I will continue to update my Clever.com site for great music education sites.
Here are some non-online music education ideas! Check off the ones you complete. Take a video to show me what you’ve learned.
K-2
- Rhymes and Poems
- Take a favorite rhyme/poem and clap the rhythm (syllables of the words).
- Instead of clapping it, use other body percussion (pat, snap, stomp, etc) to perform the rhythm. Perform using three different forms of body percussion.
- Perform it saying the words out loud.
- Perform it saying the words in your head.
- Find an item in your house to “play” the rhythm. (wooden spoons, lids to pots, etc) Make sure it’s ok with the adults at your home.
- Turn your rhyme/poem into a song.
- Vocal Exploration/Pitch
- Kindergarten/Grade 1-Make these sounds with your voice-siren, dog, cat, cuckoo clock, bird, parrot,
- Grade 1-Sing and sign a major scale-do, re, mi, fa, so , la, ti , do
- Grade 2-Sing and sign a major scale-do, re, mi, fa, so , la, ti , do and a minor scale-la, ti, do, re, mi, fa, so , la
- K-2-get two stuffed toys and have them sing to each other. They can sing about their favorite food, activity, color, etc. or they can sing an actual song to each other.
- Songs
- Sing your favorite songs!
- Sing a cumulative song such as She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain or The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly.
- Make up new verses to a cumulative song and add motions to go with the new verse.
- Draw a picture of the song showing the order of the verses. You can use your drawing to help you remember the order.
Grades 3-5
- Piggyback Song-Like I did with “Old Town Road”, choose a song you really like and re-write the words to create completely new lyrics. Write it down and have it ready to turn in to me when you get back to school.
MYP General Music
- Take a current song you really like and write out the form of the song using possible words such as: intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge, outro. For example, one possible form for Old Town Road is
Intro, chorus, verse 1, refrain, verse 2, refrain, chorus, outro
Write down your song title, artist, and form and hand in when we return to school.
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