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At Home Music Lesson k3-1st

This document provides instructions for a 3-part music lesson on instrument families for grades K-1. Part 1 involves watching educational videos about instruments and their sounds. Part 2 is an instrument identification game called "4 Corners" where students run to labeled corners based on called instruments. Part 3 challenges students to make their own instruments from household materials and submit a video playing it, identifying its family. The lesson aims to teach students about woodwind, brass, string, and percussion instruments.

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At Home Music Lesson k3-1st

This document provides instructions for a 3-part music lesson on instrument families for grades K-1. Part 1 involves watching educational videos about instruments and their sounds. Part 2 is an instrument identification game called "4 Corners" where students run to labeled corners based on called instruments. Part 3 challenges students to make their own instruments from household materials and submit a video playing it, identifying its family. The lesson aims to teach students about woodwind, brass, string, and percussion instruments.

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Instrument Families at home!

 
K3-1st Grade 
Last week you learned about the different instrument families and how they make 
their sounds! Then you even go to find some at home around your house and 
make up your own instrument! I saw lots of really great ideas! This week’s music 
lesson will be broken into the following three parts: 
 
Part 1: Videos 
Part 2: A fun Game! 
Part 3: Make your own instrument! 
*note: you do not have to do this all in one day! 
 
Part 1: Videos 
Click here​ to watch a playlist about the instruments of the orchestra and the 
science of sound!! After watching all of the videos, review the instruments you 
saw! What were some woodwind instruments? How do they make sound? What 
are some brass instruments? How do they make sound? What are some string 
instruments? How do they make sound? What were some percussion (drums) 
instruments you saw? How did they make sound? Which video was your favorite? 
Why? 
 
Part 2: Game time! 
Now it’s time to play a game! This is called instrument 4 corners! 
This game is to test your knowledge of instruments and their families. 
Before playing this game, you must have already gone over the different 
instruments and their families so the players are familiar with them. This 
game requires multiple players and one person to be the caller. Play with 
your family! The winner of the game is the last person standing (OR if you 
don’t have a lot of players, you can use a points system instead. Give each 
player a point for getting the correct corner. The person with the most 
points wins! ) 
 

How to play: 

1. Tape a sign for each instrument family (woodwind, brass, strings, 


percussion) in each corner of the room equidistant from each 
corner. (I recommend using pictures for younger students who can’t 
read well. Be sure to review which corner is which so that they 
understand)  
2. Call out a certain instrument and the players will run to the corner of 
the room that instrument belongs to. (For example, if I call out 
trumpet, students will run to the brass family corner.) I have included 
a list of instruments and the families they belong to on the next page 
for you to utilize.  
3. If players don’t run to the correct instrument family, they are out! 
Have them sit middle of the room or somewhere out of the way where 
they won’t get run over. (Again if you don’t have many players you 
can always use a point system instead, in which case they are not 
out, they just don’t get a point) player left standing! (or until someone 
reaches 10 points!) 
4. For an extra challenge set a timer on your phone for each round. 
Players must get to the correct corner before the time goes off!  
5. Play as many times as you wish! Feel free to modify this however you 
wish to make it easier or harder for your family. ​Send Mrs. Bergin a 
picture of the fun by Friday of this week! (April 3rd).  
 
Part 3: Make your own instrument!  
For this section you are going to make your own instruments. ​Click here ​for some 
ideas on instruments that you can make at home with just regular household 
materials! There are plenty of other ideas out there, don’t feel limited to just that 
website! Send Mrs. Bergin a video of you playing your instrument! Tell me what 
you made and what family it belongs to! Families with multiple siblings may 
choose to make an instrument together, or to make your own. You decide. ​Your 
video of your homemade instrument is do after spring break (April 14th)  
 
 
Good luck and Have Fun!! If you need me at all please feel free to reach out! Hope 
you are staying safe and healthy and that you have a wonderful Spring Break! 
Happy Easter!  
-Mrs. Bergin 
 
 
 
List of Instruments and their Families 
(feel free to look these up so your child can see 
pictures of each instrument). 
 
Woodwind Family: 
Flute 
Piccolo 
Clarinet 
Oboe 
Bassoon 
Recorder 
Saxophone 
 
Brass Family: 
Tuba 
Trumpet 
French Horn 
Euphonium 
Trombone 
 
String Family: 
Violin 
Viola 
Cello 
Double Bass (also known as string bass) 
Guitar 
Ukulele  
Harp  
 
Percussion: 
Drums 
Maracas 
Piano 
Timpani 
Xylophone 
Gong 
Tambourine 
Cymbals 
Triangle 
Basically anything else that you can hit, strike or shake 

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