We have had a lot of fun this week in music class.
We started the week with the book Hand Hand Fingers Thumb. We drummed along with it.
We are ending our week with Dr. Suess' My many Colored Days. We watch a video of the Minnesota Orchestra and we get to move creatively for each of the different colors in the book. We love happy pink days! However, at the end of the day we always go back to being "ME"(ourself).
PK finished up Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with Autumn this week. We sang the Eency Weency Spider and Cloudy Weather. We moved to Vivaldi's Autumn. We met 2 of Vivaldi's composer friends in our Quaver story (St. Saens and Debussy)
It has been a fabulous week in the music room at Chapmanville Primary this week!
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Monday, February 11, 2019
Fun in music.......
Phew, It's been a few weeks since I've updated everyone on our music fun. We have been learning about Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. 1st grade listened and did a composer drawing activity with Vivaldi's Winter. They drew whatever the music made them think of. We have beautiful winter artwork outside our music room right now.
We also did Vivaldi's Spring. We showed that we recognized the patterns in the music by playing sticks on the main melody in this piece.
PK has been having fun with our Quaver lessons. Poor Vivaldi suffered from spring allergies during his spring music. Then in his summer music, he climbed a tree and got stuck. Our friend BooBam the drum helped distract him and get him out of the tree.
We also have been celebrating Black History Month this month. We learned about Louis Armstrong and listened to his popular song "What a Wonderful World". Grades k-1 listened and drew pictures to show what the music made them think of. We have some beautiful artwork hung up in the hallway close to the office.
We have continued our Black History/Jazz lessons this week. We read the book "The Jazz Fly" and did a song called "Scat Like That". We love scat singing!
We also did a fun singing game called "Little Sally Walker".
Our song of the week last week also went along with the jazz theme. We sang a jazzy version of "You Are My Sunshine".
PK has really enjoyed our Vivaldi Four Seasons lessons. We have done movement songs with each lesson.
Winter: Frosty Weather
Spring: Rainy Weather
Summer: Sunny Weather
Each of these songs is a circle song that includes movement.
Each lesson has a fun song to go with it also, for spring we did "Los Pollitos", which is little chickens in Spanish. We had fun learning some Spanish words with this song. For Summer, we sang "old MacDonald". For winter, we did a snowman song.
It has been an exciting time in music class! Stay tuned for more!
We also did Vivaldi's Spring. We showed that we recognized the patterns in the music by playing sticks on the main melody in this piece.
PK has been having fun with our Quaver lessons. Poor Vivaldi suffered from spring allergies during his spring music. Then in his summer music, he climbed a tree and got stuck. Our friend BooBam the drum helped distract him and get him out of the tree.
We also have been celebrating Black History Month this month. We learned about Louis Armstrong and listened to his popular song "What a Wonderful World". Grades k-1 listened and drew pictures to show what the music made them think of. We have some beautiful artwork hung up in the hallway close to the office.
We have continued our Black History/Jazz lessons this week. We read the book "The Jazz Fly" and did a song called "Scat Like That". We love scat singing!
We also did a fun singing game called "Little Sally Walker".
Our song of the week last week also went along with the jazz theme. We sang a jazzy version of "You Are My Sunshine".
PK has really enjoyed our Vivaldi Four Seasons lessons. We have done movement songs with each lesson.
Winter: Frosty Weather
Spring: Rainy Weather
Summer: Sunny Weather
Each of these songs is a circle song that includes movement.
Each lesson has a fun song to go with it also, for spring we did "Los Pollitos", which is little chickens in Spanish. We had fun learning some Spanish words with this song. For Summer, we sang "old MacDonald". For winter, we did a snowman song.
It has been an exciting time in music class! Stay tuned for more!
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