How to Use Musicplayonline.

com
Page
1 Index
2 Welcome Screen or Introductory Page
3 Search Tool
4 My List, Song Movies, Concept Slides
5 Arrangements and Printables
6 Lesson Planning - Overview
7 Lesson Planning - grade level tab
8 Interactive Activities
9 Solfa and Note Name Interactive, Pop Quiz
10 Wheel Game, Boomwhacker Section
11 Interactive Rhythm Activities
12 Printable Worksheets for beat/rhythm
13 List of songs that have interactive rhythm activities
14 Interactive Rhythm Sort and Erase, Vocal Warmups
15 Solfa Practice Section
16 Rhythm Practice Section
17 Listening Section and extras
18 Interactive Xylophone, Form Tool, Metronome Tool
19 Tone Ladder, Ways to Move, How Does Music Make you Feel?
20 Recorder Unit
21 Ukulele and Guitar Units
22 Melody Composition Tools (left menu)
23 Units: Dance Unit, Theory Unit
24 Instruments of the Orchestra Unit
25 Festivals and Holidays Units - Back to School Unit
26 Happy Birthday, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Happy Holidays Units
27 Advent, Lunar New Year, Black History Month, Valentine’s Day, St. Patricks, Spring
28 Easter, Earth Day, Mother’s Day, Campfire, St. Patrick’s Day, July 4th, Winter Games
29 Games Overview
30 Note Name Memory, Which Rhythm, Which Melody, Forum
31 Musicplay Print/Disk products
32 Musicplay Online one page overview
 How to Use Musicplayonline.com
Musicplayonline.com takes all the materials in the Musicplay PreK-6
curriculum, and puts it online, in one easy to use tool.

There is wealth of materials on the site, and once you have used it a few
times, you’ll find it easy to navigate and use in your classroom!

When you open the site on a computer, this is the view that you may see.
Command+ makes everything bigger. Command or Control- makes it
smaller.

Expires: click here to renew using paypal or using

credit card or PO#. Contact info is given here.

Left
Menu: Games
The left may
menu appear
includes on the
many right.
sections:
vocal
Some-
warmups,
solfa prac-
times
tice, etc. games are
in a row
under-
neath.

Buttons This
to access resizes
UNITS, depend-
Lesson ing on
Planning,
the size
Forum
and FAQs
of the
are at the device’s
bottom window.

This is the introductory page. The red box is where you’ll find the current student login. There
is a PDF with the student login that you can print and give to your students so they can use the
site at home. Students have access to games, interactive activities, recorder, ukulele and guitar.
To get to the main page, click on any grade level at the top.
Visit www.musicplay.ca for ordering information
 Click on a grade level to see song lists, teacher tools,
Use the search tool to search by acc. tracks, concepts, movies, interactive activities,
song title, keyword, or concept. arrangements and printables.

Or search
by rhythm
or tone set

Highlight a Interactive
song to see Activities are
the available unique to each
resources for song. Click
that song. to discover
Each song is a wealth of
unique. interactive
teaching tools.
Teacher tools
gives a quick
Arrangements
overview or for piano,
download ukulele, guitar,
and print the Boomwhack-
song activi- ers (when
ties or weekly suitable) and
sample lyrics are
lesson. This given. French
information translations for
is also in the somesongs are
given.
Lesson Plan-
ning section. Printables are
download/
The Movies box may include 5 different movies. Engine Engine has a Notation, a print work-
Lyrics, a Kids Demo and note highlights movie. Action songs and singing games sheets related
usually include 1-2 kids demo videos. We welcome demo videos from teachers of to the song.
any song. If it’s a performance song, we love to get your performance videos. If it’s a
reading song, we love to get video of your students working on interactive activities
or with manipuliatives from the site. For each video that we can use online, we give
the teacher a month’s free subsciption.

Search Engine
Use the search engine to search for a song or listening selection by composer, theme, concept or key word. You
can also search for a specific rhythm or tone set. We continue to edit and refine this tool and it is an incredibly
useful tool!
My List
There is a checkbox to the right of each song. If you check
a song, it will be added to “My List.” This is another way
to quickly select songs that you may want to use with many
classes.

Song Movies: Notation, Lyrics, Kids Demo, Note Highlights

Select from the menu at the top if you want the Notation, Lyrics, Kids Demo, or Note Highlights video.

Usually for K-1 I use the lyrics video or note highlights for teaching a song for the children.
Notation is given so teachers can read the melody. Usually for gr. 2 and up, I’ll use notation videos for children as I
want my students to become musically literate musicians.

