Update 117 World Music Day

World Music Day originated in France in 1982. World Music Day was originally an idea thought of by American musician, Joel Cohen in the 1970s. He worked for a French radio station and wanted live music to be played on the evening of the 21st June to welcome the first day of summer.

The idea wasn’t adopted until 1982 when Jack Lang, a French composer, and Maurice Fleuret, a music journalist, joined France’s Ministry of Culture and encouraged the celebration of music along with amateur and professional musicians. They wanted live music to be available to everybody, no matter what their heritage or background. Alas, the first Fête de la Musique (World Music Day) was born! twinkl.co.il

Thanks Avital for the heads up. I will be looking out for materials that we can use too in the future. In the meantime you can look at these links on Twinkl. https://www.twinkl.co.il/search?q=World+Music+Day+&c=104&ca=2&ct=trainee&r=teacher&sf=1

- We are the World medley. This was performed at the Junior Eurovision in 2023

E-Talent

Well done to all the schools that ran an E-Talent competition this year. The videos that you sent me and the reports of the work and effort you put into the competition was noted and I am sure your pupils are extremely happy that they took part in such a music extravaganza. A huge shout out to the Druze and Circassian Sector that held their own district competition Kudos to Madalale Azaam and her counselors for the amazing job and the delightful ceremony. Well done again to the winners. It was a special event. If you did run a competition and you haven’t shared - Please do and let us know all about it.

Heal the World

I was invited by the American Cultural Center to give a talk about using music in the classroom. The teachers were active participants and I believe enjoyed taking part in the various activities. I created a quiz around the songs of Billy Joel and more specifically - “We didn’t start the fire”

Here is a link to the song. So much history in one song. https://youtu.be/cDPnsTRAvIM

Here is a link to the quiz in Flippity. Feel free to use it.

https://www.flippity.net/qs.php?k=1Uh3nGOBpDbkucanilbElGD1eNUy73dsgXJPDfQ_Cro4

Here is a site with clickable links to learn all about the song - https://genius.com/Billy-Joel-we-didnt-start-the-fire-lyrics

Inspirational Quotes about music

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. Billy Joel

Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Anderson

The Earth Song Cover

“What about all the things that you said we were to gain?” Unbelievable cover of the original song by Michael Jackson.

My happy corner - Smile of the week

I like to find instances that involve music / movement that make me smile.

Boy’s reaction to his gift.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NKjiKF-6OgE

Jeete wants to go there

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H3aULcRfElw?feature=share

Spend 9 minutes watching Richard Goodall the Janitor

- Worth every minute

Girl finds buried treasure

Digital Tool of the Week

OH FLIP!!!

Sad times as we say goodbye to Flip(grid) as we know it. Flip will be a part of Microsoft Teams and we as educators will no longer have access to the amazing Flip product that we have been using for so long. I am on the lookout for other alternatives so if you hear of anything - feel free to drop me a line or a Whatsapp.

I believe that Padlet can fill the void in the meantime.

You will not believe what just popped into my Padlet. One can import from Flip to Padlet

This is revolutionary.

https://padlet.help/l/en/article/e2s0kg37mh-importing-your-flip-discussions-into-padlet

Did you know that you can moderate Padlet posts so that no-one can see the posts until you as the moderator share it. This will certainly come in handy. Here is a video explaining how to moderate

Musical Joke of the Week

It’s getting harder to tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition

Dolly Parton-

If the end of the year was at the beginning of the year we would all have so much more energy for it.

So on that note this is the second last broadcast of the year. Looking forward to the last broadcast at the end of the month and then off for some downtime and recharging of the batteries.

PS.I got a new pair of gloves today, but they’re both ‘lefts,’ which on the one hand is great, but on the other, it’s just not right.

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