Distance Learning Lesson 17-FREE for two hours!

If you haven't gotten started preparing for the possibility of distance learning sight singing in your choral music classroom next year, between now and June 30th is a great time to start that journey because there is free stuff offered today, and great discounts on everything we have created so far as we work to modify S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for the new world we all face.  

Time is limited on these offers.

Distance Learning Lesson 17-SKIPS-Part 2! is released and will be free until 11:00 AM EST Friday, June 26.  Then, it will be $5 for a few days more.  

Distance Learning Version Lesson 16 will remain $5 until Tuesday, June 30 at 6 PM.

Distance Learning Bundle #3 which includes Lessons 11-15 is $29 until June 30 at 6 PM. Then, the pricing will be $49 for a period of time until we continue to complete the distance learning versions of the program.  

If you haven't already purchased the other bundles or individual lessons, the other two distance learning versions of the program will also include a special price until 6 PM, June 30.  They will be $29 until that time.  

Bundle #1-Lesson 1-5 is here.

Bundle #2-Lessons 6-10 is here.

More Distance Learning lessons of the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for beginners will be released throughout the next several weeks!  To ensure that you don't miss any of the releases, email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.  

Distance Learning Lesson 16 FREE two hours!

Distance Learning Version Lesson 16-SKIPS! is ready today!  It will be free for 2 hours.  Then, it will be $5 for a few days.

We are working hard to prepare you for what possibly lies ahead as we face the unknown in our choral music classrooms in the coming school year!  More lessons are forthcoming!  If you want to make sure you don't miss any releases, email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.  

Distance Learning Version Lesson 15 and 3rd Distance Bundle RELEASED!

If you haven't gotten started preparing for the possibility of distance learning sight singing in your choral music classroom next year, this is a great day to start that journey because there is free stuff offered today, and great discounts on everything we have created so far as we work to modify S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for the new world we all face.  

Time is limited on these offers.

Distance Learning Version Lesson 15 is released and will be free until 11:30 AM EST Monday, June 22.  Then, it will be $5 for a few days more.  

Distance Learning Bundle #3 which includes Lessons 11-15 is released.  A special introductory pricing offer of $29 is available until 6  PM EST Monday, June  22.  Then, the pricing will be $49 for a period of time until we continue to complete the distance learning versions of the program.  

If you haven't already purchased the other bundles or individual lessons, the other two distance learning versions of the program will also include a special price for today until 6 PM.  They will be $29 until that time.  

Bundle #1-Lesson 1-5 is here.

Bundle #2-Lessons 6-10 is here.

More Distance Learning lessons of the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for beginners will be released throughout the next several weeks!  To ensure that you don't miss any of the releases, email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.  

Distance Learning Version-Lesson 14-The Secret Code-RELEASED!

Distance Learning Version of Lesson 14-The Secret Code is released!

It will be free until 10:30 AM EST.  Then, it will be $5 for a few days.

Also, today, until 5 PM EST, the two bundles that we have released, normally $49 each, will be $29 each.  

Bundle #1-Lesson 1-5 is here.

Bundle #2-Lessons 6-10 is here.

More Distance Learning lessons of the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for beginners will be released throughout the next several weeks!  To ensure that you don't miss any of the releases, email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.  

Distance Learning Version Lesson 13 S-Cubed Sight Singing Program is RELEASED!

Distance Version Lesson 13-Patterns and Intervals Part TWO of the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program is released!   It will be free for 2 hours, and then it will be $5 for a few days.

 

This curriculum is cumulative.

 

Before you download or purchase Lesson 13, you should purchase Distance Version Lesson 12, Distance Version Lesson 11, Distance Learning Bundle #2 which contains Lessons 6-10, and Distance Learning Bundle #1 which contains Lesson 1-5. 

 

More distance learning versions of the lessons will be released over the coming days and weeks.  To make sure you don’t miss any releases, please email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write “Subscribe” in the subject line. 

Distance Version Lesson 12 S-Cubed is Released!

