Classroom Gems: Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Music

✍ Scribed by Donna Minto

• Publisher: Longman
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 306
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Music is a handy tool for Primary Music teachers; it is packed full of simple activities for your classroom and is organised by skill – singing, rhythm, playing, listening.  Activities can be easily adapted to suit different classes or topics and help you to feel more confident teaching Music. Prior musical knowledge is not necessary to use these activities, and a glossary of music terminology is included.  Cross-curricular links inspire creativity across the primary curriculum and brighten up your classroom!

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Music
Contents
Introduction
Singing
Introduction
Come and Meet the Solfa Family
Up or Down
‘The Wild Man from Kettle-O’
‘Miss Minto Says’
‘Last Thing at Night’
‘Stars’
‘Mousie All Alone’
‘Clowns’ Noses’
‘Charlie Over the Ocean’
Bopping with Bonnie
Singing ’Structions
Alphabet Antics
Beautiful Bubbles
Lasso that Sound
‘Who Can it Be?’
Let’s See Some Emotion!
Singing Jigsaws
‘We are the Body Band’
The Lost Pet
Times Tables
So–Me Questions and Answers
Wacky Words
One Word at a Time
The Human Scale
Advanced
‘Red Riding Hood’
‘We’ve Got a House for You’
Super Scales
Solfa School Uniform
Name that Tune!
Body Solfa
Playing
‘Hickory Dickory Dock’
‘Grand Old Duke of York’
Leap and Jump!
Count the Cold
Explore and Extend
Instrument Squares
Shake that Skeleton
Up and Down and Turnabout
Cabbage Patch Countdown
Bubble Bounce
‘Ready to Go!’
‘Pass the Beaters’
Investigate the Instruments
Sorting Spot
Stretch a Sound
Arpeggio Fanfares
A Weather Picture
‘Tell Me Another One’
‘Have You Seen the Leaves?’
Play Pentatonic
Drastic Droning
Think Sharp
Advanced
Wrap Up that Inspiration
1, 3, 5 and Sometimes 7
Playing a Round
12-Bar Blues
‘Time for School’
‘Moving House’
Twinkling Tumblers
Five-Finger Tunes
Rhythm
Introduction
Clap a Rhyme
Tell the Time Rhythms
Concentration
Clap and Stamp and E-Ha!
Candle Game
Rhythm Banking
Be a Square
Press Plastic
‘Drunken Sailor’ Drumming
Tap it Out and Pass it On
Off Beat/On Beat
Sounds and Silence
Rhythm Around
Happy Music
Boom Cha Cha
Ten Good Men
Rhythm Hot Plates
Conducting Capers
Rhythm Ostinati
Slap, Clap, Say your Word
Match the Rhythm
‘Ugly Bug Ball’
3, 4 and 5
Advanced
Beat Box Body
‘Digestive System Rap’
Frozen Food
Taste and Hear the Difference
Duet or Trio
Rhythm Rondo
‘The Can Can’
Listening
Introduction
High or Low
‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’
Shake and Shoogle!
Fire-Bell Polka
Pat, Pat, Patterns
Hide and Seek Sounds
Fantastic Four
Hup 2, 3, 4
Sounds Around
‘Thunder and Lightning Polka’
Classroom Rumble
‘Pennsylvania 6–5000’
‘The Syncopated Clock’
Instrumental Sets
Loud or Quiet
How Many Sounds?
Good Sound/Bad Sound
Stand Up/Sit Down
Advanced
Up and Down or Left and Right
‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’
‘Zabadak’
Oom Pah Pah
Sleigh Ride
‘The Little Train of Caipira’
Shopping for Sounds
Entertain the Entertainer
River Runs Red
‘Alla Turca’ Animals
Sing the Note then Find It
Gallery of Sounds
Glossary
Appendices
Instruments of the Orchestra
Sources for songs