Throwback Thursday- Snowmen and Reindeer Intervals
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For today’s Throwback Thursday post, I’m featuring a Christmas interval game which was originally posted about 6 years ago. Find it here in the store.
Here is the second game in a set of 3 Christmas games. This one is a review of intervals, thanks to a suggestion from another teacher.
Students should be familiar with intervals from seconds to octaves or know how to count up the lines and spaces to identify intervals. The best way to learn intervals is to recognize the patterns of lines to spaces. However, young children often forget this so I let them count the more difficult intervals until they can remember the patterns.
Sometimes I use this rhyme for 3rds: Line to line, everything is fine. Space to space, everything is in place.
Objective
- learn to identify intervals quickly by sight
- review intervals from 2nds to octaves if the student already knows them
- learn how to count lines and spaces to identify intervals
- practice fine motor speed and coordination
- quickly identify intervals under pressure
- play a fun seasonal game in less than 3 minutes at an individual music lesson
