Back to School Body Percussion
This will be a challenge for your Grade 4-5-6 students, but you could use just the chant with Grade 1-2-3 and have them develop some ostinatos to perform with it.
Rhythm Instrument Fun
When you have an activity using non-pitched percussion or rhythm instruments, it can get noisy and out of control if your children don’t know or don’t follow your procedures. When giving out instruments, I explain to the class that I’m going to put the instrument on the floor in front of them and they are to wait until everyone has an instrument and I tell them it’s OK to pick up and play. The analogy I use is if you go to a fancy restaurant, you don’t start gobbling your food the second it’s placed in front of you. It’s polite to wait until everyone has their meal, and then you all start eating at the same time.
Flashcard Attendance
Does anyone use a quick, fun, or interesting way in which they take attendance each music class?
This question came up on our Musicplay Teacher's Facebook Group and many suggestions for musical ways of taking attendance were given!
Classroom Management
Music Classroom Management We want music class to be something the kids look forward to, and it’s a very active learning environment. How do you maintain the “fun” yet have your students behave in a way that allows for maximum learning.
Music Classroom Management
We want music class to be something the kids look forward to, and it's a very active learning environment. How do you maintain the "fun" yet have your students behave in a way that allows for maximum learning.
Old Mr. Rabbit
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Sleepy Bunnies
Sleepy Bunnies is a great activity for any time of the year! If you're looking for a fun activity for Easter (although it doesn't say anything really about Easter) this game is fun!
Squeaky the Mouse and Big Brown Bear
I saw Sister Lorna Zemke at TMEA and she had a really cute idea to get kids using high and low voices using a mouse and a bear puppet having conversations. Sometimes I got blank when I’m trying to make something up, so I decided to write a story that would use the high and low voices. This should give the primary teacher some conversation ideas to use between Squeaky and Brown Bear. Folkmanis Puppets has wonderful bear and mouse puppets – enjoy the idea!
Instrument Ideas
I got an email from a teacher who is going to Cambodia to work with children.
Winter Rhythms Lesson Plan
Target Concept: – notate the rhythm of the words