MUSIC
Creating—Anchor Standard 2: Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Vocal-Explorations-Singing-Visual-Aids-Peter-and-the-Wolf-1697568
Vocal Activity
Use this kit to help your students explore their voices. Have students vocalize the pictures by humming, or singing a syllable. Follow the path of the characters as they make their way to the instrument that plays their theme or another object from Peter and the Wolf.
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Performing—Anchor Standard 6: Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work
ACADEMIC CONTENT SONGS
SOCIAL SKILLS SONGS
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MUSIC RESOURCES
Website with free downloads of a variety of kids' songs
This is the website of a company that produces great CD's on a variety of topics. Each CD has a vocal and orchestral accompaniment track.
http://www.songsforteaching.com/
Downloadable songs organized by content areas.
Lyrics, music, and videos for over 2,000 children's songs.
Website for Red Grammer, a wonderful children's singer.
Website for The Happy Crowd, a local children's group.
Website for Jose Luis Orozco, a bilingual singer from Nortern CA.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3fmzbEwONd0Trhqeauw
YouTube channel for Emily Arrow who has created songs based on picture books and also has a social skills focus.
MUSIC FOR TRANSITIONS
Use for 1 - 1/2 minutes during:
- Clean up
- Signals for each subject
- Line-up for lunch or recess
Themes to different cartoons or televesision shows:
Theme song to Jeporday
Theme song to The Flintstones
Theme song to Scooby-Doo
Take Me Home, Country Roads (A good song to use while students clean up at end of day.)
USING MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND
Classroom Environment
- Brainstorming
- Writing
- Studying spelling/math problems
- Art Projects
Instramental Music:
- Classical (e.g., Mozart)
- New Age (e.g., Enya)
- Spanish Guitar
- Piano (e.g., easy listening)
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THEATRE
Creating—Anchor Standard 2: Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work
Casting Guide
This is a reference to help teachers assign appropriate roles for Benchmark Reader's Theater. Benchmark is an ELA curriculum, and Reader's Theater is part of that curriculum.
Reader's Theater Group Organizer
This reader's theater planning sheet can be used to help your groups organize who is in the group, what character they are reading, and what props and background they are creating. It's a great way to keep a record of your groups and it helps keep your students on track.
Props
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/free-readers-theater-props/
Free Reader's Theater Props
Sunglasses, masks, and more! Download and print.
ARTICLES
http://wonderteacher.com/10-simple-ways-to-make-readers-theater-magical/
10 simple ways to make Reader's Theater Magical.
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Performing—Anchor Standard 4: Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation
READER'S THEATER
Scripts
http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm
https://www.thewiseowlfactory.com/readers-theater-free/
https://www.readinga-z.com/fluency/readers-theater-scripts/
Retell Me A Story-- Goldilocks Stick Puppets & Reader's Theater
Reader's Theater about Human Body Systems
This reader's theater script has seven parts. The reading level for each part varies so you can have higher readers working with lower level readers. Have students create their own "Character information cards" to wear when performing this script... or even a costume! Integrate science and reading in a fun, engaging way.
GAMES
46 Free Drama Games & Activities
CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Drama and Play Word Wall Cards
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VISUAL ARTS
Creating— Anchor Standard 1: Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work
VIDEOS
Primary Colors Songs for Kids/Secondary Colors Song for Kids by Kids Learning Tube
This song helps teach about primary colors and mixing them to create new colors.
WEBSITES
https://www.teachstarter.com/us/learning-area/fine-arts-us/visual-arts-us/
An extensive collection of teaching resources to use when learning about visual arts in your elementary classroom.
https://study.com/academy/topic/mttc-elementary-education-visual-arts.html
Videos and lessons to teach visual arts.
ACTIVITIES
Upside Down Drawing
An activity to introduce countour line. For the upside down drawing students have to look at the image upside down and re-draw it upside down. By drawing the image upside down they are no longer focusing on trying to recreate an eye, nose, and mouth. Instead they are focused on the lines and shapes that make up the image.
Basic Color Wheel | Primary Colors | Secondary Colors
How to use: 1) mix primary colors to make secondary colors 2) paint primary colors in the circles along the solid lines 3) paint secondary colors in the circles along the dashed lines
Tints and Shades
Students experiment with adding white or black to create and use different tints and shades in their art.
These simple flash cards contain vocabulary words with definitions for visual arts.
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Connecting— Anchor Standard 11: Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
Chinese New Year Design
Students create an artistic design that relates to their Chinese New Year animal.
