FROSTY WEATHER FOLK SONG ACTIVITY IDEAS
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Hello, I’m Sandra Hendrickson the creator at SING PLAY CREATE. This is the Music Class Teaching Tips channel and today I’m sharing some creative ways to use the song FROSTY WEATHER in your music and movement classes.

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Most likely you know the traditional song “Frosty Weather”. It’s a popular Kodaly music lesson.

But in today’s video I’m sharing 4 different ways to use the song in music class.

MOVEMENT

SCARVES

UKULELE LESSON If you’re teaching ukulele, I’ve added in a play along at the end of this video for you.

I’ve listed the sections in the description for easy reference. So, you can skip to those as needed.

If you decide to use some of these ideas, I’m hoping you’ll come back and share your experiences in the classroom with all of us in the comment section below. I’d love to hear from you.

I do have these activities available in the Sing Play Create TpT store and on my website.

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I like to diversify the lesson activities so that there’s something on the music lesson menu for all my students.

I also feel that it’s important to add variety to the activities so that I can use the core music lesson over 4 class times.  

If you are a newer music teacher, you can implement this strategy until you have developed a full curriculum.

This means that I’m using one song to teach many concepts.  

Not only are we learning solfege, note names, rhythms, beat, but we’ll also play the song, move to the song, create our own movement as well as create rhythmic and melodic ostinato parts.

I don’t have to use all these ideas in one grade level.

I can use these ideas in different grade levels differentiating the activities according to the learning goals.

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One way to diversify across grade levels using FROSTY WEATHER is to have Kindergarten and First students learn to sing the song and move on the beat. They will do the scarf activity too. First grade can play the game.

Second Grade will sing the song and work hard on the solfege, the game, movement. They will create their own body percussion patterns. I can choose for them to do scarf movement too if time permits.

Third Grade and up will sing the song and work hard on the dotted rhythms, the solfege and playing the song.  They will work on the movement and create their own body percussion, rhythmic and melodic patterns in STATIONS.

Diversifying the learning and teaching across grade levels is successful way to unify your music curriculum and maximize learning. In essence, you’re teaching the music ABC’s in Kindergarten and setting students up for success in the upper grades for improvisation and music making.  

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