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5 Little Owls

You and your students will have a hoot with this one! The hooting of an owl is a sound that kids are all familiar with and love to...

Jenny Ferris

Feb 23, 20181 min read

Where's Joseph? He's HAYDN! Surprise!

I'm sure many of you are familiar with Haydn's Symphony No. 94, the "Surprise Symphony" - especially the 2nd movement. If you're not,...

Jenny Ferris

Feb 18, 20183 min read

Peanuts the Elephant

I'd like to introduce you to a Kodaly Crafts regular - Peanuts the Elephant. Peanuts usually makes an appearance in one of my first prep...

Jenny Ferris

Feb 18, 20182 min read

Kodaly Crafts Song Files: Caterpillar crawling round...

This song is a cute little staple of my Junior School teaching. Methodologically speaking, it's great for taa & ti-ti, so & mi,...

Jenny Ferris

Feb 11, 20182 min read

2018 Classroom Reveal

Well, it's that time of year again! A new school year, a new classroom design. I also have the added pleasure of starting work at a new...

Jenny Ferris

Feb 7, 20183 min read

A krash kourse in Kodaly

Something occured to me the other day as a result of a conversation about Kodály. I was talking to a friend of a friend who teaches piano...

Jenny Ferris

Feb 6, 20184 min read

Closet Key

We work a lot on singing voice and solo singing opportunities with younger students (at least I know I do, it's a big focus of my...

Jenny Ferris

Feb 4, 20182 min read

Froggy Went A Courtin'

The school I was working in last year was new to the Kodaly approach and had suffered lots of disruptions to their music program in the...

Jenny Ferris

Jan 26, 20183 min read

Great ways to develop inner hearing

As Kodaly himself famously said, "we should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining...

Jenny Ferris

Jan 20, 20182 min read

5 Cheeky Monkeys

I have a fingerplay for prep students that I'd love to share with you - check out a recording of this fingerplay in the video below: You...

Jenny Ferris

Jan 15, 20181 min read

Freebies!

To celebrate some milestones in growing the number of subscribers to Kodaly Crafts, we're spreading the Kodaly Crafts love a little...

Jenny Ferris

Jan 15, 20181 min read

Bee yourself

One of the best pieces of advice I ever received in my Kodaly training was about the importance of transitions between activities. When...

Jenny Ferris

Jan 14, 20184 min read

Welcome songs

Hello there. Bonjour. Aloha. Ni Hao. "Sup? So many ways to greet people these days! Have you ever thought about how you greet each class...

Jenny Ferris

Jan 14, 20182 min read

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICECREAM!

I'm sure that, unless your ears are lactose intolerant, you are familiar with the chant that goes: This chant is a well-known one, but an...

Jenny Ferris

Jan 9, 20182 min read

Mr. Fuzzy

This is Mr. Fuzzy. Mr. Fuzzy is currently looking a little worse for wear. This is because it is the end of the school year and Mr....

Jenny Ferris

Jan 3, 20181 min read

Son Macaron

Oh, how I love this game! Son Macaron is a beat-passing game where students lay their right hand palm up in the hand of their right-side...

Jenny Ferris

Dec 31, 20171 min read

Rhythm Dictation Wallets

As the school year has wrapped up and the craziness of report-writing season has died down, I am left thinking about assessment and the...

Jenny Ferris

Dec 31, 20172 min read

Spooky puppet makes some not-so-spooky sounds

Getting your young students to discover and develop their singing voice is one of the first (and sometimes one of the hardest!)...

Jenny Ferris

Nov 19, 20172 min read

Hickory Dickory Dock

So in conjunction with my much-loved Mousie puppet (check out a post about her here) I also use this great clock puppet for the nursery...

Jenny Ferris

Nov 8, 20171 min read

Sammy Snail

So I'm going to cheat a little bit here and talk about a puppet that isn't one of my own creations - but it's so cute that I can't help...

Jenny Ferris

Oct 29, 20172 min read