4th Grade Interactive Music Notebook – Music INB – music lessons

(55 customer reviews)

This interactive music notebook gives 4th grade students a place to take notes, reflect, and create as they learn each concept. You can use the pages as notebook pages, worksheets, assessments, or evidence of learning, and you can edit the directions and music terms to fit the way you teach.

Teaching on devices? See the digital version.

What’s included

  • The interactive notebook in a new portrait layout and the original landscape layout
  • An editable version (PowerPoint)
  • A student checklist to keep track of every concept covered
  • Input pages where students take notes, with space for extra notes
  • Output pages where students apply, analyze, evaluate, and create with what they learned
  • Foldable flaps students lift to test themselves, with printable cutouts
  • A completed example of each page
  • Instructions for use

Concepts covered

  • Tempo: lento, largo, adagio, andante, allegro, vivace, presto
  • Rhythm: whole, half, quarter, barred eighth, and barred sixteenth notes, syncopation; whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth rests
  • Pitch: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, high do
  • Dynamics: pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, crescendo, decrescendo
  • Form: binary, ternary, rondo, theme and variations
  • Timbre: environmental, machine, voice types, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboard, strings, electronic
  • Texture: thin and thick
  • Harmony: interval, step, skip, leap, chord, major, minor
  • Recorder: fingerings from C4 to C5
  • Staff and symbols: treble and bass clef, staff, line and space notes, ledger lines, 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time, bar line, double bar line, repeat sign
  • Instruments: wind, brass, percussion, strings, keyboard; soprano, alto, tenor, bass
  • Composers: 18 from medieval to modern
  • Conducting: 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 patterns
  • Listening reflections and listening prompts

Formats

  • PDF
  • PowerPoint: The text is editable, so you can change the directions and music terms.

Important

  • The notebooks are spiral sequenced, so some terms repeat from one grade level to the next.

Ways to use it

  • Interactive notebook pages students keep all year
  • Worksheets or quick assessments after a lesson
  • Evidence of learning for open house or observations
  • To plan which concepts to teach each year, pair it with the free Music Concept Checklist.

Standards (NCAS)

  • Creating: Anchor Standard 1 (generate and conceptualize artistic ideas)
  • Responding: Anchor Standard 7 (perceive and analyze artistic work)

License & help

This purchase is for one teacher to use with their own students. Each teacher needs their own copy. See the full terms of sale β†’

Questions about downloading, printing, or Google Slides? Visit the FAQ β†’

Try it free

Not sure interactive notebooks will work in your classroom? The free Music Interactive Notebook Sampler has a page from every grade level. Download the free sampler β†’

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55 reviews for 4th Grade Interactive Music Notebook – Music INB – music lessons

  1. Tracey R. –

    WOnderful and Helpful!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you!

  2. Laura G. –

    I am really looking forward to using this resource this year with my students. Thank you!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks for the feedback!

  3. Lauria M. –

    Using interactive notebooks this year!
    Thank you for the resource – looks awesome!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you!

  4. Clarissa L. –

    I can’t wait to use these this year! Thanks!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      You’re welcome. Thanks for the feedback!

  5. Carolyn D. –

    Love this…thanks for a great resource to help me with my first year of teaching music!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      You’re welcome! Good luck on your first year πŸ™‚

  6. Janet R H. –

    Thanks!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      You’re welcome!

  7. Andrea G. –

    I’m looking forward to adding this to our interactive notebooks next year!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  8. Josh L. –

    Solid foundation for for 4th grade learning. Is very flexible and can be incorporated in numerous ways. Thank you!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you for the meaningful feedback. I really appreciate it!

  9. An American Farm Wife –

    The kids love working on these journals!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      That is wonderful to hear! I’m glad they’re having fun with them πŸ™‚

  10. Pam Hall –

    thank you

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      You’re welcome πŸ™‚

  11. Shanna Danielson –

    Overall, wow! I have been given 4th grade this year (after years of not teaching them), and this will help me establish a working curriculum. I’d love to see how you use some of these pages, as they are a bit vague (but I guess that makes it easier to do with them what we’d like!).

  12. Carrie D. –

    love this. hoping to do some interactive journaling with this. it is very flexible…you can change it up. would recommend this to a Music teacher that knows how to set up interactive journaling. see your ELA teacher for questions and templates!! thank you

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      You’re welcome. Thank you for the meaningful feedback!

  13. Mary Mickle –

    I just started using Interactive Music journals this year. This will help me to improve them next year! I am so grateful for all of your hard work. Just know that your work will now be helping students in Florida!

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks for the great feedback! I LOVE to hear about the different places my resources are being used πŸ™‚

  14. Mari Zayas –

    Was hoping for more of a writing kind of thing, but this helps reinforce music concepts visually.

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thanks!

  15. Veronica Will –

    I know have two of your notebooks and I love them! Keep up the excellent work πŸ™‚

    • Yellow Brick Road Music –

      Thank you for the wonderful feedback!

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