3rd and 2nd Grade: Lyra Review and Wilder House Reward Third and second graders had the opportunity to see the Lyra Baroque Orchestra when they visited our school on February 18th. The students talked and wrote about their impressions and what they learned from the concerts. I also collected their questions to send to the members of the orchestra who generously offered to answer the questions that students get time to ask at the end of their performances. Then we had the Wilder House reward! Wilder House was the champion of quarter 2. Their house leader, Nicole Wilder, chose a dance competition as the reward. She loves to dance, and as a musician, she often performs for wedding dances with her bands. Wilder House members were the judges of the competition and decided how the competition would work. In most classes, groups of students choreographed their dances to songs that Wilder House members chose from Nicole's list of the the dance songs that her bands get the most requests to perform. It was a lot of fun to see the students working together and coming up with some very creative ideas! 1st Grade: Rhythm In first grade, we began class by talking about Lyra Baroque Orchestra's visit on the 18th. Overall, it seemed that the students really enjoyed the presentation and learned a lot! Then we dove back into our unit on rhythm. In this class, we focused on the concept of ostinatos, short repeated rhythmic patterns. We practiced some simple ostinatos with the silly song "Mr. Austin Otto," then reviewed the more challenging clapping pattern that the students had performed with Lyra during their visit. That was an ostinato, too, but they didn't know what it was called at that time! We played a Jeopardy-like review game, then the students took a short quiz on all that they've learned about rhythm in this unit.
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