Musicplay Grade 2 Teacher's Guide & Digital Resources
Musicplay Grade 2 Teacher's Guide with Digital Resource
Musicplay is an award winning music curriculum for elementary schools. Musicplay is a sequential curriculum with lessons that follow the calendar year. The weekly lesson outlines the new concepts that will be taught, those that will be reviewed, and includes seasonal and holiday repertoire. The planning is done for the teacher!
Lesson Planning
Year Plans are included for each grade.
Monthly Lesson Outlines give you the month at a glance.
40 weekly detailed lessons offer you a menu of musical activities.
There is more than enough material in the lesson plan for two thirty minute music classes.
The lesson plans are like a menu. There are many song choices and for each song there are activities to choose from.
You choose the songs and the activities that teach the curriculum concepts required by your state or province (Musicplay is aligned to all state and provincial curriculums!).
You choose the songs and activities that hold the most appeal for you and your students.
Feel free to substitute freely - Musicplay provides the framework - you get to make the choices.
Recordings
Recordings are included in the teacher’s guides! (No downloads from itunes are required)
* 4 Performance/Accompaniment CDs of songs and multicultural listening examples are included!
The Musicplay 2 CDs have more than 95 musical selections! Child and adult voices are used.
Accompaniments include Orff arrangements, piano accompaniments and orchestrated accompaniments. Performance songs on the CDs have both performance tracks and accompaniment tracks - you can use the accompaniments only for your performances. Multicultural songs feature authentic performances - the songs are in original languages and are sung by native singers. Many of the multicultural songs are game songs that appeal to children even though the language and sound may be unfamiliar.
All of the recordings are available to download for the teachers who do not have a disk drive. With disk drives being phased out of use, many of our teachers can no longer access the music tracks that are included with the Teacher's Guides! To keep up with technology, we are introducing a new system based on codes.
When you purchase and receive a Musicplay Teacher's Guide you will find a unique code tucked inside. This code will allow you to unlock the MP3s and have them digitally delivered to your computer. Please click here for more detailed instructions. (You will still receive the CDs with your teacher's guide.)
Assessments
Assessment suggestions are given throughout the teacher’s guides.
Checklists of important skills are included if your district requires the use of them.
Reproducibles are included in Musicplay 2-6.
Musicplay supports and enhances science, social studies, and language arts curriculums. In second grade, songs to teach vowels and consonants are included. The Musicplay 2 student books or Digital Resources are a wonderful literacy tool providing many opportunities for shared reading. Students will develop reading skills while they learn music.
Poetry is included in Musicplay 2. Science concepts are taught as well - each grade includes songs that teach about the environment.
Materials Included:
- Musicplay Grade 2 Printed Binder / Audio CDs
- Musicplay Grade 2 Digital Resources
Samples:
Book: Musicplay Grade 2 Lesson Plans
Book: Musicplay Scope and Sequence/Year Plan
Book: Grade 2 Song List
Book: Ontario Grade 2 Correlations
Audio: Bell Horses
Audio: New River Train
Digital Resources Samples
Powerpoint: Johnny One Hammer
Powerpoint as PDF: Johnny One Hammer
SMART Notebook: Johnny One Hammer
