Comments on: Steps to Prep the Recorder https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/ An Online Oasis for Movement & Music Educators Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:27:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Sarah McCoy https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-24543 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:27:24 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-24543 I’m teaching recorder for the first time in 11 years, to students who have never had a chance to play them because of COVID. Thank you for the fresh new ideas for our preparation period! We practiced the chicken, bunny, and unicorn finger positions on paper plates held in each hand for “balance” while the students “skated” around the music room on more cheapo paper plates. I played “Skating” from Charlie Brown Christmas and whenever I rang a bell, they had to freeze and look my way while I called out the next finger position for their hands. They loved it AND they are practicing without really knowing it!

]]> By: Stephanie https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-24531 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 06:58:32 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-24531 Love, love, love, thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for recorder. Let’s all rediscover recorder playing again together!

]]> By: Stephanie https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-24530 Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:09:21 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-24530 This is so great! Thanks Kate for sharing your method on preparing students for the recorder! I am finding it really helpful!

]]> By: Kathryn C https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-24529 Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:08:39 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-24529 Kate Bright’s ideas and techniques for readying kids for the recorder are GENIUS. I will totally be using them in my classes! Many thanks!!

]]> By: Elaine https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-23163 Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:17:49 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-23163 I’ve been teaching for over 30 years and this article gave me so many great ideas to try this year! I pray I am allowed to teach recorders during the pandemic. Thank you for sharing!

]]> By: Sabrina https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-22761 Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:55:16 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-22761 I am not a teacher, but I am a student and I searched “recorder playing for beginners”
and this really helps me understand!!!!!

]]> By: Jessica Bagnall https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-21830 Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:54:29 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-21830 Kate-you have got me excited to start recorder! Thank you!

]]> By: Marianna https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-21266 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:47:21 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-21266 In reply to Eric Taylor.

Me too!

]]> By: Debra Moses https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-21072 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:59:22 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-21072 Love the scarf dance – a big hit!
Chicken Bunny Unicorn very helpful. They really like it, and practiced it between music classes.

One class insisted on saying “Rooster” Bunny Unicorn. (I like the sound of chicken better, but I have to admit it does look like a rooster!)

]]> By: Lee Ann https://teachingwithorff.com/steps-to-prep-the-recorder/#comment-21067 Tue, 02 Oct 2018 01:48:30 +0000 https://teachingwithorff.com/?p=2912#comment-21067 Wonderful ideas! I will be using some ideas as we wait for the arrival of our recorders.. At first I thought you were adding beads to a necklace,
Thanks SO Much!

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