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Mallet Madness

  • Sku: LOR01
$50.00

A collection of engaging units for using mallet instruments and drums in the music classroom.

Activities to energize your classroom and increase your students' musical knowledge in many areas.

Kindergarten - Middle School

Product description

From master-teacher Artie Almeida comes this exciting collection of activities for mallet percussion instruments and drums that will energize your classroom. Mallet Madness utilizes songs, poems, music-to-literature connections, and reproducible flashcards to promote learning in the areas of beat, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and expressive qualities. Thanks to its unique rotation system, your students will play all the mallet percussion instruments in your classroom as well as many of the non-pitched instruments. Suggestions for adapting the activities for use in classrooms with few or even no mallet instruments are also given. Whether presented as a unit or spread over a semester or school year, Mallet Madness will fully engage students, and you will love the skills and musicality they develop during these lessons.

Resource Index

 The Basics

  • Introduction
  • Instrument Setup
  • Sample Floor Plans
  • The Rotation
  • Before You Begin: A Few Reminders
  • Music & Literature Connections
  • Pentatonic Scales
  • Getting Started: Tips for Success
  • Warm-Ups
  • Body Director

Rhythm Foundations

  • Notes and Rests
  • Crazy Eights
  • Instrument Hopscotch
  • Pease Porridge
  • 1 - 2 Buckle My Shoe
  • Jack and Jill
  • 2-4-6-8
  • Walk the Dog
  • Fuzzy Wuzzy
  • Peanut Butter Pie
  • The Respect Rap
  • Icka Backa Boo

Melodic Explorations

  • Direction and Register
  • Up and Down in Mallet Town
  • C Scale Explorations
  • Little Bunny Foo-Foo
  • Wee Willie Winkie
  • The Grand Old Duke of York
  • Chinese Ribbon Dance

Timbre

  • Aleatoric Music
  • Listen to the Glockenspiels

Harmonic Support

  • Borduns

Music & Literature Connections

  • Jump, Frog, Jump! - Robert Kalan
  • Mortimer - Robert Munsch
  • In the Tall, Tall Grass - Denise Fleming
  • Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop - Lisa Shulman
  • Rumble in the Jungle - Giles Andreae
  • Peanut Butter and Jelly - Nadine Bernard Westcott
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Judith Viorst
  • Caps for Sale - Esphyr Slobodkina
  • Old Black Fly - Kim Aylesworth
  • There Were Ten in the Bed - Annie Kubler

 

Materials Included

  • Printed Book

Samples

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Mallet Madness

$50.00

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