vocal music
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second gradeRhythmic concepts: Practicing ta, ti-ti and quarter rest.
Melodic concepts: Practicing mi, so and la. We have also recently discovered a new "low note" that we will be exploring in the coming month! We have played some of our favorite games including "Doggie Doggie" (which helps the students practice solo-singing in tune), "Willum He Had Seven Sons," and "Apple Tree." FOURTH gradeRhythmic concepts: Practicing ta, ti-ti, quarter rest and half note.
Melodic concepts: Practicing do, mi, so and la. We have also just recently found a note in between do and mi called re. Earlier in the month, we added a "melodic ostinato" (repeating pattern) to the game "Apple Tree." We have played some of our favorite games including "Long-Legged Sailor," "Aquaqua" (a traditional game from Israel), and the "Polyspot Pattern Game" in which the students have to listen carefully for a specific melodic pattern. |
THIRD gradeRhythmic concepts: Practicing ta, ti-ti, and quarter rest. The students just learned that our previous rhythm of two tas connected by a tie sounds exactly the same as our new rhythm the half note!
Melodic concepts: Practicing do, mi, so and la. We have played some of our favorite games including "Mouse Mousie," "Riding in a Buggy," and the "Rollercoaster Game" in which students create a rollercoaster track on the SMARTBoard and we sing the shape of the track as a vocal warm-up! We have also been practicing singing in canon. fifth gradeRhythmic concepts: Practicing ta, ti-ti, quarter rest, half note and our new rhythm ti-ka-ti-ka (four sixteenth notes).
Melodic concepts: Practicing the do pentatonic scale. We have recently learned about two new lower notes (low so and low la) that help form the "extended do pentatonic scale." We have played some of our favorite games including "Rabbit and the Possum," "Chicken on the Fencepost," and "Toss Across," a vocal warm-up game in which the children have to work as a team to sing the path of a beanbag as they toss it across and around the circle. |
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Habits for Life in music projects
Students in grades 2-5 were put into small groups and asked to select an activity from an academic choice board in which they could demonstrate one of the Baker Habits for Life in the music room. Choices included writing a poem, comparing two Habits using a Venn diagram, drawing a picture, role playing, acting out an interview, making up a game, writing a song, creating an experiment, and writing a short essay on how it feels when the class is following the Habits for Life. Groups shared their final products with their classes. Here are a few examples of their work:
"We take care of ourselves" Poem