Mystery Music Event Classical Conversations
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Before Halloween we had a mystery music event. We were in our music theory study in Foundations and this event was a continuation of what we were learning in music. We began by discussing melody and scales. The kids played boomwhackers to play with the major scale and some modes. Then we played Joy to the World and Happy Birthday on boomwhackers.
After our study of melody we studied rhythm. The kids played a monster rhythm game. I had puff balls with different sized eyeballs on them. A whole note monster was 4 puff balls hot glued together with one big eyeball on the first one. A half note was two puff balls hot glued together with one medium sized eyeball on the first one. A quarter note monster has one medium sized eyeball on one puff ball. Two eighth notes, tiny eyes, go one one puff ball to create an eighth note monster. I made a dice with a different note value on each side. Each child had a sheet with two blank measures in different time signatures on it. I would roll the dice and they had to fit the correct monster into the correct time signature. The first one to fill all of their measures won!
We also played rhythm bingo.
