Welcome, TCAPS
Elementary Music Students
Willow Hill Music Students! |
Eastern Stars |
Mrs. Brazee is helping me with this site and will be adding some videos and recordings of herself in the coming days. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the activities you find below!
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What's new?
After asking for permission to let the website use the camera on your computer or device, you can conduct an orchestra from your own living room!
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/semi-conductor |
After asking for permission to let the website use the microphone on your computer or device, try singing or playing an instrument and see what the music looks like! https://creatability.withgoogle.com/seeing-music/ |
Watch the Royal Ballet School perform the ballet, Peter and the Wolf!
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Young 5s/Kindergarten through 1st grade
March 24, 2020
Enjoy these songs and activities from Mrs. Brazee!
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Singing at Home
Let's warm up and find our head voices! Follow the direction of the roller coaster with your voice using an "ooo!" As the roller coaster moves up your voices should move up and as the roller coaster moves down, your voices should move down. Remember to use your light head voice!
Note: The first video doesn't make any sound. You make the sound for this one!
Note: The first video doesn't make any sound. You make the sound for this one!
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Grab a piece of paper or a white board and create your own rollercoaster line to sing! Or, you could use a piece of string or a pipe cleaner to warm up as well. What else could you use?
Visit your grade level page and sing a song from class for your family. Teach a brother or sister one of your songs! You can also write a new song with a family member!
Here are some songs to sing along with!
Here are some songs to sing along with!
Kids, teach your parents the silly movements that go with this song.
Can you draw a picture of all the items your Aunt brought back with her? Could you write some new verses to the song creating silly rhymes and movements? |
Download the coloring book and print it at home for kids to color and sing along with! Can you come up with some new rhymes for new verses?
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Sing along and do the movements to this silly song.
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Kindergarten and first graders, this song is for you! For extra fun, find a tin can with grooves on the side and a chop stick or wooden stick and play the steady beat with your home made guiro while you sing the song!
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Sing the Eensy Weensy Spider and add movements to your song!
Then, you can print your own songbook to color and sing along with! Click the file below. |
Create movements to go with all the parts of this song:
Sea, sea, sea Chop, chop, chop Knee, knee, knee Tap, tap, tap Ooo wahcheewah |
eensy_weensy_spider_coloring_book.pdf | |
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Play Around With Chords - Eastern 5th graders
Mrs. Bui's 5th graders, check out this website to play around with chords like we have in music class! Look up the chords of the song you were working on and see if you can figure out how to enter them into the player on this website and sing along!
https://www.onemotion.com/chord-player/
https://www.onemotion.com/chord-player/
Moving at Home
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Jumping Rope
Here are some jump rope activities found by Mrs. Will! Try them out at home and then when we go back to school you can share them with your friends!
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Other Music Activities
Cliburn Kids
This non-profit dedicated to advancing classical music for piano has a new educational series for elementary aged kids. There are also worksheets on the website below each video. I have embedded the first episode for you to preview. The rest of the material can be viewed here: https://www.cliburn.org/kids/
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Kids Commute from IPR
Interlochen Public Radio has a great local program that introduces kids to classical music through themes, like mermaids and elephants! You can listen online to past and future programs as they are posted.
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/topic/kids-commute
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/topic/kids-commute
Use the bingo boxes below to get more musical ideas you can try at home!
Build an Instrument
Create some instruments at home! Here are a couple of websites with ideas for you to create instruments from every day items.
https://redtri.com/homemade-instruments/slide/1
https://feltmagnet.com/crafts/Music-Instruments-for-Kids-to-Make
https://redtri.com/homemade-instruments/slide/1
https://feltmagnet.com/crafts/Music-Instruments-for-Kids-to-Make
Family Interview
Ask a family member (mom, dad, grandma, sister, etc.) what their favorite song is and why. You could also ask them what their favorite song growing up was and if they can teach it to you.
Virtual Concerts
Go on a virtual field trip to a concert to watch the DSO!
https://www.dso.org/watch-listen-and-connect/dso-replay/collection/126350/beethoven-symphony-no-5-a-centennial-celebration Here are some more DSO performances. To view these you will have to create a free login. https://livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv/classroom-edition?fbclid=IwAR0RMP-oWCtPpHD72-HbfBupCvgXJTnhDQAnsQAjPZ1JnkQ2KoCqf8st-wE |
Musical Books Online
Play Along Videos
Try out some of our play along videos at home! If you don't have instruments at home that is okay. You can use body percussion for the various symbols (snaps, claps, pats, stomps) or you can use home made instruments (pots and pans, wooden spoons, box of noodles, etc.)
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Grab a plastic cup and try echoing some cup rhythms!
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Do body percussion to this song from Harry Potter. The directions in the video are in Spanish so I will translate it for you.
Digital Music-Making
Use this awesome website to create beats and rhythms using a variety of instrument sounds! Maybe you can sing a song while the background beat is playing! https://splice.com/sounds/beatmaker |
Compose your own Mario video game music! This is so much fun!
https://minghai.github.io/MarioSequencer/ |
Chrome Music Lab is another way of making and experimenting with digital music-making! https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ |
Groove Pizza is a circular rhythm app for creative music making and learning! It’s also a playful tool for creating grooves using math concepts like shapes, angles and patterns. https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?museid=rkGZ87ZUL& |
This site has an online version as well as a phone/tablet app. You can create a new song using beatboxing characters. https://www.incredibox.com/demo/ |
To compose using traditional notation, you can sign up for a free Noteflight account. After entering notation in, you can have the website play it back for you. https://www.noteflight.com/ |
Music Games Online
Here is another site that has games as well as information on composers and musical history. https://www.classicsforkids.com/ |
Explore the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britton by playing this game created for Carnegie Hall. Follow the link and choose "Local Game."
https://listeningadventures.carnegiehall.org/index.aspx |
Part game, part digital music making. Create a city on and island where all the items you add isleoftune.com/make music!
http://isleoftune.com/ |
Music Videos
Here are some fun musical videos to entertain and inspire you.
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TCAPS has some site recommendations as well. I have most of the links on this page as well, but I will include this link in case they add more sites:
https://tcapselementarytech.weebly.com/musicart.html