Concept Slides
Concept Slides illustrate the concepts that
the song can be used to teach. If you have
the Musicplay Digital Resources, the concept
slides were in the PowerPoints. The last
slide of the concept slides will be the Orff
arrangement - the Orff arrangement is also
included in “Arrangements. “ Poems that are
included in the Musicplay Teacher’s Guides are
illustrated after the song concepts, although
recent changes to programming will soon
allow poems that are numbered (ex. 23a) in the guide to be inserted in the song list. Concept Movies are in
development.

View our Help Videos on YouTube! Great way to start using the site! Click here.
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 Arrangements and Printables
Arrangements - downloadable PDF files -
are online for every song. There is a piano
accompaniment for every song. Additional
arrangements may include ukulele (C or D),
Guitar, Orff, and/or Boomwhackers.
Printables to practice naming solfa names or
letter names, rhythms, form, or other con-
cepts are online now, and many additional
printables are in development.

3. Little Tommy Tinker

3. Little Tommy Tinker Guitar
3. Little Tommy Tinker
Ukulele
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C G7

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C
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drum
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4. Game Directions: This movement round is performed in the children’s usual seats.
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Little Tommy Tinker Children sit and sing.
Sat upon a clinker. Jump up and hold bottoms as if you’ve just been burned.
Ma! Poor lit - tle in - no - cent guy. He began to cry. Rub eyes in a crying motion.
Ma! Ma! Throw hands up in the air, bring down. (twice)

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G7 C

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Poor little innocent guy. Cross hands over heart.
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Creative Ideas: Improvise or create melodies using CDE G C. Play the melodies between repetitions of the
song.
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˙ ˙ The subscriber (with a current subscription) is permitted to reproduce this page for students in one school or institution.
© Themes & Variations 2016


Name: _______________ Name: _______________
Grade: _____ Grade: _____

   How Notes Are Named


   
The Staff: Music is written on a five line staff. Notes can be placed on lines or in spaces. The
lines and spaces are numbered from the bottom to the top. At the beginning of a staff a clef is
Name the Solfa Notes given. The treble clef circles the note G, and is used for treble, or higher notes.
Solfege, or solfa, is a way of naming notes that singers use to help them sing intervals, or Letter Names: The first seven letters of the alphabet are used to name notes - ABCDEFG.
patterns. The abbreviation d is for do, m is for mi, and s is used for so. So and mi are always When you play an instrument, you use letter names to name notes.
a skip apart. If so is in a space, mi is in the space below. If so is on a line, mi is on the line You can remember the names of the notes on lines with this poem:
below. The solfa note do, is a skip below mi. If mi is on a line, do is on the line below. Every Good Boy Does Fine
Circle every high do. Sing and name the solfa notes and the letter names. You can remember the names of the notes in spaces with this word: FACE

treble clef

Printables to practice naming solfa

To do: Name the solfa notes.
3. Little Tommy Tinker
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5
4 D F 3
4
C
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3 G B 2 A

    
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spaces

    
lines

names or letter names, rhythms, form, To do: Name the note names.

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œ œ œ œ œ
solfa: d

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or other concepts are online!
 


         F ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ E ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

         


Many new printables are in develop-

To do: Name the note names.
To do: Name the solfa notes in the examples and draw the missing notes below. 3. Little Tommy Tinker

                 



 


ment - new materials are posted often! &œ œ œ œ œ

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s m d d s m d m s m s s m

         

© 2015 T&V Musicplay Online subscribers are permitted to reproduce this activity for the students in their classroom. © 2015 T&V Musicplay Online subscribers are permitted to reproduce this activity for the students in their classroom.

If you are looking for a worksheet or song activity+worksheet to work on a specific concept, use the search engine.
Search for “dynamics” or “loud quiet” and then choose a song/activity near the grade level that you are working
with.
The Units section has an excellent lesson and worksheets on The Staff. Additional lessons/worksheets are in de-
velopment for this section. The staff worksheets are themed - if you are teaching the staff in the fall, use the fall
themed worksheets. If you’re teaching or reviewing this around Valentine’s Day, you can use those themed work-
sheets. Page 5
 Lesson planning
If a teacher has the Musicplay teacher’s guides, song lists, year plans, month
outlines and weekly lesson suggestions are given in these guides.
Musicplay provides a menu of choices:
1. choose the songs from the week that you want to teach
2. choose from the activities that are suggested for the songs
3. choose from listening selections, solfa practice and rhythm
reading practice It’s not expected that a teacher will teach every song and
activity in the program.
The teacher’s binders include performance/accompaniment CDs. We
are working to make acc. tracks downloadable from Musicplayonline.
However, the vocal tracks and videos will not be downloadable, as CDs and
Digital Resources are available in hard copy format.

