Elementary Music Valentine's Day Activities

Need a quick Valentine's Day activity for your elementary music classes?

Here is a list of activities!

I created this Wakelet that includes multiple activities to use in your elementary music classes on Valentine’s Day. It is labeled in five categories:

• Rhythm play-along videos

• Boomwhacker videos

• Valentine games

• Play-Along Videos with body percussion of iconic notation

• Lessons

Enjoy! And Happy Valentine’s Day!

Gong Xi Gong Xi!

I created this play-along because my students know the song well. The Lǎoshī (老师) that worked at our school taught the students this song and they loved it so much that we sing it every year.

This play-along is played twice. The first time is a slow tempo to practice and the second time is the recorded tempo. I used Flat.io to create the notation to help with playing the song.

If you do not know the song, this will be complicated to play and take some time and practice to learn. But, if you do know the song, it should work well.

Countdown to 2022: 5 Free Tech Activities for #Elmused (#1) - New Rhythm Play-Along Video

Happy 2022!

Here in the Northeast of the States, the holiday started with an outbreak of the Omicron variant of Covid. This caused schools to pivot their current plans and weigh the options of remote learning, concurrent learning, or live learning with more restrictions. This week, to bring us into 2022, I am going to blog and share daily activities that can be used in your adapted #elmused classroom when returning from the holiday break.

January Rhythm Play-Along: This Mashup is inspired by Spider-Man No Way Home and Schoolhouse Rock

This Rhythm Play-Along involves quarter, half, whole, eighth, and sixteenth notes, 2 and 4 meters, crescendo and decrescendo, and whole and half rests. Inspired by Spider-Man No Way Home, it is a mashup that leads with A Magic Number. It is followed by various Schoolhouse Rock songs and finishes with A Magic Number again.

Resources:

• De La Soul (1989), The Magic Number [Recorded by De La Soul]. On 3 Feet High and Rising. Retrieved from shorturl.at/eotR7. Sampled from Three is a Magic Number by Bob Durough (1971).

• Frishberg, D (1976). I'm Just a Bill. [Recorded by Jack Sheldon]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgVKvqTItto.

• Newall, G (1974). Unpack Your Adjectives. [Recorded by Blossom Dearie feat. Bob Dorough]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpPEQZl6_d4. Dorough, B (1973).

• Conjunction Junction. [Recorded by Jack Sheldon, Terry Morel, and Mary Sue Berry. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg. Blog Post: amymburns.com/elmusedtech

  Check back for a body percussion play-along to accompany this mashup, and eventually teaching materials.

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BONUS!

January Body Percussion Play-Along inspired by Spiderman No Way Home and Schoolhouse Rock! https://youtu.be/poUacmDdS2M via @YouTube. This body percussion play-along video complements the rhythm play-along (found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vliy0-mV6Fw). #elmused #mused #edtech #music #elementary #elementarymusicteacher #elementarymusicteacherlife #musiceducation

Countdown to 2022: 5 Free Tech Activities for #Elmused (#3) Google Slides or Seesaw Retrieval Practice or Assessment in Rhythm Literacy

Here in the Northeast of the States, the holiday started with an outbreak of the Omicron variant of Covid. This caused schools to pivot their current plans and weigh the options of remote learning, concurrent learning, or live learning with more restrictions. This week, to bring us into 2022, I am going to blog and share daily activities that can be used in your adapted #elmused classroom when returning from the holiday break.

#3: Puzzle Rhythm Play-Along Patterns

In November, I created a “Be Thankful” Rhythm Play-Along Activity. This Seesaw and Google Slides Project accompanied the video to serve the purpose of retrieval practice or assessment.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/1/d/1XWZYsa-Mu7-Qcb7rT3u8h7dWxxDrOzJ0R19dU-nQsPg/copy

Google Slides: Be Thankful Rhythm Play-Along Retrieval Practice or Assessment

This google slides activity involves a puzzle for the students to solve. Once they solve the puzzle, they are to use the Mote Extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mote-voice-notes-feedback/ajphlblkfpppdpkgokiejbjfohfohhmk?hl=en-US) to record themselves performing the rhythm pattern. Once they have completed eight slides, they can press play and perform with the Be Thankful Rhythm Play-Along. Although this video was from Thanksgiving, it can be used throughout the year.

https://app.seesaw.me/pages/shared_activity?share_token=-163i544RUCMX3aV1K7nAg&prompt_id=prompt.a6088603-e514-4177-9e60-d06a771c261e

Seesaw: Being Thankful Rhythm Play-Along Retrieval Practice or Assessment

Very similar to the google slides activity, this Seesaw Activity uses the microphone tool to record themselves performing the rhythm pattern that they create from piecing the puzzle together. Once finished, they can press play on the ninth slide to perform all of the rhythm patterns with the rhythm play-along video.

Resources

Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/1/d/1XWZYsa-Mu7-Qcb7rT3u8h7dWxxDrOzJ0R19dU-nQsPg/copy

Seesaw: https://app.seesaw.me/pages/shared_activity?share_token=-163i544RUCMX3aV1K7nAg&prompt_id=prompt.a6088603-e514-4177-9e60-d06a771c261e

Check back as we count down to 2022 with #2 tomorrow!

Note: At the 5 min mark I say that google slides is much easier. However, Seesaw is what was supposed to be referenced at that 5 min mark.

Trepak from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker: Rhythm Play-Along

In this play-along video, the students will practice half notes, half rests, quarter notes, and eighth notes in duple meter. This is a great tool for the practice portion of Kodály's prepare/present/practice approach. Here is a link to the process of creating this video using free tools: https://youtu.be/IrEfOhZK-1w