Organize 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
This 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). Â Then they
Two 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
Photocopy a page of music and have students use different colored markers to identify particular intervals and articulations. For example, you could make harmonic 3rds blue, melodic 4ths orange, and staccato marks-green. You can adapt this to whatever level and musical concepts the class is currently studying. Submitted by Dianne S. Cox
I came up with this idea so children could experience what it's like to sing and play instruments in a group. First I would teach the class a simple song by rote, I use Yellow Submarine by the Beatles but any fun song will do. If you can play basic chords on the piano or
Here’s a listening Game for students to identify different articulations and dynamics. Give the students a worksheet with a few groups of rhythm in 5 crotchets. Then the teacher make up any tunes with 5 crotchet beats rhythm or plays a scale from C to G in different ways. E.g. slur on the 1st two
For this activity, take a simple folk song and print it out without the words. (Like Bingo, Miss Mary Mack...) Then divide the students into two teams. You can then have the students look over the song to familiarize them with it. Ask them to find how many quarter notes?, half notes?, rests?, what’s the
This is a game that was submitted for our substitute lessons ebook Instrument 4 Corners For this game you will need four posters which represent the strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion instrument families of the orchestra. Then you play an orchestral CD and when the students hear the instrument, they decide which instrument family itÂ