Classroom and Community Songwriting Sessions

Snap-Tunes Classroom: A stress-free way to help elementary school teachers enhance the curriculum with a creative experience that comes right into the classroom! Over three engaging sessions, your class will brainstorm and create their very own ORIGINAL SONG through collaboration, engagement with their learning, and the harnessing of their amazing creative minds!

Snap-Tunes Online: Due to COVID-19, there is now a new option for the songwriting sessions! Help your students easily engage with music, literacy, and creativity through live or pre-recorded online sessions. Older students can engage in the process live through a district-approved video conferencing app (MS Teams, Zoom, YouTube Live, etc), while younger students can watch custom-made videos and interact through email. 

***NEW!!***
​Snap-Tunes Online for the Community: ​Sessions are now being offered to families and groups outside of school! Sign up and join in for a fun and lively songwriting experience that is sure to warm your heart and leave you smiling! For anyone from toddlers to grandparents! 

All sessions are led by award-winning musician and performer, Laura Koch. 

Find out more about Snap-Tunes Online: CLICK HERE.

What's it all about?

Developed through her artist residency at Langley Fine Arts School, Laura Koch, a professional musician who leads and writes for the band, The Kwerks, created Snap-Tunes - an engaging and energetic creative experience for your students that takes their learning to a deeper level. Children are challenged to listen and feel, move and express, brainstorm and collaborate, as they work together to craft their very own original class song based on the topic of your choice. Students beam with pride, parents rave, and teachers can't get enough!  

​The song will be recorded in class and delivered as an MP3 to your inbox!

What's your School Anthem?

Remember way back when schools had their own song? Sung at school assemblies, sporting events, or played during the morning announcements, school anthems have all but disappeared but are a great way to boost morale and school spirit, create a sense of unity, and build a sense of school pride.

​Whether working with music teachers, classroom teachers, or simply the students themselves, Laura can help your students to craft a School Anthem that can be sung with pride for years to come!

Making life easier for teachers.

Snap-Tunes is a program that was designed with teachers' needs in mind. We know you want the very best for your students, to see them thrive and grow, and we know you work hard to make that happen. Because of this, the program is designed to fit seamlessly into the school day, coming right to the classroom. No prep required, no special space needed. Laura will walk your class through the different elements of songwriting in an engaging, relational, and collaborative way, piecing a song together step by step, until it's complete and recorded. Students love "Ms. Laura", and parents love hearing their children's amazing work!

Working with your ideas.

Want a School Anthem to sing at assemblies? Want to have your students write a song about a theme or particular virtue? Want a student-written song for your school concert? It's possible!

Whether you're a PAC member looking for inspiring and engaging activities for your school, an administrator who's looking to build some school spirit, a music teacher who is looking for something a little different, or a classroom teacher who is looking to bring music into the class, Laura is flexible and collaborative, and can specialize her sessions for your needs. 

Working with the curriculum.

Snap-Tunes is designed fit right into the empty spaces in your curriculum plans, and enhance the work you're already doing. Rather than an "add on" program, this is one that will lessen your load as students engage with several different areas of the curriculum at once. Talk to Laura about what you're wanting to fit in, and see where Snap-Tunes can fulfill your needs. It's a win-win! 

A Snap-Tunes story from a grade 2 music class: 
"The students were told that their song topic would be the "water cycle", and while they initially didn't seem enthusiastic about the idea, with a little coaxing and coaching, the kids and I came up with the brilliant idea of personifying a droplet of water. Not only that, but this class was a wiggly one, and so what better than to write not a song, but a RAP! Poof! Out poured a great piece about a frustrated droplet who just wanted to chill in the lake, but knew he had to be evaporated up to into a cloud for a while before dropping back down as rain. The children came alive and were so happy about their rap!"

What are teachers and parents saying?

WOW is a word that comes to mind when I think about our class experience with Laura and creating our own class song. I teach grade three and we created a song about kindness. We even sang it with Laura at our school assembly! My students loved Laura and connected with her right away. She was positive, encouraging and made each student feel special. She definitely knocked our socks off!! I will definitely be having her return next year!  

- Grade 3 teacher
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Gr 1/2 choir at Langley Fine Arts - practicing their very own song for the spring show!
My daughter has loved the songwriting workshops with Laura. She is so excited about the song that she helped write. She has excitedly recounted the details of their songwriting sessions and how all the kids had a role to play. She can't wait for the big reveal at their spring concert. Thank you, Laura, for empowering our kids and showing them that they are capable of great things!
                       
- Parent of a grade 1 student 
Laura is a joy to work with. She is a talented musician and songwriter who understands the creative nature of the children and the process by which melodies and music are made.
- Primary music teacher 
For weeks our 7 year old constantly hummed under his breath. Every time we asked him what he was singing, he immediately clammed up and refused to talk about it. Eventually he cracked, "Mom, it's a surprise, you'll see when you come to my show". The surprise was worth the wait. The grade 1 & 2 classes of Langley Fine Arts worked with Laura Koch, of The Kwerks, to create an original song entitled The Northern Lights. The kids's faces burst with pride when they performed their original composition. I am truly wowed by Laura's skill. She led more than 90 6 - 9 year olds through the process of writing an original song. Rhythm patterns, mood changes, expression, lyrics - she did it all and the result was a resounding success. I am forever grateful to Laura, and the Fine Arts School, for taking my son down the path of music creation. I have my fingers crossed the school will invite Laura back to work with the older students.
                       
- Parent of a grade 2 student  
I had the pleasure of working with Laura to write an original song for our grade one/two show. She was professional, enthusiastic, collaborative, and extremely talented! What a treat to have an expert "Artist in Residence" to work with our young learners and help develop their ideas!

- Grade 1 teacher
My kids have loved working with Laura in their classrooms and performing the original songs they create together in the choir. You won’t regret bringing her into your school.

- Parent of grade 2 and 3 students
Wow! I can't say how happy I am that the school brought Laura in to work with my son's class this year. The kids were so engaged with the process and the concert was incredible. You could see the pride on their faces as they sung their very own song to us parents in the audience. Not a dry eye in the room! 

- Parent of a grade 1 student

The Snap-Tunes Program
Developed by Laura Koch, the Snap-Tunes program is a lively and fun approach to music and songwriting that uses song, movement, lyric-play, and even a little body percussion to engage students and get their creative juices flowing.