$5 - $10 Other (Music) Assessment

Ready to start your kids on boomwhackers (or would like an end of the year review?)

Here in this primary pack geared towards your younger students, you will get 3 great resources at 20% when purchased here all together!

• Boom and Response (Call and Response for Boomwhackers!)
  In this resource, there are 3 tracks totally 5 minutes that you can play for your students (and repeat if necessary). Each track is a specific amount of beats for the "Call" (4 beats, 6 beats, or 8 beats) with the same amount of empty beats that follow directly after -- and thats where you students submit their "Response"

• BoomBox (25 sight reading patterns for BEGINNING Boomwhackers!)
  Students will see a series of 8 to 12 boxes with corresponding boomwhacker colors filled in each box. When played, the teacher will count off the students to read down the Boomwhacker boxes from left to right, line by line.

• Boom in a FLASH! (Boomwhackers against the clock!)
  Students will see one Boomwhacker color appear on the screen (PowerPoint presentation). The student who is holding that Boomwhacker must play the note (on the ground, hand, elbow, desk, whatever have you!), and then they automatically advance to the next slide... to another color!

  Keep it going, keep reading because... they're being timed! They will have 30 seconds to amass as many notes as they can (timer included) before the time runs out and they look at their high score (which is kept below).

Enjoy these and let us know how it goes with your kids!

In a fast-paced society, you need resources you can quickly pull out and quickly use for your students to work on essential skills...quickly!

We're introducing our new 3-note Big Sight Reading Cards!

This set includes 81 pages of cards that use the notes G, A, and B.

The cool part of these cards is their versatility! How are sight reading cards versatile? Lemme tell you. You can use these cards to:

• Introduce Sight reading individually or in a group.
• Assess Sight Reading skills individually or in a group.
• Composing (or "arranging" a song) for students to play, individually or in a group.

It's almost like how Alton Brown likes to cook, we like to use resources that are "multi-taskers"...so you have more band for your buck!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated! Please note that while this resource is reproducible, you may only use this with your students. The resource license is not transferrable to other school or teachers.

Catalog: MTP-GBSB-DG

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Looking for a fun, exciting, challenging, and engaging way to reach students in your upper elementary or lower middle school grades? Try this all-inclusive lesson that will get your kids racing against the clock and each other with The Great Escape!

In “THE GREAT ESCAPE”, students will be given a specific amount of time to perform tasks successfully (as designed by the teacher). Each one of these tasks is a musical task and the theme for this escape room are the notes of the treble clef staff.

There are five rooms, and in each room are several "tasks" students will have to perform (either individually, as a class, A vs B, side by side, or however you wish). As soon as the task is completed, advance the slide for the correct answer (the teacher will control the game).

After a certain number of tasks, a key will be issued to exit the room and head into another room with a different set of tasks.

The five rooms and tasks are as follows:

• Room One: Bedroom (Name the instrument)
• Room Two: Lounge (Classify instrument family)
• Room Three: Kitchen (Classify lowest or highest sounding instrument)
• Room Four: Guest Room (Put instruments in order)
• Room Five: Hallway (Classify instrument accessories into the correct family)

If students complete all tasks and open the door to all five rooms they win the game!

You can play this one of four ways

• Set a timer (5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc). You can designate how long students should receive to complete the entire game
• Keep track of time to beat another class or grade level
• Keep track of time and try again during another class to name it faster
• Play it side vs side, boys vs girls, and see who can get to the end the fastest (or before time ends)

If you would like music to accompany this to make it a bit more engaging, try using this in the background:

Escape Room Background Music

Have a terrific time with this and let us know how it goes!

SILENT NIGHT: A traditional favorite during the Christmas time, this arrangement gives a feeling of a gentle rocking and simple harmonies to make the song flourish. In the second verse, the right-hand moves up the octave, and the left-hand accompaniment changes a little to shift the mood a bit, before heading back to the same rocking feeling into the third verse and finishes with a subtle, peaceful ending.

This solo is leveled for Late Beginner students but may be more suited for Early Intermediate students due to the rhythms throughout the solo.

Check out our other Christmas-themed resources here!

