A Holiday of Music

Sorry it has been SO long since I've posted!  We have been busy, busy, busy!  Here are the links to our concert videos, A Holiday of Music.  Photos will be up soon on the school website. PreschoolChime In and Jingle Bells

Kindergarten Red and Green   Listen to the Jingles     Hip Hop Reindeer First and Second Grades Plate Routine to "March" from the Nutcracker Yankee Doodle Santa North Pole Rock and Roll

Choir Do You Hear Christmas Jubilation Candy Cane Cuties Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

Third and Fourth Grades Reindeer Shouldn't Waltz     Jingle Bell Rock

K, 1, 2, 3, 4 and Choir Rhythm of the Season

Band Angels We Have Heard on High and Jolly Old St. Nick

Finale: Third, Fourth and Choir

A Holiday of Music Many of these songs can be purchased at Music K8 Kidtunes!

6th Grade World Music Vokis

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1st Graders Rock Red Ribbon Week

Dynamic Poetry

p=piano-soft
f=forte-loud
m=mezzo-medium

This week 3rd graders composed a poem that uses dynamic markings to show expression.  Read the poem below and use the dynamic indicators shown above.

p     I'm walking in the hall.
pp   Everyone has gone home.
mp   The lights are off.
ppp  I'm alone.
mp    I turn on my iPod.
mf     I like singing along.
f       Now I'm jammin'!
ff      Baby, rock on!

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.

First Graders Compose

First Graders played "Rockin' Stix" using their reading skills and Mrs. King's favorite instrument-rhythm sticks!  Then they composed patterns for rhythm sticks using a composing grid and poker chips.  The chips represented a quarter note or "ta" and the empty spaces represented a quarter rest.

Write On Fourth Grade!

What four syllabled words can you think of?  Coca-Cola, macaroni, watermelon and huckleberry are just a few that fourth graders came up with.  They used these words and other food themed words to create some amazing rhythm patterns.  Then to show their understanding they did a bit of rhythmic dictation.

I played a rhythm on a wood block.  Students wrote down the rhythms that they heard using musical notation.  We focused on quarter notes, barred eighth notes and 4 16th notes.  Wow!  They were able to write down the most complicated rhythms I could think of!

In the pictures below they are working with their lap packs and dry erase markers to write down the rhythms they just heard.

Swat the Staff

Wooo Hooo!  Did you know that Wal-Mart carries tie dye duct tape???  I love this stuff!  This week I used it for our "Swat the Staff" game.  Seventh and Eighth Graders played this game to review treble clef pitches.  Choosing from a wide array of flyswatters, students paired up to speedily swat the correct note.

Snap! Clap! Pat! Stomp!

Kindergartners are becoming experts at body percussion.  After learning several songs with snapping, clapping, patting and stomping students were able to perform "Charlie Over the Ocean" in four parts!  Way to go!!!  Next students read a music chart with symbols for body percussion.  The pictures below show students creating their own body percussion pieces and performing them in groups.  Teachers who are interested can go HERE.  Click downloads and then scroll down to "Body Percussion".