I'm sharing some fun and fabulous elementary Music Class Free activities with you in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Have some Valentine's Day music fun with the Valentine Music Buddies! A fun way to practice and reinforce quarter note, eighth notes, and quarter rest (ta, ti-ti, rest) in your music room - especially preparing for Valentine's Day or the whole month of February! Standard and STICK Notation are both included! Perfect for your Valentine's Day music lessons throughout the month of February! ***SAVE EVEN MORE WITH THE Valentine Buddies Bundle for fun and meaningful rhythm practice in your music classroom!**** Included in compressed zip file: 1) Suggestions for use/PDF rhythm practice slides in standard and stick notation you can project 2) PDF game for engaging rhythmic reading practice and assessment, printables in standard and stick notation for writing rhythms and composing 2, 3, and 4 beat measures. 3) Printable Valentine Buddies Rhythm Cards in Standard and Stick Notation {BONUS FILE!} Lesson 1 – During part of your lesson, use slides 3-19 for rhythm reading practice. Lesson 2 – Use slides 21-36 for a “game” to continue rhythm reading practice - Use FULL SCREEN MODE in your PDF viewer. Lesson 3 - Complete each pattern printables Lesson 4 – Compose patterns printables Use any time throughout the WINTER for rhythm reading/writing practice or review. Printables could also be used for SUB PLANS Great for any music teaching methodology (Kodaly, Orff, Dalcrose) Created by the Totally Tuned-in Teacher, Tina Jones You might also enjoy: Valentine Buddies 2 Rest Ta titi Set Valentine Buddies 1 Ta titi Set Valentine Buddies 4 Sixteenth Notes Set Love Monkeys Note Reading Mini-Books Valentine Rhythm Fun Reindeer Rhythms 2 Quarter Rest Set Forest Friends Rhythm Pattern Fun Any questions or comments, please email and remember, customers who leave feedback receive TpT credits that can be used toward future purchases! Before leaving feedback, if there is any issue with the file, please let me know first and I'm always happy to help! Thank you!
Looking for a fun and engaging Valentine's Day Music Activity? This Rhythm Valentine's Day Music Write the Room activity is perfect for the month of February in any elementary music classroom! This resource is perfect for all your elementary music students learning rhythms! Students will focus on reading and writing rhythms in standard notation as they "write the room." Since this activity is differentiated, it can be used with multiple grade levels! Included: 7 Rhythm Sets (see below) 5 Recording Sheet Options Answer Keys for Each Rhythm Set Color & Black/White Printing Options ✅ Music Write the Room How To: Write the Room activities are wonderful for enforcing concepts in the elementary music room. For this activity, you’ll need to choose which version best fits your students’ needs. Print the recording sheet, answer key (optional), and cards for your chosen version. I like to laminate the cards, so they last longer. Cut out and hang the cards around the room. Students walk around the room with their recording sheet and write down the answers in the corresponding box. Rhythm Sets Included: Quarter Rest and Barred Eighths (Ta and Titi) Quarter Rest (Shh) Half Note (Ta-a) Sixteenth Notes (Tika Tika) Eighth/Sixteenth Combinations (Ti Tika and Tika Ti) Syncopation including Sixteenth Combinations Syncopation without Sixteenth Combinations *Note: No actual syllables are used in this resource, so it can be used with any pedagogy! Write the Room activities are a perfect example of independent work in the elementary music classroom. Not only do they give your students a chance to work independently, but they are practicing reading and rhythms! This Valentine's Day Rhythm Music Write the Room is an all inclusive bundle with seven differentiated options! This LOW PREP activity is perfect for Valentine's Day in the elementary music classroom! This Valentine's Day Music Rhythm Activity is perfect for: Independent Work Small Groups Rhythm Stations Early Finishers Rhythm Assessment Music Sub Plans
Today I'm giving a glance into my first day of school lesson plans, from TK - 5th grade. In the first day of music class, students are arguably the most attentive they will be all year. This puts a unique pressure on the first day's lesson plan to set the tone for the rest of our time together.
