Picking Great Action Songs for your Educational Music Games
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Teaching music to children can be a very challenging task since kids have very short attention span. If children in your class are bored they will quickly get fidgety and disruptive to the rest of the class. If you use your creativity in music classes like this you’ll quickly become a very effective teacher. Using [...]
Teaching Issues with Music Theory Fun Sheets
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Teaching Questions
Would this product be suitable for one on one studio lessons?
Of course! Some of the products are more suitable than others, for instance Musical Terms for the Digital Age is highly appropriate for private studio teachers preparing students for theory exams.
We have tried to make instant print music lessons universally adaptable to a wide [...]
What exactly ARE Music Theory Fun Sheets?
Monday, March 29th, 2010What exactly ARE Music Theory Fun Sheets?
Music Theory Fun Sheets are Worksheets designed for music teachers to use in music classes and for individual theory instruction.
They are supplied in Digital Format so that you self print them – as many times as you need!
Music Theory Fun Sheets are not normal worksheets because:
Each [...]
Substitute Lesson ideas – Musical Bingo
Monday, March 22nd, 2010For an emergency substitute lesson I have 2 bingo games. Both are purchased games with game cards and a CD. One game is made up of musical instrument sounds and the other is sound we hear around us. I use the instruments bingo for grades 2 -4 and the sounds bingo for [...]
Classroom Music Games – Scribble Music
Monday, March 22nd, 2010This is an activity that I use during extra time or to leave for a substitute to do with elementary students. It’s an activity called “Scribble Music”. The activity teaches students to listen for the differences in fast and slow music. After reviewing the differences between fast and slow, each student lays on the floor [...]
A classroom music lesson about Franz Joseph Haydn
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Planning music lessons? here are a couple of ideas to help you create some fun music resources for your lessons.
Encourage the students to pretend that they are Prince Esterhazy, and that they are looking for a new Kapellmeister. Ask them to write a job advertisement outlining the duties of the position and the type of [...]
Substitute Music Lesson ideas – Note Pizza
Sunday, March 21st, 2010When I was asked to teach a half hour class of 35 kids (aged 8 to 16) before their regular teacher could be there, a friend and I came up with this idea:
Build “note pizzas” by giving 6 groups each a set of a Pizza pan and 1 whole note (whole pizza) 2 [...]
Listening ideas for Music by Mozart
Saturday, March 20th, 2010The Fun Music Company has a whole series of lesson plans available about composers, from the Baroque through to the 20th Century.
Listening List and other resources for learning about Mozart in the music class.
Mozart Requiem Mass in D Minor Confutatis and Lacrimosa
Piano Concerto no. 21 2nd movement: Andante
Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Allegro
Symphony no [...]
Classroom Music Games – Music Treasure Hunt
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Select 4 contrasting instruments (any that you like…for example a scraping sound, a hitting sound, a shaking sound and a pitched percussion or barred instrument) Each instrument will represent a sound (left, right, forward, backward). Practice moving around the room to the sounds. Choose 4 students to play instruments, 1 to be the “treasure hunter” [...]
Learning about keyboard instruments and their history
Saturday, March 20th, 2010The piano has several less known cousins which are important for us to introduce into the music classroom: the celesta, harpsichord and organ. They are great to include in music lesson plans.
Discuss with students the similarities and differences among keyboard instruments. The keyboard instruments are related to each other in that they are controlled by [...]