5th grade
Melody patterns
These patterns can be used for warm-ups with recorders or practice with xylophones or other pitched instruments. The students can use these patterns to write their own pieces of music (see below or another one here). Visuals (See downloads at bottom ...
How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck
Lyrics (Traditional chant / Tongue twister) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? See also Subject: woodchucks Types: chant / tongue twister Meter: 4 Rhythm: or purchase here (printables only) Handout PDF of chant ...
Hole in the Middle of the Sea
Lyrics (Folk song) There’s a hole in the middle of the sea,There’s a hole in the middle of the sea,There’s a hole, there’s a hole,There’s a hole in the middle of the sea, There’s a log in the hole in ...
Note & Rest Flashcards
Flash Cards (See downloads at bottom of page. Each number has a corresponding button.)You could laminate them on card stock (I have used old manila folders that I cut into 8.5 x 11 and feed into the printer). Then I either put ...
Rhythm Cards in 4/4
Visuals (See downloads at bottom of page. Each number has a corresponding button.) 1 2 3 4 See also Rhythm visuals Rhythm Resources Ta & Ti-ti Visuals (printable & digital) Quarter & Eighth Note Visuals (printable ...
Star Spangled Banner
Lyrics (Melody by John Stafford Smith, Lyrics by Francis Scott Key) Oh say can you see by the dawn’s early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleamingWhose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fightO’er the ...
Fooba Wooba John
Lyrics (Folk song) 2. Saw a crow flying low,Fooba, wooba, fooba, wooba,Saw a crow flying low, Fooba wooba John.Saw a crow flying low several miles beneath the snow.Whoa John, oh John, Fooba wooba John. 3. Saw a whale chase a ...
Invented (Homemade) Instruments
Lesson ideas Lessons preceding this Unit: Orchestra Review & Ethnomusicology Lesson 1 – Explain the Invented Instrument assignment and show pictures. Lesson 2-3 – Students browse books or the internet for ideas, fill out the Instrument Plan Form, and bring in materials ...
