Music class St. Patrick's Game song with scarves and props will have students dancing, singing and learning during this fun and original Kodaly based game song. "CAN YOU CATCH THE LEPRECHAUN". 2 GAMES! 2 LEVELS! The Games come in two different levels (so-mi) (so-mi-do) so that you can adapt it for Music Classes Preschool through third grades. CONCEPTS: High Low (part of the game!) Solfege: sol-mi, sol-mi-do and high do Teaching pages are separated by levels so that you can choose which ones you want to use that best meets the needs of your students. RESOURCE INCLUDES: Animated Sing a long Video Vocal and Accompaniment performance Tracks Sheet Music Mp3 Accompaniment Lyric Poster Hat and Gold Graphic Game Directions Solfege Teaching Directions Teaching pages do-mi-so-do (3 levels) PDF Landscape version of teaching pages for Projecting. ABOUT THIS RESOURCE: Playing games and singing helps students make connections in literacy skills, gross motor skills, self-confidence, and music skills. (and more!) Help your students learn solfege and sight singing using these creative and engaging activities in your elementary music classroom. MORE MARCH MUSIC EDUCATION RESOURCES: Game Song “Who Will Catch the Leprechaun?” MIOSM Orff Song “March is Music Month/We Love Music in OUr Schools” March Music Class Worksheets March Music Lesson Rhythm and Shuffle Dance Activity March Music Lesson Bundle of Songs, Games, Worksheets Music Rhythm Game: “Don’t Steal My Gold” FREE MIOSM Song “March is Music Month/We Love Music in Our School” FREE MIOSM Classroom Decor, Poster, Bulletin Board Activity FREE MIOSM Acapella Round: “I Love Music In My School” FREE MIOSM POSTER: What’s Your Superpower? FREE MIOSM Acrostic Poem Activity FREE MIOSM SSA Acapella Song “I Need Music” *********************** ABOUT SING PLAY CREATE LLC. All products and works are copyrighted by Sing Play Create LLC. Buyers may get Free store credit by going to "my purchases" and click on "Provide Feedback". Ratings and helpful feedback are welcomed. Want a Freebie every month? Subscribe to my Website Newsletter. SING PLAY CREATE NEWSLETTER QUESTIONS? Please use the "Ask a Question" section of my TpT store. Or, you can email me at [email protected] CONNECT WITH ME HERE: Sing Play Create YouTube Channel Sing Play Create Blog Sing Play Create on Instagram Sing Play Create on Facebook Sing Play Create on Pinterest Let's Move and Learn with Music! Sandra
St. Patrick's Day Dancing Modified Irish Jig for beginners Hello friends, it's time to break out some dance moves for St. Patrick's Day, but the Irish Jig can be very tricky for elementary students to perform. Here is a modified version that is easy enough for even small children to do. Have the class stand in a circle and use any Irish Jig or Reel music for this dance. If you have a lot of students, you can form 2 circles with one group on the outside and the other group forming an inner circle. Section A of the music: Count 1: Tap right to on the floor (in front of the body). Count 2: Right foot touches left knee. Count 3: Bring right foot back to regular standing position with feet slightly apart. Count 4: Slide left foot over to your right foot. Count: 5, 6, 7, 8 (turn, turn, turn, turn to do 1 full circle. (Repeat dance steps 1-8 until the A section is over). Section B of the music: Counts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Class will do a slide-step to the left with their feet (looks like a side- gallop) called sashay. Count 7: rest for one beat Counts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Class will do a slide-step to the right with their feet (looks like a side- gallop) called sashay. Count 7: rest for one beat (Repeat dance steps until the B section is over). Continue doing the dance by alternating between the “A” section and the “B” section of the music until the song is over. I like to have the class see a youtube performance before we do the modified version to get them excited about learning the Irish Jig. Leave a comment below to let me know what kind of things your class likes to do for St. Patrick's Day. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Want more fun activities and ideas for your class? Be sure to Sign-up by email on my side bar to claim a monthly freebie, teacher tips & tricks. I would love to hear what tricks you use or other thoughts you might have in the comments below. Enjoy! Click on the pictures below. You Might Also Like:
