This UNO-Style Treble Clef Note Name Card Game, from Amy Abbott, helps students reinforce their knowledge of the music staff and note names of the treble clef. It’s a great resource for sub d…
I want to make sure my students are feeling confident with their note-reading, so tomorrow we are going to play this game. Each student will receive a note name bingo game sheet. Each student must fill in the bingo sheet by drawing each of the 8 notes of the D major scale - one note per box. In order to fill all of the boxes, students will use each note 2 times. Next, I will use my whiteboard spinners that I got from Amazon.com... I will draw this on my whiteboard and place a spinner in the middle: I will spin the spinner and students will place a marshmallow or other game piece on the note that the spinner points to. (They may only mark note at a time.) The first student to get 4 in a row horizontally or vertically may call BINGO and they must play the notes they marked in order to get their prize.
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Review the treble clef note names with your students in a fun and engaging way through this Bingo game! With 35 different words and 60 unique cards, your students will have fun practicing their letter names in this classic game. The variations include options for use with a substitute, or let students take the lead and be the caller. Whatever you prefer, this will be a game your students request over and over! Within this ZIP file (don’t forget to extract it), you will find 60 cards in color and black and white options, 35 caller cards on 2 pages, with options in color, black and white, along with a version including the typed word and one without. You’ll also find printable bingo chips (if you don’t have some already in your classroom), and a note name helper to use at your discretion (with a sub, or just for students that need the extra help). What’s Included 60 unique Bingo cards in color 60 unique Bingo cards in black and white 2 pages of Caller cards - Color with typed words - Black/white with typed words - Color without typed words - Black/white without typed words Bingo chips in Color and black/white Note name helper cards in black and white If You Like This, I Think You’ll Like These: Note Name Worksheets BUNDLE: Treble and Bass Clef Alto Clef Note Name Worksheets Follow me on TPT to get updated on when a new resource is released! Let’s Hang Out on Social Media! Instagram Pinterest Did you know you can earn credits on past purchases on TPT just by leaving a review? I’d love it if you’d leave a review in your purchased tab!
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Treble Staff Blackout is a fun, easy to play game to add to your collection of treble staff activities. This note naming game allows students to review and practice naming treble clef notes. If your students are learning or practicing how to read treble clef, this music note activity works for small groups and is perfect for centers. This note naming game also works well for assessing student understanding. What's Included: Printable Colored Blackout Cards Printable B&W Blackout Cards Printable Key (Color/B&W) Student Directions (Color/B&W) Task Box Label (Color/B&W) Want More Treble Staff Review? Treble Staff Musical Memory Treble Staff Ice Cream Matching - Digital Treble Staff POP! I hope this product can make your life a little simpler! Emily ~Music Made Simple~ ___________________________________________________________________ Let's Connect: Music Made Simple Resource Library TPT Store: Music Made Simple Instagram: @_music_made_simple_ Pinterest: Music Made Simple
Here’s a collection of free printable worksheets for the young pianist. The Color That Note! note name worksheet is a great place to start for the beginning piano student. Other as good drill…
This is a super fun (yet truly educational!) game where students race to the finish line by naming the names of rhythm notes! Use in your daily lessons, as part of center activities, or as a great sub plan! 16 MB | 9 pages Buy as part of Rhythm Race Note Naming Bundle or save when you pick and choose multiple game based centers.
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I love Making Music Fun. They've got great resources, from composer lessons to orff orchestrations. Check out this page: Note Name Worksheet for some great printables. Here's a favorite one. After the students fill out the worksheet individually, they can go to a xylophone, piano, or set of boomwhackers to play the song. Then, they can fill in the answer using the bank below (you can also use solfege).
This is a super fun (yet truly educational!) game where students race to the finish line by naming the names of rhythm notes! Use in your daily lessons, as part of center activities, or as a great sub plan!This is Level 3: Quarter Note, Quarter Rest, Beamed Eighth Notes, Half Note, and Whole Note(A...
NOTE IDENTIFICATION WORKSHEETS - spell a word on these note naming worksheets! Fun notespellers to download for your kids/students!
