Adaptive music activities

Kindergarten through 5th grade Elementary Music blog. Complete with resources, ideas and technology for those in the elementary music classroom.

Here are EASY OUTDOOR music and movement activities that your kids in all grade levels will love! It's like a musical field day!

Check out this post for creative and exciting ways to add scarves into your music activities. Also, find some specific scarf music examples.

Your elementary music students will have a hoppin' good time with this rhythm frog game! Students can play competatively with a partner, or individually! This is a perfect game to teach your students for those days you have a substitute in music, a class party, or just as an everyday center!

Do you have a favorite rhythm game or activity to use in your music lessons? Rhythm is something that always needs review, so you can never have too many

Music activities for children with special needs require some careful teacher planning and preparation to ensure the class is fully inclusive and caters to the needs and abilities of all learners. This is particularly true when running music activities for children with physical or multiple disabilities, as their needs for accessing and using equipment and instruments can be quite specific. Think about instruments that are suitable as well as how to adapt them for use with students with…

This article is part of the 31 Days of Pinterest Hacks series. Find the main page for this series here. Music plays a huge part in our lives. Not only do we enjoy listening to various tunes, but research shows the many benefits of music in all aspects of development. From cognitive to social to emotional to […]

I’m sharing HIGH/LOW Music Activities for the elementary music classroom. I’ve included some fun games, songs, movement activities to teach high and low in your music classes.

Students with Special Needs: Strategies for Inclusion in the Music Room. Organized Chaos. Strategies and ideas for teaching special education students in the mainstream music classroom.

Fourth grade class wrote some terrific "sound songs". I got this idea from another music teacher. Thank you! It was a hit.