Kindergarten Music: Composing with Boomwhackers
Boomwhackers were the perfect instrument to teach your kindergarten and first grade students how to compose?! Beginning with only sol mi, students will use instruments and matching color dots to experiement with composing their first musical masterpieces! This post provides insights on how to scale this acitivity up and down, as well! Whether you use this as a center acitivity or small group work, your students will love pracitcing high/low pitch independently!
Courtney (Mrs Mac) on Instagram: "🌟 @adifferentmusician 🌟 makes the most AMAZING musical Tracing Maps on YouTube, and I have not stopped using them since finding their YouTube page! They are engaging with classical music and beautiful tracing graphics. I often use scarves with my students or "magic wands," (which are just colourful sticks) but my students LOVE them. It's amazing for gross motor, coordination, understanding pace, and beat, as well as self-regulation and following a visual clue or instructions. I gifhly recommend you five this a go with your students!"