Musicplayonline Lesson Planning Section

The Lesson Planning section at Musicplayonline includes song lists, year plans,
monthly outlines and week outlines for all grades. Additional planning materials are
available for some grades.
If you’re using Musicplayonline for the first time, I suggest you select the overview tab, and download the scope
and sequence, the scope and sequence with songs, the year plans and the year plans for all the grades that you
teach.
Overview Tab
Scope & Sequence , sequence with songs year plans

Sub Plans

Fillable month
and week
templates
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 Select a grade tab
download month outlines for the grade

1. month outline PDF 1. Week 1 outline PDF - this PDF has song notation and teaching suggestions for the week! (long)
2. click to show 2. 2nd selection shows online what’s available for the week - click through for quick week overview
all online activities, 3. 3rd selection is Model Lesson - this is a videotaped lesson for Week 1 of PreK
songs for the month (We’re working on these for gr. 1-5. Only PreK is complete. If you’d like to create a model lesson
for the site, we’ll pay you! email denise@musicplay.ca for more details)
* We’ll be adding a PDF with a 1 page outline of what’s in the model lesson!

Pg. 1 of Week Outline K-6 format Online Overview of Week One

The week outline includes song notation and teaching
suggestions, plus many activities to do in class. You choose from this Page 7
menu what you want to teach - you don’t try to do it all!!!
Interactive Activities - Star Spangled Banner and O Canada
Each song has different interactive activities - some songs (Choo Choo Train) have multiple
activities, and some songs may have none. Find song-specific Interactive activities here:

National Anthems: Interactive activities teach the history and lyrics of

O Canada and Star Spangled banner.

Today is Monday: Concept slides teach about unpitched instrument families. Interactive create an accompani-
ment activity and interactive Instrument Family activity.

John Jacob: Concept slides teach dynamics terms. Interactive loud quiet play along activities and sort dynamic
levels activities practice using dynamics.
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Solfa and Note Name Interactive Activities - for ALL reading songs!

There is a solfa naming activity for all reading songs! There is a Letter naming activity for all reading
songs!
Students can use the student login on devices and work on interactive activities for practice.

Pop Quiz
Pop Quizzes and games are not song specific - you can access them from any song.
Many Pop Quizzes have been created for the site.
Terms: There are 9 Dynamics quizzes and 2
tempo terms quizzes.
Treble Clef and Bass Clef Note Names
quizzes are online to practice lines, spaces and
notes on the staff in both treble and bass clef.
Accidentals test note names with accidentals in
treble and bass clefs.
Students can use the student login on devices and
work on interactive activities for practice.

More Pop Quizzes are planned. If you have requests for any
activities, please email denise@musicplay.ca. You can post your
suggestions and requests on the forum, or post in the Musicplay
Teachers Group on Facebook. We welcome suggestions from
teachers who use the site, and we listen! To play the Pop Quiz: Drag the air pump to the balloon.
When you successfully answered all the questions, the
balloon pops!

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Wheel Game - use to review/reinforce/assess theory

A new game will soon be online with a fun way to teach, review, practice and assess many concepts.
• Divide the class into two teams.
• Spin the wheel to see how many points your question is worth.
• If the team correctly answers the question, they get the points.
• The first team to 5000 points wins the game.
We can develop question banks for any concept!
The first question banks are:
• beat, no beat
• one sound or two sounds?
We can develop question banks for any concept! Send us any question/answers that you’d like in the game!

Boomwhacker Section (on left menu)

• Features of the Boomwhacker Section:
• Songs with 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 notes --- 97 songs!!!
• word highlight songs for your littles
• kids notes, colored notes, not highlights, concept slides
• Stick games to play with Boomwhackers
• Links to Musication songs

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 Interactive Rhythm Activities: Engine Engine #9 - Musicplay 2 #4
1. Menu - we’ve added menus to
Interactive Rhythm, so you can select 1 2
the activity you want, without clicking
through them all.

2- to establish that beat is the pulse of

the music

3. Interactive Beat Chart - to develop

audiation or “inner hearing.” Sing the
song, but “turn off ” some beats. The
children will sing the words of the song 3 4
on the red beats, and put the other words
“in their head.” This is FUN!!!
4. Clap the words as you sing the song
- to establish that rhythm is the way the
words go

5. Beat Rhythm Switch Game

- to help students differentiate between
beat and rhythm 5 6
6. Is the drum playing the beat or the
rhythm?
- informal (or formal) assessment
* Note - another activity online that’s
great is the BEAT / RHYTHM Game

7. Is it one sound or two? (icons)

- label rhythm using icons
8. Is it one sound or two? (notes) 7 8
- label rhythm using notes
* Note - the Rhythm Practice section
provides MANY different reading, ear
training and assessment activities

9. Create a new rhythm pattern with

words (Chugga Choo)
- create an introduction, B Section
10. Create a new rhythm pattern with
9 10
notes
- create an introduction, B Section,
ostinato

Printables and teaching suggestions to accompany the beat/rhythm interactive activities

are online in the Printables section for gr. K-3 and in development for gr. 4-6.
Interactive Rhythm Activities are online now for K-6! Page 11
 Printable Worksheets: Engine Engine #9 - Musicplay 2 #4
Printables and teaching suggestions to accompany the beat/rhythm interactive activities are online in the
Printables section.