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Catalog: PM-SSSN-SL

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Looking for a fun, exciting, challenging, and engaging way to reach students in your upper elementary or lower middle school grades? Try this all-inclusive lesson that will get your kids racing against the clock and each other with The Great Escape!

In “THE GREAT ESCAPE”, students will be given a specific amount of time to perform tasks successfully (as designed by the teacher). Each one of these tasks is a musical task and the theme for this escape room are the notes of the treble clef staff.

There are five rooms, and in each room are several "tasks" students will have to perform (either individually, as a class, A vs B, side by side, or however you wish). As soon as the task is completed, advance the slide for the correct answer (the teacher will control the game).

After a certain number of tasks, a key will be issued to exit the room and head into another room with a different set of tasks.

The five rooms and tasks are as follows:

• Room One: The Office (Name one note on the staff)
• Room Two: The Laboratory (Name two notes on the staff)
• Room Three: The Library (Spell out the word)
• Room Four: The Lounge (Pick the correct note to match the letter)
• Room Five: The Foyer (Pick the correct tile to match the word)

If students complete all tasks and open the door to all five rooms they win the game!

You can play this one of four ways

• Set a timer (5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc). You can designate how long students should receive to complete the entire game
• Keep track of time to beat another class or grade level
• Keep track of time and try again during another class to name it faster
• Play it side vs side, boys vs girls, and see who can get to the end the fastest (or before time ends)

If you would like music to accompany this to make it a bit more engaging, try using this in the background:

Escape Room Background Music

Have a terrific time with this and let us know how it goes!

What better way to get your student's rhythm-reading and composing underway than using the words of supplies they have right on their desk!

This School Supply Word Rhythm packet gives you the needed tools to work on reading rhythms, composing rhythmic patterns, and assessing student learning!

Note values included in this packet are:

• Quarter Notes (Pens)
• Beamed 8th Notes (Pencils)
• 1 8th-2 16th patterns (Highlighters)
• Beamed 16th Notes (Colored Pencils).

What's included in the packet? This has:

• "Posters" in both color and ink-friendly options to display, with and without item names.
• Student cards with pictures and note values, in color and ink-friendly options.
• Student cards with words and note values, in black and ink-friendly options.
• Exit tickets for the number of sounds in the word, and note values.
• Composing worksheets for students to compose patterns using stick notation.

Please note, while this resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may reproduce the resource as needed and may not share it with colleagues. You can direct colleagues here to purchase a copy of their own.

Click here to look at the freebie version of this packet!

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Catalog: MTP-SSWR-DG

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Looking for something challenging for your 4th and 5th graders (or even early middle schoolers?) This game is fast paced and has these kids racing to dictate what they hear in a new game called "Rhythm Clockout!"

In this lesson, students will hear a 4 to 6 beat rhythm (with 8 preparatory beats) followed by a 3, 5, 7, or 9 second timer immediately following the rhythm. As soon as that timer begins (or even before for some of your advanced kids), have the students dictate what they heard before the timer runs out!

You can do this one of a few ways

• Print out notecards and have them line it up on their floor/desk
• Have them write it out on the whiteboard
• Draw it on their tablet (if applicable)
• Use Popsicle sticks for iconic notation
• Use your own type of notation

In all of these examples are quarter rests, half notes, eighth notes, and quarter notes. You can use the printouts included to print your own and cut them up, or even use your class set

There are 22 examples in this one with the electric guitar leading the melodic figures for the kids to notate. Most are around 100-120bpm, but some advanced ones go a bit faster

Lesson pro tip:

Wanna challenge the kids? Have a team vs team, kid vs kid, A vs B, etc and see who can get the most right (percentage of right notes) or even the right answer before the timer ends

Have a great time with this one, my upper elementary kids get super psyched!

When the weather gets colder and you need a hot drink to warm you up, you can use this as an opportunity to practice rhythms with your students using Tea, Coffee, Hot Cocoa, and Apple Cider!

This Hot Drinks Word Rhythm packet gives you the needed tools to work on reading rhythms, composing rhythmic patterns, and assessing student learning!

