For parents and educators: The Missing Melody

The Music Hall is World 11 of the City of Creativity, a free reading, writing and arts adventure from United By Creativity, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The orchestra's conductor has vanished and the melody has no ending. Children help Mrs. Crescendo and the musicians find it, then compose the ending themselves.

What children practice

Listening to one melody on strings, woodwinds and brass and describing how each feels; tempo; reading and building a rhythm with quarter notes (TA), paired eighth notes (TI-TI) and rests; explaining an idea with evidence; composing and revising a short melody; and writing a beginning, middle and end for the story their music tells.

Privacy

No accounts and nothing sent anywhere. Children's answers stay in their own browser, and they use a nickname only.