Helpful Hint: On iPads, press slowly on links to open.
Choose one activity below.
You may do more if you wish.
1. At the bottom of this page, you may watch videos of your friends making music.
2. Go to the Exploratorium, an online science lab of cool stuff.
On the Physics page, there are 3 music activities:
• Secret Bells
• Make Your Own Rainstick
• Finding the Sweet Spot on a Baseball Bat
3. Type in Bee Hummer in the Exploratorium's search box.
This is a very cool instrument to build!
Remember these favorites?
• Hambone is an African American way to play your body with pats and claps.
Your body becomes a drum set.
Watch this VIDEO as John McCutcheon teaches you how to do some hambone.
Try the clap - lap - lap pattern.
Try tapping your cheeks with your mouth open.
What do you notice?
• Before singing the Swapping Song this week, say this tongue twister 3x fast for better diction:
Ten tiny turtles sipping tea. Ten tiny turtles sipping tea. Ten tiny turtles sipping tea.
Now sing the Swapping Song. How fast can you sing the refrain?
• Call Grandma or Grandpa or some one who needs a song.
Tell them how much you love them and sing a favorite song to them.
You will really make their day!
• Your Rhythm Padlet will open today.
You may record singing a song and post.
You may write a rhythm pattern to challenge us.
You may talk to each other.
Keep the discussion about music.
You may include other favorite music, including piano or guitar lessons, or a pop tune from streaming or radio.
"See" you there!
• Go to the bottom of this page to Music Makers.
Listen to 3 teachers tell you about their instruments.
What do you notice?
• Watch this video about sound vibrations. A young man put his phone inside his guitar.
As he played his guitar, the phone camera captured the vibrating strings. Very cool!
Tell me what you noticed.
• Now try building an instrument.
Here are many new instruments to build from things you have at home.
Source: Toys from Trash - Mr. Gupta is a science teacher in India. I have used his wonderful site for many years.
• Build a shaker instrument. Look for a plastic egg, or an empty box.
Try salt. Take out the salt. Try rice or . . .? Small things make better rain sounds.
Put your ear on the instrument. Do you hear the vibrations better?
Ask mom or dad to shake your instrument. Walk away. How far away can you still hear the sound?
• Make different shakers from quiet (salt) to loud (beans, pebbles).
Create a rain story with shaker instruments.
• Think about rain. Does it always sound the same, or does it sometimes sound different?
Listen HERE to the sound of rain to help you think.
Listen for a while. How can you tap your fingers on the table to sound like rain? What else could make rain sounds?
Now listen HERE to people making rain sounds with their fingers, hands, laps, and feet.
Make the rain start quietly. If you can't snap, open and close your fists quickly.
Now a little more rain. Pat your lap.
More rain! Pat faster.
The rain is coming down harder. Walk in place.
Here comes the thunder! Jump once! Jump twice!
Walk your feet. The clouds are moving away.
Pat your lap. It's raining.
Snap your fingers. Snap slower. Slower. One last drop.
How would you create your own rain story?
• Draw a rain picture to go with your story.
• Call Grandma or Grandpa or some one who needs a song.
Tell them how much you love them and sing a favorite song to them.
You will really make their day!
• Sing the Star-Spangled Banner.
• Go to Resources. Go to Music Tools. Play Instrument Safari. Explore other Tools.
• The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• Sing Happy Birthday. Wash your hands.
• Sing the Swapping Song.
• Did you have good memories when you saw the music room set up for instrument building?
Build instruments at home from recycled stuff.
Need ideas? Here are the science videos that we watched in 2nd grade.
The experiments we did are there in the fourth column.
Find rubber bands, rice, a box, a plastic container and build something!
• Listen to Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King. Do you remember the story?
• In the Hall of the Mountain King
This page has our story, the finger puppets, the book pictures, music, the short movie, and more!
• Explore Beethoven here. Click on Beethoven's picture to watch a good biographical movie.
• I will open your Music Padlet on 4th grade music days.
You can continue to try patterns and make music comments to each other.
I will grade your performances. You will not be able to create a new post.
All anonymous and ridiculous comments will be deleted.
Use it well and be good.
• Under Resources, explore anything that looks interesting!
• Wash your hands while singing Happy Birthday.
• Sing the Swapping Song.