5th Grade: Music Notation
This week, fifth graders took a break from their digital composition projects to review standard music notation. We played a thrilling team game that reviewed their recognition of notes and rests of different durations, reviewed the notes on the grand staff (treble and bass clef), and discussed why standard music notation is important and how it functions as a universal language for musicians all over the world. 4th Grade & 3rd Grade: Recorders Students now know three (and in some classes, four) pieces on recorder! They know two to three notes, and are building good habits of playing, including:
2nd Grade: Note Duration Second graders finished up their unit on note duration with some fun team games. We played Quick Draw, in which students had to draw whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes, and Note Relay, in which students had to identify notes by name. Both were very exciting! 1st Grade: Music Notation First graders completed their unit on string and percussion instruments this week, and began a new unit on music notation. They have learned a little about the history of the standard notation of notes written on a staff, an innovation that is attributed to an 11th century Italian monk named Guido d'Arrezo. Although a standard music staff has five lines and four spaces, first graders are beginning to read music written using only two notes written on two lines. They have been doing an impressive job of reading short melodies, hearing them in their head, then sight-singing (singing what is written without hearing it first) using the solfège syllables "so" and "mi." Kindergarten: Dynamics (Loud and Soft) Kindergartners have also started sight-singing (singing what is written without hearing it first) using the pitches "so" and "mi." Students have been reading graphic notation, noticing melodic direction in how higher notes are written higher higher on a page than lower notes. At the same time, they've continued studying dynamics, reinforcing their new musical vocabulary: forte (loud) and piano (soft).
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