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These are three activities that support awareness of musical elements and concepts to help students use musical intelligences and develop vocabulary:
What are: rainstorm simulation
call and response songs
play songs and allow students to create images
music bingo with composers and vocabulary
name that instrument
name that song
canons and rounds (harmony)
Infuse art and music: play music at certain times during the day
Use music to introduce something new (unit, topic, etc.) or settle students
Sing with students: The day song in Kindergarten (Today is Tuesday, What a happy day….)
Teach Songs & analyze meanings (e.g. John Mayer’s Waiting on the world to change)
Use energizing warm ups: chants, songs, cheers, etc., some of which students know
Use Children’s Literature related to music: Shel Silverstien’s Where the Sidewalk Ends, Charlie Parker plays be bop
Teach about composers/musicians, celebrate musician’s birthdays
Use (Canadian) Folk Songs (Farewell to Nova Scotia, This land is your land, Bud the Spud, etc.)
Use specialists in your class: local musicians, etc