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Classroom Music Games and ActivitiesThis collection will help you teach music basics whether you have a music degree or no formal music training. Students will listen closely, identify musical notation and terms, recognize instruments, and more! Reinforce lessons from other subjects, such as language arts and critical thinking, with cross-curricular elements. As students grasp the basics, you can move on to activities that are more difficult or adapt the activities to include new material.

The activities in this book can get your students up and moving or provide them with fun ways to work at their desks. Mix and match whole-class, group, and individual activities to create entertaining lesson plans, and watch your students have a blast learning music basics!

Other products that will bring music into your classroom:

Teaching Music to Children90/1060LE • This valuable resource gives elementary teachers with no formal music training all the tools needed to help students develop an understanding of and appreciation for music. The lessons and reproducible games, worksheets and puzzles follow a well-sequenced curriculum based on the National Standards for Music Education in the United States and the Ontario Curriculum for the Arts in Canada. The mixed-media CD features over 60 minutes of music and a PowerPoint presentation.

Music Libs30/2631H • Here's a creative way to bring the fun of the classic grammar game Mad Libs™ into your music classroom. Dianne Campbell has created twenty-one improvisational stories about music that are sure to have your students laughing out loud while they review basic parts of speech and music vocabulary. Grab your (plural noun) and (plural noun) and get ready for some fun!

Daily Transition Music99/2438LE • Make the switch between classroom subjects or daily activities fun and efficient. Play the music to alert children of a transition, allowing them time to prepare both mentally and physically for the next task. Transition tunes include music for Starting the Day, Getting Organized, Reading, Starting a New Activity, Cleaning Up, and more! The CD has both short and extended versions of each transition tune.

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LEP interactive

MusicMusicGamesMusicMusicMusicMusicMusicMusicMusicGames ActivitiesActivities

mixed-media CD features over 60 minutes of music and a PowerPoint presentation.

30/2631H • Here's a creative way to bring the fun of the classic grammar game

Compiled by: Julie EisenhauerCover and book design: Jeff Richards

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Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................................4

� �� �� � � � � � � � � � � � � �The Name Game ........................................................................................................................................................................................5Classmate M-U-S-I-C .................................................................................................................................................................................6M-U-S-I-C Grid.............................................................................................................................................................................................7My Favorite Musician ...............................................................................................................................................................................8At the Hop ....................................................................................................................................................................................................9Draw the Music ..........................................................................................................................................................................................9Action! .........................................................................................................................................................................................................10Follow the Leader. . . Sometimes .......................................................................................................................................................10Character Connections ..........................................................................................................................................................................11That’s Debatable ......................................................................................................................................................................................11Story Soundtrack .....................................................................................................................................................................................12Follow the Conductor ............................................................................................................................................................................13What’s the Order? ....................................................................................................................................................................................14Musical Style Exhibits .............................................................................................................................................................................15Music Mind Benders ...............................................................................................................................................................................16We Go Together .......................................................................................................................................................................................19M-U-S-I-C ....................................................................................................................................................................................................22

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What Am I? .................................................................................................................................................................................................40My Many Musical Hats ...........................................................................................................................................................................42Music Facts Finger Fun ..........................................................................................................................................................................46

� � � � � � � � � � � � � �Music Scramble ........................................................................................................................................................................................50All in One Little Box ................................................................................................................................................................................51It’s Instrumental .......................................................................................................................................................................................52Fishing for Families .................................................................................................................................................................................53Sally Saxophone Wants a Snare Drum .............................................................................................................................................54A Career in Music .....................................................................................................................................................................................55Straighten it Out! .....................................................................................................................................................................................56Who’s Who?................................................................................................................................................................................................57Rake the Leaves ........................................................................................................................................................................................58Musical Maze .............................................................................................................................................................................................59Take a Hike .................................................................................................................................................................................................60The Hidden Path ......................................................................................................................................................................................61Spell and Search ......................................................................................................................................................................................62Notespeller Crossword ..........................................................................................................................................................................63Building Dynamics ..................................................................................................................................................................................64Picture This .................................................................................................................................................................................................65Color by Symbol.......................................................................................................................................................................................66Music Sudoku ...........................................................................................................................................................................................67I Spy a Sign (and More) ..........................................................................................................................................................................68Composer Connect the Dots ...............................................................................................................................................................69La Mer ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................70Carnival of the Animals .........................................................................................................................................................................72A Very Verdi Day .......................................................................................................................................................................................74Can You Handel It? ..................................................................................................................................................................................76Crack the Code .........................................................................................................................................................................................78Musician Portrait Gallery ......................................................................................................................................................................81Musician Mix .............................................................................................................................................................................................82Album of the Year ....................................................................................................................................................................................83Music Throughout the Ages ................................................................................................................................................................84

