A week of Steady Beat Fun!!

This week was a fun week of learning all about steady beat.  Here is what we did in music class!

PK:
**Quaver lesson 1! In Logan County, we adopted the Quaver Music series, which is an online program that is very engaging. In this first lesson our themes were "rules help us" and "music is treasure".  We discussed the rules we use at school and how they help make school a better place. We also listened to lots of music and showed how music is a treasure. We had fun moving creatively to this music. 
**Songs we know: If You're Happy and You Know it; Open Them, Shut Them; Hello Welcome, How are you?

Kindergarten:
**Quaver Lesson 2: Beat and No Beat
**In this lesson we listened to different music and discussed if it had a beat or no beat. We enjoyed moving creatively to these  different music examples.
**Songs we know: Music Has a Steady Beat, Happy and You Know It, Wheels on the Bus
**Each lesson has a short Quaver video and this week we got to watch one about steady beat.

1st Grade:
**Quaver lesson 2: In this lesson we watched our first Quaver video of the year. In this video, we learned all about steady beat, measures, conductors, and the two types of beat(strong and weak). 
**Songs we know: Music has a steady beat and Jumping Jacks
**we discussed how when we speed up the beat we speed up the music. So, when we slow down the beat we slow down the music.

On Friday, we had a fun Double Day with Ms. Conley. We did a dance of the day, which was the Hokey Pokey. Then we reviewed some loco motor movements, which take us from place to place. 

Overall, it was an awesome week!! Enjoy your 3 day weekend!!

School has begun!!

Well another school year has begun and we are having lots of fun in music class so far.  You are welcome to come visit the music room anytime.

We are blessed to have a new place to sit and/or stand in class/performances. We now have flip forms.

Students have started off playing some fun name games using my puffy blue ball.  We also learned about our Quaver 5 music rules(ask your child to sing them to you) and we know about the "Give me 5" rule.

We've learned the "Circle Song" and met our friend Tommy who taught us the 4 ways to use our voices.  Ask your child what the 4 voices are!

Kindergarten listened to a Quaver song called "Steady Beat" and we discussed lots of things that have a steady beat.

1st grade has played instruments and reviewed our instrument rules. We played sticks and sang a Quaver song called "Welcome to Music". 

So far, music is off to a great start!!