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), dotted quarter-eighth,triplet, syncopated rhythms (syncopa or ti-ta-ti) and dotted half note.
○ Popsicle sticks and rubber bands
○ Silverware
○ Other household items
● Write rhythms on paper, whiteboards, sidewalk (chalk), etc.
● Practice treble clef note names.
● 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.