I like the idea of the combination, although I'm trying to think of a
rhythm/mallet challenge that will go along with my Recorder Karate and Vocal
Football. I use Recorder Karate's philosophy from grades 3-6, and in the
past, have pulled from the method, Denise Gagne's method, and various K-8
songs. (I plan on totally changing the songs this summer)/There are
different songs at each grade level, and kids start over with white the next
year. I don't make them wait from grade to grade to get to achieve black.
That's too daunting, in my viewpoint, and I often have kids who transfer
from school to school in the district, and there is one teacher who does NOT
teach recorder, so I want to make sure they have an obtainable goal. After
all, they aren't expected to carry things from grade to grade in their other
subjects! Each year is new and fresh.
After attending an Orff workshop with Julie Scott (eeks! I think that's her
name. She'll be the new AOSA president), I'm going to revamp my third grade
Recorder Karate a lot to NOT start with BAG, but introduce high C early. She
gave a lot of good tips on assessing. In the past, I kicked like a mule
about changing from BAG, but now, I really see the logic and how it can
work!
Anyway, I usually have a few kids who zip through black belt within two
months. All kids are required, for their assessment in their gradebook, to
achieve at least yellow belt. After black belt, I have Advanced levels, in
which the kids earn beads, and later, "dojo" dollars (my composer bucks).
These hotdog kids help develop my instrumental ensemble, Musica Primaeva.
Hmmm, Mallet soccer? Bars Bunko? Rhythm Rugby? LOL I don't have enough
bulletin boards! The kids LOVE those challenges.

Karen Stafford
-----Original Message-----
From: list@recorderclassroom.com [mailto:list@recorderclassroom.com] On
Behalf Of Juanita Bellavance
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 6:28 AM
To: Recorder_Classroom
Subject: Re: [RECL]Continue Recorder Karate

I made my Recorder Karate program challenging
enough that it took the whole year to get to
purple belt. It will probably take that long
to get from there to black belt, too unless
someone really practices a lot.

Later they will get to play duets, ensembles,
etc since they will be advanced enough for if
they go through all the belts.

Juanita

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Linda Z wrote:

> Hi, Tami,
> I'm trying to figure out what to do, also, but it's with my fourth
graders.
> I think I'll do "class belts" when the class masters a piece. That way the
> piece can have multiple recorder parts, xylophone, drums, etc. I just
don't
> want to take time in class to do testing in fourth grade after we did it
for
> six months in third grade! (Granted it was only part of the period, but I
> seldom have that much interest. I didn't hear anyone complain until the
last
> 2 weeks of school.)
>
> So, I'll be scouring MK8 and Recorder Classroom for ideas of songs as well
> as Orff books...
>
> Linda
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tami Mangusso
> To: list@recorderclassroom.com
> Sent: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:08:06 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [RECL]Continue Recorder Karate
>
>
> I have always done Recorder Karate with just my 4th graders, but this last
> year my 5th graders begged me to continue it. I never did because I just
> didn't take the time to work it out. Since I am on summer break now I am
> thinking of creating a Recorder Karate for my 5th graders. Finding the
> songs won't be the problem. What I am wondering is, do I have them finish
> the belts they didn't get in 4th grade and then create 7 or 8 degrees of
> black belt or should I create a whole new list of songs and create new
> colors. I am leaning towards creating new songs with new colored belts.
> That way I don't have to hear the same old songs with two grade levels.
> Also with the Recorder Classroom magazine, there are some great songs that
> would work well for Recorder Karate. I would just pick so many measures
for
> them to play from a song (E.g. I would have them play on of the
variations
> that "B Cool" has (RC vol 1. No. 1) or play measure 7-19 from "Zippy Toad,
> Waders of the Lost Park" recorder 2 part).
>
> How would you do it?
>
> Tami Mangusso
> Aurora, Colorado
>
>
>
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