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If you're trying to get your fourth and fifth graders singing, Love Somebody is the best singing game for sixteenth notes + Valentine's Day!
Here are some of my favorite seasonal Dollar Tree finds for January and February that I use in the music classroom. Grab them now before they disappear after Valentine's Day!
Hello, My name is Tina Morgan, and Lindsay invited me to do a guest blog post. This is my 27th year of teaching, and I frequently create new activities to keep everything fun for ME! My first 7 years, I taught grades K-6. I then spent 13 years teaching only 5th & 6th graders before transferring to my current school as the violin teacher for grades 2-5. Four years ago I moved into the general music position and now teach Pre-K-5, so it’s been an adjustment learning to deal with the really young ones! I thought I would share a fun activity I created for my kindergarten students. I bought these boxes at the Dollar Tree. There are 4 designs and I bought 2 of each. I used them to make a game for my Kindergarten students, who can read 4-beat rhythm patterns using quarter notes and quarter rests. In a Word document, I created 6 hearts with rhythm patterns on them. I used clip art from Dancing Crayons to create the rhythm patterns. I printed the hearts on card stock, cut out the hearts, and then laminated them using my little laminator that I bought from Amazon last summer. I’m not sure how I’ve lived without it for so long! The laminator at my school was broken for ages, and the film isn’t as sturdy as the sheets I use in my small machine. For small jobs, it’s perfect! Grab these hearts for FREE here. This year I am lucky – my largest Kindergarten class has only 20 students! For some classes, I can put the students in pairs to play the game. Other classes may have a few groups of 3. Each group has a box containing the rhythm hearts. The students take turns finding the rhythm pattern that I say and clap, then put the heart in their box. What are your favorite activities to practice rhythm reading during Valentine's week?
Your elementary music students will love composing with this rhythm activity! This music game with make a great addition to your rhythm centers! It comes ready to use out of the package. Perfect for Valentine's Day lessons too! Included in this listing: (4) 8.5"x 4.25" cards printed on high quality 100# cardstock in a glossy finish (24) quarter note hearts (24) joined eighth note hearts (24) quarter rest hearts (1) latch-top box with activity label Hearts are made from acrylic and measure slightly less than 1”.
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Love Somebody is a great song for practicing do-mi-so in the elementary music classroom. Complete with a circle game to keep the moving!
Get up and moving with this fun musical hearts game. A great Valentine's Day Game for kids to help with listening and motor skills.
30 of the best Valentine’s Day games including great options for kids or adults! Everything from classroom party games to printable ones!
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This product can be used on or around valentines day for students to practice reading notes on the staff. The teacher would cut apart the 12 teacher cards and tape or pin them on walls or cabinets around the room. Each write the room card has music notes on the staff that create a word. Students wil...
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Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! Now, I know what some of you are probably thinking: Valentine’s Day isn’t a real holiday! Why should we “celebrate” this in our lessons and rehearsals? I’m inclined to agree that Valentine’s Day is basically a Hallmark holiday, but at this point in the
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Valentine's Day Collaborative Poster! Bee My Valentine - Team Work Activity - for your 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade or 7th grade classroom.
Vocal Exploration: These vocal exploration pathways are a great way to warm up your singers' voices to get them up into their head voice. They work great for any age. The little kids love them but I have heard of middle school choral directors using my vocal explorations with their kids to mix it up and add something new. This PDF contains: -Directions for use -18 slides for vocal exploration. Follow the bow and arrow, love letters, and other fun valentines characters! -13 slides without the line drawn so that you can project onto a white board, marker board or SMART board, and you can draw your own pitch pathways or better yet, let the students! 2 student composition worksheets that allows students to create their own vocal exploration to keep. This file is also included in the following bundle: Songs and Activities for Valentine's Day For more vocal exploration, check out: Vocal Explorations for Winter Vocal Explorations for Fall/Autumn Vocal Explorations for Halloween Vocal Explorations for Spring Check out my teaching blog for more ideas: Pursuit of Joyfulness Folow me on TPT for updates on new products, sales and freebies! Your feedback brightens my day! If you use this with your students, I would love to hear how it went! Thanks for stopping by!
