Welcome back to another 2/4 Tuesday! If you are a blogger, post about 2-4 ideas and link up below! If you are a blog lover, don't forget to check out the great blogs linked up below!
I love posting these on my "Rhythm Stew" October bulletin board. My students use the rhythm cards to create ostanati and/or create rhythm poems. Find them for FREE HERE!
Thanks to Aileen at Mrs. Miracle's Music Roomfor hosting Five Favorite Pins of September! Here are my five favourite (note the Canadian spelling :) ) pins of September! I hope Aileen does one for October too! I love this idea for a Linky Party! Please check out the other blogs that have linked up!
Click on the link to go directly to Ashley Queen's blog for teachers. It is EXCELLENT! This is a cute and fun centre using fake fruit to create rhythm patterns.
I love this idea. I wish I had a big bulletin board outside my room for this one. The original pinner is not named. If this is your board, let me know so I can recognize you!
1. Canoe Song (good for teaching ti-ta-ti, or syn-co-pa) FREE interactive activities
I thought I would share my new and improved Smart notebook file of Canoe song! I use this song with my grade fours to teach ti-ta-ti. We learn the melody and identify the new rhythm and also learn to play the melody for the first time (we played harmony only prior to this). HERE are the slides from the Smart notebook file.
For the first two slides I work with my students to match the proper rhythms with the words to our song.
The second slide is a replica of the worksheets I have my students fill out. They match the rhythm box according to the words of the song and then copy out the rhythm above the words.
After filling out our rhythms independently, we start figuring out the melody of the song on the barred instruments. I cover up the measures and remove them as we go to keep the students focused and to avoid them feeling overwhelmed.
This slide has the completed melody but is still covered up in order to isolate measures as we need.
Hope this helps you with Canoe song!
2. Criss-Cross Apple Sauce, for teaching ta and ti-ti
I have been using this poem for the last five years (thanks to a former teaching partner) in order to teach ta and ti-ti to my grade ones. They love the poem and they way we use high, medium and low voices. It is fabulous! You can find the poem in this great resource by Doug Goodkin.
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I'm including a couple random ideas. My classroom tour photos are still to come this week!
1. The Best Beatbox Video You Will Ever See
So I have to teach a double class in my little room. That's about 50 grade 5/6 students in my itty bitty room. So to get settled into the space for the first time, we watched this amazing video! I fast forwarded his talk at the beginning though, a couple jokes that wouldn't be good for the kiddoes ;)
2. Student Workbook/Journals
This is something new I am trying this year. It's quite a bit of work, but I think it will be worth it. Hoping anyways! I am trying these Music workbooks out with my grade 2 and 3 classes this year.
First, I bought a whack of notebooks from Staples (4 for 99 cents!) and cut them in half.
Then I decided what I wanted inside them. I decided to put three copies of each work page (that I know for sure I'm using) in each booklet. One copy for each term, which also helps with having consistent assessment. I used glue tape from the dollar store put the pages in.
I decided to do "Composer of the Season" this year instead of monthly composers.
Youtube performance video reviews (reflective thinking).
Rhythmic dictation sheets.
Simplified rhythmic dictation as well.
Self-assessment sheets for singing. Students mark a plus sign, checkmark or minus sign beside each sentence. Plus means "I do this every time", checkmark means "I do this most times" and minus means "I need to work on this".
Ta and ti-ti worksheets for grade 1. Poem from Doug Goodkin's Intery Mintery.
Ta-a worksheets for grade 2.
Click HERE for everything I have included in journals.
I like the idea of this because written assessments are in one spot and progress from term to term can clearly be seen. We'll see how it goes! What do you do to keep track of written work?
So, instead of doing something that would prepare me for the first week of school... I decided to work on a little project for centres. Oh well! Here it is:
Ice Cube Tray Rhythms
This is yet another idea inspired by classroom teachers! Ice cube trays are often used for ten frame math work and I thought, "Hey! I want to come up with an idea using them for the Music room!"
I went to Dollarama and found something even better: An ice cube tray divided in groups of THREE! I immediately thought it could be used for practising 3/4 metre.
And it's blue! Yay!
I also grabbed small white circular sticker labels.
And I picked up a few baggies of glass stones.
Once I was back home, I got started.
Using a black pen, I wrote rhythms on the STICKY side of the stickers.
Next, I stuck those guys to the flat bottom of the stones.
And voila! All ready for the kids to practise working with rhythms in 3/4!
And now maybe on to doing something that will prepare me for next week!
I love games and so do my kiddos!
During the month of June, I included this fun game in our primary centre rotation.
BUSTED!
What you need:
A container of some sort. I used empty Lysol wipe containers.
Coloured tongue dipressers. I got mine from Michaels.
A thin permanent marker that you will write rhythms with. Don't forget to include some BUSTED sticks! I did 1/5 eighth notes, 1/5 quarter notes, 1/5 quarter rests, 1/5 half notes, and 1/5 Busted!.
I made a nifty label! For the upper elementary ones that I will do next year, I think I'll make a vertical label...
Put all of the sticks inside the container, with the rhythm side of each stick at the bottom.
And voila! Your game is ready to be played!
Click HERE for the game instructions and HERE the FREE printable label!
Oh my gosh! I just realized I haven't posted in 3 weeks! Ah!
As things are beginning to wind down, (only 5 days left!) I thought it would be perfect to have the children do centre work. It has been the perfect thing to do in June!
Grade 1 and 2 students have been doing a rotation of three centres during the last two Music Classes.
I can't take credit for any of these ideas though! Lego rhythm activities are all over the internet! I've seen many noodle activities on Pinterest, but my favourite is Mrs. King's, over at her blog. And my friend Renee over at The Reading Corner swears by Dollarstore page protectors for numerous activities in her classroom!
Stay Tuned for the new additions to this week's centres!
