Music Composition Activities for Thanksgiving

SIX THANKSGIVING MUSIC COMPOSITION ACTIVITIES

Have your students compose and perform their very own songs for THANKSGIVING!!

♦ This file contains SIX guided music compositions activities and

♦ Teacher Ideas and Suggestions.

♦ Each of the SIX music composition/song activities comes in TWO versions, color, which is perfect for you the teacher to project as you explain/model the activity AND black and white for the student to color while they wait for inspiration OR when they are completed their song!

♫ Students compose their very own THANKSGIVING song by choosing from the given bars/measures of rhythm with words and placing them in an order of their choosing.

♫ The more advanced students in your class can use the given measures/bars as a springboard for creating their own THANKSGIVING verse for their song and using the templates provided to notate their song!

♫ Students can only use the specified pitches in their music composition. This is specified for FIVE of the activities

♫♫ NOW INCLUDED is a song writing activity sheet where the pitches have NOT been specified. Teachers can use this sheet to draw the clef and pitches they have been working on in class.

Use this resource to develop/assess understanding of:
♦ Pitch
♦ Rhythm
♦ Words and rhythms
♦ Standard notation on the treble staff

Completed activities/songs can then be used for:
♦ A class concert
♦ A wall/bulletin board display for your music classroom