Elementary Fall Music Lessons and Activities

The leaves are changing colors and it’s time to get ready for elementary fall music lessons and activities.

You can watch the video to get all the details of the 3 interactive manipulative ideas for your fall music lessons and activities.

Or, here’s the gist of what’s in the video!

FALL MUSIC LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES IDEA #1

Download the Free resource “Fall is Here” a traditional Kodaly lesson.

You’ll find interactive ideas for teaching this song with movement and manipulatives which will help you with your fall music lessons and activities.

FALL MUSIC LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES IDEA #2

Toss some leaves around that you can make with this fun freebie!

“Toss the Leaves” with song, activities and manipulatives to get your students playing rhythms quickly.

Ultimately, that’s the point right? We just can’t dump the leaves on the ground and do nothing with them!

Watch the video for some fun ways to use the leaves in your fall music lessons and activities.

Free when you subscribe to the Free Resource Library.

FALL MUSIC LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES IDEA #3

Thirdly, it’s time to get crafty!

And if you don’t like crafty, then this really not a craft will work for you too!

Using manipulatives in the music classroom can help your students understand concepts like 1 sound on the beat, 2 sounds on the beat and 2 beats is one sound (half note).

So when you’re planning your fall music lessons and activities, be sure to get this idea from the video.

It’s an idea that’s really helped me in my teaching and with my students.

FALL MUSIC LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES IDEA #4

Finally, you’ll want to check out the variety of resources you get in the Fall Music Lesson Bundle.

Ultimately, you’ll have everything you need for K-6 students when you get the FREEBIES and this BUNDLE!

The Fall Music Lesson Bundle provides materials for your K-6 students and will make your music classes filled with students singing songs, playing games, instruments, composing, improvising in your Music Classroom using these interactive music lessons.

The Fall Music Class Lesson Bundle includes 6 Resources with a variety of lessons, Mp3 Tracks, VIDEO and animated power point resources and in addition to worksheets to teach Music Education Standards. K-6

OVERVIEW:

This bundle includes 6 resources that you can use to establish your core music curriculum during Fall months. Lessons can be adapted from Grades K-6. The Teacher Resource Guide provides an outline of the resources and planning pages for you to use these resources in your current music curriculum.

RESOURCES INCLUDED:

K-3: “Leaves Are Falling All Around”

K-3: Fall Vocal Explorations

1-4: “Five Little Acorns”

K-3: “I Had a Dog” and “Doggie, Doggie” Where’s Your Bone

2-6: Pirate Rhythm Chants and Activities

CONCEPTS INCLUDED IN THE BUNDLE:

Melody
Rhythm
Ostinato
Pitch
Singing
Playing Instruments
Creating
Composing
Creative Movement
Improvisation
So-la-mi-do
Play parts
Ostinato
Quarter, half, eighth notes

DETAILED RESOURCE DESCRIPTIONS: Please view the video previews for each resource.

This easily adaptable set of resources gives you the tools to teach music concepts to different grade levels per your teaching needs. It’s a perfect Fall Lesson to bring together your pitch, melody, rhythm, creative movement and improvisation goals. It’s also a wonderful way to assess students.

Using a video to teach enables you to have smooth transitions in your lesson. The video provides the visual and aural cues as you guide students from playing the beat to tapping rhythms, singing solfege and finally singing the song.

PIRATE CHANTS: K-6 MUSIC ACTIVITIES

CONCEPTS:

Quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes
Composition
Movement
Body Percussion
Rhythm Creating
Play Rhythms

PIRATE CHANTS: K-6 MUSIC ACTIVITIES

CONCEPTS:

Quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes
Composition
Movement
Body Percussion
Rhythm Creating
Play Rhythms

LEAVES ARE FALLING ALL AROUND

Resource Includes:

• Concepts:
• mi-so-la (do)
• Quarter, eighth notes and quarter rest
• Creative Movement
• Playing instruments, rhythms, melody
• Sheet music
o Orff Arrangement- Notes & Note Names
o Melody-Solfa, Note Names, Notes
o Bass-Note Names, Solfa
o Rhythm parts
• Printable for Rhythm writing
• Teaching and Creative Movement Activity Directions
• Mp3 Vocal and Accompaniment Tracks
• Power Point
• PDF Files
• Video for teaching Beat, Rhythm, and Melody solfege, lyrics
o (All pictures and pages are included in the PDF and Power Point files-this way you can choose how you want to use the resource in your classroom.)

Music Lessons “Five Little Acorns” Kodaly and Orff VIDEOS Unit

Resource Includes
Kodaly Rhythm, Singing and Playing Bundle “Five Little Acorns” an Original Song
6 lesson plans and performance idea
Sheet music with directions
Game and directions
Orff -Rhythmic and Melodic Ostinato, Accompaniment
Rhythmic Teaching & Practice for ti-ti, ta, taa
Kodaly melody mi, sol, la and do
Printables-Melody, Rhythm, Writing Rhythms
Flash Cards-Acorn and Rhythmic
I can statements for individual goals
and combined goals.

I Had a Dog”, “Doggie, Doggie” Kodaly and Orff Lessons

CONCEPTS:

mi-so-la
half notes (or LONG and SHORT)
Singing and Playing Notes (staff notes included on the sheet music)
Ostinato

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

Lesson Plan Outline for 6-8 lesson IDEAS
2 Songs
3 Games
6-I Can Statements
Rhythm practice
mi so la Melody Notes
Melody Ostinato
Rhythm Ostinato
Fill in the blank rhythm activities.
2 note and rhythm writing worksheets
*Sheet Music for each song:
sight sing, solfege, lyrics, note names
Mp3 Practice Tracks

Fall Vocal Explorations

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

Concept: PITCH
PDF and Power Point File
Animated Power Point
18 pages that show various vocal explorations with apples.
11 Blank slides for you to draw on your white board, Dot cam or SMART board.
3 Composition Printables for students to create Their own vocal explorations and share with the class or at home.
Puppet template to make an exploration puppet.

Looking for some more fall lesson and activity ideas?

I’m hoping you’ll FALL easily into your Fall music class lessons and activities!

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TEACHING TIPS

Meet Sandra

Hi there! I’m Sandra, one of the authors behind Sing Play Create. My goal is to provide teachers with interactive resources and activities to improve the effectiveness of their teaching and enhance student learning.