Music Mind Games Plan

This is a proposed plan for the Note Reading portion of the class, and the materials to be used from the Puppy Packet. Every two weeks we could focus on one learning from one set of materials and cover the topics based on the cards. I got this idea from the teacher blogger Emily on http://www.musicmindgames.com/


For example a game on alphabet cards could be Fine, Snake, Scrabble based on C scale, A minor scale or thirds, circle of fifths etc.

* Alphabet Cards
* Blue Jello Cards
* Staff Slates & Grand Staff Cards
* Tempo Cards
* Music Symbol Cards
* Notes & Rests Cards
* Rhythm Playing Cards
* Staff Slates & Do-Re-Mi Cards
* Real Rhythm Cards


If there were siblings who had their lessons back to back, I would start everyone off with a "game" for about 10 to 20 minutes. While one brother is doing his lesson, the sister/brother could continue with the game quietly. This keeps the other student occupied while still learning music theory in a fun way.

Games and variations we've played in class:
* Fine alphabet cards, do re mi, even temp and dynamics
* Name the Five C's (progress to D's and B's etc)
* Find the Five C's (from the stack of note reading cards)
* Huckleberry Jello rhythm reading, note value trading and music reading
* Snake sequential, thirds, fifths (alphabet cards)
* Fat Snake and sing ABCDEFG to tune of Twinkle theme
* Snake in thirds while placing the note reading cards (shows the notes on lines and spaces!)
* Melody Bingo
* Musicland and characters Bingo