Note values included in this packet are:

• Quarter Notes (Tea)
• Beamed 8th Notes (Coffee)
• 1 8th-2 16th patterns (Hot Cocoa)
• Beamed 16th Notes (Apple Cider).

What's included in the packet? This has:

• "Posters" in both color and ink-friendly options to display, with and without item names.
• Student cards with pictures and note values, in color and ink-friendly options.
• Student cards with words and note values, in black and ink-friendly options.
• Exit tickets for the number of sounds in the word, and note values.
• Composing worksheets for students to create patterns using stick notation.

Please note, while this resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may reproduce the resource as needed and may not share it with colleagues. You can direct colleagues here to purchase a copy of their own.

Your support of a small, local business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-HDWR-DG

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A game that will keep your 4th and 5th graders entertained, engaged, and competitively charged, here's RHYTHM IMPOSTER inspired by "Among Us"!

In Rhythm Imposter, you will see 2 or 3 "crewmates" assigned with different instruments (either a trumpet, violin, or xylophone).

A musical example will be played where all of the crewmates will play their assigned rhythms on their instruments.

During the example, You, along with your students, will soon find out that the trumpet, violin, or xylophone did NOT play the correct rhythm!

Your task is to decide which crewmate is the IMPOSTER by selecting the one crewmate instrumentalist who didn't play their rhythm correct (or even at all!). Advance the slide and check your answer and go through the rounds!

Included in this resource are

• Mp3 examples embedded in each question (with trumpet, violin, and xylophone sounds) with a 4 beat countoff
• A printout where you can replicate and cut out cards (if you want the students to place on the floor or hold up to show which one was the imposter)
• 4 levels of rhythms with 2 and 3 imposters, along with a level where you can find the crewmate (and the rest of the instruments are imposters!

All examples have quarter, eighth note pairs, quarter rests and half notes (in Levels 3 and on)

Have a terrific time with this while your kids study polyphony!

The NoteStackers line of products is EXPANDING! We're excited to introduce the Digital Presentation editions! These Digital Presentation versions allow for more interaction for students and classes both in-person and online!

NoteStackers Primer Presentation Edition focuses solely on the Music Alphabet Letters. For this level, students are given a letter in the middle and then write in a letter that comes before and a letter that comes after the given letter.

Wanna know the best part? You can use this with any age and level of students and classes, not just beginners!

Let's explain...

While the primer edition IS meant for beginners to test their note-reading ability and to see how the Music Alphabet moves, you can test older students and classes with things such as:

• Intervals:

  • "What's a Skip Above A?"
  • "What's A Skip Below A?"
  • "What's a 4th below A, and a 4th above A?"

• Chords:

  • "A is the 3rd of the chord, give the root and 5th"

• Inversions:

  • "C is the Root of the chord, give the 3rd above it, 5th below it, and name the inversion"

The versatility is priceless and the possibilities for this game are endless!

In total, there are 9 slides in this presentation:

• Title Slide
• Intro Slide and Instructions
• "A" Slide
• "B" Slide
• "C" Slide
• "D" Slide
• "E" Slide
• "F" Slide
• "G" Slide

Because this is a presentation software version, you can duplicate slides as needed to create a longer version of the game, and you can use a slide randomizing add-on to vary the letters as well.

Since there are not moveable parts with this level of the game, the Primer Level can be used with any presentation software.

Note, this product is only to be used by the original purchaser and may not be distributed to other teachers/schools. We appreciate getting referrals for our products!

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Don't you think Guitar students should work on sight reading as well? Students struggling to read the treble staff or the TAB?

Check this new resource out! Sightreading Cards for Guitar are two measure, bite-sized flash cards for you to use with students of any age and stage.

Set 1 uses notes on String 1: E, F and G. There are 24 cards included in set 1. The cards are perfect for a warm-up, activity transition, or for assessment; the options are limitless!

Sightreading Cards for Guitar are school/studio licensed, meaning you may make as many copies as you need. If you are a multi-teacher music studio, you may make copies for each teacher. If you are a school, you may make copies for each student, but we ask you refer your colleagues to purchase their own copy!

