Swat that Fly!

Here's a new Treble-Clef/G-Clef file that I've created.  I plan on using some of this when we get back from spring break. . . which is over a week away. 

There are three PowerPoints.  The first is a "Know the Notes":

We've (my kiddos and I) have gone through this with the Detective set that I made but we'll use this one to review (one week is a long time and this can be easily forgotten!):

 After the basics of the staff, we go over the "G-clef" and the hidden G and how that tells us that every note on the second line is named "G":

 And we give examples:  (I want this to be ingrained so the repetition is good)

Again, we'll review the music alphabet:

And the way the music alphabet relates to the staff:

We'll review step-wise motion (each of these notes clicks on individually):

Again, these notes are added one-by-one to show that step-wise motion:

And then we derive the notes, one by one:

All the way up to "G":

And then we derive it down to "D":

And we talk about ledger lines:

I give a couple of the acronyms, although I really want them to be able to figure out the notes off of the G-line (those acronyms can be easily forgotten):

There are two PowerPoint games, almost identical to the Staff Detective and Spelling Bee games.  But they look different so hopefully I can get a little mileage out of them, if not this year then next year:

 The teams pick a level of difficulty.  The more letters, the harder the task:

 Once they pick a number, they can pick which fly they want.  You can maneuver the PowerPoint by that little fly on the bottom left corner, he takes you back to the main menu.

After picking their fly they'll get a slide like this, from which they need to figure out the word that the flies are spelling:

And then there is the reverse game, this time they go from word to staff:

 You can use big floor staves, small individual staves or dry-erase staves to have them write their answers.  You can play this individually or in small/large groups:

 From there I made a "Swat that Fly" game.  This is a lot like my Slug Bug game.

I made cards of the PowerPoints above with the words written out and the fly staves written out.  Each player or team has a fly swatter.  Working in small groups of 4-5 or in larger groups with solo students coming up to play for their team, the teacher either gives a word or shows a staff card and the correct player to first swat the matching card wins that card for his/her team (or self, if working individually)

Here are some of the small staff cards (I also made larger versions of these that would work better in whole group/larger group play)

And here are some of the word cards.  In this case, the teacher would display the staff card and the students have to decode the notes on the staff and swat the word that matches.

This file is available at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store.

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Spelling Bee

 Blogger is not being my friend tonight. ** Sigh**.  Maybe it went on spring break, or maybe it has spring break brain like me!  I mentioned yesterday that I still have school this week, but my husband is on spring break this week.  I'm actually going to be off starting on Tuesday though, I'm having surgery that day.  A surgery that will help my back.  I'm so excited.  Sick and wrong.  I know! :)

I am leaving some of my Staff Detective files for my sub but I'm also going to leave her these too.  Pauline, if you're reading this here's a little preview! :)

I created a "Spelling Bee" file.  It contains lots of stuff.

First, it has a PPT that mirrors the one in the Staff Detective File. Because it's almost verbatim, I'm not going to show you all the slides.  You saw them in yesterday's file, just with a Detective theme.  Here's what the Bee Theme looks:

There are two PowerPoints that are also similar to the Detective theme.  There's a Word to Staff PPT and a Staff to Word PPT.  They both have menus that look like this:

 You click on the Bee or text and it brings you to a slide that looks like this:

From there, in the Word to Staff game you get a slide like this: 

 The students then work individually, in small groups or in two large groups to spell the word on a staff.  Again, see yesterday's post.

 In the Staff to Word PPT you get a slide like this:

Here the kiddos have to figure out the word that is being spelled.  Again, you can do this individually, small groups or large group.  With both games, I have little bee cards.  These are given to the student/group that correctly answers the question.  You can take turn or have it be a race.  Whatever strikes your fancy.

 Here's a game that I'm excited about and I'm hoping that Pauline might want to use!  (teehee).  This is where the whole file gets it's name.  It's a fill in the blank game, and you really need your spelling skills

 The thing I like about it is that there are multiple answers for each slide.  There are four levels.  The higher the level, the more letters in the word and/or the more letters to be filled in.

Here's an example of  Level 1.  There are 8 choices (there are 6 choices for level 2 and 4 choices for levels 3 and 4):

Here's an example of the fill in the blank slide:

Correct answers for this include ACE and ADE

Here's another example:

Correct answers are BAD and BED.

And another example:

 Correct answers are BED and BEG.  There is an answer key included with all possible answers for each slide (phew!)  This PowerPoint also comes in slides that can be printed out and used as flashcards, in small groups or in centers.

There are small and large matching cards.  Here are some large card examples.  These can be used in centers or in small groups:

 There are 4 worksheets that mirror the idea of the Fill in the Blanks PowerPoint:

 Here are a couple of the worksheets:

I also included the Minutes of Insanity test that are also in the Staff Detective file.

This file is available at my Teachers Pay Teachers store.  

I also started a Music a la Abbott Facebook page.  Please visit it and "like" it.  It makes me feel special. Can you tell I'm feeling punchy tonight?!  No, really in all honesty it'd be fun to use to get to know you better!!  I'd love your feedback as to how things are working for you, things you'd like to see me post.  You can't do that very well on Blogger and you really can't do that on Teachers Pay Teachers.  So, stop by my Facebook page too! :)

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