Favorite Holiday Music and Movement Activities
In this favorite holiday music and movement activities blog post. I’m sharing my favorite holiday music and movement activities….
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In this blog post I’ll be sharing tips for teaching elementary music online. I’ll include ideas on management, lesson planning and engagement.
Teaching online can be challenging. But there are some easy ways to make your music lessons meaningful and effective.
If you’re teaching online you want to get to know your students first. Then you’ll want to establish your rules and procedures.
You’ll want to consider to communicate with students and parents, how to use silent signals and your expectations for participation.
Here’s a list of some things to consider to help you with classroom management.
Create a standard lesson plan format. You don’t always have to use every type of activity, but you can use this list to diversify learning activities
I create my lesson plans following a simple format. This gives the lessons structure and helps me streamline my planning.
I also use themes and concepts to connect the materials in my lessons.
Be sure to encourage students to practice skills on their own.
I use google slides and the drive folders to organize materials.
I plan each quarter for each grade, then make a presentation for each month or unit.
I include videos, audio files, worksheets and links in the folder for quick access if the slides don’t work.
One way to keep organized and manage your lesson planning is to use the same materials across grade levels.
Create lessons where the materials are the same, the song, the story, the listening activity and then simplify or expand them to meet the needs of different grade levels.
Adjust each activity to teach the skills and concepts for that grade.
You can use many of the activities in several grades too.
It’s important to differentiate the learning activities too.
Find songs that have beginning rhythms like many of the Kodaly folk songs.
Here are a few songs to get you started.
Here’s some ways you can do this with the songs you may already know or use.
Assessment can be done online.
Have students draw a picture and/or describe the song and activity.
Have the students record a performance for their family.
Take turns during class over several class times for students to perform.
Finally, PROVIDE ACTIVITIES STUDENTS CAN DO ALONE
Here’s a video on using instruments at home in music lessons.
Keeping student engagement high is a challenge. That’s why it’s important to have a variety of activities in your lessons.
Singing, moving, playing instruments, listening, coloring and creating activities can be the basis of your lesson planning.
Chats and discussions, games, sharing rhythm patterns and performances can boost engagement too.
Here’s some other things to consider.
Here’s a video I made to teach steady beat using home made instruments.
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I’m hoping that you got some great tips for classroom management, lesson planning and engagement in this post.
Remember, the most important thing is building relationships with students and creating a classroom environment where they feel safe and can learn.
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Hi there! I’m Sandra, one of the authors behind Sing Play Create. My goal is to provide teachers with interactive resources and activities to improve the effectiveness of their teaching and enhance student learning.
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