Creative Cats’ Musical Adventure: The Secret of Emoh

By Sean Winburn and Diane M. Dowda M.S.

What Creative Cats Musical Adventure Can Do:

Teach basic music concepts.
Stimulate activity and fun.
Tap into the creative well-spring.
Provide the necessary skills to be able to read, sing and play melodies on the piano keyboard
Promote good character
Provide a creative channel for self- expression through color, composing and performance
Encourage reading and learning fun!

What is Creative Cats Musical Adventure?
It is a two book music adventure series that is a teaching tool used to introduce abstract music concepts in a concrete form. It allows the child to interact with fictitious characters that have a unique story. It captivates the imagination of the young child while immersing him or her in music. Creative Cats are not to judge but to encourage learning and pass on that knowledge through various stimuli. Creative Cats promote a good music foundation, good character, peace and harmony and love for The Arts!

The Secret of Emoh
The Creative Cats have been given a secret to keep while on Emoh. They have been asked by the old wise one Atanos, to pass the secret on to a worthy child capable of breaking the music code. Classy Cat carries this secret in the strand of beads she wears. Come! Our Music Adventure Waits!

The Secret Revealed
The Creative Cats mission in book one was to find a worthy child to pass on The Secret of Emoh. Now that the child has been found and was able to break the music code, the Secret is Revealed. Know-All explains to the child that back on Emoh, they are faced with many challenges. Now, more and more melodies were needed to keep the Drocsid out. It is with the assistance of Prahs musical abilities, that the most amazing event occurred

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9781496932655

Sean Winburn

Gail Moss, M.S.Ed., M.Ed., graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in special education. She has been in the field of education for over forty-five years, specializing in working with children who have learning and behavioral problems. Her experiences include working in a clinical setting in Chicago, at the University of Arizona as Supervisor of Student Teachers, and in public schools in Tucson, Arizona, where she was a Learning Disabilities Specialist for over thirty years. Throughout her career as a teacher, Miss Moss always emphasized how important reading is, and she passed her love of reading to her son, who is in medical school at the University of Oklahoma.

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2017 by Diane M. Dowda, M.S. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse    04/04/2018

ISBN: 978-1-4969-3264-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-3265-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014914350

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DEDICATION

For my husband John,

my children Peter, Sue-Lynn,

and her husband, Nathan.

Thank you for believing in my dream

and giving me the support I needed to

complete this long-awaited book.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Letters to Parent/Teacher

Week One: Introduction

Know-All Cat Introduces the Creative Cats and Their Story

Learn the Creative Cats’ Theme Song

Let’s Meet the Creative Cats

Week Two: Know-All Cat

Know-All Cat’s Picture Page to Color

Know-All Cat’s Song (Read, sing, and play)

Picture: Man and Nature

I Like Music

Picture: People from Long Ago

Rhythm is the Beat

Melody is the Tune

Week Three: Classy Cat

Classy Cat’s Picture Page to Color

Classy Cat’s Song (Read, sing, and play)

Notes, Rests, and Staff

Treble Clef, Right Hand, Ledger Lines, Whole Rest, and Half Rest

Measures, Time Signature, and Pick up Beat

Time Signature with Rhythm Patterns

Double Bar Line and Repeats

Body Percussion Word Patterns

Review: Musical Symbols and Terms Matching Game

Activity 1: Guessing Game, Who Am I? Draw Me

Activity 2: Guessing Game, What Am I? Draw Me

Week Four: Sunlight Cat

Sunlight Cat’s Picture Page to Color

Sunlight Cat’s Song (Read, sing, and play)

Staff Song

Musical Sounds Song

Note Song

Activity 3: Draw Notes and Label Their Values

Activity 4: Draw Rests and Label Their Values

Week Five: Rainbow Cat

Rainbow Cat’s Picture Page to Color

Rainbow Cat’s Song (Read, sing, and play)

Whole Note Song

Half Note Song

Activity 5: How to Draw Notes and Rests

Activity 6: How to Draw a Staff

Picture: Daydream Thinking of Activities

Week Six: Playful Cat

Playful Cat’s Picture Page to Color

Playful Cat’s Song (Read, sing, and play)

Quarter Note Song

Eighth Note Song

Let’s Review Musical Words: notes and staff

Let’s Review Musical Words: rests and staff

Activity 7: Writing Music in a Staff, Part 1

Activity 8: Writing Music in a Staff, Part 2

Week Seven: Daydream Cat

Daydream Cat’s Picture Page to Color

Daydream Cat’s Song (Read, sing, and play)

Drawing Games: Draw That Note 1-4

Activity 9: Measures and Bar Lines

Activity 10: How to Draw a Treble Clef

Week Eight: So Sad Cat

So-Sad Cat’s Picture Page to Color

So-Sad Cat’s Song (Read, sing, and play)

A Rest Song

Whole Rest Song

Activity 11: Let’s Trace the Right Hand

Activity 12: Writing Time Signatures

Activity 13: Strong and Weak Beats in Time Signatures

Activity 13: So-Sad’s Strong and Weak Beats

Week

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