Activities for Music
Pick Your Stick of the Day
Submitted by: Amanda
July 29th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Art | ESL | History | Language Arts | Math | Music | Reading & Writing | Science | Special Education
Estimated Time: 0-10 minutes
Description: Students play "hot potato" with a canister to music. When the music stops, whoever ends up with the canister has to open it and pull out a tongue depreser with a Post-it® tab on the top. Sticks have colored post-it's on the top so students know what genre/category they're choosing. They have to answer the question on the bottom of the stick or define the word. If they get it right, they get to put the post-it tab on the large tablet in the front of the room with their name on it. If they don't get it right, they have to pass the stick to the next person. Every 9 weeks there's a new winner:)
Post-it Jeopardy
Submitted by: Janet
July 27th, 2010
Categories: 3rd Grade | Art | Classroom Management | History | Language Arts | Math | Music | Reading & Writing | Science | Special Education
Estimated Time: 20-30 minutes
Description: I use Post-it® Notes layered to play jeopardy. I put them on the blackboard with the first layer having the answer on it. The second layer has the question. The third and top layer has the point amount. The categories are on post-its above. The class plays in teams. For example, a student may choose vertebrates for 100, 200, 300, 400 or 500.
Easy Works Cited
Submitted by: Heidi
July 7th, 2010
Categories: 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Art | History | Language Arts | Math | Music | Reading & Writing | Science
Estimated Time: 0-10 minutes
Description: Lined Post-it® Notes, which I already use for creating outlines, becausae you can move material around or delete it easily, need to be moved one step further. Traditional MLA format Works Cited pages are required from seventh grade onward by California State Standards, and kids HATE doing them. They never keep track of their research, both in library and online, adequately. Post -it® should produce pads which have fill in the blank prompts for all of the required bibliographic info, and kids can stick them in their notes, and easily alphabetize them afterwards. I would happily buy a few packs of these every semester! College students might like these too, especially as they need to provide references sometimes for upwards of forty works for a forty page paper. Until you preprint these, I will have to keep making my own. For a book, the format is "Last Name, First Name. Underlined Title. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication." You could also do APA style.
Behavior
Submitted by: Darlene
July 6th, 2010
Categories: 3rd Grade | Art | Classroom Management | Math | Music | Reading & Writing
Estimated Time: 60+ minutes
Description: We use your Post-it® Notes Red =did not behave Yellow=mostly a good day we use red =did not listen Behavior awards daily
Post your Pride
Submitted by: Ledonna
July 6th, 2010
Categories: 1st Grade | 2nd Grade | 3rd Grade | 4th Grade | 5th Grade | 6th Grade | 7th Grade | 8th Grade | Art | Classroom Management | ESL | History | Language Arts | Math | Music | Reading & Writing | Science | Special Education
Description: Our class is divided into teams and when a team wins a game or does excellent on a project each member of the team put their names on a small Post-it® Note and put it on their poster out in the hall. By the end of the year we can't see the posters for all of the post-it note names...smile.
