Classroom Music Games – A Conducting Game
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010I begin by asking if anyone can think of a two-beat song. If not I suggest ‘Row, row, row your boat’ (Or age appropriate if they are older)then I get the group to clap down on their knees for the down beat and click for the upbeat. Ask if they notice the difference in dynamics. [...]
Classroom Games – Celebrity Heads
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010This is a version of the “Celebrity Heads” game. Three students stand out the front of the class, wearing different labels on their heads (which can be pre-determined by the class), either musical terms, names of instruments, musical notes/symbols (depending on the current focus) or a combination of all. The students take turns in guessing [...]
Making a lesson plan fun for young music students
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010If you’ve been a teacher of young children’s classes you’ll know one very important thing: you always need have a lesson plan. That is, if you want to end the day in a positive frame of mind! A lesson plan doesn’t have to be complex, and teachers who have been in the game a while [...]
Classroom Music Game – Moving To Musical Notation
Monday, March 15th, 2010I tried something different with my beginners a while ago – ages 7 – 8yrs and they enjoyed it. I drew semibreves, minims, dotted minims, crothchets and crotchet rests on the board in random order. They had to walk forward a step and count 4 for the semibreve, 3 for dotted minim etc and no [...]
Classroom Games – The Maze game
Monday, March 15th, 2010I have a game called the Maze Game. After I construct a maze on my classroom floor from music textbooks, the object is for one student to go through the maze blindfolded. Here is the fun part. Movement directions for the student are given through various instrumental tone colors such as sticks for right; triangle [...]
Classroom Music Games – Dice Rhythm Game
Monday, March 15th, 2010Find some small round tokens, about the size of a large coin. On each token draw or print a combination of notes…i.e. 3 quarter notes, a whole note, a dotted half plus a whole…any combination up to a value of 10. Create approximately 50 tokens, with values from 1 count to 10 counts. To play [...]
Classroom Music Games – Note Sums Game
Sunday, March 14th, 2010Organize the students in 2 lines facing the board. The first two players in line are given a mathematical equation that the final answer equals either 4 (whole note/rest), 2 (half note/rest), 3 (dotted half note) or 1 (quarter note/rest). Start the equations with only addition and subtraction and then you can move onto using [...]
Classroom Game using a traditional folk song
Sunday, March 14th, 2010This is a game using the traditional folk song “Down on the Banks”, however it an be done with any short folk song with a strong beat. You have the kids get into a circle and they put their left hand out to their left side (face-up, like someone might give them five). Then they [...]
Three Fill In Ideas for substitute music teachers
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Two great fill-in or idea’s that’s adaptable to a wide range of ideas which can be used by anyone for a music class or in a music studio is… * My Body Orchestra – in a large circle or small groups, give the kids the opportunity to use their body as an instrument, or parts [...]
Teaching the Cello and Double bass in the music classroom
Saturday, March 13th, 2010Here are a few simple classroom games you can play to help your students learn about the cello and double bass in the music classroom. Learning about the parts of the instruments is easy if you play this game: play Pin the Parts on the Cello or or Double Bass (a variation on Pin the [...]
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