PICTURE BOOKS
The Noisy Paint Box by Barb Rosenstock
A Caldecott Honor Book Vasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowers—like a proper artist. But as Vasya opened his paint box and began mixing the reds, the yellows, the blues, he heard a strange sound—the swirling colors trilled like an orchestra tuning up for a symphony! And as he grew older, he continued to hear brilliant colors singing and see vibrant sounds dancing. But was Vasya brave enough to put aside his proper still lifes and portraits and paint. . . music? In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPré tell the fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the very first painters of abstract art. Throughout his life, Kandinsky experienced colors as sounds, and sounds as colors—and bold, groundbreaking works burst forth from his noisy paint box.
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DANCE
Creating— Anchor Standard 1: Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work
For teachers to be able to lead meaningful dance-integrated activities in their classrooms, students must be able to call on basic skills. These activities are designed to help teachers create a safe, enjoyable environment for learning through creative movement.
The kinesphere, or personal space, exercise is simple and easy to facilitate. Students often request to play the "kinesphere game" long after they have learned to control their personal space.
There are also step-by-step instructions for leading students through a focusing and observation game known as mirroring. For both activities, an assessment checklist is included, along with references to national standards in physical education and dance.
ACTIVITIES
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Brain-Break-Freeze-Dance-FREEBIE-1169516
Find music that your kids will love to groove to. Whenever you pause the music, they have to freeze like the picture. You can choose to project the pictures onto a SMART board, whiteboard, etc. or print them to make a little freeze dance flip book.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Giraffes-cant-dance-lesson-plan-3309861
Based on the book 'Giraffes can't dance' a lesson plan including dance and music forchildren. It's a fun lesson to get them moving, sweating, working in pairs and dancing to different genres.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spot-Dancing-Movement-Activity-1388617
Spot Dancing
Students will be practicing steady beat movement, 8-beat phrasing, creativity, and controlling their bodies through space. This activity works with just about any kind of music, so you can use it again and again for every season and holiday!
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Connecting— Anchor Standard 11: Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Native-American-Dances-2203515
Native American Dances
A short book detailing four Native American dances. Interactive table of contents included. A slide to vote on favorite dances, and two blank pages for notes included in slide show.
This activity focuses on exploring the different levels in dance (high, medium, and low), the aspect of shape, and locomotor/traveling skills. After a guided exploration and modeling, students will work with partners to develop their own American Symbol dance using the Student Dance Building Cards provided.
This PowerPoint Presentation is a great way to introduce Spanish culture into the classroom. It contains links to other videos of traditional dances.
2nd Grade Mexican Hat Dance y ChaCha LL by Amy Wilkin
If you have a United States floor map or floor puzzle, then you need to try this kinesthetic, fun, and engaging activity. Students practice their cardinal directions as a learning center or small group activity, using this recording sheet and a floor map.
This is a one page lesson plan on how to teach the water cycle while also teaching a few simple dance/creative movement standards as well. It's a fun and unique way for students to learn the water cycle. A rubric is also included.
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MEDIA ARTS
Creating— Anchor Standard 3: Refine and Complete Artistic Work
VIDEOS
Photography Assignment for Kids! by Zack Arias
Kids grab their favorite toy and make a cool photo with it!
How to Use the Rule of Thirds in Your Photos! 📸 | Photography Tutorial for Kids by Sharp Shots Photo Club
WEBSITES
https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/learning-toolkit-blog/drawing-apps-kids.html
A list of drawing apps for kids.
Free online drawing application for all ages. Create digital artwork to share online and export to popular image formats JPEG, PNG, SVG, and PDF.
Free online coloring pages for kids with a rich variety of colorful patterns, gradients, fabrics, papers and textures for hours of fun and creativity.
https://www.animaker.com/cartoon-maker
Make cartoon videos online for free.
http://www.nickjr.com/nick-jr-originals/games/nick-jr-free-draw/
Free Draw allows children to interact with a variety of art supplies, such as markers and spray-paint.
https://kidmons.com/game/paint-online/
Paint and draw online.
Videos and presentation creator.
ARTICLES
https://schoolworkhelper.net/elements-and-principles-of-media-art/
Elements and Principles of Media Art by SchoolWorker Editorial Team
Gives a brief explanation on Media Art.
Connecting— Anchor Standard 11: Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
WEBSITES
Aminah's World is a website presented by the Columbus Museum of Art. Here kids can choose a digital background then build a collage by layering kente cloth and other fabric scraps, found objects, shells, and yarn. Objects can be moved and re-sized, and the result printed out.
http://toytheater.com/category/art/
art activities there include building with colored blocks, doodling, designing, animation, and a glimpse into processes like Matisse's painting and Japanese wood block prints. You need to take a screen grab to save work kids do here.
https://www.smilebox.com/maker/slideshow-maker/
Use photos to create slideshows.