Performer House Update
All students are now sorted into their houses (teams) for the school year! It was great to see how excited they were about every one of the performers. We have now started learning more about each individual house leader. Students learned about opera singer Eryn Tvete's experience singing with the Minnesota Opera and bringing opera to new audiences, how bluegrass musician Mandy Fassett travels to play shows with bands in different parts of Minnesota and other states, and what it's like to be backstage and onstage with trombonist Ben Bussey's performance groups. Next week we'll learn more about Franco Holder. 5th Grade: Meter Students have been reviewing meters of 2, 3, and 4 this week by listening to recordings of music to determine what the meter is by identifying strong and weak beats. Meter is how beats are grouped together into measures in music. Next week, students will be learning about a new meter! 4th Grade: Rhythm Fourth graders have been focusing primarily on learning about the new house leaders, but have also been reviewing quarter note, quarter rest, and eighth note rhythms. This week, we started playing a rhythm tic tac toe game in which teams of students must match a rhythm that they hear to written music notation. 3rd Grade: Rhythm Third graders are also reviewing basic rhythms. We started their rhythm unit with a song called "Hey, Mr. Beat Boy," that features a very strong beat. The genre of this song is hip hop and includes some sections that are sung and others that are rapped. We had great discussions in class about whether or not rap is music! 2nd Grade: Beat Second graders have been learning a lot about the new house system by learning about the musicians who lead the houses and learning how to keep track of their points using rhythm notation. They reviewed the definitions of beat (the heartbeat of music) and rhythm (patterns of sound connected to the main beat), and will be learning more about strong and weak beats next week. 1st Grade and Kindergarten: Beat Both first grade and kindergarten are learning about steady beat. Both grades start each music class with the September Rap. All students chant the words and four students are chosen each day to choose an instrument on which to accompany the chant with a steady beat. We've been comparing music and non-musical sounds that have a steady beat to those that have no beat. Most music in our culture does have a steady beat, but some music has no beat!
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