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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!  

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Fun and interactive visual aids and manipulatives to learn rhythms! Say the name, show the rhythm. Build patterns with names & rhythms.

Name the instruments, group them in families, aurally identify them individually and in ensembles.

Mix Number dots and Rhythm dots in a-rhythm-a-tic equations with our Numbers/Operators.

10 sets of MGRs manipulatives to explore the elements of music, which, like building blocks, can be combined in wondrous ways.

Manipulatives are like “hands” for your brain: they help you “grasp,” understand, and remember concepts. Like building blocks, the elements of music can be combined in wondrous ways and Mark Burrows provides over 40 activities to help do just that!

Mark Burrows's fun game-oriented approach using MGR manipulatives makes concept “stick,” and empowers kids to combine the elements and compose their own music.

This clever counting rhyme by Lloyd Moss introduces orchestral instruments and musical ensemble terms—solo, duet, trio, quartet, etc. Our manipulatives make it fun to interact with the story.

Introduce the instruments with the story of Tubby the Tuba by Paul Tripp and use the manipulatives for kids to identify and place them on whiteboard when reading or listening to the music.

Combining these two MGR sets allows a wider range of activities. Rhythm N’Counters has fewer of each individual rhythm but more variety plus numbers and time signatures. Basic Rhythms adds an extras of basic rhythms.

Music-Go-Rounds are a great visual and manipulative tool to help kids focus, listen actively, and remember more!

Create rhythm grooves, choose patterns of rhythms and instruments to create a sound story or chant, set up a groove, select instruments and ensembles groupings, listen to music and guess the ensemble.