Music Olympics: The Winter Games

By Mark Burrows

Movement Activities and Active Games.

The trumpet fanfare and smell of snow in the air can mean only one thing - it's time for The Winter Olympics to get underway. Get your students out of their seats and skiing, skating and even curling their way towards musical understanding with this unique collection of over 20 movement activities and active games, including Melody Luge, Interval Ski Jump and Music Symbol Slalom. With activities like these, your students will be having so much fun they won't even realize they are learning music theory; a hallmark of every Mark Burrows resource. Reproducible worksheets and visuals can be found on the mixed-media CD, as well as a selection of music to accompany the games. Let the games begin!

36 pages.

For grades K-6.

Contents:

• National Flag
• Class Anthem
• Piano Score
• Music Symbol
• Figure Skating
• Ice Sculptures
• Crescendo/Decrescendo
• Freeze
• Thaw Winter Activities
• Body Rhythm Snowflakes
• Melody Luge
• Articulation Skate
• Music Symbol Slalom
• Reproducible Worksheet
• Build an Alpine Village
• Reproducible Houses
• Melodies
• Instrument Iditarod
• Word Rhythms
• Hot Cocoa/Snow Cone
• Add a Sound
• Winter Weather Forecast
• Wipe Out!
• Sleigh Bells Ring Are You Listening?
• Musical Curling
• Little Wolfie's Relay Race
• Reproducible Little Wolfie
• Interval Ski Jump
• Rhythmic Snowball
• Pass the Puck
• A Long Winter Journey