Are you doing assessments for your end of the year report cards? One of the areas that I want to assess is how well children perform music in choirs, Orff ensemble, on unpitched instruments, recorder, ukulele or guitar.
In most music curriculums, children in K-1-2 are expected to be able to:
1. use each of the types of voices
2. identify each of the types of voices.
I really enjoy teaching about timbre – types of voices, timbre of classroom instruments and timbre of orchestral instruments and orchestral instrument families. For an informal assessment, put the posters on the ledge and say a phrase using one of the voices. Have the children point to the type of voice they hear.
This is a great lesson in Musicplay for Kindergarten on types of voices. The lesson includes many opportunities to assess informally if children perceive and understand speaking, singing, whisper, shouting and thinking voices.
In the activity, children learn a simple poem, and then say the poem using two kinds of voices – one voice for the first two lines, and another voice for the last two lines. You can do this activity with the PDF printables (the posters shown above) as manipulatives. Or with the Interactive activity below.
The posters are printables on MusicplayOnline (song #7 in Kindergarten)
To purchase:
– Order them in the Vocal Exploration Card Set on TPT.
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You can do the activity interactively from the SMART Board |
If you want to do a formal assessment, |
In most music curriculums, children in K-1-2 are expected to be able to:
| In the Instruments Unit at www.musicplayonline.com there are interactive activities: |
Rhythm Instrument Assessments are also available in the following print
products: Rhythm Instrument Fun and Classroom Instrument Bingo
Both of these print products have really fun activities to teach children the timbre of classroom instruments!
ClassroomInstrument Bingo |
RhythmInstrument Fun |
In most music curriculums, children in Grades 2-6 are expected to be able to:
In the Instruments Unit at www.musicplayonline.com there is a fantastic unit on Instruments of the Orchestra, and many accompanying worksheets to teach and assess the instruments.
This resource is a great way to learn about instruments of the orchestra and instrument families. (There is a version of the game at www.musicplayonine.com.) . This game has always been my last lesson before a holiday.
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