David danced before the Lord with all his might...brought up the ark of the Lord with...sound of trumpets. 2 Samuel 6:14-15

The   Nutcracker  Music  Unit 3

Continued from The Nutcracker Music Unit 1 and The Nutcracker Music Unit 2!

Nutcracker Study Guide 2 - The Nutcracker story with pictures, Theatre Etiquette, Nutcracker Mad Lib, Story / Sentence Order, Who’s Who in the Nutcracker, Nutcracker Word Search, Tchaikovsky Biography & Questions, Nutcracker Numbers, Fun Facts about The Nutcracker, What is Dance?, Ballet Vocabulary, Types of Dance, Ballet History, Ballet Positions, Coloring Pages, Ballet Occupations

 Nutcracker Study Guide 3 - Social Studies, Language Arts, Music, Art, Math, Science, Cooking

Nutcracker Study Guide 4 - Lesson Plans touching most core subjects, Writing Prompts, Compare / Contrast Venn Graph, Filling in the Blank, Story Retelling Notebook Page, Mathematics in Dance, Habitat & Climate in snow scene, Simple Machines – Boat & Castle Designs, Draw & Write Page

Ballet Alphabet Book - Full of ballet terms.

The Story of the Nutcracker Ballet by scenes.

History of Nutcrackers Museum

Sleeping Beauty Ballet Unit

Music Teaching Materials I love these!! Christmas theme music games plus several other piano and music theory activities.

*Arm & Feet Positions in Ballet

I’m using these pictures to make a mini book.

(9) Find the Nutcracker Games

*Large Nutcracker to color  Nice for lapbook cover!

*Music Flashcards   These are top quality – the best variety I’ve seen on the net. Contains: Staff Notes, Note Values, Dynamics, Intervals, Key Signatures, Rests, Tempo, & Time Signatures. There are other music downloads, also.

*Music Materials Instruments, Composers, Music Notation Cards, Music Manipulatives

*Instrument Clip Art  

Books to check out:

Tchaikovsky Discovers America  by Esther Kalman

I believe there is a cassette (maybe CD) and a movie video that corolate with the book.

Of Swans, Sugarplums, and Satin Slippers - Ballet Stories for Children by Violette Verdy / Scholastic

Contains the story of the Nutcracker, plus the ballets Firebird, Coppelia, Swan Lake, Giselle, and Sleeping Beauty.

I hope you can use part or whole of this unit with your children and students. I love music and children especially when they are together! This is the first time I have made a unit like this on a blog. For years, all of my teaching materials were hand drawn or copied from teacher resources. Please let me know if you like this, if I should change or add anything, or if there is another music unit I could help create. I eventually hope to freshen all my old lesson plans with lapbook and notebooking materials. When I figure out how to use my new camera, I will try to load pictures of my children's lapbooks!

  God bless you in your musical endeavors!  ~  Pamela 

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