - Listening Activities & Assessments (Katie Robertson @ Cowgirl Compositions) (approximately worth $14)
5. Music Games Bundle: Rhythm Monsters (Jennifer Hibbard @ The Yellow Brick Road), Solfa! An Uno-Inspired Game (donated by Amy Abbott @ Music a la Abbott) and The Case of the Sneaky Singing Snails - So, La, & Mi edition (donated by Tina Jones @ Totally Tuned-In Teacher) (approximately worth $12.50)
6. Music Worksheet Bundle: Space Pals - Music Worksheet Bundle (donated by Jena Hudson @ Sew Much Music), Music Worksheets (donated by Sara Bibee @ Music with Sara Bibee), and Do Worksheet Bundle (donated by me) (approximately worth $12.50)

Here is a preview of what you could win:

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Good luck!

400 TpT Giveaway Scavenger Hunt

As a celebration of reaching 400 TpT followers, I'm having a giveaway! To make it more interesting I'm going to make it a scavenger hunt. The clues I created represent 5 different items in my Teachers Pay Teachers shop. One item is worth at least $12 (only one riddle), one is worth at least $10 (only two riddles), one is worth at least $5 (three riddles), one is worth at least $3 (four riddles), and one is worth at least $1 (five riddles).

To enter the giveaway you will need to search MY STORE for items that represent my riddles. Solve as many as you can to earn more chances to win! When you have solved as many riddles as you can, send me an email at bcritters2231988(at)gmail(dot)com or send me a private message via my Facebook Group - Making Music Memories. Make sure it is a private message and not on the group page for everyone to see, otherwise you'll be giving away answers!

Note: There are only 5 products represented in the riddles so you will get the same answer multiple times.

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Riddle #1
10 practice sheets are there
In this coloring bundle of flair
Don’t forget to search for spring
To find sunshine, rainbows, and other bling

Riddle #2
After do, then comes re
Let’s all practice before we play
These fun worksheets will show you how
To find re on the staff bam, ka-plow!

Riddle #3
Baby Shark, A Ram Sam Sam
If you like these songs then you’ll be a fan
Of this fun bundle of 15 tunes
With slides, lyrics, and guitar chords, too

Riddle #4
This bundle is filled with 10 whole songs to teach your first music rhythms


Riddle #5
This bundle will help reinforce the note
That you can find between do and mi

Riddle #6
This bundle uses solfege and teaches students tonic
With 7 songs they’ll sing along and learn as quick as Sonic

Riddle #7
Solve each box with so and mi
To find the color in the key
Then color, color to your delight
‘Til everything is pretty and out of sight

Riddle #8
Bee, Bee Bumblebee, that is what you’ll see
Using this fun bundle, you’re students won’t stumble

Riddle #9
Say, hey, kay, and may, these are words that rhyme
With the worksheet bundle I made
For the solfege syllable ______

Riddle #10
Summer weather, summer sun
Let’s have a campfire and some fun
Sing these songs and giggle a long
Boom Chicka Boom now sing this song

Riddle #11
This bundle includes the following sheets:
Neighborhood Mix-up, Show Me the Sign, & Stuck in the Middle

Riddle #12
Grab some marshmallows
Let’s have some s’mores
While we sing from the newest
bundle of campfire songs

Riddle #13
Coloring, coloring it’s so fun
This spring bundle with lots of sun
Can help your students to find so & mi
Many of the sheets have a different key

Riddle #14
The first two notes students learn to sing
Why not practice with coloring things?

Riddle #15
After using my song file Pairs or Pears,
To help your students prepare
These worksheets would be next on my list
To help them practice… I insist!

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This giveaway will end on Sunday, July 6 at 9 pm CST! I hope you enjoy the giveaway, I'm hoping it is as fun for you as it was for me to create the riddles and clues.

Great things going on Right NOW!

I really want to share a cool project I'm just finishing up with my 4th and 5th graders, but you will all have to wait patiently for that post. Hopefully this week I'll get around to posting it!

I do want to inform you quickly about three pretty awesome things going on right now!

