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Summers Toys for the Music Room!

7/18/2018

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Whether it's Dollar Tree or Dollarama, I think we can all agree that the dollar store is a great place to find treasures for the Music room! We have found spring and summer to be especially good times to get things. Summer will be coming to an end and it's time we all make sure to pick up these great teaching tools before it's too late!
POOL NOODLES
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We love pool noodles! Using a bread knife, we cut pool noodles into pieces to create "beads" with a rhythm drawn in permanant marker on each one. Use string, a bungee, or even a dowel to create rhythm patterns by stringing on the pool noodle pieces. Create longer pool noodle pieces to demonstrate a variety in duration. Use colours to help identify different rhythms if you wish. Here, we have cut blue spacers as our bar lines.
​RIBBON WANDS
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Ribbon wands are excellent movement props. They can be used to demonstrate phrasing, to enhance the visual musicality of a piece, to connect to a mood of a piece, or even as vocal warm-up tool!
BUBBLES
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Bubbles are a fun way to visually demonstrate when music and/or movement is light as opposed to heavy. Another idea is to identify a reoccurring theme or sound in a piece your class is listening to and every time it presents itself, students pop a bubble!
CHALK
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Chalk can be used to write out rhythms during a dictation exercise. Add even more fun by doing rhythm activities outside! Click HERE to try our outdoor rhythm game Rhythm Squares!
TURF PIECES
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We use these in our Tons of Bugs workshop! Turf squares can be bought at most dollar stores and can be cut into four pieces to use as beats when having students create rhythm patterns. We use the four small pieces to visually demonstrate beat and when a bug is placed on it, the bug word becomes the rhythm. A four beat rhythm pattern is created by each group of students. Super fun! 
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Let's Play Beatmaster!

7/12/2018

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The neatest thing happened the other night! Steph was at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Main Stage watching Sheryl Crow and noticed that a large group of children were sitting in a circle playing Beatmaster! Organized all by themselves! To the beat of the music they were listening to! It seriously warmed her heart and she asked the kids if they learned the game from their Music teacher. The children explained that a few of them had, and then taught it to the rest of the group. They loved it and played it for almost the entire set! What a wonderful sight to see. It seriously left Steph warm and fuzzy for the rest of the night. 

BEATMASTER - How to play

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  • Have students sit criss-cross in a circle facing the middle.
  • Choose one student to be the "Detective". This person will leave the circle and must close their eyes. It may work better if the Detective momentarily leaves the room.
  • Keeping it a secret from the Detective, choose a "Beatmaster" making sure that the rest of the students know who has been chosen.
  • The circle of students will begin keeping a beat on their laps.
  • The Detective will return and stand in the middle of the circle.
  • The Beatmaster will change where the beat is (floor, lap, head, clap, etc.) and the other students will follow suit, still trying to keep the identity of the Beatmaster a secret.
  • The Detective has to figure out who the Beatmaster is! They will have three guesses.
  • Once the identity of the Beatmaster has been revealed, a new Detective and Beatmaster will be chosen. 
  • As an extension, the Beatmaster can choose a rhythmic ostinato rather than solely keeping the beat with ta. 
  • The game continues as long as you and your students wish! 
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    Sean and Steph

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