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This is an easy & fun game to help preschoolers and toddlers practice playing and recognising Do Re Mi. Great fun - especially with a real balloon!

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Band directors, if you're looking for something to change up your typical review, try this Band Jeopardy idea! It's a great team-building exercise that will keep everyone engaged and motivated to review, with OR without instruments.

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Download free Tideo rhythm cards that you can use to practice barred sixteenth notes, as well as ideas for sequencing movement.

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Mixed Methods Approach: how and why. Organized Chaos. Some thoughts on why the "mixed methods" approach may be right for you as an elementary general music teacher, instead of sticking strictly to Orff, Kodaly, MLT, Dalcroze, or another teaching methodology.

This year I created a small project for us to work on to continue work on high vs. low. I really enjoyed this project because the students...

I use improv games all the time in the classroom, mostly because I don’t like to actually write detailed lesson plans. But also for content review!

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If you are planning a trip to the symphony you will want to incorporate some of these freebies into your homeschool before you go!We love the fine arts. My kids love to attend big theater shows, ballets and the symphony. It makes them feel so important and grown up and it is so relaxing. They absolutely love it. I really enjoy doing mini unit studies before we are going to go to a show.

In the previous post, I talked about using voice cards as visual aids. In this post, I will explain a couple activities that use the visual aids. At the bottom of the post, you can download the pdf and print them for free! Name Game For 1st grade and kindergarten, I always review voices on their first music class of the year when we are doing name games. We do simple echos: Teacher: "My name is Mrs. Dennis" Class: "Her name is Mrs. Dennis" Student: "My name is Joshua." Class: "His name is Joshua." thekinderkid.blogspot.com After we go once around the circle learning names, I introduce the voices with the cards. (I also tie this to our school-wide voice level system. I do not have a picture of our voice level posters, but I found a similar one from The Kinder Kid. Our numbers and levels are the same, but we don't have the cute clipart.) When the students understand the voice levels, we get to go around the circle again saying our name to the beat, but this time each student secretly picks a voice (whisper, speaking, calling, singing). We must echo using the same voice and then I ask the class what type of voice they used. Voice level zero For the past 3 years, since I have been relating these voices to the voice level number, the kids always ask to say their names with voice level zero. We now call it "Magic Lips". Anytime I want the kids to move their lips without making a sound, I ask them to use Magic Lips. I actually use this with all grade levels. I usually ask for Magic Lips when I had the kids patting a rhythm while saying a poem and then I want to hear their patting by itself. I also ask for Magic Lips when students are using Curwen hand signs and I want them to stop singing and focus on the pitch levels. Acka Backa I use the voice cards often in repetitive games, just to break up the monotony. One example is an elimination game: "Acka Backa." Here is the poem if you are not familiar with it: Acka Backa, soda cracker Acka Backa, boo Acka Backa, soda cracker Out goes you! There are many variations to the words; you may know a different version, but this is how we play. This is a simple elimination game. To prepare the students, I have them stand in a circle and pass a ball around to the steady beat. We first practice passing to the beat at different tempos. I usually hold a buffalo drum and stand inside the circle showing where the ball should be. If the ball passes up the drum, they know they are going too fast. When they are focused on the beat, we introduce the poem and the rules. The last person to hold the ball on "you" leaves the circle. The student gets to go to my chair where I have the voice cards laying face down. They pick a card to tell us which voice to use next and then they get to mix them up again for the next person. Elimination games are always tough for the kids who always want to win, but going to select a card seems to ease the disappointment that they are out of the game. Free Printable: Voice Cards (whisper, speaking, calling, singing) I suggest printing them on white cardstock and laminating them.

Using the free web tool, Incredibox, in the classroom for technology projects. Great way to incorporate music into your curriculum! Will work on Chromebooks, laptops and computers. There is also an iPad app available for $3.99

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Instrument four corner is an active game to play with fourth grade and fifth grade students in music class. It is so easy and so much fun!

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I realized as I was working with many of my students on chords and chord inversions that I didn't have a really good, fun way to review them. I have loads of games and activities devoted to note identification, rhythm, terminology, etc., but nothing that I felt worked well to review chords, so...I put on the 'ole thinking cap and came up with... CURVY CHORDS! This is actually a very simple game, but hopefully makes a big impact on my students! Using a green foam board, I cut out 1"x 2" rectangles in 3 different colors. Altering them, I adhered them in a curvy motion around the boards, hence the really "original" name! Then I added die cut letters to make up the title of the game and the words, "start" and "finish". As a bit of excitement during the game, I randomly added an eighth note to a few of the rectangles. I cut these out with a fun punch that one of my students gave to me. After that was all done, I simply applied contact to the board! Easy, peasy!! Then, I put together three sets of cards. Again, three different colors to match the colors of the rectangles I put on the board. Here's how the game works...students move around the board with the roll of a die. The color their game piece lands on determines the color of the card they pick. The cards ask them to do one of three things...Play It! They are asked to play a specific chord on the piano. Name It! They are given three letters of the musical alphabet and asked to put them together in root position in order to name the chord. And Invert It! They need to play or name a chord in first or second inversion. If they can correctly answer/play what is asked of them on the card, they can leave their game piece on the new rectangle. If they can't, they must return their game piece to their previous position. Obviously, the first to reach the finish wins! To add a bit of excitement to the game, each color also includes three specialty cards that say, "Your a Chord Master! Take an extra turn!", "You've curved off track! Lose a turn!", or "Invert your game piece! Switch places with another player.". As far as the little eighth notes on the rectangles, I use those as bonus spots. If a player lands on a rectangle with an eighth note and can correctly answer the card, they get a bonus and can move ahead 3 extra rectangles! In addition to the game board you will need to make, and cards you can download here, you will need game tokens (like those cute smiley face erasers?), and a die. And of course, you will need students who are eager to work on their chords! I hope you enjoy using the game in your own studio! 

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