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March is such a fun month! With MIOSM, Spring around the corner, and St. Patrick’s Day there are so many ways to keep kids engaged! And the best way I have found to keep my students actively engaged is through movement activities and dances. What better month than March to share ideas about connecting MIOSM …
Looking for a elementary music lesson plan to use in March around St. Patrick's Day? Would you like for it to include speaking, rhythm (half notes, quarter notes, quarter rest, eighth notes) instruments and form? Your elementary music students will LOVE the bundle of engaging activities and the interactive slides included in the lesson plan, the PowerPoint, tablet or Web version of the visuals. The Bundle contains 2 resources that are sold separately in my store. Click on a product name or the preview button for additional details. Consider purchasing the bundle to save money! The set of Lesson Plans and interactive slides include: • 6 lessons each 4-8 minutes (6 pdf pages) plus an original speech poem incorporating eighth notes and one incorporating half notes. The lesson plans include detailed instructions for teaching the poem and rhythmic activities with first, second or third grade. The lesson is also appropriate for Kindergarten with adaptations. Adaptions and extensions are addressed. • 42 slides (with 14 slides being teacher and/or student interactive) may be used to reinforce rhythmic reading and aurally identifying rhythmic patterns. You will have everything you need to teach all the lessons. If you do not have access to PowerPoint just use the shared link to access the visuals via your tablet or Web Browser. You might be interested in the extension lesson: St. Patrick’s Day Music ~ Interactive Rhythm Games {Where's the Gold}. Feel free to check out the preview which is a sample of the PowerPoint version of the product. TpT has size restrictions on previews and I am unable to offer a preview of the Web Browser version of the product. If you would like to see it please email me at [email protected] and I will be more than happy to accommodate you. You might be interested in similar products: ♦ Winter Music Activity | Half Notes | Four Little Penguins | Rhythm & Instruments ♦ Spring Music Lesson ~ One Little Chick Orff, Rhythm & Instruments {Eighth Notes} ♦ Elementary Music Lesson & Activity | Eighth Notes | Orff, Rhythm & Instruments ♦ Music Lesson Plan ~ Firefly, Firefly: Orff, Rhythm, Form & Instruments {BUNDLE} *************************************** Follow me on Facebook and on Pinterest. *************************************** Enjoy! Linda McPherson McPherson’s Music Room
It's get's a little crazy in music class playing this game-but "Don't Steal My Gold" Rhythm Value game will keep your students actively engaged during your March Music Classes. You can choose the values you want to use in the game. Best for 3-6th grades. Sixteenth–Eighth-Quarter-Dotted Quarter-Half-Dotted Half-Whole NOTES and RESTS Flash Cards BLANK POTS OF GOLD CARDS TO PRINT AND CUT DIRECTIONS **This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you.** After purchase you will receive an email receipt with a link to download your purchase. You will receive a text file with the download link. The text file will have a LINK to your resource. You will open the text file and copy paste the LINK in your browser which will start the download. If you have any problems with the download. Please email us and we will get you the resource.Questions? Email sandra [!at] singplaycreate.com
March is such a fun month! With MIOSM, Spring, and St. Patrick's Day, there are so many ways to keep my students actively engaged. I love to use movement activities and folk dances. So I'm sharing March themed folk songs to explore and experience in music class to help you connect MIOSM and St. Patrick's Day multicultural activities.
Top of the mornin’ to ye! Don’t pinch me…I’m not Irish….but I do have some lucky four leaf clovers for you. Shamrocks For Luck- This little St. Paddy version of Are You Sleeping comes from my wond…
St. Patrick's Day brain break and movement activities for elementary music classes. Fun physical movement activities for daily routines!
