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.

Veteran's Day Practice Tracks