3 IWB Musical Activities for Elf-ry One

Capture the attention of your students this December with 3 IWB Musical Activities for Elf-ry one in your classroom. These three engaging activities can be uses as a whole group activity , three stand-alone activities, or for centers.

Magic Stem Race

Use the Magic Stem Race to review and / or reinforce correct stem placement on notes on the staff. Utilizing the fading ink features of the Magic Pen, this activity quickly becomes a race to see who can complete the stems correctly before the ink fades. I speak from experience; Elf-ry one will be engaged and want to try it!

The next two activities are designed to review and/ or reinforce the Kodaly hand signs and solfege syllables.

Solfa Gifts

In this activity, students will match the solfa hand sign (tag) to the matching syllable (gift box.) Utilizing the SMARTBoard Activity builder add-on interactive feature, the tags are designed to spin if correctly matched.

Snowflake Solfa

There are two groups of Snowflake solfa pages. The first group uses only So – mi, and the second group uses so-mi-la. Spinning snowflakes make this interactive activity especially fun for the children. Use this activity to have students sing or echo sofa patterns. This activity is one of my students’ favorites!

3 IWB Musical Activities for Elf-ry One

Navigation Options

These SMARTBoard Musical Activities are designed for two options:
1. Use each activity in a stand-alone 10-15 minute activity. The “Next” buttons will take you through each page sequentially.
2. Use the “Bell” navigation buttons on each page to go through the entire file in random order. Use this option for a longer class time and for a variety of activities.

3 IWB Musical Activities for Elf-ry One is available on my TpT site. Here is the link.

Santa Solfege is another interactive lesson for more advanced students.

I hope these activities will be fun and helpful for your students and that you will feel more confident and comfortable using the SMARTBoard to create an engaging, interactive music class.

I want this on my tombstone: “Don’t be afraid to let them touch the SMARTBoard!”

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Cherie Herring

Music/Technology Integration at Hammond School

I teach elementary music, am passionate about integrating technology into my teaching, am obsessed with my SMARTBoard and iPad, and enjoy creating lessons and sharing ideas. I love technology almost as much as I love cheesecake, and with more energy and ideas than I know what to do with, I can't wait for the sun to come up each morning! I'm wife to Prince Charming and mom to three incredible girls who keep me balanced. . . sort of!