4 voices music lesson

Teaching the four voices (speaking, shouting, singing, and whisper voices) to my Kinders and 1st graders is something I’ve been doing for years. The four “vocal timbres” are in almost every district curriculum I’ve seen and every textbook I’ve ever looked at. “Why do we teach this concept?” you ask. […]

Welcome back everyone, I can't believe summer is gone and it's time to go back to school. I think the best part of going back to school is getting new things for my classroom and scoring some back to school freebies. So I think you will love this back to school freebie I created (see picture below). Instant lesson plan freebie: All my teacher friends really love my kindergarten/1st grade lesson plans and keep asking me to post them so they can use the fun games and visuals in their…

Free K-1 Music Lesson: Singing Voice v. Talking Voice - Becca's Music Room

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In the previous post, I talked about using voice cards as visual aids. In this post, I will explain a couple activities that use the visual aids. At the bottom of the post, you can download the pdf and print them for free! Name Game For 1st grade and kindergarten, I always review voices on their first music class of the year when we are doing name games. We do simple echos: Teacher: "My name is Mrs. Dennis" Class: "Her name is Mrs. Dennis" Student: "My name is Joshua." Class: "His name is…

Are you looking for fun ways to teach different types of voices to your young students? Teaching types of voice (speaking, shouting, whispering and singing) is a music standard for many states around the United States and abroad. However, in many classrooms it is often glossed over in favor of more “fun” activities like singing, playing games, and playing instruments. But learning voice types should be fun! In this post I will show you ...

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Whole Note, Half Note, Quarter Note, Eighth Note, and corresponding rRest symbols

3rd grade classes have been learning how music and math are very closely related! I used pizza fractions to illustrate how the music notes got their names. I also used this as a way to introduce the 16th notes which they will be learning about next year in 4th grade. I made this felt pizza my first year of teaching (9 years ago) and it has held up pretty well! I handed out the pizza slices and had the students take turns coming up to help build the pizza. As they created each layer, we…