Music is everywhere! Please try the following activities at home to practice music skills:
● As a family:
○ Listen to music together
○ Discuss music
○ Move to music
○ Sing familiar songs together
○ Identify music in everyday life: commercials, movie soundtracks, songs for birthdays and other occasions, and the use of certain songs to determine whether enough time was spent washing hands.
● Use household items to create rhythms using ta, ti-ti, and rest plus half note, whole note, half rest, whole rest, tika-tika (sixteenth notes) and dotted half note.
○ Popsicle sticks and rubber bands
○ Silverware
○ Other household items
● Keep a steady beat in various ways (using pots and pans as drums, marching, etc.)
● Write rhythms with ta, ti-ti, half-note, whole-note,sixteenth notes, dotted quarter notes, and rests, on paper, whiteboards, sidewalk (chalk), etc.
● Practice treble clef note names
● Use household items to show rondo form
○ Find several of the same item for “A”
○ Find different items for “B,” and “C”
○ Arrange the items in ABACA order
○ Rondo listening:
■ Viennese Musical Clock
■ Carmen Act 1 Prelude
● Find things that occur in groups of 2, 3, or 4 (to represent meters of 2, 3, and 4 beats)
● Explore and/or practice on any instruments you have in the home.
● Explore the music section of your public library, when you don’t need to stay at home.
● Have a mini-performance at home.
● Play games from music class with the whole family or all who are in the home.