Teaching Resources

Learn to identify various ensembles, sing in solo, duet, trio, etc; listen and identify various groupings. Much more in our PDF Guide.

Learn the Italian terms and use the MGRs to change the tempos of a song, a groove, a chant. Listen to music and select the tempo. Many more activities in our PDF Guide.

Articulations add excitement, change the mood, vary the tone quality, and invite participation in the music.  Use MGRs to change grooves, sound stories, grooves. Identify them as you listen to music. match them to the Italian terms. 

Orchestrate songs, stories, & poems with rhythm instruments!

Name the instruments, group them in families, aurally identify them. PDF Guide has many more games/activities.  Set of 27.

Listen to the Suite and identify the animals from the instruments with our colorful, squishy silicone manipulatives.

Identify moods and emotions in dramatic play, in music, in each other with our interactive silicone manipulatives.

Explore steady beat from head to toe!  Rhythm reading is a fun challenge, too.  

Use our interactive silicone manipulatives as spot markers in games of direction and movement, twister and more.

Add a set of blank erasable dots to your Music-Go-Rounds collection to easily add a rhythm, symbol, letter name, etc.

Need a few extra rhythms, notes, terms?  Use our erasable dots with erasable markers, chalk, or gel crayons.  

by Mark Burrows. 44 engaging hands-on activities and movement games that teach the elements of music through Music-Go-Rounds silicone manipulatives. 

Step the notes, toss the critters, hear the pitches, place the note names--active learning at its best!

Plush animal critters from A-G make learning notes on the floor staff more fun!

Includes visual aids, charts, and manipulatives to complement MusicPlay, which is a complete curriculum that includes many audio and visual aids as part of its core package. 

Cut & Play Rhythm N'Counters Printable Manipulatives allow students to explore basic concepts of rhythm and meter and develop rhythm reading and ear training skills. Download allow you to print as many as you need.

 For reading and singing melodic patterns and songs (with or without the staff) and melodic ear training and dictation. MINIs allow more kids to participate in class, and centers.

As part of a multi-sensory approach, Note Names & Numbers manipulatives make theory easy as A-B-C!

Enough pieces for 4 students! 32 hearts, 40 rhythms, 16 numbers and 8 write-on blanks.

MINIs are perfect for 4-6 students to use at tables, on the floor, or on charts in class or centers.