There are lots of activities on the Quaver website for your child to explore.  Below are some activities you and your child can do together. When you find an activity they enjoy, revisit it every few days to practice and get a higher score (if it is scored).

You don't need to log in to explore Quaver Interactives. From the Quaver homepage at http://www.QuaverMusic.com Links to an external site. click the yellow [STUDENT INTERACTIVES] button at the top of the page.

Our Quaver Class Code is [Ask Dr. Berlin]

Music Theory 

• Bell Challenge - Arrange bells from lowest sound to highest sound. Press [Check] to see if you are right. Reset and scramble to try again! There are three levels of difficulty.  
• Find That Beat - You listen to the song and determine the pattern of strong and weak beats by dragging strong and weak beats into the beat box. 
• Note & Rest Grab - Click [Game Mode].  Soccer balls will appear with different note and rest values. You put them in the right goal. 
• Note & Rest Grab - Level 2 – Click [Game Mode]. Fish appear with different note and rest values and you place them in the correct bowl. 
• Beat Bounce - Choose one of the tracks to play.  Clap the beat, then click on the character that is bouncing to the same tempo. 

Instruments and Knowledge 

• Guitar Soloist - Play one of the tracks (Mosh Rock or Banana Joe) then make up your own guitar solo to go along with it by clicking the notes on the strings.  In this picture, string 1 is on top. 
• Instrument Crane - Click [Game Mode]. When the crane picks up an instrument, you click the box that has the right instrument family name with it. See how many you can get right! 
• Epic Soundtrack - A soundtrack is the music that goes along with a movie.  Drag the different squares to the time line to create your own movie soundtrack.  Click the play button then act out pretend scenes to go along with your music. 
• Instrument Anatomies - Fretted Instruments Basic - Practice naming all the parts of the ukulele, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and banjo.  What parts do they all have in common? What parts are unique to only one of the instruments? 

• Instrument Anatomies - Fretted Instruments Advanced - This is a little more challenging. Practice naming all the parts of the ukulele, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and banjo.  What parts do they all have in common? What parts are unique to only one of the instruments? 
• Instrument Anatomies (all the other instruments) learn about the parts of other instruments that you are interested in. 

Music Creation 

• Boom-Chicka-Boom - Decide which lines will be forte (loud) and which will be piano (quiet).  Then play one of the three backing tracks and rap the sentences in rhythm loudly and quietly according to how you marked them. Try it again with different backing tracks. There are 2 screens to this activity. 
• Wowww! Bup - Create patterns of long and short sounds by dragging Wowwws and Bups into the beat box. Play a track. Pat the beat on your lap and sing along.  Remember, Wowww gets 2 beats and Bup gets 1 beat. Try it again with a different track.  Use the [Clear] button to start over by making a new pattern. 

Movement 

• Body Percussion Dance (Meter of 2, 3, & 4) Build your own dance by deciding what movement goes into each beat.  Then choose a track and do the movements you chose.  You can try different tracks or click [Reset] to make different moves. 

Playing Music 

• Guitar Soloist - Play one of the tracks (Mosh Rock or Banana Joe) then make up your own guitar solo to go along with it by clicking the notes on the strings.  (In this picture, string 1 is on top.) 
• Orff Library - You can try different types of xylophones. Can you make up a song? You can write down the letter names of the notes in your song. 

Quaver Books  

• Choose a basic or advanced book to read about different music topics