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NEW  Piano Discovery
By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 86 Pages
Curriculum/Camp

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Birds of a Feather presents Piano Discovery introduces music and the piano to children ranging from 4 to 5 years old. It is a 5-hour curriculum that can be used as a class or a camp. It also helps teachers evaluate children and advise parents of their child's readiness for lessons. 

Piano Discovery is packed with activities that focus on piano technique, the musical alphabet, ear training, rhythm and the keyboard! It's also LOADS of fun, giving young children a wonderful foundation for music making!


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USS Adagio
By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 237 Pages
Practice Incentive 


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Birds of a Feather presents USS Adagio.  USS Adagio is a practice incentive designed to get your students excited about practicing! Using a cruise theme, we've added a musical twist to reinforce music theory and create loads of excitement in learning!  

Students explore the ship trying to reach nine locations and complete activities.  This incentive includes a game board and all the "extras" needed to run the incentive.  There are also loads of games and decor to complete the year-long theme! 





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Fun-lympics Bundle
By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 415 Pages
Practice Incentive & Camp




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Birds of a Feather presents Musicians in Training and Fun-lympics.  Musicians in Training is a practice incentive designed to get your students excited about practicing! Using sports common to the olympic games, we've added a musical twist to reinforce music theory and create loads of excitement in learning!  This practice incentive also works well as an indoor summer camp!

Fun-lympics is an exciting summer camp that highlights all of the fun of Olympic events while teaching, reinforcing, and drilling music theory. It also emphasizes musicianship traits - Skill, Focus, Knowledge, Endurance & Creativity.

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Fun-lympics
By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 192 Pages
Camp




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Birds of a Feather presents Fun-lympics.  Fun-lympics is an exciting summer camp that highlights all of the fun of Olympic events while teaching, reinforcing, and drilling music theory. It also emphasizes musicianship traits - Skill, Focus, Knowledge, Endurance & Creativity.

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Musicians in Training
By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 223 Pages
Practice Incentive



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Birds of a Feather presents Musicians in Training.  Musicians in Training is a practice incentive designed to get your students excited about practicing! Using sports common to the olympic games, we've added a musical twist to reinforce music theory and create loads of excitement in learning!  This practice incentive also works well as an indoor summer camp!

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Beyond City Limits

By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 279 PagesCamp
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Birds of a Feather presents Beyond City Limits. 
Beyond City Limits invites students to explore life in the big city. Students participate in music games, activities and arts & crafts that focus on six city regions with special activities in each - City Center, Municipal Park, Grand Central Station, Shopping District, Arts & Museums District and City Station. This camp is designed to fill at least 15 hours of fun!

Tonic Tower
By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 124 PagesPractice Incentive
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Birds of a Feather presents Tonic Tower. 
Tonic Tower is a city skyscraper-themed practice incentive designed for a full year of study, although it can be easily adjusted for shorter periods of time. Students "climb" the tower, visiting eight different shops on the way to the top. Shops are self-contained and unique so that activities for each one is entirely different from the others. This music practice incentive allow you complete flexibility to fit your student's needs!

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Beyond City Limits Bundle
By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 403 PageCamp and Practice Incentive
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Birds of a Feather presents Beyond City Limits Bundle!


The Beyond City Limits Bundle includes the following:

- Beyond City Limits Camp
Beyond City Limits invites students to explore life in the big city. Students participate in music games, activities and arts & crafts that focus on six city regions with special activities in each - City Center, Municipal Park, Grand Central Station, Shopping District, Arts & Museums District and City Station. This camp is designed to fill at least 15 hours of fun!

Tonic Tower is a city skyscraper-themed practice incentive designed for a full year of study, although it can be easily adjusted for shorter periods of time. Students "climb" the tower, visiting eight different shops on the way to the top. Shops are self-contained and unique so that activities for each one is entirely different from the others. This music practice incentive allow you complete flexibility to fit your student's needs!

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Jungle Jam

By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 471 PagesCamp

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Birds of a Feather presents Jungle Jam. 
Jungle Jam is a jungle-themed music camp that is sure to have your students excited! The camp includes a trading post, nine jungle animals, loads of music games and activities, a look at the composer John Cage and a jumbo grid that uses your students as game pieces!

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Deep in the Heart of the Jungle
By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 139 PagePractice Incentive
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Birds of a Feather presents Deep in the Heart of the Jungle.  A year-long music practice incentive designed to encourage students to work hard. The jungle theme includes a large labyrinth game board, nine jungle animals collector cards, mazes, puzzles and so much more! Your students will be excited to practice each week!


