Music Education

A fun, free printable crossword puzzle worksheet featuring musical instruments for elementary school students or anyone looking for to review their knowledge of the world.

The next step to our rhythm lessons is to add rests to the icons we know how to read. We are only going to use quarter note rests that get one beat. They will be named "rest" for the purpose of reading and clapping the rhythm. Instead of clapping on the rest we will take our hands and give a beat into the air. We do want the children to feel that beat and not to do nothing on the rest. Even a rest gets a beat! For example, if we were reading and clapping Ta Ta Ti-Ti Rest it would look like…

As a review of rhythm notation, I always play BINGO with my kiddos! I made a SMARTboard presentation during my first year of teaching and print/laminated boards. Now that I'm older and wiser (and with iPads), I put the bingo boards in Dropbox instead and have the images saved to the iPads. Typically, we use a Whiteboard App to cross off symbols. After playing BINGO many times, I've noticed the Whiteboard App (FREE) I was using had too many ads and tons of pop ups that distracted my kids…

Use our free printable music activity as a boredom buster with kids stuck at home or as a fun part of music education in a classroom.

This Animal Actions Rhythm Game is the perfect way to get things moving and practice listening and note recognition skills at the same time.

Lego is such a brilliant toy! Teachers often use it to teach maths and so it’s also an excellent way to teach rhythm and notation with these lego beats music manipulatives. How To Use Lego Music Manipulatives Younger children find the chunky ‘Duplo’ easier to manage so it’s best to start off […]

Description Rhythm resource

Kodaly Rhythm Symbols, a system of music education for children that includes singing, ear training, solfeggio, rhythmic movement, and improvisation -- developed by Hungarian composer, Zoltan Kodaly, to achieve the goal of music literacy.

Class Openers for Elementary Music. Organized Chaos. Fun ways to establish a routine for the beginning of each elementary general music class as a warm-up and allow student leadership as well.

[ padding=”0 20px 0 20px”] As guitarists we interact with the musical pulse by playing notes. Some are long and some are short. The diagram below […]