Using art to create music, a piece of yarn a story and lots of imagination.
The Vocal Squiggle
Call & Answer Composing
Creating music in the classroom is an important part of music. Anyway students can independently work through creating music in different ways. Iconic, standard, solfege, recording, are all fantastic ways to get students involved in the creating music. Second Graders started the year by creating call and answer musical ideas with solfege. Students practiced …
Song Writing for Kindergarten
In Kindergarten, we have spent most of the year working on quarter notes, quarter rests and the letters in the music alphabet. We've played games and had simple songwriting activities that have practiced these concepts individually. Towards the end of the year we begin to put all of these concepts together by composing simple songs. …
Preschool Composers?
When we think of composing music, preschool is not the first thought that comes to our mind. As an early childhood teacher having to teach reading to Kindergarteners, I have been focused on how to break down music into a very simple form of notation. Using color-coded bars on Orff instruments I am able to …
Blake Siskavich 