Home Education Lesson Resources
If you are looking for home education lesson resources for music such as videos and worksheets, this is the page you need. The videos you require are shown on this page but you can also access other music videos on my YouTube Channel.
Understanding & Performing Simple Rhythms
The ‘Simple rhythms and how to play them’ video shows students how the individual one beat rhythm groups are created from quavers, semiquavers and dotted quavers. It also shows how to clap the individual rhythms and how to combine them into 4 beat rhythms. The second video gives more practice by students clapping back the rhythms.
Floor Rhythms
Introduce students to 1 beat rhythm groups with these floor rhythms. They print out on A4 paper (or US letter paper). I have laminated them and cut them to size but you don’t have to. It makes it easy to create rhythms in a time signature as you need to select one rhythm group per beat. Students can perform the rhythm groups as a class.
Rhythm composition
Once students are confident with creating rhythms with the one beat rhythm groups, they can create their own rhythm piece and notate it. Print out the composition sheet below.
Recognising rhythms
This is a great listening task to check understanding. Print out the ‘Which Rhythm is Playing’ sheet. Students watch the video and have to select the correctly notated rhythm that they hear.
Make a Personalised, Magnetic, Drywipe Music Board!
Task: Create your own personalised, magnetic, drywipe music board! These boards are brilliant! They take about 5 minutes each to make and can be used for so many different purposes such as song writing, learning chords, melody writing, learning note positions and so much more. You can watch my home ed class creating their boards by watching the video below. You can click the pink button for everything you need to create your own board.
How many notes can you name?
Task: Watch the treble and bass clef note reading quizzes. How many notes can you name?
Match the piano key to a music note quiz
Task: In this task, students have to draw the note which matches the piano key.
Write your own melody!
Task: Get creative by composing and notating a 4 bar melody. You can make it as wacky as you like! Use the 1 beat rhythm groups to create the rhythm for your music notes.
