Welcome to

Mrs. Hoffman's Music Room 

Music Specialist at Reserve Primary & Shaler Area Elementary School  

email: [email protected]

Remote Learning – Week 9 – June 1

      I’m so proud of the work you’ve done this spring!  Thank you all for participating, especially those of you who have completed your assignments each week.  You’ve done a great job, and I’ve really enjoyed hearing from you.  Parents, thank you so much for helping your children navigate this virtual format!

      This is our last lesson for the year. I hope you all have a good summer!  I’ll see you in the fall (3^rd grade – Remember that I’m at the Elementary School too. If you aren’t in my class, you can always stop in to say hello! My room is 303).     

      I would still love to hear from you!  If you are able, please email me pictures or videos of assignments you complete to the email above.  

Kindergarten & First Grade

Click on the link to see who the leader is for our “Hello Song” this week:

Hello Song 

I thought it would be nice to have a virtual “pick day” for our last lesson.  I’ve included links to some of your favorites from school and from remote learning.  Choose the ones that you would like to do. Here they are:

Five Fat Turkeys – It’s your favorite thing to do on “pick day” and you can play with your family!  Pick one cook and change the number of turkeys to match the number of people in your family.

Five Fat Turkeys   

Naughty Kitty Cat – another great singing game to play with your family!  Instead of making a circle with people, you could make a circle outside with cones or toys. 

Naughty Kitty Cat

I've heard that many of you enjoy dancing with Maximo.  Here are the links to our Maximo dances: 

Maximo - Maxarena

Maximo - Chicken Dance

Maximo - Twist and Shout 

Also fun, even though we didn’t get to it – Maximo - Hokey Pokey

Just for fun, try drumming to “We Will Rock You”.  You will need a drum and sticks. If you made a drum a few weeks ago, use it for this song.  An empty, upside down bucket, pail, or trash can is a great drum too.  Use pencils, wooden spoons, sticks from outside, or even cardboard tubes for sticks. Here is the link for the song:

We Will Rock You - Bucket Drumming 

If you enjoyed bucket drumming and you like the song “Dance Monkey”, this is another fun bucket drumming song:

Dance Monkey - trash can drumming 

Also, just for fun, try these Audible books.  Audible is free while we’re not at school: Audible Link 

You might enjoy this story in the Elementary Books section:

“Laurie Berkner’s Song and Story Kitchen”

Or this one in the Littlest Listeners Section:

“The First Music”

Second & Third Grade

This week, you will be reading notes on lines on the treble staff.  Watch this short video for an introduction:

  Every Good Boy Does Fine 

A Google Slide show is attached to help you practice reading note names on lines:

Treble Staff Line Notes - Google Slides

After you click on the link, if the slide show doesn’t start automatically, click “present” in the top right corner of you screen to start the slide show.  Click on the space bar to move to the next slide.

You can practice reading note names here (choose “Play Note Names”):

Classics for Kids Games - play note names 

Finally, I’d like to end with a “Virtual Pick Day”.  At school, you choose your favorites on “Pick Day”, so I’ve included links to many of your favorites, as well as some others you may enjoy.  Choose the ones you would like to do:

Hello Song 

Five Fat Turkeys – You can play with your family!  Pick one cook and change the number of turkeys to match the number of people in your family.

 Five Fat Turkeys

Naughty Kitty Cat – another great singing game to play with your family!  Instead of making a circle with people, you could make a circle outside with cones or toys. 

Naughty Kitty Cat

Review all the note names on the treble staff with this fun video to the tune of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble”.

I Knew You Were Treble 

Finally, some just for fun music activities. Try drumming to “We Will Rock You”.  You will need a drum and sticks. If you made a drum a few weeks ago, use it for this song.  An empty, upside down bucket, pail, or trash can is a great drum too.  Use pencils, wooden spoons, sticks from outside, or even cardboard tubes for sticks. Here is the link for the song:

We Will Rock You - Bucket Drumming 

If you enjoyed drumming and you like the song “Dance Monkey”, this is another fun bucket drumming song:

Dance Monkey - trash can drumming 

Some audible books you may enjoy (audible is free while we are not at school):

Audible Link

In Elementary Books – “The Mystwick School of Musicraft” (great if you love “Harry Potter”)

Also in Elementary Books – “Jukebox Joyride”