Props, Games and Spring Fun!
Happy Spring! Music Box is full of ideas for Earth Day, Easter, and Spring!
A teacher asked if my lessons plans work in elementary schools, since the videos I share are from my small studio classes. YES! Our elementary schools don’t allow video recording, so in our Music Rhapsody Studio Classroom it’s much more convenient to set up cameras. (Just remember, if you see wiggling and squirming, the children have just come from a full day of school! Ha.)
This week, my Rhythm Readers classes and I had a great time playing “Pease Porridge Hot”. Take a look at some of the props we used as notation! The porridge cups are used for the beat, spoons for the rhythm, and rhythm sticks are used for barlines.
The student’s work below shows the rhythm for “Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.”
Here’s a fun game we played with the rhyme in a first grade class. Half the class placed the children in the order of the rhythm of the rhyme. A pot holding one spoon is one sound on a beat (“pease”), two spoons is two sounds on the beat or eighth notes (por-ridge), and sitting down is a rest. So much fun!
Watch one of our studio classes playing the instrumental part of the lesson:
Typically we use Rhythm Readers for Grade 1, Melody Makers for Grade 2 and Recorder Rookies for Grade 3 for elementary curriculum.
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Reminder!! The price for SUMMER LIVE TRAINING increases after April 15. (Returning Teachers are half tuition). Hope you can join me for 4 full jam-packed days!