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Solfege Street Spring Interactive Music Game

Neighbors move one by one onto a musical street in this slide-by-slide story, introducing sol, mi, la, do, re, fa, and ti hand signs and staff positions in a fixed teaching order.
Grades
Preschool–Pre-K, Grades 1–3, Elementary
File type
Microsoft PowerPoint
Use
Digital activity

Updated Feb 21, 2024

Subject
Creative Arts, Art, Music
Topic
spring, music game
Resource types
Activities, Games
Use
Digital activity

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What's inside this resource

Solfege Street Spring Interactive Music Game introduces students to the musical residents of the most musical street in Musicsburg. In this engaging PowerPoint game, students will meet 8 friendly neighbors and learn their special musical language. Slide by slide, through bright imagery and interactive activities, students are taught unique melodic patterns based on solfege syllables. Educators can use this colorful resource to help teach musical concepts like rhythm, pitch, and melody. It works well for whole group introduction, small group practice, or even independent learning centers. This lively game aims to get students excited about reading and writing music by imagining they live on a street where music rules!

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Recognize and name the solfege syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti in sequence

  • Relate each solfege syllable's staff position (line or space) to its neighbors

Teaching tips

  • Pause on slide 3 and slide 8 to physically demonstrate the hand signs, since the slide text explicitly hands this off to the teacher rather than showing the signs on-screen.

  • Revisit the staff-position slides (4, 6, 7, 8, 9) as a quick review before moving to notation practice, since each slide builds on the line/space relationship established by the one before it.

Skills covered

  • Solfege syllable recognition — students meet each syllable (sol, mi, la, do, re, fa, ti) introduced one at a time through the street narrative.

  • Staff-position reasoning — students learn each syllable's line-or-space position relative to the syllables introduced before it.

  • Hand-sign association — the teacher-led demonstrations pair each new syllable with its hand sign.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Solfege syllables

  • Staff line and space position

  • Curwen-style hand signs

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