Print the beat pointing page. Beat assessment: Children audiate and Rhythm pointing page.
Goes with #1-2 above figure out which word is on a beat.

Word/Note sort: Copy onto cardstock and put song set into
ziplocks. Children re-create song notation. White out words for Rhythm Notation option 1. Rhythm Notation option 2.
challenge!

Use word rhythms to create an Use notes to create an introduc- Worksheet version of Chugga Extra: 1 sound or 2?
introduction or a B section with tion or a B section with the song choo activity.
the song as the theme. as the theme.
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 Gr. K-1-2-3 Reading Songs with Interactive Beat and Rhythm Activity
Musicplay KindergartenMusicplay 2 (continued) Musicplay 3 (continued)
009 Follow Follow 13 Bell Horses 92 Someone’s Tapping
015 Walk to School 16 Time to Play 95 Chicken on a Fence Post (34 songs)
023 Hey Hey 18 Falling Leaves Gr. 4-5-6 Reading Songs
037 Pumpkin Fat 20 Icka Backa
050 Teddybear 25 Old Mother Witch Rhythm Erase and Rhythm Sort
060 Curly Joe 27 Starlight Musicplay 4 Musicplay 6
072 Old Mother 36 Bluebells 004 Frère Jacques 001 Barges
090 Little Airplane 37 Johnny Caught a Flea 005 Good Morning 002 Why Shouldn’t My Car
095 Kangaroo 39 Pease Porridge Hot 015 Canoe Song 005 Mango Walk
0102 Tisket 46 Apples Peaches Pears 018 Cheki Morena 06 Now We’ll Make the
109 Burnie Bee 49 Mouse Mousie 021 Bats Rafters Ring
121 Four in a Boat 59 I See the Moon 022 MaKuAy 016 Fish and Chips
124 Bubblegum 71 Rain on the Green Grass 026 Pass the Pumpkin 019 Dollar
126 Easter Bunny 73 Hot Cross Buns 028 Cut the Cake 025 Dona Nobis Pacem
130 Old Mr. Rabbit 75 Find the Easter Basket 044 Clock Round 031 Suogan
145 On a log 82 Johnny One Hammer 058 Let’s Catch a Rooster 032 Hagdalena
146 Scie leb ois 95 Here Comes a Bluebird 059 Nobody Likes Me 037 Round and Round
155 Los pollitos 96 Down Came Johnny 074 Under the Chestnut 038 All Night, All Day
159 Seesaw (23 songs) 080 Shoo Fly 042 le Divin Enfant
163 Nughty Kitty cat Musicplay 3 089 Built My Lady 046 COFFEE
167 The Mill 2. Number Concentration (14 songs) 056 Oh My Love
168 Hotaru Koi 5. Missus Tong 059 Tell My Ma
133 Rain Rain Go Away6. Plainsies Clapsies Musicplay 5 063 Wade in the Water
(23 songs) 7. No Robbers 003 Little Tommy Tinker 065 Arupusu
8. Whoopee Cushion 008 Ickle Ockle 068 Black Socks
Musicplay 1 9. Rocky Mountain 013 Button You Must Wander 074 Entendezvous
004 Snail Snail 10. Turkey Lurkey 015 Alabama Gal 076 A Ram Sam Sam
009 Choo Choo Train 12. Pass a Beanbag 018 Ghost of Tom 097 Jubilate Deo
16. Bells in the Steeple 019 Whistle Daughter Whistle 099 Laugh Ha Ha
020 Bye Low Baby
17. Seven Up 024 Raindrops Round 101 Take Time
024 Hey Betty Martin
22. Closet Key 028 Our Old Sow 112 Mi Gallo
036 Cuckoo 23. Trampin 030 Sing the Scale 119 Blood on the Saddle
037 Lucy Locket 24. Pass the Broom 034 Ho Ho Watanay (25 songs)
050 Ho Ho Ho! 28. Old Brass Wagon 038 Winter is Here
055 Strawberry 31. Long Legged Sailor 050 Music Alone Shall Live The Gr. 4-5-6 Rhythm Erase
060 Tommy 33. Playing on the Washboard 052 Hot Potato and Rhythm Sort activities
068 I Like You 41. Paw Paw Patch 054 I’ve a Car are illustrated on the page
069 Tick Tock 42. Santa Claus is Coming 058 Cobbler that follows.
094 Apple Tree 43. King’s Land copy 059 Rainbow Color
078 Bee Bee 50. Donkey’s Love Carrots 063 Johnny Lost a Quarter
52. Tideo 064 En Roulant
086 Bow Wow Wow
56 New Shoes 070 Deep and Wide
096 Old Dog
60 Love Somebody 072 I am Slowly Going Crazy There are 161
101 How Many Fingers 64 E Papa 075 Funga Alafia songs with over 800
(16 songs) 65 Eating is Fun 077 Old Woman Beat and Rhythm
66 Shiny Penny 082 Hey Ho Interactive activities at
Musicplay 2 68 Song of the Frog 085 Come Follow Musicplayonline.com!!!
04 Engine #9 69 Old Blue 090 Come and Sing
05 Hill Hill 70 Dinah 099 The Capitals of Canada
10 Bounch High 73 Stella (26 songs)
12. Obwisana 78 Rabbits
13 Bell Horses 83 FInd the Basket
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 Interactive Rhythm Sort and Erase