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Jungle Jam Bundle
By Birds of a Feather

eBook (PDF), 610 PageCamp and Practice Incentive

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Birds of a Feather presents Jungle Jam Bundle!


The Jungle Jam Bundle includes the following:

- The Jungle Jam Camp
Jungle Jam is a jungle-themed music camp that is sure to have your students excited! The camp includes a trading post, nine jungle animals, loads of music games and activities, a look at the composer John Cage and a jumbo grid that uses your students as game pieces!

- Deep in the Heart of the Jungle Practice Incentive.
A year-long music practice incentive designed to encourage students to work hard. The jungle theme includes a large labyrinth game board, nine jungle animals collector cards, mazes, puzzles and so much more! Your students will be excited to practice each week!

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RoadTrip USA!  Road Signs


eBook (PDF), 9 Pages
Practice Incentive Program Supplement


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One of the most requested items!  All the signs you need to use along side the RoadTrip USA! camp resource!  Each sign can be viewed on the blog.   There are a total of 6 signs.  

These can be also used for any travel themed event or as travel decorations around your studio or classroom!

Enjoy!








Marooned on Musicians' Island

eBook (PDF), 36 Pages
Practice Incentive Program



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Encourage your students to practice their music assignments weekly with this fun island-themed practice program.  The program encourages good practice habits and provides a way for teachers to drill various aspects of music knowledge.   In addition, it helps develop musicianship in students by building their skill, knowledge and artistic expression.
This packet includes all the printable material needed to provide students with a fun year of island adventure!!  Students work their way around the island and try to find 3 important items that will help them repair their broken plane and find their way home!  While on the island, they will enjoy all the musical excitement that happens and explore, zip-line, and beat the rhythm of Vivace Volcano!


Mystery on Musicians’ Island 

eBook (PDF), 367 Pages
Island-themed Camp/Program

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Games, Activities & Crafts that Celebrate the Love of Music and the Tropics! Mystery on Musicians’ Island is an island-themed adventure loaded with musical excitement!  There are 32 games, 6 group activities and 5 crafts included as well as information on how to run the program as a summer camp.  This program is packed with printable materials for all the games, activities and crafts as well as instructions for everything. 

But don’t think you are limited to running a camp!  These games, activities and crafts can be used in any classroom or studio separately or together.  This is a wealth of material all set up for you so you can decide whether to use it as one unit or use parts of it.  



Take your students on this fun adventure to the tropics!  Help reinforce musical note identification, rhythm, terminology, intervals and more!

 

Musicians’ Island Bundle

eBook (PDF), 403 Pages
Practice Incentive Program & Island-themed Camp/Program

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The adventures on Musicians’ Island started as a practice incentive.  Mystery on Musicians’ Island was developed to continue the adventure with a summer camp!  Enjoy both of these great programs and SAVE by purchasing them as a bundle!



Give your students an island adventure they won’t forget!








World Adventure!

By Sheryl Welles

eBook (PDF), 274 Pages

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An exploration of our world with a musical twist! Take your students on a world trip they won't forget! There are over 50 games, activities, crafts and science projects in this packet - all divided by continent and country! Each one has the flavor of the country and continent while teaching and reinforcing musical concepts! Use this packet as a resource for your classroom or studio if you are a specific country or continent or run World Adventure! as a camp. There are over 150 pages of resources including information on how to turn all these games and activities into a camp. Super fun!




Music Symbol Sticker Books - Primer Level to Level 2B

eBook (PDF), 9 Pages
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Discounted bundle includes: Primer Level, Level One, Level 2A, and Level 2B

A fun way to encourage your students to learn all the musical concepts introduced by levels. These books correlate with the Piano Adventures series and cover the Primer level, Level 1, 2A & 2B. Each sticker book lists the concepts and symbols introduced by the series level and allows you to "check off" each concept as the student learns it by placing a fun sticker over the box in front. It's a great way to motivate your student to learn the concepts and symbols while also making sure your student has a complete grasp of each one! 

Once you have bought the PDF, you are welcome to make as many copies as needed. I recommend printing them on cardstock and using jump rings to keep them together. As your student moves into a new level, just add the next sticker book to the same jump ring! 

(You can buy these individually below or at a discounted price if bought as a bundle of 4!)  Enjoy!

