5th Grade: Ukuleles Fifth graders made great progress on transitioning between chords! This is such an important practical skill for anyone who wants to play chords to accompany a song. We're still working with the chords C, F, and G7. Today, we looked at a very special song that uses these three chords. Some of the students recognized it because they wrote it when they were in first grade! Songwriter Kyle Gray Young visited classes in fall of 2017 to do a songwriting workshop with classes. Each grade composed their own song (music and lyrics) that they performed on the spring concert that year. It's really fun to see how a song they wrote so long ago can be interesting and challenging in new ways now when they have much more advanced musical skills! 4th Grade: Ukuleles
Fourth graders continued their work on the song "Layers." They're getting better and better at each of the three parts, playing in groups, and layering the parts to create harmony. Most of the classes had time to start composing lyrics on our concert theme of kindness to sing with each ukulele part. I was very impressed by the many ways they thought of to show kindness and how quickly they were able to fit words on that topic into the rhythms of the music.
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