Enrichment 

Enrichment Ideas

• Learn and sing songs from your childhood with your children. 

• Listen to music of your choice and keep a steady beat. Listen to a variety of styles.

• Learn rhymes and chant with your student. Make up actions to go with the words.

• "Conduct" while listening to music. Look up conductors on youtube to see them in action.

• Play calming music while doing school work. Mozart, Palestrina, Chopin can be good choices.

• Check out books of famous art masters and find music of the same time period. Play the music while looking at the art work. 

• Go on a "Sound Walk". Find/Make environmental sounds. Describe the sounds you hear: are they loud/soft? rough/gentle? high/low? long/short? Create a piece of "music" using a variety of environmental sounds. Record on an electronic device to listen to later.

• Attend a live performance of music in your community. Discuss the different roles of the musicians. Identify what the students likes/dislikes and why. 

• Youtube is a great resource for performances by artists on all instruments. Pick an instrument and find a performance using that instrument. Try Safeyoutube.net to make the youtube experience safer for your student. 

• Try your hand at composing a piece of music. Students can use non-traditional or traditional symbols to notate their ideas. Create musical instruments from everyday objects. Check out the musical group STOMP! for ideas of non-traditional instruments.

• Create musical instruments from items at home. Then, create a "family band" and make music together.

• For older students, pick a genre of music and research the history, famous pieces of music, famous musicians, etc. from that genre.

• Bucket Drumming has become very popular. Find some online resources, grab a bucket and some sticks and start drumming!