5th-4th Grade: Note Reading Review and Reward Day For a while, fifth and fourth grade will be working on the same unit, so you will see their posts combined here. Both will be starting to learn ukulele's for the first time in music class! To prepare for that, students spent the first half of this class reviewing note reading. This will be a skill they will need as they read music while playing ukulele. During the second half of the class, we had the long awaited reward for Lamb House's quarter one victory! Our house leader, Kyle Lamb, chose karaoke as the reward. The members of the winning house ran the activity. In some classes, they chose the songs that everyone say. In other classes, they chose to make it a karaoke competition that they judged! 3rd Grade: Melody and Reward Day Third graders were introduced to their new unit all about reading music notation on the treble clef staff. Then, they got their reward for Lamb House's quarter one victory, karaoke run by the members of Lamb House! 2nd Grade: Baroque Period Second graders were introduced to their new unit on the baroque period of music history. They listened to an example of baroque music and discussed what it made them think of and feel. Then they started learning the song "Musical Periods." After that, we had the Lamb House reward, karaoke run by the members of Lamb House! 1st Grade: Lines and Spaces First graders began a new unit about reading notes on the lines and spaces of a music staff. This is a really big step in learning music! We began with a vocal warm-up reminding students about how high and low sound and feel when singing. They learned about what a music staff is and how it was created by Guido d'Arezzo in the 11th century. Then they were introduced to their first two pitches, mi and sol, on a two line staff. The students sang along with the song "Go and Stop," which features those two pitches in the chorus. During the chorus, they showed the two pitches in a variety of ways, like standing tall for sol and crouching low for mi and putting their hands on their chairs for sol and on the floor for mi. During the verses, they moved like the vehicles that were described in the lyrics. We practiced reading and singing mi and sol with some short exercises and two full songs that feature those two pitches, "Jumpin' Jacks" and "Goofy Pets." The students especially enjoyed doing the activity with "Goofy Pets" where they got to act out any goofy pet they wanted! Students learned to hear, sing, read, and even do hand signs for these two pitches...all in one class period! I'm very impressed by how quickly they're learning this big new concept! Kindergarten: Meter
Kindergartners began a new unit about meter. Meter is how beats are organized into groups. In this class period, we focused on the meter of 2. First we started with a listening and moving activity. Students marched to a fife and drum march and we tried out some movements in patterns of 2 with a techno song in a meter of 2. Then the students learned "Stinky Pirates," a silly and fun song all about stinky pirates sailing on the seas! They learned the words and were able to sing it quickly, while feeling the meter of two. We added some movements to reinforce the patterns of two and to show the hoisting of the sails on the pirate ship.
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