Mason Creek Elementary Music Online Learning Day Activities

*Pick one activity each week to complete. Kindergarten and 1st grade students, feel free to draw a picture of what you learned. 2nd-5th grade students, please type 1 or 2 paragraphs about what you did and e-mail it to me. Please e-mail me if you have any questions. [email protected] 1. Go to the Douglas County Portal and log into Quaver Music. From there you can go to world music and pick a song from a region of the world to learn about OR you can go to student interactives and pick an activity from there to complete. 2. Go to the DSO Kids website to review and learn about instruments of the orchestra https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/instruments Or use the same website to learn about a composer of your choice https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/composers

3. San Francisco Symphony for Kids has tons of fun music activities you can do. Check it out! http://www.sfskids.org/play/

4. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra also has some great online musical activities for kids. http://www.nyphilkids.org/index.html

5. Go to Google’s Chrome Music Lab to practice exploring pitch and making your own songs. (You MUST open this website using the google chrome browser only. It will not work with other browsers.) https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ 6. Go to this youtube playlist to practice tapping rhythms. You can use almost any common household item to play rhythms. Some suggestions might be cups, buckets, or boxes with pencils for drum sticks. If you want to, try to create some of your own rhythms to play. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLovX6-WF6S31846hS76epavmB46Y2YB1u

7. Interview a family member, neighbor, friend, or other trusted adult and ask them what their favorite song is. Listen to the song and answer the following questions below: A) Who is the artist that sings the song and what is the title of song?

B) When was the song recorded?

C) How does the song make you feel when you listen to it? Why is the song special to the person you interviewed?

D) What instruments did you hear in the song?

E) Did you hear any rhythms that you recognized in the song? Can you write the notes to the rhythm you recognized? (see the note bank below if you need help. Grades K,1, and 2 only use the first three notes)

Rhythm Music Note Bank

Quarter Note Quarter Rest Eighth Notes Triplet

Sixteenth Notes Half Note Dotted Half Note Whole Note

8. Write your own rhythm or rap using the notes from the note bank. Remember that you can create lyrics using word syllables to guide you. (Example- a one syllable word like “cat” gets a note with one sound. A two syllable word like “puppy” gets a note with two sounds, ect.) If you want to get fancy, write an ostinato and get a sibling or neighbor to perform it with you.