2nd graders have been playing the mallets the last few weeks in music. They started off playing a 5-note scale down to the book "Old Black Fly": G, F, E, D, C.
This week they played up the scale and back down again to the book "Cockadoodle Doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo." Students play the barred instruments, egg shakers, and drums. They learned 3 different parts and rotated around the instruments after every 4 pages in the book.
3rd graders learned about Native American music this week since they will be doing a Native American unit soon in their classrooms.
Students learned a Hopi Basket Dance, which is a dance to celebrate the harvest used by the Navajo Native Americans.
Here is Ms. Lantz's class performing the Hopi Basket Dance with paper plates as their baskets.
Students also learned a song called Gitsigakomim, from the Blackfoot Nation. Gitsigakomim means "I love you" or "I honor you." And Na-a means mother. After learning the song students were able to substitute "Na-a" for the name of someone or something that they would like to honor.
Grade 2 is doing a cultures unit in their classrooms so we are doing the same countries in music class!
Our first stop is China! Here are students doing a Chinese ribbon dance. Students also got to play the woodblocks and the Chinese gong!
Mrs. DeLuca's Class Ribbon Dance
Ms. Sallade's Class
Mrs. Downs' Class
We visited Antarctica in music and did some fun activities revolving around penguins. Students played instruments while reading rhythms during the poem "Four Little Penguins". The penguins keep counting down until all the penguins were playing underneath the ice!
This week Grade K students did a lesson on Dr. Seuss' book "My Many Colored Days." At the end of the lesson students got to draw like the music sounded and pick what color they think the music sounded like.
