Holiday Music Lesson, Chants, Activities: Rhythm, Body Percussion, Notes to play

December Chants for the Music Classroom K-4 to learn Rhythmic values, Play Rhythms, Play instruments, Play Rhythmic body percussion and develop pre-note reading skills. Fresh and Creative December Activity to keep students singing, moving and playing throughout the month in a variety of musical activities.

LEARNING GOALS:

Pre-note Reading C Scale names.

Note Values: Sixteenth, Eighth, Quarter, Half Notes & Quarter Rest, C Scale Note Names

Playing Rhythms

Playing Rhythmic Body Percussion

Playing Instruments

Playing C Scale Notes

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

Power Point and PDF files for easy projecting and printing

5 CHANTS:

Chants progress in difficulty-

Chant 1: “Snowman, Snowman” -eighth and quarter note, (G-E or sol-mi)

Chant 2: “Reindeer” -eighth and quarter note, (E-G-A or Sol-La-Mi)

Chant 3: “Presents” -eighth, quarter and quarter rest, (C-D-E, do, re, mi)

Chant 4: “Dreidel” –half note (C-E-G or Do-Mi-Sol)

Chant 5: “Silly Santa” -quarter and sixteenth note. (C-E-G or do-mi-sol)

*(Please note that you can change the notes by adding your own labels in the power point and not use the ones included.)

Each Chant comes in each of the following formats:

Lyric Page

Rhythmic Notation

Body Percussion

Instrument Playing

Note Playing

*Flash Cards are included for Body Percussion, Note Names and Instruments

MORE INFO:

Appropriate for K-4th Grade

Resource includes teaching pages for each of the concepts to teach/use the chants in the different modes in a variety of activities that are outlined in the resource.

USE THIS RESOURCE

STATIONS! Each chant can be used at a different station or, use 1 chant at 4 stations-Rhythm, Instruments, Body Percussion, Note Playing. **This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you.** After purchase you will receive an email receipt with a link to download your purchase. You will receive a text file with the download link. The text file will have a LINK to your resource. You will open the text file and copy paste the LINK in your browser which will start the download. If you have any problems with the download. Please email us and we will get you the resource.Questions? Email [email protected]