This year I'm trying a music interactive notebook for my 3rd, 4th, 5th graders. We'll use it about every other week to record vocabulary, complete assignments, music listening reflections, composing, and more! Here is a page from the notebook. The students complete the steps on the attached link:My Do Re Mi Song Then I check their work before they cut and paste it into their notebooks.
Later, they come back and record the steps, skips, and repeats (it is a later lesson).
I also display their work using the document camera - we can practice singing and playing them on boomwhackers.
These "candy-bar rhythms" are great to use for composing, reviewing rhythm counting, and rhythm dictations.
For this activity, the students had to divide their rhythms into measures in 2/4 time. The rhythm sticks represent barlines and double-barlines. The students can chant the candy names, count the rhythms, and add instruments.
Then, I pasted some facts on each wing, along with a photo of the composer. On the owl's forehead is the composer's name and the dates or on the owl's feet.
