Welcome to Music!

We are excited to help you explore your musicality and practice the skills that are the building blocks for all good musicians! Enjoy, explore and most importantly have fun!

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Week 2: K.1C Identify the timbre of instrument families.

I can identify characteristics of instruments in the four instrument families.

1. Watch the two videos introducing the instrument families:

2. Explore the instrument families on your own! Visit Classic For Kids and SFS Kids fun with Music to investigate the instruments of the orchestra. Click on the picture to go to the website.

3. Listen to the instruments of each family.

What do the sounds remind you of? A bird tweeting in the trees? Thunder rolling in the sky?

4. Explore the sounds of individual instruments in each family at the DSO website. Click on the picture to access the website.

5. Time to make your own instrument!

   1. Using things in your house, see if you can find or create an instrument from each family!

a) Can you find something to hit or scratch or shake for the percussion family?

b) Can you find something to blow into for brass or woodwinds?

c) What about stretching a rubber band across a shoe box to make a string instrument?

If you’d like to share your work, take a picture and email it to your teacher (email addresses listed above).

6. Extension: Play the instrumentation game using this link, and see how different instruments make music sound different!

Week 3: K.4A: Identify steady beat in musical performances.

I can identify and keep a steady beat in musical examples.

1. Watch the video about steady beat.

2. Head over to https://www.quavermusic.com/Login.aspx to practice steady beat!

3. When you’re on the Student Dashboard, click on “Student Interactives” to find the button called “Music Theory.” Play the first game, “Beat or No Beat.” Click on each picture and listen carefully to the sound it makes. Does it make a steady, heartbeat-like sound? If so, drag it to the “Beat” line. If it makes a noise that doesn’t have a repeating sound, drag it to “No Beat.”

4. Watch the second video and see if you can march to the beat of this song!

5. Can you make up your own movements to keep a steady beat to music? Go back to QuaverMusic.com on “Student Interactives,” then click on “Movement.” Find the first game called “Body Percussion Dance.” Body percussion is when we use our body to make hitting sounds. We can clap, stomp our feet like we did in the marching song, pat our legs, pat our heads, snap our fingers- anything that makes music! In this game, you click and drag the type of body percussion you want to use- one movement for each beat.

6. Practice the pattern you’ve made, then click on the button that says “track 1.” Play your pattern to the beat of the song! Try again with Track 2.

If you’d like to share your work, take a picture and email it to your teacher (email addresses listed above).

Extension: choose your favorite song and your favorite type of body percussion. Keep the steady beat to your favorite song using your own body percussion patterns!

Week 4: K.4A Identify simple relationships between music and other subjects.

I can find music all around me!

1. Watch this video about music we can hear all around us!

   1. https://youtu.be/eTdXkFTTRm4

2. Telly was worried that he couldn’t make music without his instrument, but we know that there is music everywhere!

3. Listen to the story, The Listening Walk.

   1. https://youtu.be/BLs4r8lHUSg

4. Now it’s your turn to go on a listening walk! Listen for sounds of music all around.

5. Use the chart (Exploring the Sounds of Our City) to go on a music scavenger hunt. Record what sounds you hear and where you hear them!

   1. If you don’t have a printer, don’t worry- just make your own chart on your own paper!

6. Last week we learned about the steady beat- the heartbeat of music. Did any of the sounds you heard have a steady beat?

7. Draw a chart like the example in the photo below, and sort the sounds you heard into “beat” and “no beat” (Beat vs. No Beat Chart)

8. The next video gives more examples of ways to make music with stuff all around you.

   1. https://youtu.be/iCp62zvbxHY

9. A couple of weeks ago, you found instruments around your house when we learned about instrument families. Using the video to guide you, find something in your house you can use as an instrument.

10. Choose your favorite song, and play your “instrument” along with the steady beat- the heartbeat- of the song.

11. If you’d like to share your work with us, email a photo or video to your teacher!

Week 5: K.1A Identify the differences between the five voices, including singing, speaking, whispering, inner, and calling (shouting).

I can use my voice in different ways.

Week 6: I can identify High and Low sounds.

Week 7: I can sing songs and play musical games, including rhymes, folk music, and seasonal music.

Week 8: I can tell the difference between loud and soft by displaying vocally.