Games+&+Websites

**Cool __MUSIC GAMES & websites__: **

Dallas Symphony Orchestra's kid's site: [|www.dsokids.com]
 * This is a great place to learn more about composers, play cool music games, listen to instruments, and look up at-home activites.
 * Ms. Lammers loves playing Beethoven's Baseball and listening to composers music on this website. It's also great for printing out a page of blank staff paper to compose your own ideas (click on "listen" then "music theory" to find blank staff paper).

Classics for Kids: [|www.classicsforkids.com]
 * This is an incredible website loaded with fun classical music.
 * Ms. Lammers loves looking up her favorite composers and then listening to past shows about them. The stories are great!
 * Oh, yeah............there are some really cool MUSIC GAMES on this website! Ms. Lammers highly reccomends the NOTE NAME GAME and COMPOSE YOUR OWN MUSIC.

Music K-8 KID TUNES: [|www.MusicK8Kids.com]
 * Many of your favorite songs from our concerts & classroom activities can be found on this website.
 * Here parents can create an allowance and kids can download their own (legal) copy of a favorite song for just 99¢ each.
 * Some of Ms. Lammers' favorites are: "Forte-Piano," "Ode to the Treble Clef," "Presto-Largo," "Every Good Boy Does Fine," "Rap of the States," "Rap of the Solar System," "Down at the Beach," "The Water Cycle," and "They're Just Bugs."

Making Music Fun: __[|www.makingmusicfun.net]__
 * info about composers, instruments, lessons, wordsearches, stuff to print out, AND MY FAVORITE: [|Eek! Shark! Note Name Game]

Music Tech Teacher: []
 * great games, quizzes, and more! Thanks to Ms. K. Garrett, Music Tech Teacher - music teacher at Central Park in Birmingham, AL.

Morton Subotnick's Creating Music: [|www.creatingmusic.com]
 * Ms. Lammers reccomends the "block games" found under "Hearing Music".

Joe Reilly's website: [|www.joereilly.org]
 * You've probably heard about this Ann Arbor singer/songwriter. We loved having him perform here at Sutton Elementary in May 2009! Wow!
 * Thanks to funds from the Sutton P.T.O., he's scheduled to perform for us again in April 2010. What a great way to celebrate Earth Day!
 * We integrate lots of his environmental and science-minded music in class.
 * This would be the place to go to buy his CD "Children of the Earth," or to order his new CD (just released in the fall of 2009).

MENC - The National Association for Music Education: [|www.menc.org]
 * Their mission is to advance music education by encouraging the study and making of music by all. Look here for basic info & links about music education and advocacy programs including SupportMusic.com
 * Great resources for people who believe in music education!