5th Grade: Notation (Dynamics)
Fifth graders continued to focus on notation for dynamics (volume in music) this week. They added their own dynamics to a song, then sang it using those dynamics, and edited what they wrote to ensure that the dynamics they wrote made musical sense and helped communicate their meaning. They practiced their aural skills by listening to a song while following along with the sheet music, writing in the dynamics that they heard. They also completed a journaling activity on Modest Mussorgsky's dynamic-rich "Pictures at an Exhibition." 4th Grade & 3rd Grade: Blues and Recorder Students are continuing to play music using the BAG notes on recorder. This week, they began playing "Recorder Shuffle" which includes some tricky skips between the notes B and G. They took a Plickers quiz on blues, and did very well on it! 2nd Grade: Pentatonic Improvisation and Baroque Period Second graders reviewed what they had learned about the pentatonic scale, which is a series of five notes including the pitches do, re, mi, sol, and la. This scale works very well for improvising (making up music on the spot). The students sang the song "Makin' It Up" while taking turns improvising instrumental interludes on our Orff xylophones and metallophones. Second graders also continued studying the baroque period, focusing on the techniques used to decorate a melody to make it sound fancier. They learned about trills, turns, and appoggiaturas and used the notation for these ornaments to "fancy up" a the familiar tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." 1st Grade: Melodic Direction First graders are starting their study of melody by working on aurally identifying notes that go up, down, or repeat. We used the songs "I'm a Superhero" and "I Had a Dog" to practice hearing, singing, and using motion to show repeating notes. Kindergarten: Long and Short Kindergartners have been learning about the musical opposites long and short. In "The Long and Short Song," they are getting practice singing long and short notes as well as identifying and creating non-musical long and short sounds. They composed their own rhythms using long (one beat) and short (half beat) sounds, and they sorted our classroom instruments according to the length of sounds they can create using a Venn diagram. Some instruments are hard to classify, so a lot of them ended up in the overlapping middle section of our diagram.
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