Rhythm Sort and Rhythm Erase activities are online for Grades 2-6.
- students can do the rhythm sort individually on devices, or use the website to do them as a class or model for the students
- the Rhythm Erase is a fun game for all ages!

Vocal Warmups

There are 10 vocal warmup movie demos online now - more will be added to
this section.
- vocal warmups are found on the “Left” menu.

Yoga for Voice for teacher use is also online.

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 Solfa Practice

Solfa Practice
- on left menu

Download hand sign

posters! Prepare Solfa Section - games to prepare!

Echo Sing melodies in Keys C, F, G Play Poison Melody in keys C, F, G Read Notation flashcards drm sl

Read Handsign flashcards drm sl Listen to a pattern, then sing it. Melodic Dictation Assessment

Which Melody Did you Hear Game:

ALL solfa tone sets are included in this game.

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 Rhythm Practice

The Rhythm Practice section (on the left menu) includes Echo Rhythm, POISON Rhythm (the
kids’ favorite!), Read and Clap, Listen, Say and Clap, and Rhythm Reading Assessments (4 beats
and 8 beats), and Rhythm Dictation assessments. Select from the red menu the rhythm you
want to work on, and choose the activity. Echo body percussion is coming soon!

New Rhythm Activities:

Flashcard Play Along activities are now found in the
Read and Clap Section of Rhythm Practice. Give your
students body percussion or unpitched instruments
and play along with music in a variety of styles.
The Echo section of Rhythm Practice now includes
videos to echo body percussion.
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 Listening
Listening Examples
Listening Activities from the Listening
Resource Kits 1-5 are now online!
Each grade has 25+ examples and each
example has 1-6 movies:
• Listening Map
• Concepts
• Create Movement
• Movement with ribbons, scarves, etc.
• Composer videos
• Play Alongs
Listening Extras
Listening Extras Include:
• 12 So-me Storybooks by Stuart Manins
- these charming stories are read by the
author, and are a sneaky way to teach
solfege to your students!
• Instrument Demos
• How to Care for your Instrument (for
band students)

Rhythm Instrument Play Alongs are included in Kits 1, 3, 4, 5

Ribbon demonstration
videos included!

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Interactive Xylophone and Metallophone

This tool has been placed on the left hand menu.

It can be used when you have the students go to the

instruments to show them which bars to take off.

If you want to demonstrate how to play a simple melo-

dy, you can use this tool.

Form Tool
In this activity, you use the letters or words at the
bottom of the page to illustrate the form of a piece
you’re listening to or the form of a piece that you’re
creating.

Metronome Tool

View our Help Videos on YouTube! Great way to start using the site! Click here. Page 18
Tone Ladder - for all reading songs
This tool is in Interactive
Activities for all reading
songs.

Tone Ladders

Ways to Move - interactive word wall of movement words

Ways to Move: If you
are doing an activity that
uses movement, use the
locomotor or non-loco-
motor word walls to help
think of ways to move.

This tool is on the left

menu.

How does the Music Make you Feel - interactive word wall

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Recorder Unit
Recorder 1 has 39 songs. Choose
from regular notation, note
highlights or kids note notation!

Coming soon - teaching videos by

one of our Musicplay teachers for a
flipped classroom!

Students can practice songs at home

using the student login!

Recorder 2 has 24 songs for two part

soprano with optional alto. Teach
real alto fingerings OR use the Tr Alto
part which has the music transposed
so you can play the alto part with
soprano fingerings. Choose from
regular notation or kids note notation!
Students can practice songs at home
using the student login!

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Ukulele and Guitar Units
The Ukulele Unit includes 16 one chord songs
and 16 two and three chord songs. There are
links to easy pop songs (YouTube) so students
can start playing pop songs as soon as they have
learned one chord! Students can practice songs
at home using the student login!

