LITERACY PROP BOX 1

Katie Christovich
READ 366

Music Themed Literacy Prop Box
Objectives:
Students will explore different elements of music and become familiar with different
instruments
Students will acquire new vocabulary that is related to music.
Students will be able to integrate the new elements they acquired in the readings in
the investigation of new instruments and their sounds.
Materials
List of vocabulary terms
Set of books
Sheet music for students to look at it and grasp an idea of how music is written
(maybe older students can actually learn certain notes)
Recorder instrument (personal one)
Tambourine
Small xylophone
Small drum
Plastic water bottle with beads inside to make noise
Harmonica (personal one)
Play guitar
Play violin
Play trumpet
Play music stand to put sheet music on
Small piano
Vocabulary Terms
Rhythm
Meter
Melody
Harmony
Note
Instrument
Chord
Tempo
Forte
Piano
Drum
Treble clef
Bass clef
String
Brass
Percussion
Woodwind
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Open Ended Questions
What are the different sounds that each of the instruments make?
What can you do to an instrument to make it sound different?
Which instrument is your favorite so far?
If you were able to learn how to play percussion, brass, wind, or string instrument,
which would you pick?
Extension Activities
Young, Nick. (2012, May 10) Nick the Music Man-Kids Music Class pt.1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGeh-gyZxSw
Young, Nick. (2014, May 10) Preschool Music Class-Virtual Music Time-Movin Your
Body Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_KJ0PpD66A
Art project: Make their own maracas! Fill an empty water bottle with different small
materials to see what different sounds each material makes. (Beads, coins, marbles,
etc).
Art project: Make your own guitar using an empty tissue box, a long paper towel roll
and rubber bands.
Fingerplays/Songs
Mary had a Little Lamb
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Old Macdonald had a Farm
Im a Little Teapot
Tap, tap, tap your sticks (Tune: row, row, row your boat)
o Tap, tap, tap your sticks,
o Tap your sticks today.
o Tap them high
o Tap them low.
o Tap them every way.
o Can be continued with other verses with different instruments (tap, tap, tap
your cymbols, ring, ring, ring your bells, etc)
o Warren, Jean. (2001-2011) Preschool Express. www. Preschoolexpress.com
The Sticks on the Drum (Tune: Wheels on the Bus)
o Oh, the sticks on the drum go up and down
o Up and down, up and down
o Oh, the sticks on the drum go up and down.
o All through the town.
o Oh, the sticks on the drum go rum, tum, tum.
o Rum, tum, tum, rum, tum, tum.
o Oh, the sticks on the drum go rum, tum, tum,
o All through the town
o Warren, Jean. (2001-2011) Preschool Express. www. Preschoolexpress.com
Books
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by: Lloyd Moss
o Moss, Lloyd. (1995) Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin. Aladdin Paperbacks.
Mama Dont Allow by: Thacher Hurd
o Hurd, Thacher. (2008) Mama Dont Allow. HarperCollins.
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Saxophone Sam and his Snazzy Jazz Band.
o Schneider, Christine M. (2002). Saxophone Sam and his Snazzy Jazz Band.
Walker Childrens.
Tabby McTat: The Musical Cat
o Donaldson, Julia. (2012) Tabby McTat: The Musical Cat. Arthur A. Levine
Books
Boom Bah!
o Cummings, Phil. (2010) Boom Bah! Kane/Miller Book Publishers
NONFICTION: Music Theory for Beginners
o Danes, Emma. (1996) Music Theory for Beginners. Edc Pub