Sessions for the 2017 North Carolina Music Educators Conference:

First Steps in Music: Movement Development in the Early Years
Sunday, Nov. 12 3:00 -3:50pm

During the early learning years, children can acquire musical sensitivities, which will provide them with a lifetime of expressive and accurate singing intuitions. This lively session will present insights and activities that can foster those intuitions in children from three to age nine, through the use of folk songs and games.

First Steps in Music: Movement Development in the Early Years
Sunday, Nov. 12 3:00 -3:50pm

 During the early learning years, children can acquire musical sensitivities, which will provide them with a lifetime of expressive and accurate movement intuitions. This energetic session will present insights and activities that can foster those intuitions in children from birth to age nine, through the use of folk songs and rhymes as well as through movement experiences with classical recordings.

12 Steps to Music Literacy using Conversational Solfege
Monday, Nov. 13 – 8:00-9:20 AM

Through carefully sequenced activities this workshop will address the National Standards while demonstrating how to enable students to joyfully assimilate the content and skills necessary to become musically literate including the acquisition of listening, rhythmic reading, dictation, composition, and improvisation in an intuitive manner. Participants will experience a curriculum that grows out of rhythmic elements that exist in the folk song literature of this country. Each rhythmic element will also be explored in patterns, songs and themes from classical literature.

Being Tunerful, Beatful and Artful for Upper Elementary
Monday, Nov. 13 – 11-11:50 AM

In this session participants will experience movement and vocal activities intended for students in mid to upper elementary school. The use of canons and songtales are presented to further develop good vocal technique through vocal warm-ups, fragment singing, whole songs, and part-singing. Playground games and song-dances are great to further develop beatful skills with fun challenges to coordinate the beat with objects and people.