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APRIL 2020 *DIGITAL EDITION*

ELEMENTARY MUSIC

@HOME LEARNING PATH #TITAN UP YOUR BRAIN LORAIN!

www.lorainschools.org WEEK 4 | April 6 - April 9

PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES

Below are resources that are for multiple grade levels. If you have any questions please reach out to your Elementary music teacher so that we can aid you along! Name ______SQUILT Class ______Listen to Camille Saint-Saën’s The Carnival of the Animals, Movement VIII.

What animals do you hear? ______

What elements of the music made you think of that animal?

______

Draw below what you imagine happening this movement of The Carnival of the Animals.

SillyOMusic © The Carnival of the Animals VIII. Characters with Long Ears by Camille Saint-Saëns

Listen and color. Small details may be colored with any color. Sun & Sky yellow & orange = violins blue & purple = tubas orange & red = ﬂutes Rabbits gray = tempo played freely brown = tempo is steady white = very slow Ground green = 1 instrument brown = 2 instruments gray = 20 instruments Hills gray = loud brown = soft green = loud & soft Trampoline blue & gray = short notes orange & white = long notes purple & blue = long & short notes Name: © SillyOMusic Name ______

Musical Egg Decorating Class ______

Decorate the egg with eighth notes. Decorate the egg with quarter notes. Decorate the egg with quarter rests.

Decorate the egg with half notes. Decorate the egg with dotted half notes. Decorate the egg with whole notes.

Mister Rabbit hops,

with a basket full of treats.

Then he hides them in the grass

for kids to ﬁnd and eat!

SillyOMusic © Name ______Rhythm Hop: Class ______The rabbit is jumping over notes. Write the total number of beats that it hops over in the box.

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10. © SillyOMusic Bunny Vocal Explorations 1 Name ______Class ______Follow the bunny’s trail by tracing the lines and singing along with your voice as the path moves up and down!

© SillyOMusic Name ______Interval Hopping Class ______Tell the bunny if the interval (distance between 2 notes) is a step, skip, or leap by circling the correct answer. leap Leap: notes skip more than one line or space Skip: notes skip only one line or space Step: notes are neighbors (one is on a line, one is on the nearest space).

step skip

leap leap leap leap 1. skip 2. skip 3. skip 4. skip step step step step

leap leap leap leap 5. skip 6. skip 7. skip 8. skip step step step step

leap leap 9. skip 10. skip step step

leap leap skip 11. skip step 12. step

© SillyOMusic Week 5 | April 13-17 INSTRUCTIONS: Just like Bingo the object is to get 5 in a row throughout the week, one square a day! If you have any questions please reach out to your Elementary Music Teacher.

M U S I C

Creating Singing Moving Responding Listening Draw a made-up instrument With any song, find how Dance to a song you like. Learn about a composer on Listen to the sounds you hear and give it a name. What does many different ways you can Quaver or nyphilkids.org outside. it sound like? sing it. Fast and slow? Silly What do you hear? Do you and serious? hear high or low sounds?

Singing Moving Responding Listening Creating Sing a song you like or one Teach someone you live with Find a song you like or Listen to a song you know. Make up a dance that matches from class. a game we played in class dislike. Draw how it makes Can you hear any patterns? a song you like. How can you you feel. move to show the sound?

Moving Responding Free Space Creating Singing Listen to a song with these Listen to “Entry of the See what instruments you can Can you turn a book into a rules: Singing= dance and Gladiators.” Does the title make with things around the song? instruments = freeze match the way the music house. Ask an adult first! sounds?

Responding Listening Creating Singing Moving Find a song you like or Watch and listen to Sing along with the radio. Teach someone you live with dislike. Draw how it makes “Flamingos Fantasia 2000” on Find a song you know and a game we played in class you feel. YouTube. Does the song write new words, it can be match the video? How? silly or serious

Quaver space Quaver Space Quaver Space Quaver Space Quaver Space Spend 10 minutes exploring Spend 10 minutes exploring Spend 10 minutes exploring Spend 10 minutes in the Lab 10 minute or more on Quaver quaver (with Flash) the studio on Quaver (with or the telephone booth on on Quaver with Flash. free choice. without flash). Quaver (with flash).