Answer Key ................................................................................................................................................................................................86

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Classroom Music Games & Activities is a collection created to help you teach music basics whether you have a music degree or no formal music training. Students will listen closely, identify musical notation and terms, rec-ognize instruments, and more!

Keep your students engaged with the material. Bring out their creative side when they create their own dance At the Hop, come up with a School Spirit song, and design an Album of the Year based on a musical style of their choice. Reinforce lessons from other subjects with the activities that provide cross-curricular elements, such as language arts and critical thinking. As students begin to grasp the basics, you can move on to activities that are more difficult or adapt the activities to include new material. Students will continue to be challenged through-out the year!

�� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �Get your students’ attention and keep them on the same page by using activities for the whole class. These ac-tivities are easy to organize and require few, if any, additional materials. Some activities include game cards that can be reproduced on card stock and even laminated to reduce wear and tear; it will also save you the time of having to copy them again for future games. Many of them can be played for multiple rounds to further increase their educational value.

� � ��� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �Group and partner activities can be used to build cooperation and teamwork within your classroom. Putting stu-dents together that may not know each other very well and encouraging them to get to know their classmates can strengthen interpersonal communication skills, classroom cooperation, and perhaps even spark a new friendship. Use these activities multiple times and for multiple rounds to further increase their educational value.

� � � � � � � � �� � � � � � � � � � �Use the reproducible worksheets to let students work and learn on their own. Many of the worksheets include all of the information the students need, such as terms, definitions, symbols, and biographies. Others will ask students to use the knowledge they already have and can be used to assess how well individuals understand the material.

The activities in this book can get your students up and moving or provide them with fun ways to work at their desks. Either way, their creativity and music knowledge will grow. Mix and match whole-class, group, and individu-al activities to create entertaining lesson plans, and watch as your students have a blast and reinforce music basics!

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In this exercise, students will create interesting rhythmic patterns by using their own names. Say your name out loud for the class, clapping each syllable. For example:

Say: Miss – us Al – ex – an – derClap (x): x x x x x x

Have your students say and clap your name back to you.

Have each student say and clap his or her name. Have the class echo each student by saying and clapping that student’s name in exactly the same way. After each student has “performed” his or her name, discuss the following:

1. Who had the longest name with the most claps? 2. Who had the shortest name with the least number of claps?

Use the following ideas to continue the game after all of the students have said and clapped their own names:

1. Pick your favorite sports figure, and say and clap his or her name. 2. Pick your favorite TV or movie star, and say and clap his or her name. 3. Pick a mystery person. Give a clue about this person, then only clap his or her name (don’t say the name out loud). See if the class can guess the person’s name. For example: Clue: A kindly president with a beard who often wore a tall, black hat Clap: x x x x x Answer: Abraham Lincoln

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Reproduce one copy of the grid on the next page. Fill the center of each square with a musical skill (see below for suggestions). Be sure to leave the bottom line in each square blank. Reproduce enough completed grids for each student, and pass them out to the class. The object of the game is for the students to collect one signature of a classmate that can complete that skill in each square.

Allow the students to have plenty of time to mingle and find classmates to sign their grids. Have students gather enough signatures to fill the entire grid or just enough to make a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line. If possible, stu-dents should not have the same classmate sign their grids more than once. Show the students an example of the grid so they can see what they are trying to achieve. The first student to get enough names is the winner! Make yourself available to answer any of the students’ questions (“Is this answer correct?”, “Do I have enough signatures?”).

