Giving the students 5-10 minutes, they’ll come up with as many musical words they can in the allotted time. Once they’re in groups, give one piece of paper and a pencil to each group. Put the students in groups of about 4 people. More than one student will be out at a time.Ī really fun game to play with your students, especially upper elementary, is create musical words. This is where the game is different from musical chairs. Once time’s up, the students who didn’t write the correct musical concept down or didn’t write anything are out. If it’s not right, they need to rewrite it until it’s correct. Once they’ve written it down, they’ll hold their board or paper up so you can come check it. In this version, when the music stops, the students will write down the rhythm, note, melody, or other musical concept you’ve called out. The child who didn’t get a chair would be out. When the music stops, in the normal game, your students would need to sit down in a chair. But, for a quick refresher course, you’ll play music while the kids are walking in a circle. Put dry erase boards and a marker (or a paper and pencil if you don’t have these) on the floor in a circle.Įveryone has played musical chairs before probably. If you don’t have lots of chairs, then simply use the floor. This activity is a little difficult if you don’t have enough chairs in your room. Just like the rhythm cake walk, students can walk to the rhythm as well, or they can just speak it. For example, if I have glockenspiel on my card, I’ll walk around the room saying “glock-en-spiel” until I find my instrument twin. Students will walk around the room saying their instrument how it sounds. You’ll write the same instrument name down on two cards. So, since you’re using classroom instruments, you’ll write “guiro”, “tubano drum”, “triangle”, “recorder”, and “sand blocks.” Of course, there are so many other instruments you can write down as well, but this gives you an idea of what I’m talking about. For the younger grades, you can print out pictures of the instruments and hand those out instead. Each student is given an index card with an instrument written on it. I already talked about two instrument of the orchestra games in this blog post. But, this game is going to be involving the elementary classroom instruments.
The rhythm cake walk is definitely one of my favorite elementary music games.
While they’re walking in a circle, they will walk to the rhythm you’re playing. Play a rhythm on a hand drum for your students.You’ll leave out one paper so one child won’t land on one. On the floor, lay down pieces of construction paper (or any paper for that matter).Rhythm cake walk is different though, because instead of just walking in circles over and over with no rhyme (see what I did there) or reason, this game has a musical purpose. Yes, I’m talking about “THE” cake walk you do to earn a cake. These are 4 fun elementary music games you can begin teaching this week!
If implementing games in your classroom sounds intimidating, it’s not as scary as you think it is. Sometimes, they may not even realize they’re learning music while playing a game. Second of all, your students love learning music in a variety of ways. First of all, they’re a nice change of pace from everything else going on. Playing games is so much fun in the music room.
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