Dear Vanderburg Families,
I have researched many online music resources that you can use to learn music while you’re at home! Please see the attached resources. I have also included ideas to make music without technology! Although nothing can replace the act of active music making and learning as a community in our own music classroom, these are great music tools to keep your child’s mind focused and motivated. Have fun making and learning music at home!
Working Together to Make Beautiful Music,
Rachel Rivera
Music Teacher, John C. Vanderburg ES
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Families can ask questions, share thoughts about the online resources or at-home projects, and share pictures or videos of themselves engaging in music at home!
Online Music Resources
ALL GRADES LEVELS
This site offers FREE music games to download on your desktop computer! The Recorder Pad and Staff Wars are great for 4th and 5th graders to practice their music reading skills! Rhythmic Dictation and JamaMambo is great for 2nd-5th graders looking to practice their rhythm values! Rhythm Blocks is also a great tool for 1st-5thgraders to build, read and notate rhythms. BOOM is great for all grade levels to play virtual boomwhackers and make your own compositions! MyJamz is great for any grade level to make their own music! Drums Around the World is good for all learning levels to hear drums and music from all over the world.
http://www.themusicinteractive.com/classroom-apps.html
Make your own song!
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/
Make your own rhythms:
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Rhythm/
Choose musical sounds and watch visual that is created to match!
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Spectrogram/
Play major and minor chords:
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Chords/
Watch the vibration of sound! Notice that when the pitch is lower the vibrations are farther apart, while the higher pitches are closer and are more frequent!
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Sound-Waves/
Music and Art! How fun!
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Kandinsky/
Make your own melody!
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Melody-Maker/
Read fun facts and biographies about different music composers! Listen to a clip of their famous pieces! Which composer is your favorite? Can you hear the differences between the composer’s in each of the eras of music? Music from the Classical Era sounds very different than music in the Modern era!
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/composers
Using this double bubble map, compare and contrast your favorite composers:
https://www.dvusd.org/cms/lib/AZ01901092/Centricity/Domain/1535/map-double-bubble.pdf
Watch young musicians perform! Get inspired! Some of these students are your age!
https://www.fromthetop.org/watch/
Looking for a music project to work on as a family? Build your own instrument and then play it! Perform your instruments to make your own band!
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/make-your-own-instrument
Xylophone:
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/make-your-own-instrument/build-your-own-xylophone
String Instrument:
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/make-your-own-instrument/make-a-string-instrument
Maracas:
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/make-your-own-instrument/shakin-maracas
Drums:
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/make-your-own-instrument/coffee-can-drums
Woodwinds:
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/make-your-own-instrument/make-a-woodwind-instrument
Chimes:
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/make-your-own-instrument/clay-pot-chimes
Music games:
https://pbskids.org/games/music/
https://www.classicsforkids.com/
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
Interactive GOOGLE DOODLES! These are so much fun to interact with!
Beethoven
https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-ludwig-van-beethovens-245th-year
Hip Hop-Become a DJ!
https://www.google.com/doodles/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop
Listen to the music of composer, Claude Debussy to animation
https://www.google.com/doodles/claude-debussys-151st-birthday
Learn to play the theremin with Clara Rockmore!
https://www.google.com/doodles/clara-rockmores-105th-birthday
Learn about Loud versus soft with this interactive piano!
https://www.google.com/doodles/bartolomeo-cristoforis-360th-birthday
Make music with visuals!
https://www.google.com/doodles/oskar-fischingers-117th-birthday
Make a song with Johann Sebastian Bach!
https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-johann-sebastian-bach
Music Coloring pages:
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/dso-concert-coloring-book
http://www.getcoloringpages.com/music-coloring-pages
Listen to world musical instruments. You can listen to the music, color the instrument page, and even make your own version at home!
http://www.dariamusic.com/cajon.php
http://www.dariamusic.com/crafts.php
Music/Movement/Dramatization FUN! Get up and move!
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/challenges/challenges/sound-of-music
Musical tour of Europe! Listen to composers and music from around the world. Complete challenges as your progress through this tour!
ARTS INTEGRATION-Connect music with other subjects!
Music and Language-
Music and Math-
Music and Science-Vibration lesson!
Pinterest has great ideas for hands-on, at home activities, worksheets, music games and so much more! Search key words like: Music Activities for kids, Music games, music education
Kindergarten and 1st grade
Make your own virtual instrument and play in a band!
https://pbskids.org/pinkalicious/games/pinkaperfect-band
Build your own orchestra!
https://pbskids.org/luna/games/carmens-world-orchestra
2nd-5th grade
Learn about Jazz musicians
https://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/education/groovin-jazz-ages-8-13
https://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/education/ellas-singing-class
https://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/education/bennys-music-class
https://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/education/dukes-music-class
https://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/education/louis-music-class
4th and 5th Grade
After learning about the four families of the orchestra, go on an adventure to find the missing instruments in the jungle! Play this game to find all of the instruments so they can perform on the grand stage!
https://listeningadventures.carnegiehall.org/
Listen and read about the Instrument Families of the Symphony Orchestra! What is your favorite instrument?
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/instruments
More websites about the symphony orchestra instruments:
http://www.sfskids.org/discover/
Learn about major, minor and harmonic scales to compose your own song! After learning about the scales, print out blank staff paper to notate your song.
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/building-blocks-of-music
Non-Technological Music Ideas
1. Create your own kitchen band (with an adult’s permission, of course!) and find some ways to play on pots and pans or other materials found in your kitchen. Play along to some music. Experiment with your instrument.
1. Can you play it loud and quietly?
2. Can you play it in more than one way?
3. Can you move around the room while playing it or do you need to stay still?
2. Spend a day making a list of everywhere you hear music. What types of music did you hear? Were you surprised to hear music in any specific places? Be ready to discuss what you discovered in your next music class.
3. Interview an adult about music! Ask them some questions about music when they were growing up. Take notes and be ready to share with our class. Here are some sample questions to ask:
1. Did you have a favorite song as a kid?
2. Did you have a favorite singer/band growing up? Who was it? What was your favorite song?
3. How did you listen to music when you were a kid?
4. Did you play an instrument?
5. Did you sing in a choir?
6. Did you have music in school? Do you remember what kind of songs you sang? Did you play games? Did you dance? Did you play instruments? What kind? Did you like music class? Why or why not?
4. Have an adult help you find a song without words and listen to it. While you listen, draw a picture of what the music makes you think of. You might need to listen more than one time in order to complete your picture. Make sure to write down the name and artist/composer of the song!
5. Use a large, empty water bottle to drum on! (ie. Sparkletts)
6. Play “Name That Tune!”
7. Make a “found sound” instrument using recycled items! What can you find around your house to use as an instrument?