They always say, at first, "I don't know these," but they do! After second grade, I don't do a major focus on the instruments per se, but we continue to play the bingo game, and talk about the instruments as they occur in accompaniment tracks we're using.
By the end of second grade, they are playing "Music Instrument Bingo" with a partner.
(no strings, unfortuntately) Sometime during the year, we have a visit from members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra who have a couple of different programs for the children. We visit the band room (across the hall) and the middle or upper school band students show and demonstrate their instruments. After we watch and discuss each "video" the children each color and put together their own booklet with a page about each instrument. My 2nd graders love them! They think PJ is crazy and cool. Short, easy game ¬ but they love it! Kay DickinsonĠ6/06 LOWER ELEMENTARY: The "PJ" videos are called "Tune Buddies" and there are six of them: an introductory one, then strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and keyboards. When I touch the instrument I¹ve called out at the beginning they all yell out STOP! It is a great way to tell if they can identify instruments by name and picture. While I¹m pointing the students are saying, sssssss.ssssss. I call out the name of on instrument, and then with my magic wand baton, slowly drag the baton all over the poster. I have a big poster on the board with orchestra instrument pictures on it. It is something my cooperating teacher did with her students. Tracy, Bulletin Boards for the Music Classroom, -Ġ6/06 I like to play STOP. This gives them a solid instrument background. I have several 3-5 minute games with identifying instruments or the family that the instrument is in, etc.that we play as review for the rest of the year. I'm going to use one of the CDs that came with some textbooks for listening examples. I just haven't had a good resource for it before. Other things that I include are instrument spelling bees, instrument bingo and this year I'm going to add some listening games. There are no excuses for spelling mistakes as almost all of the words are on our word wall.Ĭlass #4 woodwind lecture and touch while taking notes and so on. How do musicians make higher and lower sounds with these instruments?There's also a place for them to sketch it they want and for "other" facts that they may want to remember. What parts do these instruments have that make them members of this family? They keep their worksheet in a folder until all of our instrument activities are complete.
lecture and touch etc.Ĭlass #2: using a worksheet that is essentially just a graphic organizer for their notes I review information about the instrument and pass around a few of the instruments for them to touch (no mouth pieces!) or the reeds or whatever. They all have this goofy (in a good way) teenager kind of character named T.J. I bought a set of videos (brass, strings, woodwinds, percussion) at a conference a couple of years ago. RaeAnna GossĠ6/07 UNIT: I do about an 8-10 class periods unit in third grade with instruments. Summative Assessment - create a worksheet with instrument bank for students to identify names/families. Really nice -Sandy TomsĠ7/11 I would get Artie's orchestra pack - several activities listed in that resource! Formative Assessment - have students clip the instrument on the pink card as you're playing the recordings or use the small instrument cards and blue family card to classify the instruments. I use the album, "Rhythm Band Jam" - Frank Leto which has several selections intended for this purpose. Then they choose patterns they want to play and play until the conclusion of the song. group, the first half of the song they play ta's then when the song says "and this is what he did":
I also have each instrument group play with one song:ĭrums: Haya (Palestine) or any Native American drum song or "Land of the Silver Birch"Īfter they are comfortable playing various 4 beat patterns, I teach them the song "Willum, He Had Seven Sons." With all then each instr. Topics (Just click on the category you want to view) Instruments of the Orchestra #21 Instruments of the Orchestra-Updated 7/21/15