Music- Second nine weeks
Week One- Nov. 3-7
Beginning our second nine weeks with Music, the K classes were introduced to their first music vocabulary word, "Steady Beat"! The kindergarten students learned to perform steady beat with both their hands and their feet. They kept steady beat in their feet while stomping around like giants and chanting the poem, "Long Steps, Strong Steps." We also learned about our new note friend, DO or home base. While listening to the song "Five Little Pumpkins", the students were asked to sing Do whenever the teacher pointed to the class.
Week Two- Nov. 10-14
Continuing our study of new note friends, the Kindergarten students were introduced to SOL and MI. They used these two singing friends to help tell the story of "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater" who turned into a pumpkin along with his wife because they had eaten so much "pumpkin pie" (SOL SOL MI). We also played our first instrument, the rhythm sticks, which we used to echo back combination patterns of the words pumpkin and pie. We learned that some notes have TWO sounds per steady beat, like the word pumpkin, and some notes have ONE sound per steady beat, like the word pie.
Week Three- Nov. 17-21
The students reviewed that there are three types of voices we use in music class: speaking, whisper, and singing. When we sing, we have to use both a HIGH and LOW singing voice. The students explored high and low by singing the song "Down, Down Yellow and Brown", an Autumn song about how leaves fall from the trees and change colors. The students pretended they were the trees and swayed to the steady beat with their leaves while moving from high to low. We also completed our first listening activity of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons "Autumn". The students listened to the three MOVEMENTS (each different section of an orchestral piece is known as a movement) and drew pictures of how the music made them feel. The COMPOSER (a person who writes/composes music) was actually inspired to write the musical piece from a poem about I.) Peasants harvesting their crops and then celebrating the coming of Autumn. II.) The peasants sleeping after all their hardwork. III.) A group of hunters going on a hunt at dawn with their dogs and chasing the animals through the forest.
Beginning our second nine weeks with Music, the K classes were introduced to their first music vocabulary word, "Steady Beat"! The kindergarten students learned to perform steady beat with both their hands and their feet. They kept steady beat in their feet while stomping around like giants and chanting the poem, "Long Steps, Strong Steps." We also learned about our new note friend, DO or home base. While listening to the song "Five Little Pumpkins", the students were asked to sing Do whenever the teacher pointed to the class.
Week Two- Nov. 10-14
Continuing our study of new note friends, the Kindergarten students were introduced to SOL and MI. They used these two singing friends to help tell the story of "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater" who turned into a pumpkin along with his wife because they had eaten so much "pumpkin pie" (SOL SOL MI). We also played our first instrument, the rhythm sticks, which we used to echo back combination patterns of the words pumpkin and pie. We learned that some notes have TWO sounds per steady beat, like the word pumpkin, and some notes have ONE sound per steady beat, like the word pie.
Week Three- Nov. 17-21
The students reviewed that there are three types of voices we use in music class: speaking, whisper, and singing. When we sing, we have to use both a HIGH and LOW singing voice. The students explored high and low by singing the song "Down, Down Yellow and Brown", an Autumn song about how leaves fall from the trees and change colors. The students pretended they were the trees and swayed to the steady beat with their leaves while moving from high to low. We also completed our first listening activity of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons "Autumn". The students listened to the three MOVEMENTS (each different section of an orchestral piece is known as a movement) and drew pictures of how the music made them feel. The COMPOSER (a person who writes/composes music) was actually inspired to write the musical piece from a poem about I.) Peasants harvesting their crops and then celebrating the coming of Autumn. II.) The peasants sleeping after all their hardwork. III.) A group of hunters going on a hunt at dawn with their dogs and chasing the animals through the forest.