The Guitar Unit includes 16 one chord songs and

10 two and three chord songs. There are links to
easy pop songs (YouTube) so students can start
playing pop songs as soon as they have learned
one chord! Students can practice songs at home
using the student login!
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Melody Composition Tool on left menu

Compose a 2 note melody - drag notes, play it back! Compose a 3 note melody - drag notes, play it back!

Compose a 5 note melody with CDE GA - drag notes, play Compose a 5 note melody with FGA CD - drag notes, play
it back! it back!

Compose a melody on treble staff using C-G’ Compose a melody on treble staff using C-G’ with addi-
tional rhythms

Rhythm Composition Tool is also on left menu. Interactive rhythm

composition is in development. Will be online soon! (fall 2019) Page 22
 UNITS
The Units tab is on
the left menu.
Select the category.

DANCE Unit
The Dance Unit includes dances, movement activities
and creative movement activities for PreK - Grade 6.
In addition to many activities in Musicplay, we’ve added
ne 3 new dances from our Super Fun Folk Dances re-
source and several new dances from Primary Dances and
Singing Games.

Theory Unit
The Theory Unit includes a Staff lesson, interactively introducing the
staff and how notes are named. Related songs from Musicplay

The theory section is in development as we are working to create new

units to teach beat/rhythm, duration, measures, time signatures, major
scales, minor scales, chords, form, harmony, expressive elements and
more!

Our vision of the Theory section is to provide our excellent sequencing

along with fun interactive activities and matching worksheets, so you
can easily model and teach new concepts and have available worksheets
for student reinforcement or assessment.

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 Instruments of the Orchestra Unit
UNITS: The Instruments of the Orchestra Unit is extensive! The interactive unit has audio samples of all fami-
lies and instruments. Several sets of instrument worksheets are included - easy ones for your littles to color, and
more detailed worksheets for upper elementary.

There is an interactive “What Instrument Did you Hear?”

activity. Use this for informal or formal assessments!

A class Instrument Bingo Game

is given, along with printable
bingo cards to play as individ-
uals.

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Festivals and Holidays
has units for festivals and hol-
idays throughout the year.

There are a wealth of activities

in each unit!!!

Festivals and Holidays have units for each festival and

holiday through the school year.

The Back to School Unit includes Name Games, Mixers,

a great Music Rules lessons, and a PreK-K Hello Chant.

Hello Beat Chant Jump In! - Name game for gr. 4-6 (English and French)
Fun Hello Chant for PreK-Gr. 2
Singo game - mixer (PDF)
Music Room Rules
- body percussion lesson
outlined in PDF