Today, we release Distance Learning Version Lesson 12-Patterns and Intervals-S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners.  It will be free until 5:30 PM EST.  Then, it will be $5 for a few days.   

This program is cumulative. 

Before downloading this lesson, you should purchase Lesson 11, Distance Bundle #2 which includes Lesson 6-10 and Distance Learning Version Bundle #1 which includes Lessons 1-5.  

The individual lessons are also available only in my TpT Store if you've missed a few of them as we have released them.  

More individual lesson releases are coming over the days and weeks ahead as we work to prepare for whatever lies ahead in our chorus classrooms.  

Distance Version Lesson 11 is released!

Distance Learning Version Lesson 11 of S-Cubed Sight Singing Program is RELEASED!  It will be free for two hours today, and then it will be $5 for a few days.

If you haven't already downloaded or purchased Lessons 1-10, I have them packaged in two bundles at $49 each.  Today, for two hours, they will be $39 each.  

Distance Version Lessons 6-10 Bundle for $39 for two hours.

Distance Version Lessons 1-5 - $39 for two hours.

If you just need the distance versions of the individual lessons, they are all available individually only in my TpT Store.  

Distance Version Lesson 10 PLUS Latest BUNDLE-More Releases to help you!

AND

BUNDLE #2-More economical than individual purchases!

Distance Learning Lesson 10 will be free for 2 hours today only, then, it will be $5 for a few days.

The NEW BUNDLE which includes Distance Versions Lessons 6-10 of the Distance Version of S-Cubed will be $29 for 2 hours, and then it will be $49 for a short introductory period this month.

Here is the product description-

This is part of the Distance Learning Version of S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners.

This program is cumulative. You should purchase Bundle #1-Lessons 1-5 and Distance Learning Lesson 6 and Distance Learning Lesson 7-Gettin' 'em skippin' and Keepin' 'em steady and Distance Lesson 8-Keepin' 'em steady part TWO and Distance Learning Lesson 9-Preparation before you purchase this lesson. If you've missed the releases of Lessons 6-10, the most economical purchase would be to buy that as a bundle.

These guided video lessons are a great resource for our students who are distance learners.  Distance learning with Mr. C! follows a modified version of Music In the Middle with Mr. D! S-Cubed! Sight Singing Program for Beginners. In the event that your daily routines are disrupted, students are encouraged to continue learning at their own pace from home. 

Mario Contreras, who leads the Distance Learning sessions in S-Cubed, aka “Mr. C.”, has been a middle school choir director for 9 years.  He has used S-Cubed! to build strong foundations with his choirs for many years and has seen and heard positive feedback from his students.

In light of world events that have led to an increase in Distance Learning, Mr. C has created student-friendly video instruction of S-Cubed!   He has modified the original product to fit the needs of our distance learners.

This product fosters continued music education at home, and would benefit students who require extra learning accommodations in choir.  Mr. C has also added suggestions for assessing a student's mastery within the documents he has created. 

Although this is not a replacement for a hands-on learning experience in a traditional choral setting, this will help build and maintain a strong foundation in individual music literacy and choral techniques for our young musicians.  

• Guided video instruction from a real middle school choir director
• Follows a modified version of S-Cubed level 1 
• Continued music education at home/ remote leaning 
• Introducing/reinforcing new music knowledge and skills
• Suggested Assessments of Mastery

Choir Teacher Virtual Cocktail Hour!

Some of us have been out of school for a few weeks.  Some of us are still in school.  Some of us finish school this week.

But, regardless...after all that we've been through over the last 3 months, it's time to drink together.  😆

We've pivoted.  

Some of us have dealt with pivoting in our jobs while having our own children at home instead of at school.  

Some of us have spouses who've lost their jobs.

Some of us are grieving the temporary losses we've suffered and are suffering...and many of us have concerns about what our classrooms will look like next school year.  

States are beginning to release information and guidelines.  Information is power.  It helps us to plan instead of panic.

So...

