Note Knacks® is the simple hands-on method for making music literacy accessible to all!
I love it! I love it! Getting 5th graders who don’t want to do anything – but they will use these! Note Knacks have brought some new joy to my class and my teaching!” – Josh Bradford, Ft. Worth ISD, TX
The Note Knacks® method is taught in dozens of school systems, including:
Atlanta Public Schools, GA
Birmingham City Schools, AL
Boston Public Schools, MA
Chatham-Savannah County Public Schools, GA
Clayton County Public Schools, GA
Cypress Fairbanks ISD, TX
Dallas ISD, TX
Decatur City Schools, GA
Denver Public Schools, CO
El Paso ISD, TX
Fort Worth ISD, TX
Hamilton County Schools, TN
Marietta City Schools, GA
Paulding County Schools, GA
Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Schools, NC
Ysleta ISD, TX
….just to name a few!
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Yesterday the boy choir and I played around with the measures they composed a couple of weeks ago. I taped each work to the board in no particular order for us to sing. My goal was for students to think about choice. Both groups were able to switch measures around, but only the first graders […]
Yesterday our boy choir students created rhythms. I did not specify a time signature, so they were able to create any rhythm they wished, as long as two eighth notes and four sixteenths were next to each other. One second grader created a 5/4 rhythm that consisted of 1 half rest, one quarter, 2 eighths, […]
When I taught in a combined first and second grade regular classroom, the head teacher always wrote a “morning message” that was to be read as soon as the students came in the classroom in the morning. This message often included the activities of the day or something special that was going on soon. It […]