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I'm sharing some fun and fabulous elementary Music Class Free activities with you in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Just thought of a fun and super easy activity for Singing Time this week!! I have a heart puzzle and will hide each piece around the room (for Jr. primary I will have the shapes outlined on the board so they know exactly where to place the piece once they find it) they will read the statement and then pianist will play the first few notes for them to guess what song it is. Then we will sing. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy... and fun ;) Here are the songs I'm doing, but it would be easy to adjust accordingly: -We can show our love for Jesus by following His example (78) I’m trying to be like Jesus -We know our Savior loves children (IKTMSLM) I know that my Savior loves me -We can show our love for Heavenly Father by choosing the right (160) Choose the Right Way -We know God loves us because He Sent His Son (34) He Sent His Son -Someone else loves us that will never allow us to “go astray” (110) Follow the Prophet -I love you! Pick your favorite song :)
Valentine's Day gross motor activities for kids
Two lively Musical Games for Valentines Day that'll get everyone moving and always go down well with little ones.
As a music teacher, we can never have too many circle games for primary! Here's a game that uses the song, " A-Tisket-A-Tasket " ( it's bas...
Valentine's Day Escape Room
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Time for Valentine's Day Music lessons with a fun resource! 18 Pages of fun Valentine Themed printables for your elementary music students at many levels to review and reinforce note value, meter, rhythm writing practice, rhythmic dictation and composing activities, too! Composing Rhythm Patterns Rhythmic Dictation Identify the Meter Add the barlines ***This file is included in Rhythm Fun Through the Seasons SAVE 20% by purchasing the BUNDLE*** Perfect quick assessments for elementary music teachers like me who see their classes just once a week in a short block of time! Created by the Totally Tuned-in Teacher, Tina Jones Print out for individuals or project and do as a whole group Use as worksheets, assessments, or even substitute plans! Print double sided or even make into a workbook to use over many classes. You can even save paper by printing these out and place into clear covers to use with dry erase markers. PDF File includes: 18 pages of printables - see thumbnails above! Do you need sheets with different rhythm combinations? Please feel free to ask me and I'm happy to add more pages to this set! :) Thank you! Always email if you have any trouble with the file and I will do everything I can to help you! [email protected] For February and Valentine's Day, you might also like: Love Monkeys Note Reading Mini-Books Valentine Buddies 1 Ta titi Set Valentine Buddies 2 Rest Ta titi Set Valentine Buddies 3 Half Note Set Valentine Buddies 4 Sixteenth Notes Set Valentine Buddies Bundle Sweet Rhythms Valentine Note Reading Fun Skate into Rhythm Bundle Up in Rhythm Sing the Snowmen - Sol Mi La Edition Sing the Snowmen - La Sol Mi Do Edition Fall into Rhythm Note Reading Bundle I hope you enjoy using these in your classroom with your students! Please let me know if you'd like to see more for other themes you have in mind! Remember, when you leave feedback, you earn TpT credits you can use toward future purchases on TpT!!! Yippee! Have a question or request for more printables like these? Please email me at [email protected]
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So, I've created my first concept specific packet for Teachers Pay Teachers. This is something that I have been debating to do. I want to make products that are accessible and usable for teachers, regardless of their training, experience or background. But I'll be honest that my products are created with the Kodály metholodogy and sequence in mind. That being said, I also don't want to undermine or sell products that you really need to create on your own when taking a Kodály level. I know, sounds kind of mean and selfish. Let me explain. I did my levels at Portland State (four years worth) and then two more (level II & III) at Colorado State University and I'm going to be teaching level II this summer at CSU. At Portland State I learned pedagogy from the brilliant, amazing Susan Brumfield. Then at CSU I had Sue Liethold-Bowcock and Ann Eisen, who, too were amazing and wonderful. Each of these teachers presented things in a different way. Some of the things that they taught me are amazing and I use them each