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Happy Birthday Unit:
• Sing along, play on ukulele in F or G
• Sing in the style of Mozart (+composer video)
• Sing in the style of Strauss (+composer video)
• Sing in other styles: Music Box, Hawaiin, Jazz,
Pop, Rock
• Links to YouTube: Victor Borge, Nicol Pesce,
Johnny May (jazz), Denis Matsuev (jazz)
Thanksgiving:
• 13 related songs from Musicplay
• We Are Thankful Children - choral selection
• PDFs Include: Color by Note, Rhythm Maze
• Word Rhythm Composition
• PDF: Rhythm Composition and Rhythm Sort
Halloween:
• Related Spooky songs, Seasonal Songs,
• Halloween Songs, Witch Songs
• Interactive Halloween Treat Rondo,
• Interactive Smelly Brew Rondo
• PDFs: Treat Rondo, Smelly Brew Rondo
• Interactive Smelly Brew Rhythms
• PDF: Smelly Brew Rhythms, pumpkin rhythm
cards, One Sound or Two, Monster Math, Time
Signature Mania
• Interactive Halloween Dynamics
• PDF: Dark Dark worksheet, Draculian dynam-
ics
• Interactive Sound Story
• Insteractive Sounds to create own story
• PDF: Create own story printable
• Interactive Bats - name notes to make words
• PDF - bats name notes worksheets
• Tempo Terms - word search, crossword, match-
ing
• PDF: tempo terms printable
• Interactive Sorcerers Apprentice listening
• PDF: Sorcerers Apprentice listening glyph
Nov. 11th
• 17 Related songs from Musicplay
• – In Flanders Fields Projectable
• – Why We Wear a Poppy Projectable
• PDFs: Remembrance Day and Veteran’s Day
scripts
• – An Honoured Son
• PDF: Hall of Heroes activity to honor veterans
• – The Last Post
Happy Holidays Unit
• Related Songs from Musicplay: Santa, Winter, Peace,
Traditional, Seasonal, Hanukkah
• 1. Carolling Movies and Concert Ideas
• PDFs: Concert Etiquette Rap, Self-Evaluation,
Thematic Concert Song List
• 2. Holiday Solfa & Rhythm Interactive Activities
• PDFS: House Decorating Name Notes, Name Solfa
• 3. Jingle Bells Unit (Christmas Carnival) - compare 2
styles,
• PDFs include song activities, compare and contrast,
listening glyph.
• 4. Nutcracker Unit - includes Flashcard playalong,
• Listening Maps and activities for Chinese Dance,
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Dance of the
Mirlitons, Miniature Overture, Trepak and Waltz of
the Flowers,
• PDFS include: Song Activities, Listening Logs (easy
and hard), Compare/Contrast, Listening Glyph, Color
Ballerina
• 5. Holiday Orff Arrangements: Hear the Bells,
Holiday Magic, Penguins Marching, Winter is Here
• PDFs include song activities for each arrangement
• 6. Deck the Halls listening glyph and play along
• PDFs include song activity and listening glyph
• 7. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas flashcard playalong
• PDF includes Rhythm composition worksheet
• 8. We Wish You a Merry Christmas flashcard play
along, and pdf of song activities
• 9. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear listening glyph,
scarf movement, kids demo, and pdfs
• 10. Carol of the Bells
• 11. Holiday Playalong Activities
• 12. Holiday Listening Activities
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Advent Unit:
• songs for Catholic or Christian schools to use
during the advent season
• Light a Candle on this Day
• Open Your Heart
• Prepare the Way
• Season of Hope
Lunar (Chinese) New Year:
• The Chinese (Lunar) New Year Musical Activi-
ties
• provides multiple activities for K-5 music class-
es.
• Materials include:
• Gong Xi Gong Xi - traditional song
• PDFs - Unit outline, song activities, lyrics,
worksheet, world map
• Chinese New Year Rondo: movie includes song
recording, concept slides include Orff arrange-
ment, recording, word rhythm PDFs - Song
activities, and many additional activities
• Animals of the Zodiac Rondo: movie includes
song recording, concept slides include Orff
arrangement, recording, word rhythm PDFs -
Song activities, and many additional activities
• Dragon Dance, Links to Lion Dance
• PDFs include song activities, coloring page
Black History Month:
• Related songs from Musicplay
• Scott Joplin Favorite Rag, composer video and
cup game
• Scott Joplin Fig Leaf Rag, composer video and
cup game
• Links (YouTube) to other notable black musi-
cians and composers
• PDFs include black musicians and composers
brief history and info, listening log (blank)
Valentine’s Day:
• Related songs from Musicplay
• Interactive composition using words about
What Makes a Good Friend
• PDFs - What Makes a Good Friend, Cinna-
mon Heart Listening Lesson, Matching Game,
Rhythm Flashcards easy/advanced
• Valentine’s Themed Recorder Mad Minutes and
PDF printable
St. Patrick’s Day Unit
• Related Songs from Musicplay: Leprechaun, Irish
• Fun Facts Movies and Worksheets - level 1/2
• PDF: color by note
• Compose a Melody “Ireland” activity: use so-mi or
drm sl or use note names
• Compose a Melody “Leprechaun” activity: use so-mi
or drm sl or use note names
• Improvise a Melody - Leprechaun Improvisation with
PDF to print
• Phrase Rhythm Writing interactive and PDF
• Irish Jig, movement ideas
• Rhythm Erase: 8 levels of rhythms, and printable PDF
to use as assessment, includes mini-flashcards.
• Rhythm Chain OR rhythm clapping - fun activity -
when you get to the end, a fun melody plays. Includes
mini-flashcards
Spring Unit
• Related Songs from Musicplay: Leprechaun, Irish
• Rain Rain Story with Orff and sound effects
• Rain Songs - Eency Weency Spider, Watch our Garden
Grow
• Thunderstorm Soundscape with kids demos
• Listening Glyph for Spring Mvt 1 by Vivaldi
• Plant a Rainbow Story to go wtih “Planting a
Rainbow” by Lois Ehlert. Sing the song after each
page in the story. Accompany with ukulele or guitar.
• YouTube link to the story PDFs of lesson
• Garden Songs - John the Rabbit, Old Mr. Rabbit
• PDF of vegetable cards to create word rhythms
• I Grow Carrots rap composition activities
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Easter Unit
• Rabbit songs and Easter songs from Musicplay
• Compose an Easter Melody - Easter Eggs,
Springtime with PDFs
• Easter Egg Hunt Rhythm Chain (or clap the
rhythms), and pdf of mini-flashcards
• Music Math
• Egg Shaker listening game and pdf teacher’s
notes
• Listening Glyph for Ballet of Unhatched Chicks
with matching pdf
• PDF - color easter egg by note

