Kindergarten- we met another new animal on our farm, the horse! We learned a song about the horse and got to play sand paper blocks with it. We also learned a horse poem with matching hand movements that helped keep track of the steady beat. Lastly, we learned a fun game that goes with a song called "My Pony Macaroni." Students got to ride a stick horse while the class sang the song before choosing the next person to go. So cute and fun!
1st grade- we learned to play our "yoo hoo" patterns on the xylophone! We've been working on singing the notes so and mi with our voice, so it was time to put it on an instrument. We also practiced playing borduns again- this is a steady beat pattern using the notes C and G on the xylophone and it's used to accompany songs. We also met Baxter the Music Room Bear's good friend, Brown Bear. We sang through the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
2nd grade- we practice putting music notes on a 2 line staff this week! The real music staff has 5 lines, but because we are only in 2nd grade, we use a 2-line staff instead. We used bingo chips as music notes and got to place them on top of the 2-line staff to match with patterns that we sang.
3rd grade- we learned a fun new song called "Chicken on a Fencepost" and finally labeled the new four-sound note we've been hearing: sixteenth notes! We sang the song, added an ostinato (a musical pattern that repeats over and over) to go with it, and even tried it as a call and response song. We then made up some of our own rhythms to use as a B section with the song.
4th grade- we finished our storybook about the life of Ella Fitzgerald- fascinating and talented lady! We learned a new song called "I've got to rise" in the blues style. We added 3 instruments parts to accompany the song: a xylophone bordun, a soprano xylophone part, and a glockenspiel part. We read and clapped rhythms to learn these parts, and then put it all together with the song.
5th grade- we learned a new song from Ghana this week called "Tue, Tue." The song is about a little boy apologizing for accidentally knocking over an old man as they are walking in a hurry. We added snaps on the rests of the song (this was tricky) and then transferred the snaps to tubano and djembe drums. We then created a B section to go with the song using rhythms we have been working on: Chad (quarter note), Ghana (eighth notes), Tanzania (sixteenth notes), Cameroon (two sixteenth notes with one eighth note), and finally a NEW rhythm for Uganda (one eighth note with two sixteenth notes.) Whew!
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