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17-08-11 Back to School Ideas and Inspiration
Name Games for the Start of the School Year
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Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto Workshops
August 24, 28th Calgary, Edmonton
* Let’s Try Bucket Drumming! We have some really fun bucket drumming activities planned for Calgary, Edmonton, and Day 2 of Toronto
* Ukulele is Fun! How to begin the ukulele, Folk songs and easy pop songs that you and your students will love to learn! Bring your own uke, or borrow one of ours.
* Stories and So Much More! Music lessons based on storybooks that your students will love. Christie Noble and Tracy Stener are coming to Calgary and Edmonton to present this fun filled session.
* Assessment made easy - tools and tricks for making assessments less work.
* choral octavos supplied by JW Pepper * Denise has chosen beautiful, varied, new releases for your classroom or choir to learn next year
* Fun back to school ideas
Edmonton - Thursday, August 24th - Workshop Registration
Calgary - August 28th, 2017 - Workshop Registration
Toronto K-3 Workshop Day - August 30th - Workshop Registration
Toronto Gr. 3-6 Workshop Day - August 31st- Workshop Registration
Langley, BC K-6 Music Fun workshop - October 20th - Registration will be available soon at www.musicplay.ca
Denise will be at Saskatchewan Music Educators Conference in Regina - Sat. Oct 27th and
Ontario Music Educators Conference - Nov.2-4 in Deerhurst, ON
My Favorite Name Game for little ones, is my beat chant:
Preschool Beat Chant
Beat, beat, feel the beat.
Say hello to those you meet.
Concept: steady beat, timbre of voices, fast/slow, quiet/loud, high/low
Objective: students will perform a steady beat as they say a chant.
Students will classify the instruments as woods, metals, drums, shakes and scrapes.
Suggested Instruments: any classroom instrument
View this activity on YouTube.
WATCH A VIDEO ON YOUTUBE
Process and Suggestions:
The beat chants are a great way to welcome your students to music class or music time. Some music teachers teach more than a thousand students each week and it can be very difficult to remember the names. Starting your class with a name chant establishes a routine, introduces the term “beat” and will help the teacher remember all of the names.
1. Say the preschool chant, patting a steady beat as you speak. Say hello to four students, then say the chant again. Say hello to them using high and low voices, quiet and loud voices, fast and slow. Also use speaking, whispering, shouting or calling and singing voices. When singing hello use a variety of solfa patterns: so-mi so-so-mi, so-la-so-mi-do or mi-re-do-do-do. In the chants where children say their own names, encourage them to use different voices.
2. In the next lesson, instead of patting the steady beat, play the beat on a non-pitched instrument. Ask the students questions about the instrument you’ve chosen to play.
* What is this instrument called? * What is it made out of?
* How is the sound made on this instrument?
3. Demonstrate how to hold the instrument and how to play it before playing along with the chant. You may want to have the students play the instrument you use in this activity. If you have a tambourine or hand drum, you could hold it, but have the children tap it. This is an excellent way to introduce all of the unpitched instruments that you have in your classroom.
After 5-6 weeks you will have shown the students 5-6 instruments. I like to do an activity I call the Mystery Box (see page 51). I put 5-6 instruments in a box so the children can’t see what I’m playing. I play it, and they identify the instrument. It’s a great way to introduce them to the timbre of unpitched instruments, and to help build their vocabulary as they learn the names of all the instruments!
There are name games in all grades of Musicplay:
Musicplay 5 - #2 Concentration
Musicplay 3 – #2 Number Concentration
Musicplay Kindergarten – #8 Cookie Jar Chant
Musicplay Kindergarten – #12 Hickety Tickety
Other Favorites:
Jump in! Jump out!
Turn yourself around.
Jump in! Jump out!
Turn yourself around.
My name is _______. Oh, yeah.
And I like to _______. Oh, yeah.
And I like _________(someone’s name) All right, all right, all right.
Up the ladder, down the ladder. – search on YouTube.
New at www.musicplayonline.com .
- Did you know that all reading songs have Note Highlight movies? The first time, the lyrics are sung (unaccompanied) and notes are highlighted. The second time, it's sung in solfa, and the notes are highlighted.
- Did you know there is a unit on Star Spangled Banner and a unit on O Canada? Many interactive activities for both. O Canada has new lyrics, English, French, bi-lingual - a Cree version is coming soon!
- Did you know there is a staff lesson? It's in interactive activities for the first 6 songs of each grade level.
- Did you know we have a unit Introducing the Instruments of the Orchestra? And a What do you Hear interactive activity! And a bingo game.
Denise Gagne
denise@musicplay.ca
(blog) www.denisegagne.com
New at www.musicplayonline.com .
Denise Gagne
denise@musicplay.ca
(blog) www.denisegagne.com
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