5th Grade: Meter Fifth graders began a two-part listening activity and continued learning about the meter of 6/8. For the listening activity, they listened to excerpts of two versions of the same music. One was performed by eight singers singing without any instruments (a capella). The other was performed by a marching band! In this first part of the activity, they analyzed and wrote about the mood and feeling of each piece and the dynamics (volume changes) that they heard. Check out the full recordings of both pieces below! Students also continued learning about 6/8 by collaboratively writing a composition in 6/8 meter and playing it on lummi sticks. Then they edited it to try to make it just the way they wanted!
4th Grade: Rhythm Fourth graders have continued learning about sixteenth note rhythms. Last cycle, they read and played rhythms with sixteenth notes; this time they showed a deeper understanding by improvising and composing with sixteenth notes! Each student improvised (made up on the spot) a four beat pattern that used sixteenth notes in at least one of those beats. They then wrote and played a collaborative composition using sixteenth notes, eighth notes, quarter notes, and quarter rests. 3rd Grade: Rhythm Third graders improvised in this cycle, too! They started out by reviewing the concept of ostinato (a short repeating pattern) by creating movement ostinatos. Students made up dance moves or body percussion patterns that the whole class tried repeating to create an ostinato dance with music. Then students used the rhythm ostinato that they created in the last class period as an accompaniment that the class played while individual students improvised their own four-beat rhythm patterns on rhythm sticks using quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests. 2nd Grade: Meter Second graders began a new unit on meter. They reviewed meters of 2 and 4 with an emphasis on how those meters make us feel like moving in different ways. A meter of 2 often makes us feel like marching, whereas a meter of 4 is a good walking meter. They played rhythm sticks to a Sousa march in a meter of two, then learned how to conduct in a meter of 2.
Kindergarten: Voice and Rhythm Kindergartners wrapped up their unit on different voice types in this cycle. They're doing a great job of identifying and using the four voice types–whisper, talk, shout, and sing! They used their talking voices on the chant "Yes, I Can," their singing voices on "March of the Ducks," and all four voices on "Kangaroo, Kangaroo." Kindergartners also began a new unit on rhythm. We started out with the song "Kangaroo, Kangaroo," which they had learned in the previous unit. However, this time we explored different ways to keep the beat by hopping like kangaroos and notice the different rhythms in the song.
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