We are learning to use icons to represent musical sounds in Kindergarten. Using large treble clef staff charts and bottle caps we practiced placing the "note heads" on spaces and on lines. This important concept will later help us to easily distiguish pitches on the staff. Then we made the note heads go up and down and stay the same. The fun part was making our voices match the patterns we created!
I am curious to know whether you tell students the names of these lines and spaces. I am also curious to know whether, when they sing the patterns, you have them singing precise individual pitches. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI am wondering if you told your students the names of the notes on the lines and spaces yet, and whether they sang precise pitches after placing the bottle caps on lines and spaces.
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Nope. In Kindergarten the focus on music "reading" with the bottlecap staff is that they can correctly place and identify the difference between a line note and a space note. The vocalization was not precise. We did "woooo" from low to high and "weeee" from high to low (like going down a slide). The fun part was letting them break into small groups and make up their own. *giggle* Lots of silly sounds then!
ReplyDeleteAWESOME! I am stealing this and planning to use it next week. Have you heard of the Freddie the Frog books by Sharon Burch? I'm using those with my students, and this activity will be great to couple with a refresher of the book. I also use a slide whistle and have students echo, so that would be something to help them when they "read" the ups and downs of the notes.
ReplyDeleteOoooooOo! I love the slide whistle idea!
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get your bottle cap staffs? I am looking for something similar for my students.
ReplyDeleteI created the staff sheets, copied them and then laminated them. I saved bottle caps for a long time! LOL. :-)
ReplyDeleteI really like the bottle top idea for little hands. I use math counters for my 1-5 kids. I am definitely going to try this next year! I also like the idea of them creating their own pattern and demonstrating it.
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