This week and 3rd Grade Concert Video

Happy Friday! As promised, here is some video footage from the 3rd grade performance last week. They did such an AMAZING job. I'm so proud of them!

All other grades have been keeping busy in music.

Kindergarten- we have been learning about fast and slow! We moved to fast and slow music and sang songs very slowly and quickly. We also heard "The Tortoise and the Hare" story and added a tortoise song and a hare song to go with it.

1st grade- we have been creating rhythms to go with the poem "Two Little Sausages." Students were assigned partners and got to create an 8 beat rhythm using combinations of "BAM" (for quarter notes), "sizzle" (for eighth notes) and rests (for silent parts.) We are now working on adding movements to go with our compositions.

2nd grade- we learned to write lots of music on the staff this week using the notes la, so, and mi. Students can draw a treble clef, whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests. We also learned a fun game that fits into our Kings and Queens theme called "Old King Glory."

3rd grade- we are now embarking on a new unit that will be a fun joint project between music and art class. Students will choose an element of nature (river, forest, fire, ice, etc.) to describe using rich vocabulary. Students will then use these words to write a haiku style poem. In art class, students will use these haikus as inspiration to create a block print. We also learned the Japanese song "Sakura" to get us in the mood for the unit.

4th grade- we are working tirelessly to prepare for our performance on April 23. We are learning "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald, among other things. Students are also gaining experience playing improvised solos over 12 bar blues on recorders! It's fun to hear them grow and take musical risks.

5th grade- we just finished working on the song "Obo Asi Me Nsa" from Ghana, which involves a passing game. Students were then put into groups to create their own original game to go with the song, which was a lot of fun to see. Now we are beginning to think ahead to our May concert and deciding which classes will perform which songs and who will cover which parts. Madness!