Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
Using Rhymes in the Rain, the sky is the limit for creativity for you and your young students! New visuals/PowerPoints are now available in our Big Kids Make Music curriculum! Not yet a member? Join the fun!
1. Free Exploration: Instruments in C pentatonic, invite the children to lightly play drips and drops gently on the bars, anywhere they they think it would sound good with the songs and rhymes. Don’t forget to add some quiet beats. TIP! If you can’t hear the song, your playing is too loud!
2. Keep the Beat on C and G as the teacher chants the rhyme, “Rain on the Green Grass”. Play the beat.
3. Play on specific beats-only on “Rain” (Player choosing which notes to play)
4. Play only on “Not on me!”
5. Play on “Rain” and Not on me!” Reading: Follow the visual left to right.
6. Two Parts Together! Lower instruments play the beat, higher instruments play on Rain, not on me.
7. Now the Challenge! Play on all the rain for It Rained on Anne
Add some fun pitch matching and creative movement for a complete lesson plan!
Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
Music! It’s timing, form, math, phrasing, coordination, movement, playing, singing, creating, listening, improvisation!
These two February videos are songs who’s activities offer all of the above!
First up are two videos to share with you students (great for 2-6 year olds when the teacher’s voice needs a break!). After those, see classroom activity videos to see the students in action. (This is with parents in my studio setting where we have permission to video!)
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Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
An important part of my music lessons is for the child to be the leader – making up their own pitches, lyrics, movement. There’s also places where the rest of the children must listen carefully and repeat exactly as the leader sang, moved.
Here’s a playlist with many examples.
(Sorry, we got a bit excited about the parents being there to hear our picnic song and some were a bit too loud! Lol.)
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