This game is a race to win! The players compete to be the first to complete their Alphabet Grab game board by filling it with seven musical alphabet cards. The game is designed for 2 to 4 players a…
Download free music flashcards that include giant flashcards, note name flashcards, steps and skips flashcards! Perfect for learning about music theory.
There are 5 games in this book that help your children or students learn and remember musical notes, their location on the staff and on the keyboard. You have to print, cut, and assemble them yourself. Game #1 - Do-Re-Mi Dominos. Note names and symbols are taught by the correspondence between the notes(Do, Re, Mi, Fa, etc.) and their location on the musical staff. Game #2 - CDEF Note Game teaches the correspondence between note letter notations (C, D, F, G etc.) and their locations on the musical staff. Game #3 - Find a Pair Card Game. There are two sets of cards, one with note staff location and the other with note keyboard location. Cards need to be matched appropriately. The correct choice can be confirmed with the note name, which is on the reverse of all cards. Game #4 - Treble Clef Dominos teaches the correspondence between Treble clef notes and their place on the keyboard. Game #5 - Bass Clef Dominos teaches the correspondence between Bass clef notes and their place on the keyboard. Cut out the cards for each game from the book, and play individually or in pairs. Dominos rules: Play this game alone or with others. Layout dominoes face down and shuffle. Each player takes 7 dominoes. Player 1 lays down any domino. Next to it, Player 2 lays a domino which is its counterpart. Make sure the two joined dominoes represent the same musical note. If you do not have a domino to match, pick one from the pile. Whoever plays all dominoes first wins. The game also ends when there are no more possibilities. When playing alone, try to connect all dominoes.
This is a super fun (yet truly educational!) game where students race to the finish line by naming the names of rhythm notes! Use in your daily lessons, as part of center activities, or as a great sub plan! 17 MB | 12 pages Buy as part of Rhythm Race Note Naming Bundle or save when you pick and choose multiple game based centers.
These printable music games for kids can be used to reinforce music note names, terminology, symbols, instruments, and more.
Would you love a note name ‘video game’ to use in your classes? Are you looking for a way to get your kids to learn the note names more quickly, more accurately and in a fun way? Check out the note name game over on musictheory.net. The link directly to the game is at the end ... Read More about Free Note Name ‘Video Game’ That Teaches, Reviews and Assesses
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"Magic Feet Follow The Beat" is a fun & engaging game to introduce kids to basic music theory. March to the beat of a drum & learn some note values!
Make review fun with this printable piano board game for beginners. Note naming does not need to be tedious or boring, so have fun in private piano lessons, in elementary music classes, or in group music centers! With printing instructions & 2 game board variations, your students are sure to be engaged in hands-on learning. While the game itself lasts only 5-10 minutes depending on student knowledge, it can be played a few times per center or used as an early finisher activity. More piano fun: Autumn Color by Note (Piano key) Piano Key Note Matching Game Name That Note Piano Key Worksheet
I can't believe I haven't blogged since Monday! Yikes! I admit, I have spring fever and our kids still have another week of school until spring break AND we had one of our only big snow falls here in Colorado today! After spring break my 4th and 5th grade students will be starting recorders. While we practice the staff a lot throughout the school year (we usually do some type of practice every lesson), we do a lot of "drill & kill" on the treble staff before recorders as preparation so that the main thing they're focusing on is the actual instrument. So, I have finally compiled all my materials this year into a packet: It includes three different PowerPoints, some worksheets, flashcards/matching cards and timed tests. I'll walk you through it now. There is a PowerPoint that teaches the lines and spaces: This is review, but we all know how important that is (The numbers are animated so they come up one by one): We do A LOT of work off the do-clef and in third grade introduce the treble clef. I also like the kids to know it as the G-clef: I point out the "hidden" G and how it wraps around the G-line: This is the important part: We DRILL the fact that it is the note HEAD that is on the G-line and defines the pitch. So many kiddos get confused once you add note stems to the heads. So this is where I point out that each of these is a G because of the placement of the note heads (in the actual PowerPoint I go through adding each of these notes to the staff to make sure they really "get it."): I know a lot of people drill the acronyms for the lines and