[Menvi-discuss] Magnetic Board With Staves

[Stephanie Pieck]

Rachel,

Doing a Google search for "magnetic board with musical staff and symbols"
brings up multiple results with good ratings and reasonable prices on
Amazon. I didn't spend too much time browsing, but the first one I looked at
was $14.99--don't get spooked by prices of $600 plus ... read a little
further on the page for the actual price of the product!

A company that offers a lot of interesting music-teaching accessories is
Friendship House.

One last idea is to find large sized flashcards in print and Braille them
for yourself. Even regular-sized sets, like the 72-card packs put out by
Alfred Publishing or Bastien, could be used with some way to magnify them
using a CCTV or regular projector.

For a really wacky way to teach the concept of the staff with lines and
spaces, plus the concepts of intervals, I have "built" a staff using large
sheets of paper spaced on the floor. The papers are the lines; the bare
floor indicates spaces. Having kids "step" from line to space or "skip" from
line to line, or "leap" for any interval of a fourth or more can be fun and
is especially good for high-energy kids.

Hope some of these ideas help.

Stephanie Pieck

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From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of
Rachel Grider via Menvi-discuss
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 8:42 PM
To: menvi-discuss at menvi.org
Cc: Rachel Grider
Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Magnetic Board With Staves

Hi, Everyone!

I just finished teaching a week-long group music class to children, my first
time teaching this type of class, and it looks like I will be teaching more
such classes.  I am trying to come up with more efficient ways to teach them
basic music-reading skills.  I have enough vision that I can use a dry-erase
board with staves if I put my face super close, but I don't like doing that
because it looks less professional, gives me a headache, and presents a
danger of me getting ink on my nose-not to mension, my drawings are not the
greatest.  I believe that most dry-erase boards are magnetic, and I am
thinking that if I had some magnets shaped like various musical symbols, I
could teach many concepts much more efficiently and professionally.  Do any
of you know where I can find such objects?

Thank you!

Rachel

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