Happy two-weeks from St. Patrick's Day! In honor of the upcoming holiday, Finegan the Fiddler, a rather musical leprechaun, has decided to visit the studio for the next couple of weeks. He's a pretty happy
I love using Pinterest as a resource for finding new lesson ideas. So many music teachers have blogs and share their plans and materials, and Pinterest is a place to find many of these ideas in one centralized location. Click on a pin that interests you, and poof! You are taken right to a web page to explore further. I have about 300 pins on my "Making Music" board on Pinterest. I only pin links after I click on them and make sure it is something that I would really want to refer to again and possibly use in my classroom. This past week, I utilized two lesson ideas that I found through pins on Pinterest. They were both a hit with my students, so I thought they were worth mentioning. Fruit Loop Rhythms Mrs. King's Music Room blog is a wonderful resource for engaging music lesson plans. I am a follower, but noticed her latest post through a pin on Pinterest before I had even seen her blog post on Fruit Loop Notation. I recently started teaching rhythmic notation to my first graders, and I immediately knew they would love this method of differentiating between one or two sounds per beat. I enjoyed finding a cute font to create a Fruit Loop worksheet. You can download a copy below. Fruit Loop Notation Worksheet I used coffee filters to hold the cereal for the students. They are cheap and work perfectly! I measured out 1/4 cup for each student, which was usually just the right amount. As you can see, the students were engaged and enjoyed working on their rhythmic notation: When I introduced ta's and ti's, I used 4 stools to represent 4 beats. As we spoke a phrase from a poem, the students determined if there is one or two sounds on each beat. If there was one sound, one student would sit on the stool. If there were two sounds, two students shared the stool. When two students shared, they put their arms around their partner's shoulders to visually represent the beam over eighth notes. After we worked from text, I called students up to the stools to create different rhythmic patterns. We used words first, like "birthday" and "cake" for one or two sounds. Ex.: "Birthday, birthday, cake, cake." Then we moved to reading the pattern as "ti-ti, ti-ti, ta, ta." I put a Fruit Loop Rhythm worksheet under the document camera, and demonstrated how to complete an example. If I didn't have the document camera, I would have put a worksheet on the floor and let everyone watch as I completed one pattern. Since this was my students' first attempt at rhythmic dictation, I used the percussion setting on my keyboard and played two different sounds for the quarter notes and eighth notes. I typically used a higher pitched percussion sound for the eighth notes and a bass drum for the quarter notes. If students struggled, I added the words we had used (birthday & cake) or spoke the ti's and ta's. Most of the students were able to successfully notate the rhythms without the words or syllables. The nice thing about this activity, is that I could sit at the keyboard and see how students were doing from a distance. I played the example several times. When most students appeared to be finished, I had them tap their boxes as I played it again to check their work. We played a little game to check the students' work. Since I had numbered the beat boxes, I had used letters for each example. So I taught the students sign language for letters A-D. Then I played an example and they found it on their worksheet. They held up the letter for the pattern I played. I could assess how well they had done as they identified the examples. Of course, I had to try to trick them and repeat one before playing the last one. I got a few on that one when they immediately guessed the example I had not played yet. We had a good giggle over that. :) The following lesson, we used bottle caps and mini craft sticks to represent notes. Although it wasn't as tasty as the Fruit Loops, the students still had fun as they practiced rhythmic dictation. Next week, students will begin reading flashcards and playing rhythms. I will have them speak the rhythm prior to playing it. I use the phrase, "Say it, Say & Play, Play" They speak it first, then speak and play, then think the syllables while they play. We usually use the barred instruments set in pentaton for this activity, but any percussion instrument will do. Thanks to Pinterest, I also found a game to use for reading and playing rhythms. I can't wait to try it with my students. It's a game from Amy Abbott, who has a fantastic music blog named Music a la Abbott. The game is called St. Patty's Day Poisoned Rhythm Game. Check it out! Step/Skip Game Last summer, I scoured Pinterest looking for ideas for music centers. I was reviewing some of my older pins and noticed one that would be perfect for my 3rd graders, since they are working on melodic notation. We have been using individual music staff white boards to notate line/space notes, scales, and solfege patterns. Some students were struggling with line and space notes, so I wanted a fun way to reinforce this concept. When I am introducing line and space notes, I use my head and arms to demonstrate the difference. I put my hands on both sides of my head like an arrow going through my head for the line note. Then I put one arm over my head and one arm below my chin for a space note. I go back and forth and let the students call out which kind of note I am representing. I also tell the students that although we say a note is "on" the line, think of it as being stamped on, rather than sitting on the line. Some students may imagine that if a note were sitting on the line, it would actually be a space note. I find that stamping it on the line helps. Okay, back to the game that I found! It came from Jennifer Fink at Pianimation. The games and resources that she shares are amazing. The game I used last week was Floor Staff Races. Follow the link to read about the game and scroll down the post for the link to the game cards. Before playing the game, we practiced identifying space/line notes, steps/skips, and up/down. For the game, students drew skip/step cards and up/down cards and raced their toy from the ledger line to the top of the staff. I definitely recommend using more "up" cards than "down" in order to finish a game. I made two game boards and divided the classes in half to play and thought that would work well. However, that ended up being too many students per game, in my opinion. So the next time we played, I divided the class into 4 groups. Two groups played one game, while two groups played this one. We rotated halfway through class, so everyone got to play both games. I even used this game with one of my 4th grade classes while I listened to individual students play for recorder karate belts. We took the game one more step by having the students identify the pitch name after they moved the animal. If they could not name it, they had to return to the previous position (unless they had moved downward, in which case they had to remain there). What are you waiting for? Run over to Pinterest and plan your next lessons. If you need a starting point, you can check out my music board by clicking here. See you on Pinterest!