Click here for Set 1: Notes on String 1 - E, F, G

Click here for Set 2: Notes on String 2 - B, C, D

Click here for Set 3: Notes on Strings 1 and 2 - C, D, E, F, G

Don't you think Ukulele students should work on sight reading as well? Students struggling to read the treble staff or the TAB?

Sightreading Cards for Ukulele SET 3 are two measure, bite-sized flash cards for you to use with students of any age and stage.

Set 3 uses notes on Strings 2 and 3: C-D-E-F-G. There are 24 cards included in set 3. The cards are perfect for a warm-up, activity transition, or for assessment; the options are limitless!

Sightreading Cards for Ukulele are school/studio licensed, meaning you may make as many copies as you need. If you are a multi-teacher music studio, you may make copies for each teacher. If you are a school, you may make copies for each student, but we ask you refer your colleagues to purchase their own copy!

The CDE Songbook features 6 songs using the C-D-E keys on the piano, in the Treble Clef. These songs are perfect for when your students are learning the three notes, or starting to learn these notes on the treble clef. Some songs use mainly steps, and some use skips as well. You can also use this book for students to learn Skips and Steps, aurally and visually. You can also teach these songs by rote. 

Songs included in this book are:

• This is C-D-E
• Hear Me Play
• Alex Love’s to Play
• See Me Play
• Skipping and Stepping
• I love to Play

Note: this book is reproducible, so you can make as many copies as needed.

Zachary Seckman is an up-and-coming music teacher, composer, author, and conductor. He primarily teaches from his studio in Kansas on Piano, Drums and Percussion, Ukulele, and kids bands. When he is not teaching, Seckman is busy with composing and arranging music, conducting local community choirs, cooking, and playing video games.

Thank you for downloading this songbook and supporting a small business! You are welcome to duplicate this book for your students but you may not share with other teachers or schools/studios. You are more than welcome to direct others  to buy their own copy of the book. 

Catalogue: PM-DECT-DG

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In a fast-paced society, you need resources you can quickly pull out and quickly use for your students to work on essential skills...quickly!

We're introducing our new 3-note Big Sight Reading Cards!

This set includes 162 pages of cards that use the notes F, G, and A.

These cards are both in black and white, and color-coordinated with popular pitched percussion instruments. Bright Green for F, Dark Green for G, and Purple for A.

The cool part of these cards is their versatility! How are sight reading cards versatile? Lemme tell you. You can use these cards to:

• Introduce Sight reading individually or in a group.
• Assess Sight Reading skills individually or in a group.
• Composing (or "arranging" a song) for students to play, individually or in a group.

It's almost like how Alton Brown likes to cook, we like to use resources that are "multi-taskers"...so you have more band for your buck!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated! Please note that while this resource is reproducible, you may only use this with your students. The resource license is not transferrable to other school or teachers.

Catalog: MTP-FBSM-DG

© 2023 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Don't you think Guitar students should work on sight reading as well? Students struggling to read the treble staff or the TAB?

Sightreading Cards for Guitar SET 4 are two measure, bite-sized flash cards for you to use with students of any age and stage.

Set 4 uses notes on Strings 2 and 3: G-A-B-C. There are 24 cards included in set 4. The cards are perfect for a warm-up, activity transition, or for assessment; the options are limitless!

Sightreading Cards for Guitar are school/studio licensed, meaning you may make as many copies as you need. If you are a multi-teacher music studio, you may make copies for each teacher. If you are a school, you may make copies for each student, but we ask you refer your colleagues to purchase their own copy!

It's the most Spook-tacular time of year! Time to get dressed up, trick or treat and have some sweets! Your students will enjoy reviewing and reading rhythms using spooky words such as Bat, Potion, Skeleton, and Jack-O-Lantern!

This Spooky Season Word Rhythm packet gives you the needed tools to work on reading rhythms, composing rhythmic patterns, and assessing student learning!