and every year. There are other ideas that I pull out from time to time (you know what I mean. You go back to your notes or you go to a workshop and you recall something from levels and you say to yourself "oh yeah! I forgot about that activity or song!!") And other ideas flopped because either I was so overwhelmed with everything going in my brain that I forgot how to do the activity or I wasn't sold on it and in turn my kids didn't "buy it." Each of us are going to develop our own style and ways to prepare, present and practice melodic and rhythmic concepts. You get all these tools and ideas in levels, from your teacher and from your peers. Some are going to work beautifully and some need to be adapted and tweaked to meet the needs of your kids. When I started thinking about creating concept specific files I didn't want to give away my concept plans or some of my specific preparation and practice activities because I know that the plans HAVE to be specific to you and that some of the things I do you have to see in action because they are too complex or complicated to explain. You have to choose your song literature, you have to choose the activities that you like to teach (because face it, you won't sell it to your students if you don't like it). And with the activities, it's back to the old saying that there's more than one way to skin a cat. There are a gazillion ways to prepare and practice each concept. Each are wonderful and amazing and quite frankly creating and selling a file of things that I do that are concept specific overwhelmed me because of how vast of a task that would be!! So, I decided to go to the bare bones of ways that each of us prepare and practice elements and make things that really exam at the critical attributes of that element. So, the meat of this file is 10 PDF files (that you can run like a PowerPoint, the instructions are included or that you can convert into a PDF) that are adaptable so you can use them for either preparing, presenting or practicing Ta & Ti-Ti: There is notation for 15 songs and chants and games, if applicable. And I included my ta & ti-ti flashcards. Here are the songs that are included (I know, three of the songs are in the Bee Bundle, and these are similar but made specific for ta & ti-ti): There are also worksheets (I'll show you a couple more down below): Here's an example of one of the PDFs, they are all set up exactly like this, so you can choose what to use out of the file. There is a lyric slide: Then a beat slide(s): Then a rhythm prep slide with iconic representation: Then the presentation slides. This notation presents ta and ti-ti written both with and without note heads: Then immediately applying this knowledge to the song: Then reading it, this can be for immediate practice (same lesson as presentation) or later practice: And then one more time with note-heads: For every PDF there are two matching worksheets (which are in color and black & white): There is one that is a rhythm chart: To go with this, for practice after ta & ti-ti I created rhythm strips. There are multiple rhythms. I suggest in the file to print each set of rhythms out on different colored papers. Cut along the lines and then I tell you how many of each rhythm pattern to have in each set that you will then put in an envelope. This way, you can use the same set of envelopes with all 10 songs (rather than cutting all these strips and tailoring them for each song) AND the color coded strips make it REALLY easy to assess. As you look around you class to see who has the correct rhythms all you have to do is look at the color: There is a writing worksheet for that goes with each of the 10 songs in PDF form: And then I included rhythm preparation cards. I have to say that these are one of my favorite visual ways to prepare ta & ti-ti. (There are cards that match each of the 10 PDFs and the hearts for the chart). The idea is that the hearts only are in the chart. The class (or you could use this as a station) derive the way the words go. This is an example of "Jean Jean": (this is my big chart, it can actually hold 16 beats:) After your kiddos know ta & ti-ti, we then use this in early practice to go from the iconic to the symbolic representation. As you can see, the first line has been replaced (I usually just stick the cards on top and then sort them later): And here the whole song has been replaced: I also use the hearts on a chart like this. There are paperclips that I inserts into slots that I cut using an exacto knife that hold the cards in place: Same idea, then the rhythms replace the icons: This is available at my Teachers Pay Teachers store. Have a GREAT weekend everyone!
