Low La Lessons, Activities, and Games

This bundle of lessons, games, and activities will help you prepare, present, and practice the new pitch, low la, with your students. These were created by me for my own students who are also working on recorder, improvisation/creativity/composition activities, and adding more instrumental elements to our learning.

The download includes:

8 PowerPoint Lessons (complete with instructions, teaching slides, and movement/game/instrumentation instructions)
1. Corn Grinding Song
2. Hosisipa
3. Canoe Song and Land of the Silver Birch (corresponding worksheet for improvisation/composition activity)
4. Old Mr. Rabbit (includes printables)
5. See the Rabbit Running (includes printables)
6. One Morning Soon (includes printables)
7. Who Has Seen the Wind
8. Jubilee (includes instructions for teaching "tim-ka" and a fun movement activity)

2 Printable Games
1. "Grocery Store" - recorder folder game for pitches E,G, A, B
2. "Rabbit Race" matching game for singing and recorder

4 Printable Worksheets for pre/post assessments and practice
1. F Major Low La Mad Minute
2. F Major Low La Fill In
3. G Major Low La Mad Minute
4. G Major Low La Fill In

4 Teaching Aides
1. PowerPoint for Introducing Low La - G Major
2. PowerPoint Introducing Low La - F Major
3. Printable Solfa Cards
4. Low La Practice Slides (printables in both G and F major) with instructions for 5 ways to use them, including a student favorite "Dash" game

These lessons also include the following rhythm and vocabulary elements:

Rhythm: half note, syncop (eighth quarter eighth), quarter note, quarter rest, eighth note pair, ti-tika (eighth sixteenth sixteenth)

Vocabulary: steady beat, rhythm, time signature, bar line, double bar line, measures, double bar line, melody, pitch, form, rondo form, slur, tie, improvisation, composition, solfa pitches, absolute pitches, lyrics

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