Note values included in this packet are:

• Quarter Notes (Bat)
• Beamed 8th Notes (Potion)
• 2 16th-1 8th patterns (Skeleton)
• Beamed 16th Notes (Jack-O-Lantern)

What's included in the packet? This has:

• "Posters" in both color and ink-friendly options to display, with and without item names.
• Student cards with pictures and note values, in color and ink-friendly options.
• Student cards with words and note values, in black and ink-friendly options.
• Exit tickets for the number of sounds in the word, and note values.
• Composing worksheets for students to create patterns using stick notation.

Please note, while this resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may reproduce the resource as needed and may not share it with colleagues. You can direct colleagues here to purchase a copy of their own.

Your support of a small, local business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-SZWR-DG

© 2023 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

In a fast-paced society, you need resources you can quickly pull out and quickly use for your students to work on essential skills...quickly!

We're introducing our new 3-note Big Sight Reading Cards!

This set includes 162 pages of cards that use the notes C, D, and E.

These cards are both in black and white, and color-coordinated with popular pitched percussion instruments. Red for C, Orange for D, and Yellow for E.

The cool part of these cards is their versatility! How are sight reading cards versatile? Lemme tell you. You can use these cards to:

• Introduce Sight reading individually or in a group.
• Assess Sight Reading skills individually or in a group.
• Composing (or "arranging" a song) for students to play, individually or in a group.

It's almost like how Alton Brown likes to cook, we like to use resources that are "multi-taskers"...so you have more band for your buck!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated! Please note that while this resource is reproducible, you may only use this with your students. The resource license is not transferrable to other school or teachers.

Catalog: MTP-CBSM-DG

© 2023 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Your assignment sheets don't have to be boring!

Check out these Basketball-Themed Music Assignment pages you can use with your Basketball-loving Music students, or for March Madness!

There are 10 different pages for each icon in the set, totaling 50 pages! In this packet, you'll have:

• Detailed Lesson pages that feature:

  • The date of the lesson
  • Space to write an Exercise to work on
  • a 5-Line staff
  • 7 icons for students to color for each day they practice.

• 3 Pages to color an icon for each day they practice (100, 50 and 30 Icons)

• 3 Pages to color an icon for each time they practice (100, 50 and 30 Icons)

• 3 Pages to color an icon for each page they complete (100, 50 and 30 Icons)

This assignment sheet set includes 5 different icons so you can pick and choose which ones you want to use, or you can use all 5 of them! These icons include:

• Basketball Nets/Goals
• Basketballs
• Jerseys
• Sneakers
• Courts

We also offer basketball-themed assignment sheets for:

• Piano
• Guitar
• Ukulele
• Three-String Guitar

Please note, that the resource is reproducible, only the original purchaser may duplicate the pages for their students. The resource license cannot transfer to others, but we ask you to refer other people here to purchase their own set.

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Catalog: MTP-MBAS-DG

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THE MAJOR C: is a simple, quick “study” piece that focuses in the C 5-finger position...for the most part. The Left-Hand accompaniment features stretching from a 5th, to a 7th, and an octave which repeats throughout the song. The Right Hand also stretches out to an optional octave in the second half of the song. The Major C can be used as a warm-up piece, or for a recital performance, or both!

Check out our other Piano resources here!

Did you know that you can receive TeachShare credit when you review and rate products you've purchased? It's true! If you find that you enjoy this product, please come back and provide your feedback to receive your TPT credit to use on future purchases!

This resource is licensed for duplication but only by the original purchaser. Be sure to let your colleagues know where you purchased the resource so they can grab their own copy!

Your support of a small business is appreciated!

Catalog: MP-SSMC-SL

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Don't you think Ukulele students should work on sight reading as well? Students struggling to read the treble staff or the TAB?

Sightreading Cards for Ukulele SET 6 are two measure, bite-sized flash cards for you to use with students of any age and stage.

Set 6 uses notes on Strings 1, 2 and 3: C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C. There are 24 cards included in set 6. The cards are perfect for a warm-up, activity transition, or for assessment; the options are limitless!

Sightreading Cards for Ukulele are school/studio licensed, meaning you may make as many copies as you need. If you are a multi-teacher music studio, you may make copies for each teacher. If you are a school, you may make copies for each student, but we ask you refer your colleagues to purchase their own copy!