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Winter Instrument Activity “Snow” Poem

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Let’s play instruments and learn beat, rhythm and solfege using “Snow”, an easy winter poem.

WINTER INSTRUMENT ACTIVITY SNOW POEM

In this post I’ll share the teaching steps and lesson outlines for the “Snow” poem with instruments.

LEARNING GOALS:

  • Steady Beat
  • Rhythm
  • Solfege: so, mi, do
  • Play a variety of instruments

You can differentiate the learning goals for grades K-2

TEACHING STEPS

You will want to spread these teaching steps over 2-4 class times.

Lesson 1

Sing the Song and play for the students.

Next Sing the song and ask students to tap the beat.

Next teach the solfege.

Echo teach the lyrics. Clap the rhythm of the words and have students repeat them back to you.

Now get out instruments and play the melody of the song.

Lesson 2

Review the melody and play the song.

Now we can add some rhythm parts at the end of each line.

You can differentiate the rhythm patterns for each grade level.

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Choose one pattern and have them play it starting on the last of the word of the line.

Have them clap the rhythms first, then play percussion instruments.

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MUSIC LEARNING ACTIVITIES

There are many ways to differentiate the activities so that students get many opportunities to sing and play.

Consider having a xylophone/singing group as well as instrument groups.

Lesson 3

After students can play the song clapping rhythms, divide them into 5 (five)  groups.

Sit in groups by instrument.

Have students practice their rhythms together independently.

Play a steady beat as students practice their rhythms.

Now they are ready to sing and play the song.

Rotate students through each of the instrument groups.

Lesson 4

Another way to give students more experience is to then have small groups practice and then perform the song together.

Place 1 of each instrument in a group of five students.  Have students play together in their group and then perform their song.

Lesson 5

If you are doing this activity in 2nd and 3rd grades, you can have them play a different rhythm for each line too.

Give them the opportunity to create their own rhythms and play them for their group or class.

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

Read a “snow” themed story like “SNEEZE THE SNOWMAN”.

SNEEZY THE SNOWMAN

Sing a “snow” movement song like “The Snow is On My Head”.

Play instruments to a rhythm play along.

WINTER RHYTHM PLAY ALONG

WINTER WOULD YOU RATHER RHYTHM GAME

GET THE RESOURCE

Music Lesson “Snow"" Orff song with solfege, and instrument parts for K-2 students.

Sing the song, move to the lyrics, show the solfa, play the instruments. A complete unit of learning materials to use over the month of January or Winter time.

Lessons and Worksheets in color and black and white.

Build students singing and playing skills in one fun and easy lesson that can be spread out over 4 class periods. SING PLAY CREATE

If you’re looking for some instruments here are some links (affiliate) to ones I’ve checked out.

MUSIC INSTRUMENT KIT

8 NOTE XYLOPHONE

12 NOTE XYLOPHONE

KIDS MUSIC NOTEBOOK

FREE ACTIVITIES

You can use Resources like the RHYTHM SNOWMAN, or WORKSHEETS in the FREE RESOURCES LIBRARY to support this activity.

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Thanks for reading this post!

Sandra from Sing Play Create
Let’s play instruments and learn beat, rhythm and solfege using “Snow”, an easy winter poem. Sing Play Create
Let’s play instruments and learn beat, rhythm and solfege using “Snow”, an easy winter poem. Sing Play Create

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Meet Sandra

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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