Instrument Names
Instrument Families
Music Vocabulary
Classroom Expectations
Know Your School
100
These percussion instruments are hit together or on the floor to make a short, rhythmic sound.
What are Rhythm Sticks?
100
The name of a grouping of instruments based on similar characteristics, and the name of this category.
What is Instrument Family?
100
A device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
What is an instrument?
100
If I have something I want to say or ask in class, I do this action while waiting quietly to be called on by Mr. Smith.
What is Raise My Hand?
100
The names of Morton's Principal and Assistant Principal.
Who are Principal Korth and AP Marseilles?
200
These wooden or plastic instruments are shaken to make a rattle sound.
What are Maracas?
200
The family of instruments often made of wood, played by plucking, strumming, or bowing metal or plastic lines attached to the instrument.
What are Strings?
200
A distinct sound that is the basic building block for most music.
What is a Note?
200
When I need to use the bathroom, I quietly hold this symbol in the air.
What is Fingers Crossed?
200
The number of floors in Morton.
What is 4?
300
A string instrument that can be played with fingers or with a pick, used in many forms of popular and classical music.
What is a Guitar?
300
The family of instruments made of metal, played by blowing air through buzzed lips into a mouthpiece
What is Brass?
300
A grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments.
What is an Instrument Family?
300
I can go here if I am feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, or tired, and need to reset. 
What is the Calm Corner?
300
The name of the stairs we use to travel down.
What is the Troy Stairwell?
400
Xylophones are played by holding these tools by their wooden handles and striking the bars with their yarn heads.
What are Mallets?
400
A family of instruments played by blowing air, often through a reed, and holding down different keys to change the notes.
What is Woodwind?
400
The placement of sounds in time.
What is Rhythm/Beat?
400
At the start of every class, students enter the classroom and begin this activity with their teams at a Level 0 or 1 volume.
What is Do Now, Due Now?
400
The name of the stairwell we use when we travel up.
What is the Franklin Stairwell?
500
This hand drum originates from Senegal in West Africa, and is known for its triangle / hourglass shape.
What is a Djembe?
500
This family of instruments is played by hitting, striking, or shaking, and is what Mr. Smith studied in college.
What is Percussion?
500
A set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch.
What is a Staff?
500
This is where progress for each grade level will be tracked, both through sight and sound.
What is Working Together in Harmony?
500
The name of all 5 specials teachers this year, including our afternoon music teacher.
Who are Mr. Smith, Ms. Jerant, Mr. Hearon, Mr. Miranda, and Teacher Curtis?