There is a mystery in the music room and students will solve it by working together. In these three short activities, students will actively listen to the order in which instruments perform, work to create a “Blob Opera” quartet, and identify which type of ensemble matches the description. If they get all three secret codes, the music room might just be saved!

Watch a portrait of a student come to life with the student’s own composition and performance through technology! Students will perform and record a musical greeting using their name and create access to their performance through a portrait with QR codes and websites/applications such as Flipgrid and/or ChatterPix Kids.

Students will learn the basics of rhythmic literacy by correlating the number of syllables in a word to a rhythmic value. Students will select their favorite food that has toppings (pizza, ice cream sundae, cake, cookie, or sandwich) and create rhythmic patterns using words with varying numbers of syllables.

Students will listen to three contrasting listening examples to describe how music makes them feel. They will use these emotions to create a collaborative short story, then assign movement to each part of that story. Students will perform their creative movement piece as a class.

Students will develop listening skills and identify differences in forte and piano dynamics. The teacher will tell an imaginative story to accompany a piece of music such as, Haydn’s “Surprise Symphony.” Students will respond to music with movement, as they reenact the story.

Students will learn the symbols representing Virginia (flag, flower and bird). Students will create a personal symbol. Students will create their own song/chant about a symbol or flag they created.

From classical composers to hip hop artists, musicians have used sampling to bring life to compositions. Creating and sharing that intellectual property can be tricky, but in this lesson, students in primary elementary will actively engage in the ethical treatment of other students' work and combine samples from their class into their composition.

Students will compose and perform a melody consisting of quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests using traditional and non-traditional notation. Students will also gain facility performing the notes E, G, A and C on the recorder.

Students will explore facial expressions, connect emotions to colors, and use those colors to indicate the expressive qualities of music. Students will create a colored mosaic based on listening examples.

Students will explore the blues by listening and describing a blues piece, learning about the history of the blues, analyzing form, and collaborating to write lyrics utilizing blues lyric form.

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning and is specifically geared toward K-8 general music teachers.

In this webinar we will discuss the Creative Process strand in the Music standards and share ideas on implementation in the elementary general music room. We will explore adapting current best practices in order to make conscious the inherent elements of the creative process. We will examine new methods of adding elements of the creative process into the classroom, through virtual, blended, and in-person instruction practices.

This presentation provides an overview of the 2020 Music Standards of Learning, instructional resources, and professional learning resources available to all Virginia music educators. 

This resource demonstrates the 2020 Music Standards of Learning for elementary general music in a chart format that shows the progression of the standards from grades kindergarten through fifth.