Here in the Northeast of the States, the holiday started with an outbreak of the Omicron variant of Covid. This caused schools to pivot their current plans and weigh the options of remote learning, concurrent learning, or live learning with more restrictions. This week, to bring us into 2022, I am going to blog and share daily activities that can be used in your adapted #elmused classroom when returning from the holiday break.

#4: Chrome Music Lab Song Maker Activities

Having your elementary students create music with Chrome Music Lab’s Song Maker is a wonderful activity within itself. However, this google site I created levels up the activity all in one place.

#Elmused Song Maker Activities

This google site, https://sites.google.com/view/songmakeractivitiesforelmused/home, has four Song Maker Activities for older elementary students. However, they can be adapted for younger elementary students, as well as work in a 1:1 environment, concurrent, remote, or asynchronous teaching atmospheres.

I Have a Little Snowman

With this activity, your students will learn the song, see it played on Song Maker, see a video of it being played with Song Maker and playxylo.com, and then create a percussion line to the song. This activity gives the students opportunities to create and perform music using virtual instruments.

Doggie Doggie

In this activity, the students can look over the melody and perform two Song Maker projects. The first one is to complete the melody because it has missing notes. The second one is to add a drum line to the melody. Though students can copy the melody to be successful, I would encourage those students who are working on ear training to figure out the melody in the first project.

I also added the playxylo link so that the students can perform it with the F# that is in the melody.

Teddy Bear

This project is similar to Doggie Doggie. I also added the playxylo link to this activity as well so that the students can perform it with the F# that is in the melody.

Dvorak’s Largo Melody from Symphony No 9, Second Movement

This activity focuses on the tempo. The students listen to the Song Maker file that contains the introduction and adapted melody. From there, they create their own simple melody with a tempo of largo and chords to accompany it. This is for older elementary and would be a part of the practice portion of prepare/present/practice approach where the students would be working on practicing how to create a simple melody with a guided tempo and chords.

https://sites.google.com/view/songmakeractivitiesforelmused/home

Check back as we count down to 2022 with #3 tomorrow!