Description Happy Veterans’ Day! Fired Up is a steady beat and body percussion echo activity inspired by military marching cadences. The accompaniment track is upbeat and fun, making it perfect for a classroom activity or a Veterans’ Day performance. The attached chart shows each beat of music with the teacher’s text listed in red and the student’s…
Description This resource was made to help elementary aged students connect music to math and reinforce the difference between notes, rests, and beats. By starting with basic fractions, students learn that notes and rests are named according to the space they fill in a measure. For example, a whole note/rest fills a whole four beat…
Description Clapping rhythm cards is a great way to get students in all grades reading many different kinds of notes and rests. By moving in a developmentally appropriate sequence, these twelve levels progress from simple rhythms like quarter notes and quarter rests to complicated rhythms like 2 sixteenth/1 eighth note pairs. To make it more…
Description Each of these 21 melody cards show four beats of pitches marked on a five line music staff. With C marked as DO (C major scale), students apply Solfege and sing each melody card accurately before moving on to the next. Audio recordings of each card are included, though I suggest the teacher model…
Description This 4-8 lesson project gives upper elementary students a step by step process to writing their own composition. Using quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth notes, half notes, half rests, and/or sixteenth notes, students will write a 16 beat rhythm, match it with original lyrics, and then transfer it to a melody played on a…
Description Eights is a four mallet exercise that I originally learned from my percussion teacher Bruce McConnell in 2003. I played it all through high school and college to warm up my hands at the start of practice sessions, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized how perfectly it could be adapted to Orff instruments in…
This pitch exploration activity is sure to be a favorite in your music classroom. Students use their singing voices to follow the movement of the roller coaster train up and down hills, around loops, and over a jump. The teacher simply needs to advance the slide, and the roller coaster train will move on its…
The adorable children’s song Veterans Are Not Veterinarians was written as a funny way to introduce Veterans Day to kindergartners. It’s sure to help the youngsters in your life find a little more clarity about the distinction between these two wonderful groups of people. This song is a perfect addition to a Veterans Day Program and is…
Use this helpful PowerPoint to teach the following symbols of notation: music staff, bar lines, treble clef, time signature, double bar line, quarter note, eighth notes, quarter rest, and measure. Each symbol is first labeled and then defined. Perfect for teaching new vocabulary words and music symbols to your beginning music students.
This PowerPoint relates colors and beats on screen to the boomwhackers needed to accompany “Mr. Bassman” by The Muppets. Find the music on iTunes or YouTube, pull out your Boomwhackers, advance the slides, and have your students play along. This song is a hoot!
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