This week in music the Grade 1/2 students shared newly-created movement to Highway Number One, a dance we have been performing in class. They were to create a four-beat movement pattern using a pre-determined list of actions and perform/speak this pattern in time to the music. In this activity they demonstrated movement/speech to a steady beat, listening skills, and rhythmic creativity. They also worked on individual in-tune singing through the singing game Kangaroo, explored high and low sounds with movement, and read the book So-me Goes Missing in preparation for learning the so and me melodic pitches.
Grade 3/4 students played a rhythm relay game to review known rhythms and showed off their rhythm clapping and dictation skills as well as great teamwork! They also learned more about the music staff and the treble clef, using their hands as staves while practicing the letter names of the spaces (F-A-C-E). Kindergarten students performed movement to Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No. 1 as inspired by Deborah Ziolkoski's Fun With Composers classical music series. They also learned about the terms for soft and loud in music (piano and forte) and used these dynamics in a singing game, Grizzly Bear. They continue to develop in-tune singing through vocal play and pitch matching and also enjoy opportunities to move to the beat in music.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorMrs. Bishop teaches music at Andrew Sibbald School. She is passionate about music making and about music literacy. Archives
June 2017
Categories |