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Learning Music for Kids (with FREE Printable)

Friday, July 17, 2015

Welcome to another series of 12 Months of Montessori.  For this month, I am going to feature our Montessori-inspired activities in learning music.

Learning Music for Kids
Different Types of Music
Mavi loves learning about music. We often hear different genre in stores like classical, rap, hip hop and ballads. He would often ask me “why are some people making sad music Mom?”.  Therefore, I decided to introduce Mavi to the different types of music.  How music is used to express one’s feelings, how it is used to pray, to entertain and how it symbolizes one’s origins.

I made cards for each music genre, with description and a picture of the famous artist in that category.

Different types of Music
As we read each card, we listened to some samples in Youtube, and would ask his opinion about the music. He likes Michael Jackson by the way!

Different types of Music
Musical Notes and Symbols
“When you read, you begin with ABC. When you sing you begin with DO RE MI. The first three notes that happened to be”, the famous lines of Froilan Maria in The Sound of Music (my all time favourite!)

Okay, so this was just a brief introduction to musical notes.  This would be best taught or demonstrated if you are playing a musical instrument, but since we’re not, I doubt if Mavi would really understand how these notes work. So just to give him an idea about the ABCs of music, I presented the different notes used in creating music.

Musical Notes and Symbols
Making Music with Rhythm Bells
We’ve been using these Musical Hand Bells  for months now and the boys love them! And now, let me showcase these beautiful percussion instruments to you! Each bell corresponds to a note, so that’s 8 bells all in all with lower and upper DO.  What I like about these bells are their beautiful and attractive colors!  I assure you, they’re too attractive that your kids couldn’t resist playing them.  Though the bells come with its own musical chart, I used the ones from Imagine Our Life.

Making Music with Rhythm Bells
I printed/laminated the note cards and musical sheet for us to work on.  Note that some of the color codes  in the printed material doesn’t match with the colors of our bells. But it was fine, I focused more on showing Mavi the positioning of the notes in the staff and what they mean.

Making Music with Rhythm Bells
As you can see, Mavi here is trying to check the difference of the tone/pitch of each bell as the note rises on the musical staff.

Making Music with Rhythm Bells
Now let’s combine these notes and create music! This musical sheet is from Imagine Our Life.

Making Music with Rhythm Bells
I love our Musical Hand Bells and if you are interested, here’s the link to the product.

Musical Instruments
Next, we talked about the different types of musical instruments. We used our Safari Toob Musical Instruments for this.  The figures are just so beautiful!  They're close to perfection and would look like replicas of the original instruments.

Again, I created these definition cards explaining how the instruments work.  (Note that I let him read the definition for reading practice and vocabulary.)
Musical Instruments FREE Printable
Musical Instruments FREE Printable
You can get the music types and musical instruments description cards here.

We followed this with a sorting activity.  I printed out these Musical Instruments 3 part cards file from The Helpful Garden and used them as sorting cards instead.  Learn more about this activity from here (Sorting Musical Instruments) or click the image below.

Musical Instruments Sorting
This is the first time we ever had a music lesson at home.  Music has a world of its own, like sports and dancing.  I believe that this just doesn’t end here. If you really want to dig dipper in this field, you have to be a part of, like learning how to play a musical instrument, voice lessons or be in a musical play or orchestra. That’s why this summer, I enrolled Mavi in a Star Camp as he really loves to dance and sing.  He is already looking forward to it!

And that ends our music lesson at home.  This post is part of the 12 Months of Montessori Learning which is hosted by Natural Beach Living and The Natural Homeschool.
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8 comments:

  1. Every Star Is DifferentJuly 17, 2015 at 1:29 PM

    I love your "Different Types of Music" cards! What a great idea! Such a fantastic introduction to music in culture, but also history!

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  2. Every Star Is DifferentJuly 17, 2015 at 1:29 PM

    I love your "Different Types of Music" cards! What a great idea! Such a fantastic introduction to music in culture, but also history!

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  3. UnknownJuly 17, 2015 at 3:30 PM

    I love your "Different types of music" cards too -- such a great idea! Perfect for my 8-year old! I love how you used Rihanna for rap :P

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  4. UnknownJuly 18, 2015 at 8:23 AM

    These are so lovely! I was looking at these with my toddler and he was so intrigued by the instruments and asked what each one was :) I'm definitely inspired to adapt a lot of these for my little man!

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  5. Bess WuertzJuly 18, 2015 at 5:01 PM

    What a great unit! I love the musical genre cards. That's a brilliant idea.

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  6. Vanessa ThielJuly 23, 2015 at 2:17 AM

    I love all the printables in this post! Thanks for an amazing music resource! I am going to print some of these printables to use with our bell set.

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  7. Jae (Pinay Homeschooler)July 23, 2015 at 11:16 PM

    Thank you all so much!

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  8. jennys favorite thingsFebruary 25, 2018 at 1:14 PM

    Hello! This is a great resource. thank you so much for putting this together and making it available to everyone! I think you have a typo in the classical music card though. It should say "and music that was" instead of 'were'. Just a small little thing. Thanks again!

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