Music Symbol Sticker Book - PRIMER LEVEL PRIMER LEVEL
eBook (PDF), 2 Pages

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Music Symbol Sticker Book - LEVEL ONE LEVEL ONE
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Music Symbol Sticker Book - LEVEL 2A


LEVEL 2A
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Music Symbol Sticker Book - LEVEL 2B


LEVEL 2B
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Meet the Composers!

eBook (PDF), 35 Pages

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Meet the Composers! provides a wonderful opportunity to introduce elementry students who may have minimal or no musical knowledge to some amazing composers and the art of composing! Designed to be taught in 4-one and a half hour classes, these plans provide the complete format to not only introduce students to some amazing composers, but also to give them the opportunity to create their own compositions through a few basic composing techniques. These plans are perfect for use in an elementary classroom, working with a homeschool class or even using for year-long group lessons in your own music studio. The packet provides class plans, supply lists, and a resource section with materials you will need!

 


RoadTrip USA!

eBook (PDF), 159 Pages

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RoadTrip USA!
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RoadTrip USA! is a week long, 15-hour camp that celebrates the diverse music and composers of the United States. Each day campers “travel” throughout America discovering various styles of music, listening to the music of gifted composers and learning/reviewing music fundamentals. RoadTrip USA! can be run for a full week or can be broken up into 5 separate classes. This packet includes complete daily schedules, theme ideas, detailed plans for supplies, links to resources, pictures, and loads of games and activities to make your road trip a camp to remember!


40 comments:

Unknown said...

I love reading about your piano discovery camp for little guys. I think I could do a great camp like this! BUT (Isn't there always a "but"?) I'm a teacher who follows the directions of others very well, but creativity is not my strong suit. Would you consider selling plans for a pre-piano camp? Like now? In time for summer? Big grin.

I'm considering ordering your Road Trip USA to use with my older students. The part about dancing has me a little anxious though....

Sheryl said...

Hi Robbin,

As it turns out, I am currently working on that very camp, getting it ready for sale. Stay tuned! And by the way...the dance steps aren't easy...! Just simplify the steps and remember...you'll still be better than most of the kids!

Anonymous said...

I'm just curious about how much you charge for these camps in order to cover cost of materials and time? It all sounds wonderful!
Thanks! Christine

Sharesa Larsen said...

I bought the meet the composers camp and am looking for the review questions card for day 4. The document says to look on your resource page but I cannot find them. Maybe I am looking for the wrong thing. Are the review cards for rhythm or on the composers? Thanks!

Sheryl said...

Hi Sharesa,
The Resource Section is the last pages of the packet. The last seven pages are the review questions I believe you are referring to. Let me know if this helps. If you're still having trouble, please send me an email - notablemusicstudio@sbcglobal.net.

Sharesa Larsen said...

Thank-you! I had forgotten that I had only printed out the schedule, so here I am blushing! I am super excited to be offering this camp to my students!

Unknown said...

Sheryl, I am looking for your Piano Discovery camp curriculum, as well as your camp curriculum from last summer. Are these for sale? Would you mind letting me know at maryjov@USA.net? Thx!

Juliet said...

Is there any way to view a few sample pages from the World Adventure book? THanks.

Sheryl said...

Sure, Juliet! Send me your email address and I'll forward a couple to you.

Kathleen said...

Are these lessons easy enough for substitute teachers to follow? How much musical knowledge is needed?

Virginia said...

Hi Sheryl,
I am considering buying the musicians island bundle. Could you send me a couple of pages to look at first? Thank you, virginia123@me.com

Unknown said...

I'm hosting 3 weeks of summer camp this year, and am interested in several of your cummer camp curricula bundles. Could you send me some sample pages of

Meet the Composers (especially interested in looking at sample composition techniques)
Mystery on Musician's Island
World Adventure
and maybe Road Trip USA!

to zhaofamilystudio @ gmail . com (remove spaces) ?

Thanks!

Tish said...

Would you send me a sample of Mystery on Musician's island and Marooned please. I'd love to take a peek before deciding on them. Thanks.
Leticia
crazymom4@gmail.com

Tish said...

If you sent a sample would you please do so again. My gmail crashed this week and I lost everything on it. Thanks. Would love to check it out before the sale ends.
crazymom4@gmail.com

PieceOfCake said...

Any chance you will do the music olympics anytime soon?? I am dying over your fun ideas and would love to purchase this!

Unknown said...