Quaver is an online music program that we use in school. If you would like access please reach out to your Music Teacher for more info! WEEK 6 | April 20-April 24 Earth Day Printable activities

Below are resources that are for multiple grade levels. If you have any questions please reach out to your Elementary Music teacher so that we can aid you along! Color-by-Note Name ______Class ______

green blue yellow brown

Reuse Recycle Reduce

green blue yellow orange

Happy Earth Day!

© SillyOMusic Vocal Explorations 2 Name ______Class ______Bring each object to the recycling bin with by drawing a squiggly path and singing your line. Sing them with a partner and take turns singing each others’ lines.

quarter 8th yellow half brown quarter green note blue notes note rest

Reuse Recycle Reduce

green blue yellow brown

E Reuse

A G

A C

A Recycle C

G A C

C Reduce A G C

Name ______Class ______

1. __rink from __ r__usa__le __ottl__ or th__rmos.

2. __rin__ r__us__bl__ shoppin______s to the stor__.

3. Turn o__ __ li__hts __n__ w__t__r wh__n not in us__.

4. __voi__ sin__l__-use pl__sti__s like str__ws and __ups.

5. __ __t a v__getari__n __inner on M__ __tl__ss Mon__ay. How Can we Help the Planet?

Name ______Class ______

1. __rink from __ r__usa__le __ottl__ or th__rmos.

2. __rin__ r__us__bl__ shoppin______s to the stor__.

3. Turn o__ __ li__hts __n__ w__t__r wh__n not in us__.

4. __voi__ sin__l__-use pl__sti__s like str__ws and __ups.

5. __ __t a v__getari__n __inner on M__ __tl__ss Mon__ay. Plant a Seed Name ______Class ______Write the name of each note shown on the gardening spade onto the seed.

Directions: Cut out the body percussion pictures at the bottom of the page. Glue them to the boxes below to create your own body percussion song. Perform your new song.

My Body Percussion Song

Copyright 2014 Tracy King. All rights reserved. LEVEL UP: Try to do your Body Percussion Composition with a steady beat to your favorite song! Make it a competition and challenge other people in your house! Post your composition online and challenge other people to do it too! WEEK 7 | April 27 - May1 3rd - 5th Name: ______

Directions: Cut out the body percussion pictures on the second page. Glue them to the boxes below to create your own body percussion song. Perform your new song.

My Body Percussion Song

LEVEL UP: Try to do your Body Percussion Composition with a steady beat to your favorite song! Make it a competition and challenge other people in your house! Post your composition online and challenge other people to do it too! My Body Percussion Song page 2

Directions: Cut out the body percussion pictures on this page. Glue them to the boxes on the other page to create your own body percussion song. Perform your new song.

Copyright 2014 Tracy King. All rights reserved. WEEK 7 | April 27-May 1 Please use the following lesson from midnight music to explore sound and sound production this week. As always please feel free to reach out to your Elementary Music teacher for guidance! Music Tech Lesson Plan What in the world? Unusual musical instruments

Listening and responding Grade level K-8

Objective Students will explore unusual instruments, how they produce musical sounds and identify how they are made

USA Music ● 6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. Education Standards

Australian Music ● 2.1 Develop aural skills by exploring and imitating Curriculum sounds, pitch and rhythm patterns using voice, Standards movement and body percussion ● 4.1 Develop aural skills by exploring, imitating and recognising elements of music including dynamics, pitch and rhythm patterns ● 6.2 Develop technical and expressive skills in singing and playing instruments with understanding of rhythm, pitch and form in a range of pieces, including in music from the community ● 8.1 Experiment with texture and timbre in sound sources using aural skills

Materials/Equipment ● Youtube video/s of unusual musical instruments (some suggestions below, but you can use a video of your choice) ● Computer or other device connected to the internet

● Attached worksheet - printed copies for students to ﬁll out, or digital copies that can be completed on their tablet devices

Duration 1 lesson

Skills required Students should have an understanding what sound is and how it is produced

