Tuesday, February 6, 2018

January Music!

January Celebrity Singers in Chorus!
JFK 3rd Grade TBA in February
JFK 4th Grade TBA in February
Parmenter 5th Grade TBA in February
JFK 5th Grade



January Musician, Culture, and Composer of the Month!
1st Grade Musician: Alicia Keys

2nd Grade Culture: China
Students enjoyed comparing our string instruments to these Chinese string instruments. Happy Chinese New Year!

3rd Grade Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Students loved learning about the young prodigy, Mozart. Here was a connection we made with a current musical prodigy.

Be on the lookout for a new musician we're learning about! South Korean R&B singer, Insooni, will be hitting the stage for the Olympic opening ceremonies! Here is the theme for this 2018 Winter Olympics!


Other snapshots of Music in January!

Below are pictures and videos of different activities and concepts we explored in music. I plan to feature every class that I teach at JFK and Parmenter by the end of the year.  Even if you don't see your child's class, you can still learn what they're doing in class by watching another class' video!
3rd Grade Chorus cheering on the Pats by reinventing the warm-up "Donkeys always love their carrots":)
Mrs. Schreiber's 3rd grade class practicing improvising in triple meter through the game "My Pony Bill."
Thanks to the FEF we were able to complete our class set of ukuleles at both JFK and Parmenter and get enough tuners for half the class. Here is Mrs. Vicente's 5th grade class hard at work tuning their ukuleles!

Here are Mrs. Forde and Mrs. Trockman's class Kindergarten classes performing "Engine Engine #9" on the barred instruments. Students are not only learning proper mallet and barred instrument technique, they are also demonstrating the macro beat, chanting and beginning to learn how to improvise and create a middle or B section to a piece.

Mrs. Lyons 5th grade class demonstrating our new ukulele skills! Students are now able to play an F chord and change between chords in a song. Here we are performing the chorus to Three Little Birds. We hope to have the verse down in time for our end of the year concert!

Mrs. McCarthy's first grade class is performing the song "Peter" on barred instruments. We use this song to sing and audiate but also to find Peter's meter which is triple meter. Students are being assessed this term on moving to the macro and micro beat in duple and triple meter and identifying which meter they are hearing and feeling. 

Here is Mrs. Wilmarth's class showing a popular 2nd and 3rd grade game called meter tag. This is a great way to get kids moving and thinking in terms of duple or triple rhythms. 2nd graders also explored music from China. This was our attempt to create a Chinese Lion dance while performing and singing a traditional Chinese folk song "Yahu Hai". 

Here Mrs. Kolodny's 1st grade class learned a chant in triple meter called "Hickory Dickory Dare". Students learned how to add a short repeating rhythm called an ostinato to help create more texture. Students then added instruments and finally in the second video audiated the words while performing their rhythms. 




5th Grade Pop Songs!
Pop songs have been voted on and announced. Thanks to all for your submissions! This was the year of Imagine Dragons! 
JFK - Thunder
Parmenter - Believer
I love going on youtube and getting ideas for all different ways to perform these songs. Take a listen!

JFK 5th Grade Concert: Save the Date!
Wednesday, March 14th 9 AM

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