� � � � � � � � � � ��At the beginning of the school year, fill the center of each square with a musical skill that students may have when starting the class (examples are given below). You can make a board unique to your class by asking stu-dents what musical talents they have and using those answers to create the board.

� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �Throughout the school year, test students’ knowledge by playing Classmate M-U-S-I-C again. Fill the center of each square with an academic skill from a recent lesson or subject in class (examples are listed in the box below).

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� � � � �� � �� � � � � � � ��Have students show their appreciation for their favorite musicians or bands by creating a fact basket in their honor!

Each student will need: • A piece of 11” x 17” paper • A 1” x 17” strip of paper • Markers, crayons, or colored pencils • Scissors • A glue stick • Magazines from which to cut images and words • A blank sheet of paper

Show students how to create the basket and then let them create their own! Be available in case students need assistance creating their baskets.

First, cut a piece of 11” x 17” paper in half, long ways, to create two strips that are each 5 1/2” x 17”. Then, fold each piece in half widthwise. Lay one piece on top of the other so they line up exactly, and round off the corners of the open end with scissors.

Open the two pieces and lay them one on top of the other, so they form an X. Fold up the lower half of the bot-tom strip, place a little glue on the strip you just folded, and then fold up the lower half on the top piece. Turn over the basket and glue those sides together. Be careful not to glue the basket closed.

Have students write their names on one side of the 1” x 17” strip. Then, attach it to their baskets to create a handle. (Be sure they attach it name-side down.) Now their baskets are ready to decorate!

Students should think about their favorite musician or band. Have them cut the blank piece of paper into small pieces and write a fact about the musician or band on each strip. Then, have students color the basket with crayons or markers, or glue on words or pictures they cut out of magazines. When they are done decorating the baskets, they can place the facts into it.

When the baskets are finished, display them in your classroom. Ask the students to guess their classmates’ favor-ite musicians and bands from the facts in the baskets.

ELE90�1098ISBN 978-0-7877-1087-3

Classroom Music Games and ActivitiesThis collection will help you teach music basics whether you have a music degree or no formal music training. Students will listen closely, identify musical notation and terms, recognize instruments, and more! Reinforce lessons from other subjects, such as language arts and critical thinking, with cross-curricular elements. As students grasp the basics, you can move on to activities that are more difficult or adapt the activities to include new material.

The activities in this book can get your students up and moving or provide them with fun ways to work at their desks. Mix and match whole-class, group, and individual activities to create entertaining lesson plans, and watch your students have a blast learning music basics!

Other products that will bring music into your classroom:

Teaching Music to Children90/1060LE • This valuable resource gives elementary teachers with no formal music training all the tools needed to help students develop an understanding of and appreciation for music. The lessons and reproducible games, worksheets and puzzles follow a well-sequenced curriculum based on the National Standards for Music Education in the United States and the Ontario Curriculum for the Arts in Canada. The mixed-media CD features over 60 minutes of music and a PowerPoint presentation.

Music Libs30/2631H • Here's a creative way to bring the fun of the classic grammar game Mad Libs™ into your music classroom. Dianne Campbell has created twenty-one improvisational stories about music that are sure to have your students laughing out loud while they review basic parts of speech and music vocabulary. Grab your (plural noun) and (plural noun) and get ready for some fun!

Daily Transition Music99/2438LE • Make the switch between classroom subjects or daily activities fun and efficient. Play the music to alert children of a transition, allowing them time to prepare both mentally and physically for the next task. Transition tunes include music for Starting the Day, Getting Organized, Reading, Starting a New Activity, Cleaning Up, and more! The CD has both short and extended versions of each transition tune.

Grades K-690/1098LE

CLA

SSROO

M M

USIC G

AM

ES & AC

TIVITIES

LO

RENZ ED

UCA

TION

AL PRESS

Lorenz Educational PressMilliken Publishing Company

Teaching and Learning CompanyShow What You Know® Publishing

LEP interactive

MusicMusicGamesMusicMusicMusicMusicMusicMusicMusicGames ActivitiesActivities

mixed-media CD features over 60 minutes of music and a PowerPoint presentation.

30/2631H • Here's a creative way to bring the fun of the classic grammar game