Bring Blue Jello to Your Recital Receptions

Elizabeth Cunha uses Music Mind Games in her classroom at Stone Ridge School in Bethesda, Maryland with great success. "My students are learning their rhythms, musical symbols and taking dictation so easily now." Recently Freddie* and I visited two of Elizabeth's classes when they were having Blue Jello Parties. The girls brought in various foods to represent the blue jello words. Elizabeth asked them each to collect four beats of foods on their plates. Before they ate, each girl was asked to say her rhythms. What a clever way to bring blue jello words alive for classes or recital receptions. At the bottom of the newsletter is a free download of ideas from Elizabeth.

*Freddie is my dog. Have you seen him on some of the cards to help you know which is the bottom? The girls in Elizabeth's class were very excited to see Freddie and started screaming when Freddie poked his nose in the doorway. "He's a lot bigger than he is on the cards," I heard one girl tell another.

Leslie Katz has an independent studio in Sherman Oaks, California. After her recent concert, Leslie wrote me, "We had some nibbles after the concert. Look in the picture and see what my students were doing with the blue jello word cards. They are labeling the food! It helped that I had celery, pineapple, purple cookies, and macadamia nuts among the dishes."