Welcome, TCAPS Elementary Students
Your music teachers have been working hard finding fun things for you to do at home. We hope you will take some time to explore this site and find activities to help you fill your time. You will find singing, moving and listening activities as well as websites with music games, websites for online music composing and beat making, and some of our favorite musical videos. Please email if you find other music activities we should include on the site or if you have any questions!
BuiCa@tcaps.net
BuiCa@tcaps.net
Learning Opportunities
Each week we will post videos and activities specially created for each grade level. Click on your grade level to see what your activities are this week!
New activities will be posted each Monday!
To connect with your music teacher, please click on their name below:
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VipondTo@tcaps.net
Central Grade School |
WilifordAn@tcaps.net
Westwoods |
WillNa@tcaps.net
Long Lake & Silver Lake |
SmithCr@tcaps.net
Glen Loomis |
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What's New?
Singing at Home
Let's warm up and find our head voices! Follow the direction of the roller coaster with your voice using an "ooo!" As the roller coaster moves up your voices should move up and as the roller coaster moves down, your voices should move down. Remember to use your light head voice!
Note: The first video doesn't make any sound. You make the sound for this one!
Note: The first video doesn't make any sound. You make the sound for this one!
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Grab a piece of paper or a white board and create your own rollercoaster line to sing! Or, you could use a piece of string or a pipe cleaner to warm up as well. What else could you use?
Here are some songs to sing along with!
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Kids, teach your parents the silly movements that go with this song.
Can you draw a picture of all the items your Aunt brought back with her? Could you write some new verses to the song creating silly rhymes and movements? |
Download the coloring book and print it at home for kids to color and sing along with! Can you come up with some new rhymes for new verses?
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Sing along and do the movements to this silly song.
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Kindergarten and first graders, this song is for you! For extra fun, find a tin can with grooves on the side and a chop stick or wooden stick and play the steady beat with your home made guiro while you sing the song!
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Sing the Eensy Weensy Spider and add movements to your song!
Then, you can print your own songbook to color and sing along with! Click the file below.
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Create movements to go with all the parts of this song:
Sea, sea, sea Chop, chop, chop Knee, knee, knee Tap, tap, tap Ooo wahcheewah | ||
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After asking for permission to let the website use the microphone on your computer or device, try singing or playing an instrument and see what the music looks like! https://creatability.withgoogle.com/seeing-music/ |
Moving at Home
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Here is a new video from our favorite play along channel. This is a movement activity the whole family will enjoy. Choose your character and get moving! |
Follow along with these movements as you listen to the classical music. See how the movements represent what you hear!
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Follow the movements of Mrs. Gowen as she guides you through "Aquarium" from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. |
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Follow these movements to the classical piano piece, "Für Elise" by Beethoven. |
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This is a silly movement activities that younger kids will love! |
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Bim Bum Biddy is a super fun clapping game. This video will show you the clapping moves and teach you the song. You should start slow at first. You can always get faster as you get more comfortable. Try it with a family member and make a video to share with your friends or your music teacher! |
Do body percussion to this song from Harry Potter. The directions in the video are in Spanish so I will translate it for you.
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Jumping Rope
Here are some jump rope activities! Try them out at home and then when we go back to school you can share them with your friends!
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After asking for permission to let the website use the camera on your computer or device, you can conduct an orchestra from your own living room! See how your movements change the way the music sounds! Be sure to check with your family first! https://experiments.withgoogle.com/semi-conductor |
Listening at Home
Peter and the Wolf
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Watch the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra tell the musical story, Peter and the Wolf! If you would like, you can try the following listening activity. Listen to each of the different theme songs for each character and make predictions based on how their theme song sounds. What kind of characters do you think each will be based on their theme song? What does the music remind you of? |
Kids Commute from IPR
Interlochen Public Radio has a great local program that introduces kids to classical music through themes, like mermaids and elephants! You can listen online to past and future programs as they are posted.
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/topic/kids-commute
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/topic/kids-commute
International Jazz Day
Cliburn Kids
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This non-profit dedicated to advancing classical music for piano has a new educational series for elementary aged kids.
