Complete Recorder Resource Kit with Powerpoint

The Complete Recorder Resource Kit
Teacher Guide
By Denise Gagne
Book, accompaniment CD, PowerPoint CD,separate reproducible sheets, flashcards

This is a highly successful first year soprano recorder program. The program includes 35 songs, sequenced carefully so that students become successful sight-readers and recorder players. The kit includes an audio CD and a PowerPoint CD.

There are 5 PowerPoints included:

1. All the songs and composer biographies  (All the music is reformatted to fit the screen. MP3 accompaniments are included.)
2. Theory - 1 The mad minutes and answer keys.
3. Theory - 2 Recorder theory quiz.
4. Theory - 3 All About the Recorder, How to Name Notes, Counting Music, How to Care for the Recorder
5. All the songs are given using Kids Notes notation (all re-formatted to fit the screen).

The PowerPoints are indexed so you can easily jump to any song that you want to practice or to any theory worksheet.  The audio accompaniment tracks are included in the song PowerPoints.

For grades 3-5. 

Note Progression: B, A, G, E, D, high C, high D, F.   

Teacher Guide Contents: To the Teacher, Evaluation, Implementing the Method, The Songs (with chords, Orff accompaniment and some activity ideas).   

Theory Pages: All About the Recorder, How to Care for the Recorder, How Notes are Named, Counting Music, The Time Signature, Recorder Quiz, 5 "Mad Minute" pages, Compose Yourself, Compose Yourself 2, Student Practice Record.   

Songs:

• Just B
• Just A, A & B
• Just G, G & A , B A & G
• Ramble
• Trippin
• Hot Cross Buns
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Side Step
• Skippin
• Au Clair de la Lune
• Go Tell Aunt Rhody
• Rain Rain
• Starlight
• Cuckoo (not on recording)
• Skin and Bones
• Snail Snail
• Doggie Doggie
• Lucy Locket
• Long Legged Sailor
• Closet Key
• Grandma Grunts
• Down by the Station
• Just C
• All Our Notes
• Who's That
• Hush Little Baby
• Note Review
• Old Blue
• Sanctus
• Just D
• Practice All Our Notes
• Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
• Lightly Row
• Rocky Mountain
• Sweetly Sings the Donkey
• Morning
• Oh When the Saints
• Shortnin' Bread
• Frere Jacques
• Button You Must Wander
• New World Symphony
• Jingle Bells
• Good King Wenceslas
• Up on a Housetop
• Ode to Joy
• Jolly Old St. Nicholas (not on recording)
• My Paddle (not on recording)