Kindergarten- we played a couple of Valentine's day music games this week. We got a special valentine delivered to us! We took the envelope for this valentine and passed it around the circle one person at a time to the steady beat. Whoever had the envelope at the end of the song we learned got to open it and take out one slip out paper. Each slip of paper had one of our names on it! The person whose name was drawn got to go grab a drum and play along on the drum for the rest of the game.
1st grade- we are continuing our food unit this week. We sang about our favorite foods, and each student had a chance to sing theirs as a solo. We did a fun movement game with kitchen tools! Each set of partners picked a kitchen tool to act out and the class had to guess what it was. We also learned and sang the classic song, "On Top of Spaghetti." :)
2nd grade- we had fun with a poem called "The Queen of Hearts." We learned to say the poem in difference voices/characters, for example the cheerleader, the ogre, the old lady, the opera singer, etc. Then, we divided into groups. Each group was in charge of one of the characters and had to figure out how to say the poem in character at the same time as their group members. We added movements to our performances, and shared them with the class.
3rd grade- we are still preparing concert music for you! We are adding lots of bells and whitsles (not literally) to this program and it's going to be great! Thursday, March 5th 6:00 pm (students in classrooms at 5:30pm).
Here is the link I promised that I'd include for the 3rd grade students:
4th grade- we are learning more and more about the blues! We are listening to it, singing it, and playing it. We even learned a new note on our recorders this week: D. That gives us 5 notes to work with when improvising the blues. Remember, 4th grade students are going on a field trip to hear a live jazz concert next week on Thursday, Feb. 19th. It should be tons of fun! Woohoo! The 4th grade concert is on Thursday, April 23rd 6:00pm.
5th grade- I didn't get tons of time with 5th grade this week because of Balarat, but when they were here we jammed! They are getting so good at their shekere and drumming parts, and we are starting to think ahead to our performance in May.
Happy Valentines Day!
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