Teaching Guide Grade 1-3: MSM is an interactive educational app designed by teachers, for teachers! Teach students the fundamentals of music in a fun and engaging way using the lovable musical Monster characters from the hit game My Singing Monsters. Even let your students record new parts for the Monsters to perform!
Gameplay[]
Teaching Guide: Grade 1-3 is an MSM game costing $10 on the AppStore, intended to teach children about multiple aspects of music alongside the Lesson Plans. In the game, the only Island available is Plant Island, as well as the UI only consisting of the View button, the Market button, and the Options button. The Market allows you to place all of the Common Natural Monsters, the Wubbox, and the Dipsters, all for free. The Options menu resembles the Options menu before Update 2.3.2, and only the first row of buttons remain. Some of the Options were replaced, with the new one being "Lesson Plans", which leads you to the Lesson Plans. 2 other Options were also swapped out with other Options. Since all Monsters are free, this eliminates the need for the Breeding Structure, as well as the Nursery. After placing a Monster, you have 4 options, "Mute", "Info", "Move", and most notably, "Remove". Remove is straight-forward, upon tapping it, it will remove the selected Monster from the Island. This is to go along with the Lesson Plans. There are no Beds, meaning that the Castle is there purely for the sound. There is also a Recording Studio and Time Machine, but those do the same thing that they do in My Singing Monsters.
Lesson Plans[]
The lesson plans cover the core concepts of music for students in early grade levels and include printable handouts, lesson instructions, and interactive activities. Below is a list of those lesson plans.
Grade 1[]
Core Concepts: Beat, Rhythm, Quarter Notes, Eighth Notes, Quarter Rest, Ostinato, Rhythmic Patterns, Tempo, Memorizing Patterns
Grade 2[]
Core Concepts: Pitch, Melody, Rhythm, Phrases, Form, Counting Measures, Lyrics, Percussion, Vocal Range & Texture
Grade 3[]
Core Concepts: Singing in 2 Parts, Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, Beat, Flats, Timbre, Reading Music
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Notes[]
- Wubbox's design is slightly different in this version of the game, with their eyelids now being gray, as well as their orb and electricity being translucent.
- The animation for selecting things in this version is different from My Singing Monsters.
- You can move the Castle in this version by tapping and holding on the Castle. This is a feature not seen in My Singing Monsters.
- The way you remove Monsters is similar to how you do it on Gold Island, with there being a Remove button that removes the Monster.