"For our youngest Cliburn friends! Take a break from at-home school studies to have some music fun, as we explore rhythm, storytelling, dance, and listening games. Buddy Bray—Cliburn artistic advisor and co-author of the Cliburn in the Classroom signature in-school program—will lead kids on short (7- to 10-minute), entertaining, and educational journeys, twice a week." https://www.cliburn.org/kids/ |
Mr. Deneen on Bagpipes
Read this short article and listen to a bagpipe performance by TCAPS band director at Traverse City East Middle School and Central High School, Mr. Pete Deneen.
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/post/notes-home-peter-deneen
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/post/notes-home-peter-deneen
Rhythm Review
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Review reading du’s and du-de’s with this fun animation of “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” |
Virtual Concerts
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Go on a virtual field trip to a concert to watch the DSO!
https://www.dso.org/watch-listen-and-connect/dso-replay/collection/126350/beethoven-symphony-no-5-a-centennial-celebration Here are some more DSO performances. To view these you will have to create a free login. https://livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv/classroom-edition?fbclid=IwAR0RMP-oWCtPpHD72-HbfBupCvgXJTnhDQAnsQAjPZ1JnkQ2KoCqf8st-wE |
Musical Books Online
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Other Activities
Recorder!
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For students who have a recorder at home, click the link below to access resources for learning to play the recorder at home! |
Build an Instrument
Create some instruments at home! Here are a couple of websites with ideas for you to create instruments from every day items.
https://redtri.com/homemade-instruments/slide/1
https://feltmagnet.com/crafts/Music-Instruments-for-Kids-to-Make
https://redtri.com/homemade-instruments/slide/1
https://feltmagnet.com/crafts/Music-Instruments-for-Kids-to-Make
Family Interview
Ask a family member (mom, dad, grandma, sister, etc.) what their favorite song is and why. You could also ask them what their favorite song growing up was and if they can teach it to you.
Music At Home Bingo
Use the bingo boxes below to get more musical ideas you can try at home!
Play Along Videos
Try out some of our play along videos at home! If you don't have instruments at home that is okay. You can use body percussion for the various symbols (snaps, claps, pats, stomps) or you can use home made instruments (pots and pans, wooden spoons, box of noodles, etc.)
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Grab a plastic cup and try echoing some cup rhythms!
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Digital Music-Making
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Use this awesome website to create beats and rhythms using a variety of instrument sounds! Maybe you can sing a song while the background beat is playing! https://splice.com/sounds/beatmaker |
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Create your own tunes using silly sounds and Mario characters!
https://minghai.github.io/MarioSequencer/ |
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Look up the chords of your favorite song then enter them on this site and sing along! Or you can write your own song using chords
https://www.onemotion.com/chord-player/
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Chrome Music Lab is another way of making and experimenting with digital music-making! https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ |
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Groove Pizza is a circular rhythm app for creative music making and learning! It’s also a playful tool for creating grooves using math concepts like shapes, angles and patterns. https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?museid=rkGZ87ZUL& |
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This site has an online version as well as a phone/tablet app. You can create a new song using beatboxing characters. https://www.incredibox.com/demo/ |
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To compose using traditional notation, you can sign up for a free Noteflight account. After entering notation in, you can have the website play it back for you. https://www.noteflight.com/ |
Music Games Online
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The New York Philharmonic has a great website for kids that has a variety of games!
https://www.nyphilkids.org/ |
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Here is another site that has games as well as information on composers and musical history. https://www.classicsforkids.com/ |
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Explore the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britton by playing this game created for Carnegie Hall. Follow the link and choose "Local Game." https://listeningadventures.carnegiehall.org/index.aspx |
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Part game, part digital music making. Create a city on and island where all the items you add isleoftune.com/make music!
http://isleoftune.com/ |
Music Videos
Here are some fun musical videos to entertain and inspire you.
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TCAPS has some site recommendations as well. I have most of the links on this page as well, but I will include this link in case they add more sites:
https://tcapselementarytech.weebly.com/musicart.html