Activities by Purpose - Red Balloons
Red Balloons
Principle purpose(s)
Let’s Play Music
Cadence patterning
Hickety Pickety
Tambourine Train
Pitch matching
Imitate rhythm
Steady beat
Staff awareness
Up and down sound
Pitch matching
Primary chord ear training and
function
Classical form familiarity
Great Big Red Balloon
Echo Ed
Primary Chords song
Magical Lamp
Do Re Mi
Three Blind Mice
Frog in the Middle
Hear How the Bells
Barnyard
May There Always Be Me
Ding Dong
A-Hunting We Will Go
Chords in Pieces
Lion Hunt
Ain’t it Great to Be Crazy
Scotland’s Burning
Baby Step, Leap
Circle Left
Oooooo Halloween
Waltz of the Flowers
Five Fat Turkeys
Pull Away
Who Took the Cookie?
In a Humble Manger
Solfeg syllables and hand signs
Major scale familiarity
Solfeg patterning
Cadence patterning (MRD)
Harmony using ostinato
Bell playing
Imitate and identify rhythms
Steady beat
Pitch matching
Cadence patterning (MRD &
SSD)
Chord ear training through
individual note study
Tempo change
Autoharp playing
Solfeg hand signs
Staff reading – step and leap
Cadence patterning (MRD &
SSD)
Internal beat
Vocal channeling
Classical form familiarity
Identify solfeg pattern (SSD)
Cadence patterning (MRD)
Follow a steady beat
Chord study on alternative
instrument
Secondary purposes(s)
Steady beat
Solfeg syllables and hand signs
Solfeg syallables
Major scale familiarity
Imitate rhythm
Autoharp playing
Abstract music reading (chord maps)
Up and down sound
Listening skills
Harmony
Bell playing
Audiation
Harmony using ostinato and round
Steady beat
Steady beat
Autoharp playing
Steady beat
Solfeg patterning (MRD & SSD)
Identifying patterns
Autoharp playing
Steady beat
Solfeg patterning (SD)
Audiation
Up and down sound
Steady beat
Play instrument on the beat
Listening skills
Steady beat
Steady beat
Vocal channeling
Activities by Purpose - Blue Bugs
Blue Bugs
Lets Play Music
How to Skip
Triumphant March
Do Re Mi
Old Paint
Can’t Bug Me
Clickety Clack
Dinosaur Song
Rig-a-jig-jig
Chords in Pieces
Principle purpose(s)
Cadence patterning
Staff reading (skips)
Classical form familiarity
Solfeg syllables and hand signs
Major scale familiarity
Independent autoharp playing
V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E
Rhythmic notation and identification
Solfeg syllables and hand signs
Staff reading (steps and skips)
Cadence patterning (SLTD)
Chord ear training through
individual note study
Primary chord ear training and
function
Cadence patterning (SLTD)
Echo Ed
Jungle Rhythm
Bill Grogan’s Goat
Pitch matching
Subdividing the beat
Internal beat (hold the whole note)
Hokey Pokey
Johnny’s Haircut
Umburra
El Gallo
Cadence patterning (SLTD)
Cadence patterning (SLTD)
Steady beat
Harmonic Rhythm (red, red, yellow,
red)
Staff reading (leaps)
Primary Chords Song
A Frog Went a-Hoppin’
“Fox Hunt”
Are You Sleeping?
I’ve Been to Harlem
B-I-N-G-O
Baby Butterfly
Drunken Sailor
Sleep, My Treasure
The Ants Go Marching
On Top of Spaghetti
Classical form familiarity
Solfeg syllables and hand signs
Audiation
Major vs. minor tonality
Minor chord structure
Internal beat (unsung beats still felt)
Identify rhythmic patterns
Simple song form (phrases, cadence)
Major vs. minor tonality
Cadence patterning (SLTD)
Ear training (broken chord acc.)
Autoharp playing
Secondary purposes(s)
Steady beat
Bell playing (skips)
Listening skills
Harmony using ostinato
Bell playing (major scale)
Ear training (broken chord)
Steady beat, ¾ time
Subdividing the beat
Harmony using a round
Bell playing (steps and skips)
Autoharp playing
Audiation
Autoharp playing
Abstract music reading (chord maps)
Bell playing (SLTD)
Staff reading (SLTD)
Imitate rhythm
Abstract rhythmic notation
Autoharp playing
Abstract music reading (chord maps)
Steady beat
Autoharp playing, Chord maps
Harmony using a round
Bell playing (leaps)
Harmony using ostinato
Identify rhythmic patterns
Harmony using a round
Autoharp playing
Cadence patterning (SLTD)
Identify rhythmic pattern
Rhythmic notation
Vocal channeling
Steady beat
Harmony using sung
accompaniment