In this art and music activity for children we’ll look at famous art inspired by music and create our own art project in combination with different pieces of music. Art and music activity for children In this lesson you will: :: be introduced to synesthesia and the idea of exploring the combination […]
DIY Song Cubes to help children learn music "old favorites" and practice finding and keeping the beat; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
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Add elements of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell to your preschool centers to integrate science and play while students explore their senses.
This free printable “I Spy” music-themed picture activity features guitars, harps, keyboards, drums, saxophones, and more. Have your child count each item and record the count below the picture…
Here are some examples of body percussion and why it's important to teach this skill, along with 7 simple activity ideas.
Check out this post for creative and exciting ways to add scarves into your music activities. Also, find some specific scarf music examples.
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Freedom Homeschooling lists free homeschool art curriculum for all grades. Art tutorials, art appreciation, and more!
My favorite 10 scarf activities for preschool and kindergarten music time. Scarf movement helps children learn through the movement.
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Simple DIY water xylophone takes a couple minutes to make and is a great sound activity, experiment, and music activity for kids too!
Music activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary students
Learn why the preschool ages is the best time to start music and movement activities with your young children, and how to do it.
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Music class is an active, engaging, and joyful experience! This is especially true when our musical activities are grounded in creative and intentional teaching strategies. One of the most important teaching strategies has to do with teaching the difference between steady beat and the rhythm of
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Free sheet music of traditional nursery rhymes and children's songs and free fun and easy music theory printable worksheets for kids.
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Fun and easy composition game for third grade and beyond with die cuts from the dollar store! Simple to make and use!
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These Halloween rhythm color by notes are perfect for the general music classroom! With multiple options for differentiation these can be used by all grade levels! Set 1: Quarter Note, Eighth Note Pairs, Half Note and Quarter Rest Set 2: Quarter Notes, Eighth Note Pairs, Sixteenth Note Sets, Half Note and Quarter Rest Set 3: Quarter Note, Eighth Note Pairs, Whole Note, Whole Rest and Quarter Rest Uses: Early Finishers Assessment Review The Sub Tub Centers
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Learn how to practice rhythms with this budget-friendly and fun rhythm game in your elementary music classroom.
I had done a few different centers in the past, mostly with my upper grades, and not very well thought out. This year though, one of my personal goals was to incorporate centers in a way that was well-planned, gave students lots of ways to practice a concept, and gave me more than one way to assess students. I'll have another blog post coming soon about the centers I did, or you can see a video of them on my Facebook page. Today though I want to talk about how to prepare your students for centers in the music room. Before really diving in to centers this year, I talked to some classroom teachers to learn more about how centers worked in their rooms. Each person I talked to said, take the time to go over each center with the whole group before ever dividing the class for centers. Since I don't have as much time as a classroom teacher (my classes are 30 minutes and are back to back), I decided that instead of trying to cram it into the beginning of a class period and then starting centers that day, I would take a class period to discuss all my centers. So I'm going to share with you how that day went. Since this was my first time doing centers at my new school with these students, I had no idea how long it would take to explain all of the centers and how everything would work. I figured if I have lots of extra time, we will play some singing games that I pulled patterns from for these centers, but this actually took about 25 minutes with both of my classes. I brought my classes in and had them go to their assigned seats in front of the board. I said that we would be doing something kind of new in music the next few times we have class so I wanted to share with them about it today so that we could spend all of our time in centers the next two times. Instead of having all of the centers spread out around the perimeter of the room, which is where I put them when we were actually doing centers, I lined up all my centers at the front of the room under the board. On my computer, I had the zip file that contained all of the PDFs for each file pulled up so that as I was going through them with the whole group, if I wanted them to be able to see something better, I could show them the PDF version instead of the tiny cards I was holding for some of the centers. We walked through all of the centers in order. I read through the directions and we "played" each center one or two turns. For some centers I would have a small group of students come up and be the demonstration group as the class watched. I asked if there were any questions about each center before moving on to the next one. My students knew that they needed to ask any questions they had on this day so that they wouldn't come up asking me questions on the actual center days. The students were really interested and engaged the whole time. I think there was a little bit of mystery to it, like "OOO, I wonder what is going to be at the next center" or "I wonder what those manipulatives are going to be for" and that kept them really focused on what we were doing. Students asked good clarifying questions about the individual centers. They also asked about their groups. I have about 28 kids in each class and set up 8 centers. Most of my groups had 4 students in a group, some had 3. I assigned all groups by typing up a list. I emailed the list to their teacher and asked their teacher to line them up in that order (so the four students in group 1 are first, followed by group 2 and so on....) the next time they came to music. I also had her double check my groups to see if there would be any issues that I maybe hadn't foreseen. This was a really good idea because the next time they came to music, I met them in the hallway and they were all in the right order. I had the centers so that center 1 was closest to the door and then they went in a circle around the perimeter of the music room, so as the students followed me in, I basically dropped off four at a time in the order they were in at each center as we went around the room and I was with the last 3 or 4 students at the "teacher center", center 8. I didn't have to waist any time putting kids in order or reviewing directions for any of the centers. I had directions for each center posted at each center in case they forgot or were absent when we went over the centers, but there seemed to be no issues with students knowing what to do at each center. I only had one student come up to me the entire two days of doing centers and it was because of an issue with a group member, so I think that is pretty darn good for our first time! I hope this gives you maybe a new idea about how to prepare your students for centers so that they feel set up to succeed at each one without needing to ask questions during centers. I feel like taking that day to go over them at a relaxed pace, sending the centers groups to the teacher, and having students come to music on centers day already in order really helped everything to go smoothly. Do you have other ideas that I haven't thought of? Share below! Wanting to take the guesswork out of creating centers? Here are centers sets I've created and used with my classes:
