It’s Saturday and time for Music in our classroom. So Please allow Charlie and I to share this new Homeschool Resource with you where you can visit Carnegie Hall: Music Educators Toolbox Resources.
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Age Range: 5-10 (Grades K-5, with parental supervision)
Discover a variety of music lesson plans and resources at this page from the more extensive Carnegie Hall website.
Plans are arranged by grade level and focus on the fundamentals of music including “rhythm, meter, singing, form, dynamics, articulation, tempo, pitch, and performing.” Each plan provides all the needed information and resources to use in the classroom as well as downloadable assessments and more. A sampling of programs includes:
- Exploring the Sounds Around Us – Kindergarten students listen to a selection of audios and use a downloadable, colorful worksheet to identify the sounds and then answer thought-provoking questions to increase sound awareness.
- Dynamics Hide and Seek – First graders will enjoy playing this variation of the “Hot and Cold” game. Instead of using “hot” or “cold,” students sing either forte or piano to help the seeker locate the hidden object and learn these musical terms.
- Classroom Thunderstorm – Kids in second grade will enjoy learning musical terms such as accelerando, ritardando, crescendo, decrescendo, and accent while creating a human thunderstorm with sounds they produce.
- Goldilocks Sings – Third graders learn how posture affects their singing using the characters from Goldilocks and the Three Bears as examples.
- Listening for Contrasts in Genre. Students in fourth grade discover how expressive musical qualities in music work together like a recipe to create different genres of the same song.
- We’ve Got the Blues – Fifth-grade children learn about the unique facets of blues music focusing on musical scales.
Even though the plans geared towards a specific age group, they could be adapted for other grades and can serve as a supplement to any music program.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