Fun free printable St Patrick's Day music theory worksheets. Your students will love Irish Intervals, Leprechaun Gold Rhythm, the Shamrock Game & more.
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March is such a fun month! With MIOSM, Spring, and St. Patrick's Day, there are so many ways to keep my students actively engaged. I love to use movement activities and folk dances. So I'm sharing March themed folk songs to explore and experience in music class to help you connect MIOSM and St. Patrick's Day multicultural activities.
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I created this game for my Kinder students. I was able to practice linking slides in Power Point and it is great for this activity. You can get it here: Pot 'o Gold - A So and Mi Saint Patrick's Day Game I've also created a version for my 1st graders - this on includes the pitches Mi-So-La. It also includes the matching game, Power Point game, and folder game in both F and G Major. You can get it here: Pot 'o Gold - A Mi-So-La Saint Patrick's Day Game First, the students view the Power Point. It will help them understand how to play the game. Each coin is linked to a slide like the one below. Students can sing the slide on So and Mi. Once they've sung it correctly, a click on the four leaf clover will bring you back to this slide. Click on the Leprechaun and the coin slides behind the pot. Be sure to collect the coins in order. The patterns on the coins are the same as some of the patterns on the pot in the game. Students can practice singing and labeling these melodies before they do so with the game materials. So and Mi in this Power Point and game are in F Major (So is on space 3 and Mi is on Space 2) and G Major (So is on line 4 and Mi is on line 3). Students can practice reading So and Mi on spaces and lines this way. Here's an example of the Pots and Leprechauns (they are in color in the download). I've found that I don't really need to print on card stock - although this is a sturdier way. I store the materials in quart-sized ZipLock bags and then store the entire set (I make enough so that students work in partners) in a gallon sized ZipLock bags which I label and store in a large tub. The students play the game in a large circle of pairs or trios (they are sitting next to their partner). Be sure to spread them out and warn them against mixing up materials. With the little ones, I follow these steps (sometimes I model playing out the whole game as a class before distributing individual materials): 1. Get out all the Leprechauns. Sing the melody on all the Leprechauns, having students locate the correct Leprechaun and sing it. (I'll sing "So So Mi Mi" and the students have to find it and hold it up. Then we sing it together). 2. Then, I model pulling out a Pot and showing it to the class. We identify the melody on it, then find the corresponding Leprechaun and put it together. I then let the students do this step with their own materials. (Most understand immediately but some need me to model this at their spot with them). 3. ONLY CALL OVER THE TEACHER WHEN YOU'VE MATCHED ALL THE PAIRS. This leaves you free to monitor and help most of the time. 4. If students are finished, I check their pairs. I put correct pairs back in the bag and leave incorrect pairs out for them to "try it again". I'll come back and check. When all pairs are correct, they turn over the cards and play a memory game. If they pick two cards that match, they keep them and play again. If not, it is their partner's turn. I've also added my "Over the Rainbow" folder game. My younger ones have done really well using fold games in the past. Simply paste page 1 to the front of the folder and pages 3 and 4 on the inside. Laminate. Laminate then cut out page 2. Store in a ziplock bag stapled to the folder. While folder games can be time-consuming to make, they are sturdy, easy to store, and kid-friendly. I love them! The students match the "hat" to the melody created by the coins on the pot 'o gold.