Procedure Select video ● This lesson is adaptable so you can use it for any video showing an unusual musical instrument ● See list of video suggestions in the Resources section below, or choose your own Show your chosen musical instrument video to class ● Show video to class on data projector, with speakers plugged into computer ● Discuss the instrument as a group - how does it produce sound? Is there someone to play the instrument? What is it made of? Describe the timbre Ask students to record their response to the provided questions ● They can write responses on the provided worksheet

Extensions ● Classify the instrument using the Hornbostel-Sachs classiﬁcation systemExplore other unusual musical instruments ● Research the history of the instrument ● Make your own musical instrument

Evaluation The students can successfully identify how sounds are produced by musical instruments

Other resources

Youtube video suggestions (just a few to get you started!)

1. Andrew Huang - carrot slide whistle and carrot recorder https://youtu.be/ro8xEvYLR_Q

2. Wintergarten - marble machine https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q

3. OK Go - Needing/Getting https://youtu.be/MejbOFk7H6c

4. RimbaTubes - Snubby J Star wars medley https://youtu.be/0hj0hShhZ5c

5. Candyman played with 50,000 M&Ms https://youtu.be/mPtE3ZQFn5s (behind the scenes https://youtu.be/puIA7A_bOIE )

6. Glass armonica - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy https://youtu.be/eQemvyyJ--g

7. Street artist playing crystal glasses https://youtu.be/lAEXH9DAH98

8. Xylophone in forest - Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring https://youtu.be/r-uEbJOrUYY

9. Animusic - Pipe Dream https://youtu.be/hyCIpKAIFyo

10. Vi Hart - Pachelbel’s Canon on music box https://youtu.be/3a9wWRxYSko

WHAT IN THE WORLD...?

N A M E C L A S S

V I D E O T I T L E

P E R F O R M E R / A R T I S T

WHAT IS THE INSTRUMENT? IT REMINDS ME OF...

WHAT IS IT MADE OF? HOW DOES IT MAKE A SOUND?

HOW DOES THE PERFORMER PLAY IT?

WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT IT (CIRCLE ONE) WHAT IN THE WORLD...?

N A M E C L A S S

V I D E O T I T L E

P E R F O R M E R / A R T I S T

WHAT IS THE INSTRUMENT IN THE DOES IT REMIND YOU OF ANY VIDEO? OTHER INSTRUMENT? IF SO, WHICH ONE?

DESCRIBE THE MATERIALS USED HOW DOES THE INSTRUMENT PRODUCE A TO MAKE THE INSTRUMENT SOUND?

IF THERE IS A PERFORMER, HOW DO OTHER OBSERVATIONS? THEY PLAY THE INSTRUMENT? WHAT TECHNIQUES DO THE USE?

WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT IT (CIRCLE ONE) Families: Below you will find YouTube videos to use at home! These are different videos/songs that we use at our various schools and we know that your students will love to sing or play along. If you have any questions please reach out to your school music elementary teacher!

Musically yours,

Lorain Elementary Music Teachers

Movement (PreK-1) Listen And Move The Laurie Berkner Band - The Goldfish (Official Video) The Laurie Berkner Band - We Are The Dinosaurs (Official Video) Stand Up, Sit Down Children's song by Patty Shukla | Popular Nursery rhymes for Kids and Toddlers Simon Says Song for Children by Patty Shukla We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Kiboomers A Ram Sam Sam by the Learning Station

“Instrument” Play-Alongs (If you don’t have the instruments at home, find other things to match the sounds!) Can Can - Home edition Alla Turka - Percussion Waltz of the Flowers - Percussion

Other Line Riders - The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart Line Riders - Beethoven's 5th "Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles) Marbles, Magnets, and Music (Synchronized) Blue Man Group - Nau Shorts

Color-by-Note Name ______Class ______

green quarter blue 8th yellow half orange quarter note notes note rest

Happy Earth Day!

green blue yellow orange

E D

B B

D G

D D

E Happy Earth Day!

green blue yellow orange

G F

D D

F B

F F

G Happy Earth Day!