Reading Music: Tonal Patterns for Valentine's Day (FREE DOWNLOADS!)

For Valentine's Day, my 4th graders did an activity with the song "Love Somebody"(notation here; we sang it in D major) to practice reading tonal patterns.  Instructions for the activity (and obviously you can adapt it for your students):

• Download (at the bottom of this post!), print on light pink or red paper, and laminate the hearts from this page ahead of time.
• Pass out 1 heart each to about 4 students as you sing "Love Somebody."
• After the song is over, those 4 students look at their pattern and sing it by themselves for the class. The whole class can echo DO-MI-SOL patterns after you in between the individual students.
• Those 4 students pass their hearts to 4 other students as you sing the song again (the rest of the class can even close their eyes so it's secret!).
• The next 4 students sight-sing their patterns. 
• Repeat until the class gets tired of the activity!

Download the free, editable tonal-pattern hearts here.