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Poison is a game that I learned WAY back in college. The year that I graduated (cough, cough, '98) the MENC (now the NAfME) conference was in Arizona. My mom and I went and I actually spent a great deal of time at the job fair, interviewing for various school districts (this is a whole blog post in itself). At any rate, at one of the sessions, a presenter taught us the game poison and she taught it as an aural rhythmic recognition game. She would clap a rhythm, the kids would clap it back. Then they would clap it together and then she would have them clap it themselves. Then she told them that that particular rhythm was now poisoned and that she was going to clap a series of rhythm patterns. They were to clap all the patterns back but if they heard the poisoned rhythm, they were not to clap that pattern. If they did clap that pattern, they were out and had to sit down. During the course of my teaching I have learned to play this game in more ways that the original way I learned it (but I must say, the "original way" is a quick, easy time-filler that requires NO flashcards or PowerPoint's). I thought it would be fun, for my kiddos, to create a holiday spin on this game. There are a couple ways to play it: as a PowerPoint game or as a flashcard game. Here's a synopsis of the PowerPoint game: The students first see this slide: Then they are given the rhythm that is poisoned or the "Leprechaun's Rhythm": They are NOT to clap this rhythm when they see the slides (but we do practice it a few times to get it in every one's ear): The students then see/read a series of slides (I have them stand up to play this game). I say "one, two, ready, read" and then they either read the slides out loud (if it's NOT the poisoned rhythm) or in their heads (if it IS the poisoned rhythm): Up until now they would have been reading all the slides out loud. When they see this slide, they **should** read the slide in their head. After the slide with the poisoned rhythm is a reminder slide stating that the previous rhythm was the Leprechaun's rhythm: If they clapped or said the Leprechaun's rhythm they are out and must sit down. I want to keep my kiddos engaged in the activity when they are out, so I have them pick up a die cut shamrock before they sit down (you can also pick up two packages of foam shamrocks at the Dollar Tree- it's a GREAT time saver.) When they are out, they still participate by holding up their shamrock if they read a rhythm that is NOT the poisoned rhythm and putting their shamrock down on the floor if they see the poisoned rhythm. I have created poisoned rhythm slides for all the patterns so that I can interchange and mix up which rhythm pattern in poisoned. It takes about 3 minutes to manipulate the PowerPoint and presto, they are practicing a new pattern. In the file at my Teachers Pay Teachers store I've included the JPEG files so all you have to do is drop them onto a blank slide to create new poison pattern games. You can also play this game with flashcards. By printing out the following flashcards, you would put one of them up on the board. You would tell the students that this is the Leprechaun's rhythm, or the poisoned rhythm. I then tell them that I am going to clap or play a rhythmic pattern and that they are to echo all the pattern, except if they hear the poisoned rhythm. They DO NOT clap that pattern back. As they get better at this game, you can add an additional rhythm that is poisoned. This means that the students will then echo all patterns except the TWO rhythms that are poisoned. As the kiddos get older, you can add more poisoned rhythms. This helps keep the game fresh and fun. The kids LOVE this game and it's one that they ask for, time and time again! I wanted also to have a formal assessment in March so I created some worksheets. I might use this one with my first graders, but I'm probably going to use the one that incorporated ta rest. I've created poison games for the following concepts (high do and ti are coming soon): ta ti-ti ta rest half note tika-tika ti-tika tika-ti syn-co-pa tom-ti ti-tom tim-ka so-mi la do re low la low so fa ti There's also a rhythm bundle and the melodic bundle will be coming soon! :) In addition to these games, I've also almost finished a "genertic poison" game that is not seasonal and you can use anytime of year. There will be a blog post about these soon! I'm hoping to make a spring garden version of these games too. . . where kiddo will have to watch out for the deadly weeds, lol! We'll see. . . :)