A new song for primary grades with the ideas and suggestions to help you craft a school performance for Valentine's Day or any time of year!
Hello Teachers, I'm really excited to share 4-Valentine activities that work well in my music class. Valentine's Day is such a fun holiday and my kiddos look forward to celebrating it with fun activities in music class. Musical Candy Note Game: 3rd & 4th graders love playing this game while learning the names of their treble clef notes. I use candy hearts or skittles as game markers to play this game. They have to match the treble clef note cards from the music staff with the letters on the game board. The first child to get to the end of the game board wins the game. I let the children eat the candy when they are done playing the game. If you would like to play this game with your class click here to learn more about it. Line Dancing (grades 4-8th) My class loves dancing to the cupid shuffle and request this dance every year. My 6th graders had so much fun with this dance that when they heard the Cupid Shuffle music playing during one of their school field trips, they all decided to stop bowling and show their dance moves right inside the bowling alley. I was thrilled when the classroom teachers told me about the flash dancing at the bowling alley. If you want to try this dance with your class, you can get the dance directions and a Valentine mini-music lesson by clicking here. 6th graders doing the Cupid Shuffle! Valentine Games: Lucy Locket Lost Her Valentine My younger student (grades k-2nd) love this game. One student leaves the room as another student hides a Valentine card. The student in the hall returns to the room to find the hidden Valentine card. The class sings Lucy Locket Lost Her Valentine to help this student find the hidden Valentine. The class will sing the song loudly when the student is close to the Valentine card and they will sing softly if the student is going away from the Valentine card. Here are the words to the song: Lucy Locket lost her Valentine, Kitty Fisher found it. Not a single candy in it, only ribbon 'round it (use same melody as the Lucy Locket game). This game is a favorite with young children. Playing Candy Rhythms Valentine's Day is not complete without candy. I place different candy bars on the whiteboard (see picture below). Then I point to each candy bar on the beat and have the class tap out the syllable names of each candy bar on percussion instruments. Then I have them echo play ta and ti-ti rhythms. Now I have them end the music by playing the candy bar rhythms again. My class loves playing candy bar rhythms on percussion instruments and it's fun to move the candy around to create new rhythms for them to play. Candy Bar Rhythms If you are looking for more fun activities and ideas for your music class? be sure to Sign-up by email on my side bar to claim freebies and teacher tips & tricks, Sherry :) Check out some of my favorite games and activities!
In this Valentine's Day themed "Escape the Room" packet you will find everything you need to set up an escape the music room experience for your students! There are 6 music knowledge based puzzles including rhythm, treble clef note names, tempo terms, instrument families and overall musical knowledge. You can easily modify this activity to fit students between 4th and 8th grades. Can be done on a cart or in a music room. I've included a lesson guide to explain how I've used it in my classroom (on a cart) and how you can modify and use it in a classroom. You can also put as much or as little work into it as you'd like to fit your needs. If you want to use real keys, and lock boxes or have the clues hidden under various Valentine's objects you can or if you want to use it as a sub plan you can just print the worksheets and have them solve the clues with a sub, that's great too! My students were SO excited when I told them what we were doing, it's a craze that is taking over! If you purchase it and would like template copies of the letters or codes I'd be more than happy to send them in a separate file. Enjoy! **New to the packet is a guide that you can display in class or put in an envelope that has all the information students might need to solve the puzzles. Really great if you're using it as a sub plan or if you think students might need a little help** Also Try: Escape the Music Room Original Treble Clef Escape the Music Room U.S. Road Trip Escape the Music Room Escape the Music Room Jr. Escape the Music Room/Centers: Winter Rhythm Olympics Escape the Haunted Music Room Escape the Music Room: The Great Gingerbread Escape! 6 Musical Puzzles
Printable Handbell songs with large, bright colored notes to match the colors of your hand bells. 6 easy songs for kids and beginners.
