Rochelle

Multidisciplinary Music Teacher and Edutainer

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Musics Montage: Rhythm & Harmony in Motion

Tuesdays

4:00pm - 5:00pm

13 Classes

8/26, 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 12/2

Grades K-2

5 students

French American School of Silicon Valley

1522 Lewiston Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, United States
Musics Montage: Rhythm & Harmony in Motion

Thursdays

4:35pm - 5:05pm

13 Classes

8/28, 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4

Grade PK

5 students

French American School of Silicon Valley

1522 Lewiston Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, United States
Musics Montage: Rhythm & Harmony in Motion

Thursdays

4:00pm - 4:30pm

13 Classes

8/28, 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4

Grade PK

8 students

French American School of Silicon Valley

1522 Lewiston Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, United States
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Experiences

Step into a captivating world where imaginations soar and cityscapes come alive. Embark on a creative journey through architecture and urban planning, discovering city design and construction through paper crafts and reading. Create model skyscrapers and vibrant neighborhoods.
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Young maestros embark on an adventure through sound and rhythm. They dive into Step Tunes, Bucket Drumming, and Body Percussion, exploring Singing Styles like Call & Response, Rounds, and Harmonizing. Each session celebrates creativity and music that resonates with joy.
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Explore the enchanting world of "The Loneliest Letters on Alphabet Road" – an engaging educational expedition tailored for Kindergarten to 2nd-grade kids. They'll delve into the wonders of reading, spelling, and language arts intertwined with the joy of music and movement. Children will participate in delightful activities, sing, and play games designed to foster literacy skills.
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Dive into the magical world of music with our "DO-RE-MI" experience! Perfect for young music enthusiasts, this series introduces the captivating sounds of the C-major scale using hands, voices, boomwhackers, bells, handpans, and other percussion instruments. Through joyful activities, they'll read, learn, sing, sign, and play the easiest diatonic scale in music. Children will explore musical notes in a fun, interactive way that builds confidence and coordination. They'll tap out rhythms on bells, sing the beloved DO-RE-MI, and immerse themselves in the delightful world of music, creating beautiful sounds and unforgettable memories. Recommended for K – 3rd grades.
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Embark on a toe-tapping, body-moving adventure where young explorers uncover the magic of music. With simple materials, they'll dive into rhythm, harmony, and sound, channeling their inner musicians. Through instrumental play and vocal expression, imaginations dance in step with newfound rhythms.
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Embark on a harmonious escapade where children explore rhythm and melody, tapping into the joyful heartbeat of music. Through engaging percussion games and lively drum circles, they'll experiment with sounds, developing timing and collaboration in a creative environment.
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Introducing "Sunshine Butterfly and Moonlight Moth" – a beautifully unique education series blending reading, nature science, and the captivating world of insects for Kindergarten and 1st-graders. Encouraging creativity via music, movement and art, this series will nurture a deeper environmental connection in young citizens of the world and budding planet protectors. Spark your child's love for these fascinating creatures and environmental care as they learn and grow week to week with their butterfly and moth puppet friends, Sunshine and Moonlight!
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"Shapes Friends" is a lively, interactive learning experience for Kindergarteners, combining shapes, colors, and numbers with fun and music-based activities. Join Square, Circle, Triangle, Parallelepiped, and friends in engaging games that teach social skills like sharing and following rules. Kids will sing along with the shapes and dive into a world of laughter, learning, and friendship! Sign up for an unforgettable adventure in education and entertainment, where kids learn through play!
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Step into the extraordinary world of Soundscape Music! Kids will explore fascinating musical sounds in our community’s environment. From the rustling of leaves to the rhythm of a babbling brook, they'll discover how everyday noises can become fun, unique, and relaxing melodies. Kids will craft their own instruments from natural materials like sticks, stones, and sand, and come together to form the Soundscape Music – Acoustic Ecology Band, performing musical masterpieces that merge nature and creativity. Recommended for 1st – 5th grades.
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Get ready to dance and make music with Step-Tunes! In this experience, participants will team up to play the piano with their feet on a giant piano board. Imagine stepping on huge keys to create tunes together as a group. They'll have fun making melodies while working on their coordination and teamwork. The excitement of stepping on each note makes playing simple songs a delightful adventure. Every step is a musical discovery. Recommended for 2nd - 4th grades.
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Embark on a musical journey where rhythm, songs, and singing come together for an unforgettable adventure. Each session sparks creativity and joy, immersing participants in various musical genres and traditions from around the globe. Kids will explore the magic of music through hands-on activities, inspiring a lifelong love for melodies. Singing, dancing, and tapping to different beats, they’ll develop a deeper appreciation for rhythm while making new friends and treasured memories. Let the music take you away!
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This engaging series is designed to boost kids' writing and reading skills, particularly around cursive script and longhand writing and penmanship. Through tracing and observing, connecting and looping letters, and many, many fun games and activities, children will be taught to read and write elegantly in cursive while enhancing their dexterity, fine motor skills and hand coordination.
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Immerse in the vibrant world of Marching Bands! This multi-week series explores the history of marching band music, from John Phillip Sousa to classic marching band songs. Children will recognize timeless tunes and master marching steps, building coordination, rhythm, and teamwork skills while enjoying music and movement.
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About Rochelle

Rochelle is an long-time music educator who's been teaching children since 1996, and a Master Teaching Artist in edu-tainment since 1998. After working in the television industry for a decade, her career moved into public affairs and then afterschool programming. With a deep-rooted career in multidisciplinary learning, Rochelle is an experienced and energetic teacher with an emphasis in music education. She's worked in both early childhood programming as well as afterschool settings with school aged children, making her sought-after for orchestrating rocking concerts, invigorating workshops, and dynamic assemblies! General music education, piano, percussion and more are all her jam 🎵 which she delivers through wholly unique, fun, outside-the-box and memorable experiences for kids.