Let's meet together on ZOOM on Friday at 5 PM EST (Some of your non-east coast people will definitely be considered day-drinkers, but we promise not to judge...It's always 5 o'clock somewhere, right?).  Have your favorite beverage in hand and let's have a dialogue about what we are hearing from our leaders, what we are planning and how we are coping.  

Here is the ZOOM information:

Dale Duncan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Virtual Choir Teacher Cocktail Hour

Time: Jun 12, 2020 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

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Mr. D

Creator of the S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners

Distance Learning Lesson 9 is RELEASED!

We continue our summer journey releasing the Distance Versions of S-Cubed Sight Singing Program!  Today, we are releasing Lesson 9-Preparation

We are following the same system we have followed with each lesson release:  The lessons will be free for 2 hours.  Then, each individual lesson will be $5 for a few days.  Then, every "fifth" lesson, we will bundle the lessons so you can buy them all at once.   We want and need your feedback on the lessons, so please email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com if you have any ideas about how to improve them or to let us know about the things you LIKE so we keep them as we continue to release them.   If you are loving what you are receiving, please go to TpT and leave a 5 star review with comments on the various lessons you are downloading for free or purchasing at this time.  

If you don't want to miss any future releases, email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line.  

This is the production description:

This is part of the Distance Learning Version of S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners.

This program is cumulative. You should purchase Bundle #1-Lessons 1-5 and Distance Learning Lesson 6 and Distance Learning Lesson 7-Gettin' 'em skippin' and Keepin' 'em steady and Distance Lesson 8-Keepin' 'em steady part TWO before you purchase this lesson.

These guided video lessons are a great resource for our students who are distance learners.  Distance learning with Mr. C! follows a modified version of Music In the Middle with Mr. D! S-Cubed! Sight Singing Program for Beginners. In the event that your daily routines are disrupted, students are encouraged to continue learning at their own pace from home. 

Mario Contreras, who leads the Distance Learning sessions in S-Cubed, aka “Mr. C.”, has been a middle school choir director for 9 years.  He has used S-Cubed! to build strong foundations with his choirs for many years and has seen and heard positive feedback from his students.

In light of world events that have led to an increase in Distance Learning, Mr. C has created student-friendly video instruction of S-Cubed!   He has modified the original product to fit the needs of our distance learners.

This product fosters continued music education at home, and would benefit students who require extra learning accommodations in choir.  Mr. C has also added suggestions for assessing a student's mastery within the documents he has created. 

Although this is not a replacement for a hands-on learning experience in a traditional choral setting, this will help build and maintain a strong foundation in individual music literacy and choral techniques for our young musicians.  

• Guided video instruction from a real middle school choir director
• Follows a modified version of S-Cubed level 1 
• Continued music education at home/ remote leaning 
• Introducing/reinforcing new music knowledge and skills
• Suggested Assessments of Mastery 

Lesson 10 is coming soon!

Lesson 7-S-Cubed Sight Singing Distance Learning is RELEASED!

Here it is!   Lesson 7 of Distance Version of S-Cubed Sight Singing Program!  It is free until 4 PM EST June 4, 2020.  After that, it will be $5 for one day, so go and get it during our test period.

In this lesson, for the first time, we address RHYTHM and we start to get the students comfortable with SKIPPING...just like in the original version of the program.

Get ready for the possibility of Distance Learning Days by purchasing this bundle of the distance learning versions of Lessons 1-5 and purchase Lesson 6-Chaos so you have weeks of lessons ready for any virtual teaching days that might lie ahead.  

We will all sing in the group setting again in the future, but until we can, we must keep teaching our students to become literate musicians, and that is what the Distance Learning Version of S-Cubed Sight Singing Program for Beginners is designed to do!

Make sure you've subscribed to my email list so you never miss a notice about the latest release of the individual lessons.  Send me an email at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.  We are releasing one lesson at a time over the next several weeks and we will bundle them together in groups of 5 lessons until we are finished with the entire Distance Version of S-Cubed.  