Could I please see a sample of the composer camp? Thanks!

Treesemuller@gmail.com

Unknown said...

I also would love to have a few samples from each of the camp curriculums. I am considering buying all of them.

ksenia.ilinykh@gmail.com

Dianne C. said...

Sheryl, I ordered and had your Road Trip camp last summer and it was a blast! Can you email me any updates you mentioned? Also, since it is the Olympics this year, are you planning to publish this camp? I know many of us are interested in it. Thanks so much!

Lena said...

Where can I find the pre piano camp for little guys mentioned above?

Pam Hall said...

I always love looking at your camps. What an inspiration you are. Do you and others have a favorite camp? I am trying to decide between Road trip USA camp or the Island camp. When looking at the number of pages, Road trip is smaller than your other camps but I bet it is fun. I was trying to see if you had comments from others about their favorite :)

Sheryl said...

Hi Pam,

I have to admit that I love ALL my camps and they were my favorite as I planned each one! RoadTrip USA! is a smaller resource but is still SUPER fun. Mystery on Musicians' Island just has a lot more options, games, etc. that you can choose from. My students LOVED both of them so I know that you can't go wrong with either one. Please let me know if I can help you with anything!

Emily said...

Would you please send me a sample page of all five of your piano camps? Also, I noticed quite a few asking about the music olympics. Is that a camp you offer, too?
eferrell94@gmail.com

Tia said...

Hi! Love the idea of your camps!
Would you mind sending me samples of your mystery on musician's island?
Also, do you have a specific camp recommended for kids who have not had any music instruction? Like an intro camp?
Thanks,
Tia

Tia said...

Sorry, email is tia.m.stout@gmail.com
Thanks!

Pam said...

Do these "camp" ideas have a specific age range/grade level? Are they only for piano students, or can I use these for a general music class camp theme?

Fiona said...

Hi Sheryl :

I am very interested in your camps . Would you mind sending me a sample of all your camps as well? Do they have age group recommendations?

Fiona said...

Sorry I pressed Send before I finished ...Hi Sheryl - I am very interested in your camps . Would you mind sending me a sample of all your camps as well? Do they have age group recommendations and lengths of camps - could they be adapted to a one day camp for example?

Sheryl said...

Fiona,
I'm happy to do that if you provide me with your email address or send me an email directly at: notablemusicstudio@sbcglobal.net.

Fiona said...

Hi Sheryl - is your Olympic camp available?

Sheryl said...

It's in the works Fiona, but is not available yet.

Jennifer said...

Hi Sheryl,
I've been looking at your site several times and each time am intrigued by the camps. Would you be willing to share a page or two or at least more of an overview of the Composer Camp and the Island Camp? My email is malis.mama@gmail.com. Thank you so much!

Unknown said...

What age is the "Road Trip USA" curriculum appropriate for?

Alisha said...

Hi Sheryl,

I purchased your Mystery on Musicians' Island Bundle yesterday. It looks super fun, thank you! I have a couple questions....how long did you have students come each day? Approximately how long do you think the sample camp day 1 would last? Also, to prepare for my upcoming school year, do you have some editable files for your incentive that you could send me? Thanks!! alishahyde@yahoo.com

Unknown said...

Hi Sheryl,
I am considering purchasing Jungle Jam. Could you tell me what level it is and what age it is appropriate for. Also could you send me some samples?
Thanks,
Denise Thompson
Pianodenise@hotmail.com

Unknown said...

Sheryl,
Would you mind singing sample pages of your summer camps? I am particularly interested in concepts covered (note reading, chord, technique, etc) and levels or ages aimed for. Also, do you now have a beginner piano camp?
Thanks,
Leslye Ames
FUMCMusic@aol.com

Anonymous said...

Hello! I wonder if you have an idea of how much would you say you spend in all the requirements for the camps. I'm interested in Road trip USA. How much would I spend for the activities?

Aspiringmindsfw@gmail.com

Sara said...

where do I find the composper keyboad challenge would love to add this to my homeschool music to help learn the terms that go with the composers thank you

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Anonymous said...

Hi Sheryl- I’m going to be teaching music classes for 8 weeks at a general summer day camp for ages 5-15. Which of your camps would you recommend? Jungle Jam looks good but would it be appropriate for the teens? I also like the idea of Road-trip USA and encouraging students to compose their own music… could you send me a few sample pages from your top suggestions? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!
Cathy
MeadowVisionMusic@hotmail.com