1) $2 Tuesday 4/1/14
For just a few more hours get some great music resources at just $2. Many are marked over half off including my resource! You can click on the image to find all the items on sale.

2) Lindsay's 1,000 TpT Giveaway!
Lindsay recently hit 1,000 followers on Teachers Pay Teachers and she is currently holding a huge giveaway. You could even possibly win 2 of my song files! Lindsay's resources are some of my favorite music resources and I definitely suggest checking out her giveaway by clicking on the image above!

3) MY 300 TpT Followers Giveaway!
I recently hit 300 Teachers Pay Teachers followers, which is just amazing to me. I've only been at this for about 5 months and it is amazing to me to have so much support. I never dreamed that so many people would buy items I create and I'm truly humbled to have so many of you buying, promoting, and cheering on my products! As a thank you, I'm holding a giveaway that ends on Friday (4/4/14). For information on how to enter click the Giveaway picture and follow the directions. (It is really simple, I promise!)

700 Facebook Fans Giveaway!

Wow! I've now made it to 700 Facebook Fans, which means a 20% off sale in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store! This has started and will continue until Tuesday at midnight (EST)!

Along with the sale, I am throwing another giveaway! The winner of this giveaway will get to pick ANY item from my store (no matter the price) as a prize. In order to enter you do HAVE to be a follower of my Facebook Page. (Since the point of this sale is a thank you for my Facebook Fans!) You can enter the giveaway below!
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Back in the Swing of Things...Almost

We started back at school January 2nd after the Holiday Break, but it has taken me until now to finally feel back in the swing of things.

Why? Because after Thursday and Friday we had an arctic wind hit Wisconsin where we experienced down to -65 degrees Fahrenheit at times. It was so cold many buses weren't working and one of my school districts cancelled school for THREE days in a row!

The cold weather definitely has made it difficult to get back to business and focus on the task at hand. This is my 4th year of teaching and I have to say that though it doesn't always get easier with each year, I do feel much more focused and have a clearer idea of what I want to accomplish each year.

This week I'm going to share two things I'm doing in my classroom as part of Steph's 2/4 Tuesday Linky Party:

1) Introducing Low Do using Peas Porridge Hot:
Now that we are back from break and done with concerts it is time to add another note to Music Street. For my 2nd graders the new note was low do. To teach about low do I put together an interactive powerpoint where students reviewed notes they knew and learned about low do.



They even got to learn about the Do Key!

Then for extra practice students used the staff dry erase boards to write the notes on themselves. This was great for me because it allowed me to see how each individual student was doing. It also helped me see if it was a large group that needed the extra practice or just one or two.

You can get the file I used for teaching Low Do in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store HERE.

2) Reviewing Half Notes
I've also been spending some time working on counting half notes. To continue practicing this I have been using Lindsay Jervis's Dashing Through the Snow game (click the picture to buy it yourself).

She has a similar rhythm game for Valentine's Day HERE. My students love this game, but for right now I'm having them play it a little bit different than the way it is described. My 2nd graders just learned half notes, so instead of racing one by one I am having students work in a group. I clap the rhythm and as a group they try to find the answer. If their group gets the correct rhythm after I clap it three times I give EVERY group with the right answer a point. Eventually I will make it more difficult by clapping it less times or making students work individually, but this seems to be a simpler way to make the game work and they still really enjoy it.

I hope you find these tools and resources helpful! :)

Just a quick reminder that I am holding a 100 Teachers Pay Teachers Followers Giveaway, as a celebration of reaching 100 followers on my Teachers Pay Teachers account. For more details on how to enter you can click the picture below:

100 Teachers Pay Teachers Followers

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Quick Giveaway!

Just a quick blog post before I head to bed! Making Music Memories on Facebook has finally reached 50 likes! In honor of this I'm doing a very quick giveaway. I'm giving away the Christmas/Winter Ta & Ti-ti Rhythm Activities Set from my TpT store:



The giveaway is open until Thursday, December 5 at midnight Pacific Time. To enter just like the facebook page about the giveway (posted below):

Post by Making Music Memories.

If you enter and win, but you already have this item, I will allow you to choose another item from my store that is of equal value.