Saturday, January 31, 2015

Substitute Music Plans Your Class Will Love!



 





These instant substitute plans come with 20 quality lesson plans
for K-8th graders. Your class will keep learning musical concepts even if you can't be at work. (Click on the Super Man picture to see more sub activities)

Easy for non-music subs to use even if they can't read music. Best of all these pre-made lesson plans come with fun games and activities your class will love.

Here is a peek at one of the lesson plans your class will learn. My 2nd graders loved learning about operas as they worked on a musical opera lesson about the "Three Billy Goats Gruff." Your class gets to play the musical game London Bridges Falling Down after learning about how all the Billy Goats had to cross the bridge. 

Check this out if you need fun substitute lesson plans. Enjoy!
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Playing London Bridge in the picture.


Saturday, January 24, 2015

Fun Music Lesson



Paper Plate Ice Skating in 1st Grade & Kindergarten

This is one of my favorite lessons for January. The children are skating to wonderful Art music called the Skaters Waltz. They are having fun skating to the beat of 3/4 time while listening to classical music. I also like to get them learning about glissandos by showing them how my toy penguin can slide up and down the Orff instruments.  Then they get to pretend that their mallets are penguins sliding up and down the instruments. Click on my TpT store tab above to find more exciting music lessons.  Enjoy!

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Friday, January 16, 2015

Music Symbol Game


My class loves an exciting game called the Swat Game. I love it because it helps my class instantly learn their music symbols.
I like to use the music symbol cards in this game as vocabulary flash cards to help my class learn new music symbols.


This is an elimination game to see who can quickly find the music symbol 1st. I've also used this this game to help my class review their musical symbols when I use a substitute teacher. I know that my class will have fun with this music game even when I can't be at work. Check out this game by clicking on the picture below
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Click on the picture to get this fun game for your class.




Saturday, January 10, 2015

Composing Music


Composing Music is a great way to help your students develop their musical skills. I use a lot of rhythm cards in my classroom to help my class practice rhythms that they will need for composing their own music. Below are a few ways my students like to use rhythm cards to compose their own rhythm compositions and musical songs.


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Creating melodies by using rhythms cards and boom whackers.

Students will go around the circle performing one card at a time to create a song. Then they will make up their own rhythms around the circle to finish their composition. Click on picture to see more composing ideas (For more exciting lessons and fun things to do with your class, be sure to Sign up by email on my side bar to claim your monthly freebie, teacher tips & tricks).


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Composing their own rhythm flash cards are fun and a great way to assess student work. Click on picture to see more composing ideas.


Thursday, January 1, 2015

Music Centers


Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a great Holiday Season! Christmas break is almost done and now it's time to start thinking about going back to work. The students are super excited about seeing each other and talking about their Christmas holiday, so I usually give my classes a fun day by setting up fun music centers the first week back to school.

Music centers allow the class to play music games, have fun together and review music material before they jump back into the quick pace of learning new material. Below  are some pictures of  music centers my students love to do together. You can also check out my Pinterest Board with more music center ideas.

Playing We Will Rock You On Boom  Wackers. Click Here to get the music for this game.


Playing Matching Game on Smart Board.
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Music Symbol Matching Game.