5th Grade

Dear 5th Graders,

     You have several options to choose from for your Music Class Blizzard Bag assignments, including a variety of paper activities and completely online work.  You must complete one of the options for each Blizzard Bag Day (BBD), so if today is BBD #1, you must complete one option.  If today is your second or third day missing music class due to a BBD, you must complete a DIFFERENT option than you did the last time(s); you can't do the same option twice this winter.  Good luck!

Online Options (Scroll down for paper options to print)

These options are paper-less, and therefore are not included in your paper packet.  All online assignments require you to "make a copy" of the Google doc, type your answers into that copy, and share that document with me.


Online Option 1:  Symphonic Websites

Online Option 2:  Chrome Music Lab

Online Option 3:  Isle of Tune game

Online Option 4:  Very Young Composer Videos




Paper Options 

These options can be completed using the paper copies you were already given in your packet, or by printing new copies using the pdf links below.



Paper Option 1

Musical PatternsThe Beethoven Code... Break the cipher, crack the code!

Briefly read the story of Beethoven’s life.  Then answer the questions that follow the story.  In order to get your answer, solve for each letter of the answer by using the cipher (secret code) and the story.  Here’s the breakdown of how the cipher works, using the first letter in question 1:
1        Paragraph number – 1 means first paragraph
1        Sentence number of the paragraph – 1 means first sentence
11      Word number in the sentence – 11 means the 11th word of the sentence
1        Letter number of the word – 1 means the first letter
So, the first letter of the answer to question 1 is “M” from the word “musical.”

If you'd like to provide your answers to this assignment without printing it, use the Google doc HERE.  Make your own copy of it to type your answers into.

Good luck, detectives!!  J


Paper Option 2

Football, Anyone?

Read the three short biography paragraphs of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven on the back of the Option 2 instruction page in your blizzard bag (or find an electronic version here).

Attached to the biography page, you will find the football worksheet entitled "It's Up...It's Good".  Using what you read on the biography page, complete this worksheet by connecting each football to the correct composer's goalposts (you could draw lines between the footballs and goalposts, or perhaps use 3 different colored crayons/colored pencils and color each composer's goalposts and footballs a specific color).  Which composer scored the most field goals??


Paper Option 3

Musical Letters, Percussion, and a Circus; Oh My!

Complete both the "Name That Percussion" AND "Can You Picture That?" worksheets attached to the Option 3 instruction page in your blizzard bag.

The "Name That Percussion" worksheet is just like the musical "puzzles" you created back in September with your summer activity and your name.  Place the missing musical letters on the staff.  When placing the notes on the staff, remember the 'golden rule:'  No matter what, we always go UP!!!

The "Can You Picture That?" worksheet asks you to name all the numbered letters on the staff at the top of the page, and then use those numbered letters to complete the story.  **Huge hint alert!!**  Don't forget about those "odd duckies" down below the bottom of the staff; remember that they are rain drops.  One is still "dripping" and the other has been "caught" by the ground.  :)


Paper Option 4

Can You Handel It?

Read the short biography paragraph of George Frideric Handel printed on the Option 4 instruction page in your blizzard bag (or find an electronic version here).  Using what you read in his biography, complete the "Happy Birthday, Handel!" Crossword Puzzle printed on the back of the Option 4 instruction page in your blizzard bag.  As a bonus, you can listen to a performance of the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Oratorio, Messiah, below.

Have you heard this piece before?  If yes, do you remember where you have heard it before?








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