Listening journal page
One page to fill in after any piece of music: what you heard, how fast and loud it was, how it felt, and a box to draw in.
A listening journal gives a child a job while the music plays. The job is to notice. This page asks five small questions and leaves a box for a drawing.
How to use it
Pick one short piece, three minutes or less for a young child. Read the page together first, so the child knows what to listen for. Play the piece once with no writing. Play it again and fill in the page.
A child who cannot write yet can circle the words and draw. Write the title and the composer for them. Keep the finished pages in a binder. After ten pieces, the binder shows which music your child likes.
Only the sheet below prints. It fits letter and A4 paper. For a clean page, turn off headers and footers in the print window.
My listening page
Circle what you heard
SpeedFastSlowBoth
VolumeLoudSoftBoth
The music felt
HappySadCalmScarySillyProudSleepyBrave
I heard
Strings Woodwinds Brass Percussion Piano Voices
The music made me think of
Draw what you pictured
Listening journal pagekidsclassicalmusic.com
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