New Year, New Start!

First of all, December was a blast in music class. Our Christmas programs were fabulous! I'm very proud of our students.

This week has been a great week in music class.  Here is what we have done this week.

PK completed 2 lessons this week. The first one had a "New Year, New Start" theme.  We talked about how making a fresh or new start can feel good. We watched a Quaver story called JJ's Big List. JJ had a list of new, different, and exciting things he wanted to do in the new year.  After our story, we sang the song "This Little Light of Mine". We talked about how we could let our light shine in 2019.  We listened to Handel's Music for Royal Fireworks and jumped to the beat.

The 2nd lesson PK did was about the ocean and loud and soft sounds. We sang two songs: "At the bottom of the sea" and "Charlie Over the Ocean".  Our Quaver story was about Charlie and how he caught his big fish.  Ask your child, how Charlie caught his fish? Also, ask them if Charlie's dad snores loudly or softly?
We sang the song Charlie Over the Ocean loud and soft. Then we listened to Camille St. Saen's Aquarium music and pretended to be a fish.

K-1 have had a great week too! We read or well sang the book Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you See.  Then we played the singing game with our music friends(puppets and beanie babies).  Every child sang a solo with this activity.
We also read the book Polar Bear Polar Bear What do you Hear.  In this book, the students created the animal sounds.  We used zoo pal plates to create an animal song on our carpet.  It was very fun to perform our song as a class!
We also talked about loud and soft sounds.  We really like Haydn's Surprise Symphony.

It has been a fabulous week in music class!