7th Grade Composer Vokis

7th Graders have been studying the music of famous composers.  They are able to identify 15 different songs and composers!  The projects below are a thumbnail sketch of some of the composers we have studied.  After researching their assigned composer, students created a digital presentation using an avatar that they created.



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Pass the Pumpkin

First and Second Graders experience a passing game with real pumpkins!  The awesome music that you are hearing is called "Scarin' Alive".

Half-Note Happiness

This week second graders learned about the half note.  This new "hollow" note gets two counts.  After learning the name and practicing it with a Poison Rhythm Game, we used pipe cleaners to create them.  Second graders were so creative that they also figured out how to form the pipe cleaners into eighth notes and quarter notes too!

Composers in First Grade

WOW!  I am so impressed with the composers in First Grade!  This week we worked on writing rhythms that use quarter notes, barred eighth notes and quarter rests.  These amazing composers created interesting patterns on paper using quarter notes and rests.  We also created patterns together on the SMARTBoard to review how to draw notes and rests.  The next day in class we used a delicious way to represent notes-Fruit Loops!

First we used our SMARTBoard to make "virtual" Fruit Loop patterns.  Using a composing grid with 16 boxes representing 16 beats we placed one or two Fruit Loops in each box.  If we heard one sound on the beat we knew that the cereal represented a "ta" note or quarter note.  If there were two sounds per beat that was a "titi" or barred eighth notes.  After experimenting with making their own patterns First Graders listened to a rhythm clapped by Mrs. King and then notated what they heard using the cereal.  WAY TO GO First Graders!  You are so smart!

Tennis Ball Note Value Demonstration by 6th and 7th Grades

Star Spangled Banner Stations

Third Graders have started their Star Spangled Banner unit.  For the next couple of weeks they will be working in cooperative groups and cycling through various workstations.  By the end of this unit, students will be able to sing the national anthem from memory, recall key elements of the history of our national anthem and be able to define vocabulary from the lyrics like "perilous" and "ramparts".

 The listening station has several examples of our national anthem.  These boys are listening to Jimi Hendrix's version.

 The story of the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner"

 Write on!  Racing to write the lyrics!

 Sticky note songs

 Lyric Word Search

 Patriotic Poetry Writing Station

 Who was Francis Scott Key?

 So, what IS a rampart?

Star Spangled Treble Clef workstation.  Whew!  This is a hard one!

Teachers:  Get the workstations HERE.

The Rhythm of Nature

This week 5th and 6th graders brainstormed nature words that had one and two syllables and matched them up with quarter notes, half notes and eighth notes.  Then they used these notes to compose rhythms and play them on classroom instruments.  Arranging their compositions into rondo form, students performed for each other.

Kindergarteners Keep the Beat

This week Kindergarteners were introduced to the claves, bongos, tambourines, maracas and triangles in music class.  After discussing how to play each instrument student demonstrated steady beat.