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Hi everyone! In light of the school closure, I've provided some free resources that I hope will be helpful to your musical learning (and fun) at home!
As you enter this stage of learning at home with your kid(s), make time in their schedule for music! Even 15 minutes a day will be helpful (and hopefully fun) for them. (If they can handle 30-45 minutes, all the better!)
Included below are:
- Websites with Interactive Music Lessons & Activities
- YouTube Music Lessons & Songs
- School-Appropriate Karaoke playlists
- Music & Movement Activities
- Recorder Lessons & Songs (3rd-5th)
- Songs Your Westie Should Be Able to Sing for You
- Music Vocab Your Westie Should Be Able to Define
- Sight-Singing Exercises
HAVE FUN, SING, AND MAKE MUSIC!
Websites with Interactive Lessons & Activities
- Chrome Music Lab – Hands on, fun, experimental, creative, improvising, composing
- Prodigies Music – video music lessons
YouTube Music Lessons & Songs (PreK-5th)
- School Appropriate Fun Music playlist
- Music Theory playlist (various, PreK-5th)
- Sing-Along Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs (PreK & KG)
- Sing-Along Songs (KG-1st)
- Sing-Along Songs playlist (KG-2nd)
- Sing-Along playlist (1st-3rd)
- Sing-Along playlist (3rd-4th)
- Sing-Along playlist (3rd-5th)
- Sing-Along playlist (3rd-5th)
School-Appropriate Karaoke playlists
Music & Movement
- Recorder Songs – 3rd Grade
- B Note Boogie
- A One Note Song for Recorder
- B Happy
- Recorder Songs – 4th Grade
- B Note Boogie
- A One Note Song for Recorder
- B Happy
- AB Blues
- Marching Monster
- Krebbel Giant’s Dance
- Recorder Songs – 5th Grade
- B Note Boogie
- A One Note Song for Recorder
- B Happy
- AB Blues
- Marching Monster
- Krebbel Giant’s Dance
- Banana Smoothie
- Big Round Bag
- Blueberry Waltz
Music of the Month PowerPoint presentations (3rd-5th)
All PPTs accessible here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WHwxJVe46elYDM7T0zg58oso23gLAnX1
- Folk
- Classical
- Jazz
- Latin American
- Country Western
- Rock
- Hip Hop & Rap
Songs Your Westie Should be Able to Sing to You
Many of these songs have games that go with them. See if your Westie can teach you!
Kindergarten
| Tap Your Body
Counting Song
Months of the Year song
If You’re Happy & You Know It
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This Little Light of Mine
Engine, Engine, Number 9
Alice the Camel
Little Sally Water |
Friend, Oh Friend
Steady Motions
Ickle Ockle
Bow, Wow, Wow
Sally Go Round the Sun |
1st Grade – ALL KG SONGS, plus:
The Farmer in the Dell
Muffin Man
Little Red Caboose
Hokey Pokey |
Pitter Patter
The Monkey Stomps
You’re a Grand Ol Flag
My Country Tis of Thee |
Aiken Drum
Circle Round the Zero
Bling Blang |
2nd Grade – ALL KG & 1st GRADE SONGS, plus:
All Round the Brickyard
Listen, Listen, Here I Come |
That’s a Mighty Pretty Motion |
Dynamics Song
(“Dynamics is how loud or quiet music sounds…”) |
3rd Grade – MOST KG, 1st, and 2nd GRADE SONGS, plus:
Obwisana
Funga Alafia
Are You Sleeping? (canon)
A Ram Sam Sam (canon) |
Tempo Song
(“Tempo is how fast or slow music sounds…”)
Skip to My Lou |
Let Us Chase the Squirrel
Little Johnny Brown
Round & Round the Village |
4th Grade – MOST KG-3rd GRADE SONGS, plus:
Jamestown
(lyrics here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WHwxJVe46elYDM7T0zg58oso23gLAnX1) |
Ah, Poor Bird (canon)
Alleluia (canon) |
5th Grade – MOST KG-4th GRADE SONGS, plus:
Oh How Lovely (canon)
Russian Solfege Canon (“mi, mi re do la re…”)
Solfege Song
(lyrics here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WHwxJVe46elYDM7T0zg58oso23gLAnX1) |
State Songs
• NE: Delaware…Pennsylvania…
• SE: Louisiana, Arkansas…
• MidW: North Dakota, South Dakota…
• SW: Arizona…New Mexico…
• W: Washington, Oregon, California… |
Music Vocab Your Westie Should Be Able to Define
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GRADE
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TERM
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DEFINITION
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KG-5th
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A cappella
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Singing without accompaniment
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With accompaniment
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Singing with instruments
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Piano
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Quiet
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Forte
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Loud
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Adagio
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Slow
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Allegro
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Fast
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1st-5th
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Mezzo-Piano
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Medium quiet
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Mezzo-Forte
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Medium loud
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Rallentando
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To slow down
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Accelerando
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To speed up
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Solo
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One person performing alone
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Duet
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Two people performing together
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Trio
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Three people…
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Quartet
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Four people…
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Ensemble
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Group of people performing together
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2nd-5th
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Crescendo
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To get louder
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Decrescendo
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To get quieter
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Pianissimo
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Very quiet
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Fortissimo
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Very loud
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3rd-5th
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Head voice vs. Chest voice
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(They should be able to demonstrate & tell you that both registers are good, but head voice is better for 3rd-5th grade)
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Canon/Round
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One person or group begins a song, then another person or group comes in singing the same song, but at a different time
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Unison
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When everyone sings or plays the same thing at the same time
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Instrument Families
PPT presentation here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WHwxJVe46elYDM7T0zg58oso23gLAnX1
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Strings
Wind
Brass
Percussion
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4th-5th
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Melody
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The main tune of a song
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Harmony
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A part that is different than the melody, but goes nicely with it.
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Ensemble Types:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WHwxJVe46elYDM7T0zg58oso23gLAnX1
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Orchestra
Band
Chorus
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