have the kids remember the spaces spell face. But I want the kids to know WHY and HOW those lines and spaces get those names. Here are the prep slides for that: Again, there is a slide for each of these pitches and I keep it really interactive, asking them what the next pitch is going to be called. And then we figure out the notes below the G-line: (again, there's a slide for each pitch): And then I do point this out. Some students need to know the theory, some do great with the acronyms. I like to try to meet all modalities and needs of the learners so I include these too: From here (and definitely not in the same lesson) we have some PowerPoint games. The first is a word to staff game. Here's the menu they see: They can, working in teams (large or small) or individually, pick the number of letters in the word they want to write on the staff: From there, you get one of these menus (and the Obsessive-Compulsive in me did ALL the different words, don't ask me why!! lol!! Surprisingly the kids weren't overwhelmed but we prefaced it with the fact that we will NOT get to every slide!): After picking a hat they'll see a word. Their job is to then put it on the staff. Here's an example of one of my 5th graders putting it on an individual staff. This particular class has problems working in teams effectively. With 45 minutes I wanted to put music content over team working (trust me, we do a lot of team building and working through singing games so I didn't feel bad about having them do this individually). The first person that got the answer right got to pick the next hat: And here are my 4th graders, who did the same PPT but worked in two teams. They were really cute about organizing themselves and they came up with some rules. The first was they had to take turns working on the staff. First only people in the first row could answer, then the second row and then the third. The teams alternated: they were divided into the "north" and "south" teams. When it was the "south" team's turn to pick they had the first chance to answer. But while they were working the north side was also working it for if the south team got it wrong they had a chance to "steal." We play it that way for a few turns and then we make it a race to see which team can get it first (again, knowing my classes there was one 4th grade team for which this spelled disaster so we did not play it that way with that class) We used poly dots for the note heads but again, to keep the kids interest, towards the end of the game I had them use people to spell out the words- again taking turns standing on the staves. And BTW, my staves are Dollar Tree shower curtains with electrical tape! In the bundle is also a PowerPoint that is staff to words. It's set up the same as the previous game but they have to figure out what the word is on the staff: Here's a sample slide: There are some matching cards (and yes, the OCD person in me, made matching cards for every word possible on the staff) Here are a couple of the large cards: There's also small cards: And VERY small cards that can be used for matching or also for an advanced version of "memory." I included three worksheets: And timed tests as well as a pre- and post-assessment (that look similarly to these): This bundle is available at my Teacher Pay Teachers store. You can also purchase the PowerPoints individually, but it's more cost effective to buy the bundle. Here are links to all the files: Be a Staff Detective, Word to Staff PPT Be a Staff Detective, Staff to Word PPT Be a Staff Detective, A PowerPoint for Teaching the Treble Clef Be a Staff Detective, Activities for Teaching the Treble Clef I'm working on a Spelling Bee File that will be similar to this, so you can use it as a way to practice the same thing but have it be a little different.
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Treble Clef Pizza Chef is a fun centers game that helps with note naming on the treble clef staff. A great activity for your recorder lessons! There are multiple ways to play and it includes a reference card for students and for substitutes. Groups can also play with each other competitively or coop...
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This is a super fun (yet truly educational!) game where students race to the finish line by naming the names of rhythm notes! Use in your daily lessons, as part of center activities, or as a great sub plan!This is Level 2: Quarter Note, Quarter Rest, Beamed Eighth Notes, and Half Note(Also includes...
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This is a fun variation of the game Candyland. This great idea came from Rachel on the Yahoo piano teachers group. To make this game, you will need a Candyland game. On each square, write A, B, C, …
This is a super fun (yet truly educational!) game where students race to the finish line by naming the names of rhythm notes! Use in your daily lessons, as part of center activities, or as a great sub plan! 20 MB | 10 pages Buy as part of Rhythm Race Note Naming Bundle or save when you pick and choose multiple game based centers.
