3rd-5th grade classes this week started with a Kindness Mission drawing. The last Kindness Mission was to compliment someone's singing and several students nominated others who they had witnessed doing that. Four nominees were drawn in each class and those students were awarded house points for their kind deeds! 5th and 4th Grade: Ukulele We began class with more note reading review, as this is something that the students will need to be able to do when they are playing ukuleles. We played the note-reading game Staff Champion and the classes tried to beat their previous high scores. They get better every time we practice! Although students didn't play the ukuleles yet, they learned all that they need to know to prepare for playing next time. They learned about ukulele vocabulary, parts, and history. I think we're all excited to get our hands on ukuleles next time! 3rd Grade: Melody Third graders watched the Quaver episode on lines and spaces in this rotation. It covers the reasons to read music, how to do it, and tricks to remember how to read the pitches. Then we practiced! Students worked on the line notes (the phrase "Every Good Boy Does Fine" helps them to remember which note is on which line) and then space notes (which spell FACE from bottom to top). Then we increased the challenge by playing Staff Champion with both line and space notes! Students had to identify whether the note was on a line or in a space, remember the trick, and then figure out what the note was. It was impressive to see how much they improved in just one class period! 2nd Grade: Baroque Period After reviewing the "Musical Periods" song, second graders enjoyed watching a Quaver episode all about the baroque period. They learned about what was happening in the world during this period of history (1600-1750), what the music sounded like, and three baroque composers (Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi). After discussing the episode, students began learning about Vivadi, the Italian composer famous for writing "The Four Seasons." 1st Grade: Lines and Spaces This class started with a new song, "Disco Sensation." This disco-inspired song is a lot of fun to sing and, of course, to dance to! Students learned several new disco moves in this one. Last time, students learned how to read their first two notes on the lines of a staff. Today, our focus was the symbol that comes at the beginning of the staff, the treble clef. This symbol tells us how to read the notes that follow it and that they will be in a higher range. Students learned how to draw treble clefs and practiced on staff paper. They did a great job! After reviewing their two pitches, mi and sol, they learned about mallets, which are "musical hammers" with a round head that are used to play many percussion instruments. All of the students got a set of mallets to use as they created sound effects to accompany a story while practicing holding the mallets correctly and bouncing them while playing. Kindergarten: Meter
Kindergartners continued their unit on meter by learning about music that has beats in patters of three and four. To learn about the meter of three, they learned a song called "Waltzing Wallabies" after hearing the story about its main character, Wally the Waltzing Wallaby. A waltz is a dance in a meter of 3. Then they learned about a meter of four with the song "Five Green and Speckled Frogs," which turned out to be one that many had already learned in preschool! We did a movement activity while singing this song. Students walked around their mats until "jumping into the pool" by jumping onto their mats at the point in the song when one frog jumps off of the log. We then reviewed the three meters that they have learned about and how music in each meter makes us feel like moving. A meter of two is a marching meter, a meter of three makes us feel like swaying or waltzing, and a meter of four is a great walking meter. They took a short quiz on meter and did a great job!
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