We had 2 songs of the month:
K-2 learned "There's a spider on the floor"
3-4 learned Ghostbusters (they showed Rondo form through movement with this song)
Our composer of the month was Camille St. Saens. We listened to 2 of his famous pieces.
1. Danse Macabre- a great piece for this month, since it's Halloween time.
2. Carnival of the Animals- a group of short pieces about a trip to the zoo.
3rd grade did another composer writing activity about our composer. Here is a sample:
We have had some Halloween fun this month also. We learned several Quaver Halloween songs, such as Skin and Bones, Pumpkin Bones, and Trick or Treat. Grades 2-4 did the song Pick a Pumpkin. We did a pumpkin passing game with this song. Then we added instruments to the song. The sticks played 2 rhythms of the day, that included 16th notes, quarter notes, and eighth notes. The mallets and boomwhackers played a half note bordun pattern as they sang.
At the end of the month, we had Space Week. Here is a few things we did this week:
1. Grades K-1 learned several space songs and kept a steady beat while singing them. One of them was called the Planet Song, and we sang the 8 planets in this song.
2. We watched the 1970s cartoon of Interplanet Janet from the musical School House Rocks.
3. We learned Quaver's Journey into Outer Space Songs. All students in grades K-4 learned the Planet Rap and Pluto Song.
4. 2nd grade did all of Quaver's Journey into Outer Space songs: Blast Off, Planet Song, Planet Rap, We're Zooming into Outer Space(we played instruments with this song: sticks and triangles), and Pluto Song.
We have also been working on material for our upcoming Veterans Day program on November 6th.
It's definitely been a productive month in the music room!