Sometimes, especially with the younger students and their shorter attention spans, you just need to get off the piano bench! This week in my studio we have been playing a game with my grand staff flannel board and some big, colorful fuzzy pom-poms from the craft store.We take turns rolling
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This is a super fun (yet truly educational!) game where students race to the finish line by naming the names of rhythm notes! Use in your daily lessons, as part of center activities, or as a great sub plan! 15 MB | 9 pages Buy as part of Rhythm Race Note Naming Bundle or save when you pick and choose multiple game based centers.
Free Printable Music Worksheets provide a valuable resource for students of all ages and skill levels who are looking to improve their musical knowledge and abilities. Whether you are a beginner learning the basics of reading sheet music or an advanced musician looking to sharpen your skills, these worksheets offer a convenient and accessible way to practice and reinforce key musical concepts.
Oh my goodness! It has been so long since I posted! The AOSA conference in St. Louis was fabulous and I finally caught up on all of my work last week from being away! I like giving my students Mad Minute note naming sheets for a quick look at how they are doing with treble clef notation. I came across this website today to make your own Mad Minutes quickly and easily online. Click here to try it out: Second Runner Up. Check out my first Mad Minute using the site! Let me know what you think! - Steph
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If you missed last week's Teacher Tuesday post, I talked about my favorite full-class activities for teaching the letter names of notes on the staff in any clef. You can read that post here. Today, as promised, I'm back to talk about my favorite activities to teach letter names in small groups. I use these activities primarily in centers, where students are rotating through the different activities to practice the letter names. Whenever I introduce a new clef (I push treble clef in 3rd and bass clef in 5th grade), I usually plan one class period of full-class activities to practice the letter names, and then one class period of centers, where students can get more practice. As with most center activities, the students need to have some grasp of the concept (or have a place to find that correct information) in order to successfully complete the activity independently. 1. Music Tutor (iPad) This iPad app comes in a free and paid version. The free version has ads, but the paid version is just $1.99 so it's probably worth the investment. I love this app because you can customize it to treble, bass, or both clefs, you can customize the range of notes it displays- you can set it to use ledger line notes or just the line and space notes, and you can choose the amount of time on timer. I like to use the 1 minute timer so that it keeps the fast pace. There are plenty of other great iPad apps, both free and paid, for practicing letter names on the staff- this is just one example- but I do like this one because it is simple, straight-forward, and fast-paced. Here are some other great iPad apps for practicing note names. 2. Card Matching Game I print off a picture of each note on the staff (one of each letter name) and one of each of the letters A-G, and put them on construction paper (I've done it where all the cards were the same color, or where the notes were on one color and the letters were another- two different levels of difficulty depending on what you do). The rest is just like memory matching except you are matching the note to the correct letter. I like having this center because it is a bit more low-pressure than some of the others. 3. Note Spelling Game There are a lot of ways to do this but my favorite method (because it is the most low-maintenance) is this: I have words spelled with note letters (like CABBAGE or FADE) on folded pieces of paper in a cup, and enough dry erase boards and markers for each student. On "go", each student opens the paper they picked from the cup and races to write whatever word they got on the staff. Whenever they finish writing they yell "done" and the other students check their answer. If it's wrong, the game continues. (Other variations could include using tokens or other small manipulatives on a staff or having all the students write the same word. I like dry erase because I don't have to keep up with a bunch of little manipulatives, and I like doing different words for each student because it adds that element of luck and unpredictability that feels more like a game for kids.) 3. Kaboom Sticks This idea has been making its way around Pinterest for a while under a few different names (including Fiddle Sticks and Busted), but whatever you call it, it's definitely a kid favorite! I use this for rhythms as well. I'll let the guy that I took the idea from explain (see video below), but for my version I write the notes on the staff on the sticks and the student has to identify the letter name. 4. Swat the Note If you've been paying attention you know that this was on my list for full-class activities as well. I use it for both. Basically one person says a letter name and the other students race to touch the note on the staff. What's fun about doing it as a small group activity is that I have the students take turns being the judge and caller. They LOVE getting to do that after doing it as a whole class beforehand. I've set it up for small groups by writing on a regular whiteboard or showing a projected image, and having them use fly swatters to swat the note or just hitting it with their hands. Well, there you have it: my favorite small group activities for practicing note letter names. I hope you found these ideas helpful!
