Music-Go-Rounds Manipulatives

As you listen to the CD, ask kids to put the Music-Go-Rounds (MGRs) characters on the whiteboard as they appear, then place the instrument that represents them underneath.  Our PDF Activity Guide includes many activities!

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These tools don’t fit in our portable cart, but will enhance experiences through movement, games, theory, and reading activities.

Create beat boxes  by cutting frames to fit various meters.  MGRs Rhythm N'Counters are proportionately sized for a great first step in understanding rhythm and meter.

Notate chords or songs from the Songbook on the Colorstaff chart and play on the HandChimes.

Add MGRs to the play mat to learn notes, scales, intervals, play tunes from the songbook. Adjust volume for dynamics, vary instruments to explore timbre, so much more!  

Orchestrate songs, stories, or poems with the MGRs. Distribute the instruments and perform your tone poem. 

Music-Go-Rounds: Using Manipulatives to Explore the Elements of Music by Mark Burrows. With expertise and humor, shows how to use MGRs to full advantage to teach all aspects of music. Plus 27 sets of MGRs to put to use in your current curriculum.

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Our kit uses movement, sound, and color to teach directionality, keyboard/staff geography, lines and spaces, note names, scales, intervals, chords and basic theory.

Arrange sharps & flats in order, form key signatures, intervals, scales & chords on the 6 charts. Great for individuals, studios, and centers.

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Play, sing, and step the chromatic scale, major/minor/diminished triads, and more on both staff and keyboards mats.

All you need to make full use of our silicone manipulatives, beginning with Mark Burrows' book Music-Go-Rounds: Using Manipulatives to Teach the Elements of Music.

Make music before actually reading notes by using Color-coded songs, Music-Go-Rounds, Flashcards and Instruments together.

This kit of Mini Music-Go-Rounds™ and laminated charts offers hands-on theory for piano classes, individual students, and small groups of any age.

Extend the understanding from our basic Move-to-Read kit (99436) by adding chromatic notes, key signatures, the circle of 5ths, and a glock to hear pitches, intervals, melody & harmony.  

Manipulatives make learning stick as kids learn and make choices about the elements of music through active listening, games, orchestrating songs/poems, more.

Our tactile silicone manipulatives that stick to smooth surfaces focus attention, increase concentration, engage multiple senses, enhance memory, and accelerate comprehension.  These are the most flexible tools in your classroom--and will become both your and your student's favorites.

All 60 familiar diatonic songs color-coded to both Kidsplay and BoomWhacker/ChromaNotes instruments and MGR AlphaDots. 
 

Introduce the instruments with the activities, and audio CD by Artie Almeida and our silicone manipulatives of the instruments.  

Color helps kids learn and remember the names of the notes on the staff. see visual and spatial relationships on intervals, chords, scales, and manipulating the notes and numbers enhances the memory.

Theory is easy as A B C with our fun MINI Music-Go-Rounds to arrange on staff, in scales, intervals, chromatics, key signatures. Each set has a PDF Activity Guide with many suggestions.