Kindergarten Music Centers/ Stations – Bundled Set

Description

If you are ready to drastically increase student engagement, practice musical concepts, and improve your overall classroom management, then you need to implement Music Centers/ Centres into your music classroom! This set has everything you need to do centers to practice steady beat in your Kindergarten classroom (or to review in first grade).

These music centers/ stations are easy and flexible to implement! You can choose to do however many centers you want with very little prep. Save time by purchasing this set…simply print and set up in your classroom!

Kindergarten Music Centers {Bundled Set} includes:

6 Centers for Loud/ Quiet

• Center 1: Worksheets: Students use scissors and a glue stick or a bingo dabber to sort loud and quiet pictures
• Center 2: Loud/Quiet Coloring Sheets: Students trace the word “loud” or “quiet,” then color the picture.
• Center 3: Loud/Quiet Sorting: Students sort manipulatives into loud and quiet
• Center 4: Instrument Playing: Students play loudly or quietly on a non-pitched percussion instrument, the other students respond with movement
• Center 5: Assessment for loud/quiet: Students listen to teacher sing and use a sign to identify whether the music is loud or quiet
• Center 6: Loud/Quiet Cards: Students choose a song or chant card and a loud or quiet card, and perform accordingly!

6 Centers for teaching Fast/Slow:

• Center 1: Fast/ Slow Worksheets: Students use scissors and a glue stick or a bingo dabber to sort fast and slow pictures
• Center 2: Fast/ Slow Coloring Sheets: Students trace the word “fast” or “slow,” then color the picture.
• Center 3: Fast/ Slow Sorting: Students sort manipulatives into fast and slow
• Center 4: Instrument Playing: Students play fast or slow on a non-pitched percussion instrument, the other students respond with movement
• Center 5: Assessment for fast/ slow: Students listen to teacher sing and use a sign to identify whether the music is fast or slow
• Center 6: Fast/ Slow Cards: Students choose a song or chant card and a fast or slow card, and perform accordingly!

6 Centers for teaching High/ Low:

• Center 1: High/ Low Worksheets: Students use scissors and a glue stick or a bingo dabber to sort high and low pictures
• Center 2: High/ Low Coloring Sheets: Students trace the word “high” or “low,” then color the picture.
• Center 3: Loud/Quiet Sorting: Students sort manipulatives into high and low
• Center 4: Instrument Playing: Students play high or low on a barred instruments, the other students respond with movement
• Center 5: Assessment for high/ low: Students listen to teacher sing or speak and use a sign to identify whether the music is high or low
• Center 6: High/ Low Cards: Students choose a song or chant card and a high or low card, and perform accordingly!

6 Centers for teaching Steady Beat:

• Center 1: Steady Beat Worksheets: Students use scissors and a glue stick or a bingo dabber to sort steady and unsteady beat pictures
• Center 2: Steady Beat Coloring Sheets: Students trace the word “beat” then color the steady beats.
• Center 3: Beat tracking: Students track the steady beat for “Queen Caroline,” “Engine Engine,” “Bee Bee,” “Apple Tree,” “Snail Snail,” and their choice
• Center 4: Instrument Playing: Students play the steady beat on various instruments (such as the hand drum or triangle) for the songs/chants “Bee Bee,” “Engine Engine,” “Doggie Doggie,” “Apple Tree,” and “Grizzly Bear”
• Center 5: Assessment for steady beat: Students take turns leading steady beat motions
• Center 6: Steady Beat Cards: Students choose a song or chant card and a body percussion card, and perform the beat accordingly!

6 Centers for teaching Rhythm:

• Center 1: Rhythm Cards: Students choose a song or chant card and a body percussion card, and perform the rhythm accordingly while singing or speaking!
• Center 2: Rhythm Coloring Sheet: Students trace the word “rhythm” then color the picture.
• Center 3: Rhythm Sorting: Students look at beat and rhythm visuals and sort them into beat or rhythm
• Center 4: Instrument Playing: Students find the instrument on the picture, then play the rhythm on that instrument while singing the song or speaking the chant
• Center 5: Beat and rhythm assessment: Students listen to teacher play the beat or rhythm and use a sign to identify which was played
• Center 6: Rhythm Tracking: Students track the rhythm for known songs and chants

Other materials for organizing and managing centers:

• Learning Centers Overview outlining how to set up and manage centers
• Centers signs
• Notation for songs and chants (“Apple Tree,” “Bee Bee,” “Bluebird,” “Engine Engine,” “Grizzly Bear,” “Nanny Goat,” “Queen Caroline,” “Snail Snail,” “Two little blackbirds”)

Download the preview to see an example of each of these center types.

Benefits:

• Ready-made materials for teachers
• Engaging activities for students to reinforce learning
• Interactive centers for hands-on exploration

How to use:

1. Introduce each concept
2. Teach the included songs
3. Print each center and set up the stations in your room
4. Teach a lesson in which students rotate through each center

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)

Question: Does this set require a lot of set up?

Answer: I created this set so that you could simply print out the materials, print out the signs, set up in your classroom, and be ready to go!

Question: Does this set require technology?

Answer: This set only requires a way to play a recording for the steady beat assessment (i.e. CD player, computer, phone, etc.)

Question: Does this set require lots of other materials?

Answer: The set requires crayons, scissors and glue or bingo dabbers, a barred instrument, and non-pitched percussion.

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