Earth Day Unit St. Patrick’s Day Unit

• Related songs from Musicplay
• PDF of Earth Day program using related songs
• Sound Poem for Earth Day, plus PDF worksheet
• PLASTIC improvisation activitiy and pdf
• PROTECT THE WORLD’S ANIMAL improvi-
sation activity and pdf worksheet
• PDFs of Animal Rhythms worksheet/key
Mother’s Day Unit
• Related songs from Musicplay
• Mother’s Day composing poem/body percus-
sion activity, plus pdfs
• Mom is the Sunshine from Musicplay PreK
Campfire Unit
• Related songs from Musicplay
• One chord songs from Musicplay to play on
Ukulele
• Two chord songs from Musicplay
• PDF with logs of fun campfire games: Tele-
phone, Twenty Questions, Show me how you
get down, One Tap Two Tap
• PDF of campfire flashcards
• Related Songs from Musicplay
• O Canada Interactive Unit - explains history, practice
lyrics
• Fun Facts K-3 and Gr. 4-6
• PDF to name capitals
• PDF color by note,
• Animal Word Rhythms + PDF
• Landscape Word Rhythms
• Rhythm Sort
Independence Day Unit
• Related Songs from Musicplay
• Star Spangled Banner Interactive Unit - explains
history, practice lyrics
• Fun Facts K-3 and Gr. 4-6
• Word Rhythms + PDF
• Rhythm Sort
Winter Games Unit
• Related Songs from Musicplay
• Movie about Winter Olympics
• PDF one sound two sounds, rhythm sort, color by
note a snowboarder
• Medal Body Percussion interactive and PDF
worksheet
• Winter Olympics Rondo lesson (K-1 and 2-5)
interactive, PDF
• Olympic Fanfare lesson and worksheets inlcudes
create movement activity, note names solfa and
recorder play along

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 Games
Games - available on devices as well as on your computer
Which Rhythm Choose your level. Play a rhythm and choose which rhythm you hear!
12 levels of rhythms to use this as review, reinforcement, assessment for K-6.
Match the Melody Choose your level. Play keyboard sounds or singer and choose which
melody you hear! Many levels to review, reinforce, assess melodies forK-6.
Instruments of the Orchestra Interactive Unit to teach the instruments of the orchestra.
This activity is also in the Units section.
What Instrument do you Hear? Interactive game to teach, review, assess if students can
identify aurally the instruments of the orchestra. Turn the frog into a prince!
Instrument Bingo: Divide the class into two groups, and one group plays against the
other.

Note Name Memory is a game with two levels to practice treble clef note names.
Level 1 is just matching the note to the letter. In Level 2, you play it as a memory game.
Beat or Rhythm: This is a game to help teach your students to distinguish between beat
and rhythm. Listen to the drum play. If it plays the rhythm of the song, click rhythm. If
it plays the beat, click beat.
Up & Down: Listen to the sound the piano plays. If it’s going up, click up. If it’s going
down, click down. If you get the answer right, the man will climb the ladder. If you get
all 10 answers right, he’ll pick the apple --- then fall!
Beat or No Beat: In this game you’ll hear a musical selection. 10 questions assess if
students can tell if music has a steady beat.
Major & Minor: There are two levels to this game. Level 1 - you’ll hear a chord played on
a keyboard. Click if it’s major or minor. If correct, the sun will come out and you’ll melt
part of the snowman. If you get all the answers correct, he’ll melt away. Level 2 - you’ll
hear an orchestral excerpt and tell if it’s major or minor.
Smooth & Separated: You will hear a musical example and tell if it’s smooth or
separated. If you’re correct another frog lands on the dock. If you need to hear the
sound again, click and hold the middle button. There are 10 questions.
Loud and Quiet: You will hear a musical example and tell if it’s loud or quiet. If you’re
correct, the bubble will get bigger. Hint for teacher: Turn the volume on your sound up
so it’s easier to hear the contrast between loud and quiet.
Rhythm Racing: You will hear a rhythm played. If the rhythm played is the same as the
rhythm that you see on the flashcard, click YES. If it’s different, click NO. If your answer
is correct, your race car will pull ahead. (If it’s wrong, the brakes squeal) There are five
levels of play.
High or Low: You will hear a musical example and tell if it is high or low. If your answer
is correct, you will get a balloon. If you get all the answers correct, the man will float
away.
Fast or Slow: You will hear a musical example and tell if it’s fast or slow. If you get all the
answers right, the man will fall in the dunk tank.
Students can use the student login on devices and play the games! Page 29
Note Name Memory is a game with two levels to practice treble clef note names.
Level 1 is just matching the note to the letter. In Level 2, you play it as a memory game.

Forum
Many of the online users are part of the Musicplay Teachers Group
on Facebook. For those teachers who have questions, comments or
suggestions, we have a forum on the site.

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