This week in music, Grade 3/4 students culminated their study of the orchestra with a brief quiz. They also enjoyed playing some new singing games (Biddy Biddy Hold On and Al Citron) and learning a new call-and-response song (Soup, Soup). They applied their knowledge of syncopa (eighth-quarter-eighth) in identifying a mystery song at the board.
Grade 1/2 students continue to solidify their knowledge of so and mi on the music staff. They sight-read the song Rain, Rain, Go Away from the board and used this melody in a story accompanied with the Orff instruments. They also enjoyed playing singing games Button You Must Wander and We Are Dancing in the Forest. Kindergarten students continue to work on identifying and showing the beat of the music through singing games, songs, and movement. They enjoyed playing the singing games Engine, Engine; Shoo Turkey; Jeannie Had a Little Lamb; and In and Out the Dusty Blue Bells. We also enjoyed reading and singing Five Little Ducks. Room 18 students added to their repertoire of boomwhacker songs by playing Joe Avery Blues and Popcorn. They also applied their knowledge of ta (quarter note), titi (eighth notes), and rest in a game called Rhythm Train and in a new piece about a troll in a mountain cave (leading to a study of Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King). We had a great time imagining what the troll might be doing in the mountain cave and where the story would go next. We'll find out next week!
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This week in music, Kindergarten students grew in their knowledge about the beat of the music. Like the heartbeat in our bodies or the ticking of the clock, they discovered that this pulse keeps the music alive and moving. We also moved to music by performing a simple dance with partners (Diddle Diddle Dumpling, My Son John) and learned a new song called Mr. Rabbit.
In Grade 1/2 classes, students played a game called Messenger which provides opportunities for individuals to perform rhythm patterns on their own. The students are truly growing in their ability to recognize different rhythm patterns and to perform them to a steady beat. We used this knowledge to identify the theme to the Surprise Symphony by Haydn from a mystery rhythm pattern written on the board. These students also discovered the melodic pitch la, a sound higher than so, in a well known song Bounce High, Bounce Low and continue to learn about strong and weak beats and how beats can be grouped in twos. Grade 3/4 students continue their study of the orchestra and its different instrument families as well as the attributes that affect each of their sounds. For example, a longer tube makes a lower sound and a shorter tube makes a higher sound (in woodwind and brass instruments) or the sounds of a plucked string are much different than a bowed string. These students continue to expand their rhythm knowledge by performing rhythm patterns in canon and discovered the syncopated rhythm pattern ti ta ti (or syncopa) in a well-known song Black Snake. Students in Room 18 enjoyed playing the singing game Bounce High, Bounce Low and learned about how we show higher notes and lower notes on the music staff. They continue to enjoy working with the Boomwackers, reviewing the theme from Pirates from the Caribbean and learning a new song Sunny. This week Grade 1/2 students continued to solidify their knowledge of so and mi through a brief listening assessment and began learning how we write these pitches on the music staff. We used a phrase from a well-known song (Apple Tree) to discuss the relationships between the notes as we wrote them on the staff (so and mi are copycats!). We also enjoyed learning about and listening to Haydn's Surprise Symphony (while testing our listening skills with a passing game!). We discussed the term 'composer' and what it means to create music. We continue to solidify our knowledge of ta (quarter note), titi (eighth notes) and rest (quarter rest) through review games and activities.
In Grade 3/4 we also completed some rhythm review, performing rhythm flashcards in canon. We learned that not all beats are the same and that the stronger beats allow us to group notes into sections call measures. We worked to identify a 'mystery song' by reading a rhythm on the board and learned about what else we would need to include to communicate this song to another musician, leading to a discussion about the music staff and pitch (a magnetic staff provided a helpful visual!). We continue to study the orchestra and it's instruments and instrument families through our study of Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Kindergarten students enjoyed moving and listening to an excerpt from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (following a story about a magical chef from the series Fun with Composers by Deborah Ziolkoski). They continue to work on developing a steady beat through reciting poetry and moving to the beat in our singing games. Room 18 students enjoyed performing movement with scarves to Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks and using boomwackers to perform the theme from Pirates from the Caribbean. They completed their brief study of the orchestra and discussed favourite instruments and instrument families. |
AuthorMrs. Bishop teaches music at Andrew Sibbald School. She is passionate about music making and about music literacy. Archives
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