If you have any feedback about each new lesson, please email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write "FEEDBACK" in the subject line.  

This is some feedback I just got today from a long-time user of S-Cubed:

Deanne C.

June 4, 2020

Extremely satisfied

I have been using your program for three years. For the first 10 years of my teaching career, I taught only band 4th-8th. I was very success in my previous district teaching band and had a great program that I had rebuild. When I moved districts to be closer to home, my new teaching assignment was both 7th-8th band and choir. My first year at my new school was a mess. It was like my first year teaching all over again. In this first year at my new school, the other elective teacher (computer) saw me struggling and did a search on TPT for choir material and found your program. That first year, I incorporated the forbidden pattern and kids loved it! That summer I purchased the whole program and it just took off from there. Moving forward, I have been using both levels for two years and have seen amazing progress with my students. This group of 8th graders loved the S-cubed program and are so smart. While teaching Level 2 this year, I would remind this group of students that they were learning theory and sight reading music like I had to in my undergrad years of COLLEGE! The other day, I received this email from one of my 8th grade choir students who got accepted into the high school's madrigals ensemble as the only freshmen. The second freshmen to be accepted in 20 years. My student stated in an email, " Thank you for teaching me sight reading. I wouldn't have made Madrigals without you providing that for me!" I Thank you Dale for creating this program. It truly save my career and made me a better teacher for both my choir and band students. Keep doing amazing work! Thankful, Deanne Cedar

Lesson 6-CHAOS-Distance Learning-Released!

Lesson 6-Chaos-DISTANCE LEARNING VERSION of S-Cubed Sight Singing Program is RELEASED!

Click here!

It will be FREE for two hours until 5:30 PM EST today (Wednesday, June 3).  Then, for a day or two, it will be $5 as we test it.  Take advantage of the freebie and the low pricing.  Send us feedback at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com if you have any to offer.  Write FEEDBACK LESSON 6 in the subject line.  We want to make this as good as we can for the people who are purchasing the distance learning version.  

Subscribe to my email list to make sure you don't miss future releases!  Email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com.  Write "Subscribe" in the subject line.  We will be releasing one lesson at a time throughout June and early July and the bundling them.  

The First S-Cubed DISTANCE LEARNING BUNDLE available on TpT! Lessons 1 through 5

We've been working HARD!  

Our first S-Cubed Sight Singing Program DISTANCE BUNDLE is ready for purchase.   For the month of June it will be priced at $49.  It contains Lessons 1-5 of the program translated into a distance learning format by Mr. C, Mario Contreras, using all of Mr. D's S-Cubed Sight Singing techniques.

If you purchase this bundle, you will have nearly a month of "ready to use" distance learning lessons focused on teaching the S-Cubed techniques for learning to sight sing.  These are great for grades 4 through your beginning high school choirs!  You can upload them directly into the Google Classroom or other digital program and your students can follow along and learn to sight sing even when you are not directly in front of them in the classroom.  

Read the product descriptions of the original S-Cubed program to make sure you know what this program is all about.  There are links within each description to take you through every single lesson of the S-Cubed program so you know exactly what you are getting and what your students will be learning.   

Read this production description of the new Distance Version.  

We will be releasing more lessons over the rest of June...one lesson at a time.  My email subscribers and social media followers will get notified the moment of release.  I usually offer the lessons FREE for one or two hours, and then, for a couple of weeks, we will price each individual at $5 per lesson.  Once the lessons are "bundled" pricing will change for the individual lessons and the bundle for lessons 6-10 will be offered.   We will also do occasional ZOOMS to share more information and to get feedback.  

Email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write "Subscribe" in the subject line so you won't miss any of the free/inexpensive opening pricing offers for this new DISTANCE VERSION of S-Cubed.  Don't depend on social media notices!  Sometimes they end up at the bottom of your feed.  To keep that from happening, if you see one of my posts about a new release, tag someone, like the post, share it, or comment on it!  That way, more people will see the post and have the chance to get the free lessons and reduced price lessons!