Elementary Elvis

Sort your candy by the rhythm of their name! Put each piece in the correct bag. Cut out the candy pieces and place the bags on floor. Have students match the candy to the correct bag!

Students will learn a little about Elvis Presley's life through a short biography. There are 10 questions to assess them on what they just read.

An instrument is hiding on each slide. A few clues are shared. Your students can guess which instrument is hiding! Click the Halloween images to reveal the answer on each slide!

Great for Christmas parties! Players try to guess the Christmas carol based on the picture shown. Answers are included.

This is a great activity for older elementary school to middle school students. They will get to perceptively listen to scary themes (Jason, Michael, Freddy) and then create their own villain and theme song. Students can even upload a drawing if you wish. They can create their theme using Beep Box (or you can edit the slides to use chrome music lab, splice, etc of your choice). Be sure to "make a copy for each student" when sharing on Google Classroom.

Your music students will answer Christmas questions to notate a Christmas song. Once they've notated it, they can play or sing it to figure out what tune it is.

Younger students will enjoy this coloring activity in the spring! This sheet features quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, whole notes and quarter rests.

Students will compose their own body percussion rhythms with this template. Great to leave for a sub or a good time filler. They can have fun performing for their classmates.

A great game to play close to Valentine's day in music class or in your Valentine's Day parties in your classroom. You will need a way to play these songs (I use Spotify) Amazon music or YouTube would work too. Students will write their answers on the sheet of who they think sang the song. Project the musician bank on your smart board or print it off.

A great game to play close to Valentine's day in music class or in your Valentine's Day parties in your classroom. You will need a way to play these songs (I use Spotify) Amazon music or YouTube would work too. Students will write their answers on the sheet of who they think sang the song. Project the musician bank on your smart board or print it off.

Students will be ready for summer with this quick time signature worksheet. Students will match each rhythmic example to the correct bucket (time signature). Take it a step further and clap each rhythm together in class.

This is a great activity for a Christmas party or substitute or just some fun in your classroom. You'll find 8 Christmas carols and their notations. Students will draw a line to match each carol to the correct notes. This can be used by ear or playing an instrument. This would be a great online resource as well to use with a virtual piano.

Students can work alone or with a partner to create spooky rhythms. They can perform them for their class! Students need to think of something having to do with Halloween (skull, bat, skeleton, jack-o-lantern) and think of the rhythm it makes (ex- "skull" = quarter note). They need to draw their item, notate it and print the word if you desire.

Use Chuck Berry's legendary "Run Run Rudolph" to have your students play along to a rockin' Christmas song! Students keep the steady beat throughout the song. Only a few notes are used so this isn't too complicated. This would be great for an elementary music classroom and a beginning band mallet section to practice with. Slides include the words so you can sing along!

Students will have fun writing their own blues verses with this easy to follow template. File includes an example sheet. Have fun!

Students will match their candy to the correct bags in this rhythm activity. Perfect for Halloween time!

Students will identify the different types of notes and color them accordingly. If they are correct, they will create a beautiful stained glass frame!

Students will color these flowers based on how many beats they see!

Fill in the missing rhythms from the popular song "Up on The Housetop!"

Get into the Halloween spirit by playing along to the Addams Family theme song! Includes lyrics and notation.