Class reflections

Musics Montage: Rhythm & Harmony in Motion

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October 10, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

Plus one, excellent. No problems and they are memorizing everything. So, that's the good thing. They are actually learning the notes. The Sounds recognizing the music symbols. It's just wonderful, wonderful to say they're doing good.

On 10 9, 2025, which is Thursday, the 4th class in the 430 class. Basically do the same thing, we do the Hello song. We do the name Rhythm chance, we go over code daily rhythms and notes. I tried this thing with them called the Silly Symphony featuring. I guess the Blue Danube waltz Didn't go over so well, because the pigs that I had were two little little squishy toys, were too little for them to squeeze also. We also go over the c major scale and the other songs that we went over at that they remember they remember no problem. The Puppy Song, the own this phone, man, and the monkey song and they they just did a good job.

Musics Montage: Rhythm & Harmony in Motion

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October 10, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

Class one very well at the for p.m. class on the October 9th which was a Thursday. I was very pleased that so many of the kids remembered the kodaly notation charts that I show them all the time and have them try to memorize. And then also they remembered a lot of the musical symbols like the treble clef and the sign and the bass clef. Sign and the staff sign in and accept ra so class one very well, I was very pleased.

Okay, on Thursday, October 9th, for the four clock class, which was the Pre-K class at the French American school. We something we always do the Hello song, and we did the name rhythm-chan. That's something we always do. Teach us Rhythm the code daily and notations, basically learning about notes. Timing and tone, and then we did the c major scale. We actually showed them a chart and we sang it up and down and then we did a couple of songs. I tried out the Silly Symphony on them. That didn't work because the pigs are tools are small and then we did the puppy song own this old man and the monkey song. Long and there everyone did find my fact. I was surprised at how much they remembered about kodaly the notes and the notation. So I did good.

Musics Montage: Rhythm & Harmony in Motion

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October 8, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

Went well Had a few “Uber-Energizer” bunnies… But they calmed down !

10-7-25 4pm Hello call and response song Name rhythm chants Kodaly Notation Review C major scale review Blue Danube/Silly Symphony with squeaky toy pigs Playing C major scale on xylophones Played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on xylophones individually and in unison and audio recorded it for kids to hear play back

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October 8, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

It was a bit challenging today…. All the students were VERY energetic … they calmed a bit down when we played the xylophones..

On 10-7-25…..In the 4 pm class We did the hello song, did the name rhythm game, reviewed the Kodaly notation system from whole note to 16th notes… reviewed the ~C~ scale … tried out the silly symphony “ The Blue Danube Waltz” using squeaky pig toys… (It was funny and fun, however the toy pigs were too small for the children to … squeeze a squeak out of!!!! ). We then played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star… in unison … on Xylophones… and continues to try out 2 other songs on the instruments…

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October 1, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

Class went really well today, they're really enjoyed playing. The Glockenspiel that kind of kept them their attention more than anything else besides actually going over. What kind of notes, they are how much time each of the notes get in the tone of the notes. Everything went well.

For the for class on Tuesday, the 30th of September. What we did was we opened with the Hello song. We did the name chant, we do the kodaly music, symbols music, notes, and the C scale, then I brought out the three different types of xylophones to xylophones and a glockenspiel we learned the C scale. Then what we did is we did learn Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on all the xylophone. Each of the students took turns and then we try to do it together and then I played it for them in one setting. So everything turned out fine.

Musics Montage: Rhythm & Harmony in Motion

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September 26, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

Excellent

We did the hello song,the name chant, Kodaly rhythm notations, sang 4 songs and 1 new MONKEY song…

Musics Montage: Rhythm & Harmony in Motion

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September 26, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

Class went awesome today, they all remembered all the songs and they really love the new song, The Monkey Song. So it's something that we're doing for all the things we're doing are for rhythm purposes class went well,

Okay, this is for the for class. They did such a good job. The first thing we did was The Hello Song basically an introduction song. Then we did the name chance where we used Rhythm to clap our names. The next thing that we did was I let them choose again between a new Ooh, one, which was the monkey and the new monkey song. The Puppy Song, the be song, This old man, were snail and they wanted to do the puppy song again and the This Old Man song and then we went over the new one about the monkey and they liked that a lot and basically that's it.

Musics Montage: Rhythm & Harmony in Motion

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September 24, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

Class went very well.

9-23-25 Due to extreme hot weather all class locations were changed … it took me a few minutes to find my students! We did; Hello Song, Name Rhythms Kodaly Notation Exercise C scale Note recognition Then Each student got a chance to play the C scale on a Glockenspiel and a Xylophone Then we sang the action song TINGALAYO…

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September 21, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

The song, the song the class went very well today, we had a lot of fun laughter and actually learn something. They recognized that all the different notes and the kodaly Rhythm and note patterns and so it turned out to be a very good class.

In this class today. We actually did The Hello Song. The name rhythm song, the kodaly notation and rhythms and note recognition. I gave the class of chance to decide what songs that they wanted to do and it sunk choices. Were the Snail song. The Puppy Song, the Bumblebee song or This Old Man song this class chose the Bumblebee song and the puppy song. And then after class, before class finished, I gave each of them, a music sticker to show my appreciation for them.

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September 20, 2025

French American School of Silicon Valley

Excellent day!

We sang the Hello Song Played the Rhythm Name Game Practiced Kodaly rhythms and note value recognition I gave the class a choice about what 3songs we would work on next The Snail song, Puppy Song, Bumble bee song or This Old Man They chose all 4 , so that is what we did! I gave each child a music sticker to thank them for a job well done.

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