400 TpT Giveaway Scavenger Hunt

As a celebration of reaching 400 TpT followers, I'm having a giveaway! To make it more interesting I'm going to make it a scavenger hunt. The clues I created represent 5 different items in my Teachers Pay Teachers shop. One item is worth at least $12 (only one riddle), one is worth at least $10 (only two riddles), one is worth at least $5 (three riddles), one is worth at least $3 (four riddles), and one is worth at least $1 (five riddles).

To enter the giveaway you will need to search MY STORE for items that represent my riddles. Solve as many as you can to earn more chances to win! When you have solved as many riddles as you can, send me an email at bcritters2231988(at)gmail(dot)com or send me a private message via my Facebook Group - Making Music Memories. Make sure it is a private message and not on the group page for everyone to see, otherwise you'll be giving away answers!

Note: There are only 5 products represented in the riddles so you will get the same answer multiple times.

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Riddle #1
10 practice sheets are there
In this coloring bundle of flair
Don’t forget to search for spring
To find sunshine, rainbows, and other bling

Riddle #2
After do, then comes re
Let’s all practice before we play
These fun worksheets will show you how
To find re on the staff bam, ka-plow!

Riddle #3
Baby Shark, A Ram Sam Sam
If you like these songs then you’ll be a fan
Of this fun bundle of 15 tunes
With slides, lyrics, and guitar chords, too

Riddle #4
This bundle is filled with 10 whole songs to teach your first music rhythms


Riddle #5
This bundle will help reinforce the note
That you can find between do and mi

Riddle #6
This bundle uses solfege and teaches students tonic
With 7 songs they’ll sing along and learn as quick as Sonic

Riddle #7
Solve each box with so and mi
To find the color in the key
Then color, color to your delight
‘Til everything is pretty and out of sight

Riddle #8
Bee, Bee Bumblebee, that is what you’ll see
Using this fun bundle, you’re students won’t stumble

Riddle #9
Say, hey, kay, and may, these are words that rhyme
With the worksheet bundle I made
For the solfege syllable ______

Riddle #10
Summer weather, summer sun
Let’s have a campfire and some fun
Sing these songs and giggle a long
Boom Chicka Boom now sing this song

Riddle #11
This bundle includes the following sheets:
Neighborhood Mix-up, Show Me the Sign, & Stuck in the Middle

Riddle #12
Grab some marshmallows
Let’s have some s’mores
While we sing from the newest
bundle of campfire songs

Riddle #13
Coloring, coloring it’s so fun
This spring bundle with lots of sun
Can help your students to find so & mi
Many of the sheets have a different key

Riddle #14
The first two notes students learn to sing
Why not practice with coloring things?

Riddle #15
After using my song file Pairs or Pears,
To help your students prepare
These worksheets would be next on my list
To help them practice… I insist!

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This giveaway will end on Sunday, July 6 at 9 pm CST! I hope you enjoy the giveaway, I'm hoping it is as fun for you as it was for me to create the riddles and clues.

2/4 Tuesday - Worksheets, Activities, and Freebies

Time for another 2/4 Tuesday post. A linky party with Steph's Stay Tuned blog. Check it out by clicking the 2/4 Tuesday picture below.


I know it is actually Wednesday, but it has been a LONG week already. I've been home sick for the past two days. I can't complain, since the last time I was sick was almost 10 months ago, but I've never had to call in sick two days in a row. Here's to hoping I feel well enough tomorrow to go back to school.

I have two different things to share with you today:

1) Instruments of the Orchestra Worksheets
I created three crossword puzzles for teaching about the brass, strings, and woodwind families. I like to have fun when teaching about the instruments. These puzzles make taking notes more interesting for my 3rd graders and for me. Each one has different questions about the instruments in the family.

My percussion worksheet is a little bit different, as there is not as much I want students to really know about percussion instruments. What I really want students to understand about percussion instruments is the fact that they can be pitched and non-pitched. So, the worksheet I created for the percussion family is for students to play different percussion instruments and decide which ones are pitched and which ones are non-pitched. You can learn more about my percussion activity in a blog post from last year HERE.

I have used these worksheets for four years now and have continued tweaking them each year. As a special thanks for all of my readers and followers, I have added these worksheets and a SMARTboard review file to my Teachers Pay Teachers store for FREE! Just click the picture below to grab it. Please leave me feedback and if you aren't already following me, feel free to. I'm only 25 followers away from having another HUGE celebration.


2) Textbook Scavenger Hunt
One of my goals for this year is to help my students learn the music vocabulary. I've tried many different activities, but vocabulary is just a hard thing to teach. Last week, I found an activity that reinforced some of the vocabulary my 2nd graders have learned this year.

Here is how the activity works:

1. I started by writing a vocabulary word on the board (example: bar line).
2. Students searched for that symbol in their book as quickly as they could.
3. When students find it they keep their hand in the book with the book closed. I walk around and check the students that found it.
4. After I check everyone (they only get one try), I put the symbol up on the board for everyone to see.
5. Each word is worth a different amount of points based on its difficulty. (I just asked the students to keep track of their points, but you could also keep track if you wanted.)
6. I kept going with different words and at the end of the game gave stickers to kids that got a certain amount of points.

I was surprised to see how excited my students got about this game and was glad I could help them practice their vocabulary.