Students have started listening to their winter concert songs for our concert on Thursday, December 7th. The concert will take place at Shapleigh Middle School with K/1 at 6 PM and 2/3 at 7 PM.
After working on our winter concert music students have been doing some fun Fall and Halloween themed activities.
2nd graders made rhythms out of their favorite candies and then performed it for the class.
3rd graders are adding instruments to Halloween poems to make "spooky sound stories".
3rd graders did a lesson on body percussion last week. This week they started drumming on the konga drums.
They used our new rhythm dice to compose a rhythm that they performed for the class. I created the rhythm dice by writing a rhythm on each side of a foam cube (beat-e-t-a, beat-t, beat, & rest).
The 2nd graders are starting boomwhackers this week. Boomwhackers are plastic tubes that make different notes/sounds based on how long or short they are. The longer the tube the lower the sound.
Here is Ms. Sallade's class performing a fun song called "Wait to Eat the Donut." When their color boomwhacker comes onto the screen they play they rhythm "wait to eat the donut".
Here are some students from Mrs. DeLuca's class performing rhythms that they composed using our new rhythm dice (I wrote rhythms in sharpie on each side of foam cubes).
The third and final week of our boomwhacker unit is boomwhacker stations! We have 5 stations that last 5 minutes each. Students work together for two stations and individually for three.
Ms. Down's Sstudent playing his "beat, beat-and" composition using colored squares.
Some kindergarten classes played instruments to Pete the Cat's "I Love my White Shoes" then were able to compose their own shoe rhythms! One big shoe= Beat and two little shoes= beat-t.
1st graders learned how to make rhythms using popsicle sticks this week, inspired by listening to the book "Freddie the Frog and the Mysterious Wahooo!" Their rhythm choices were beat (quarter note), beat-t (eighth notes), Beat-e-t-a (sixteenth notes), and rest (quarter rest). They used the heart beat strips to help make 4 beats of rhythm. Then they clapped and said the beats and performed their composition for the class on the drum. Lastly, they made some more rhythms and played them on the egg shakers.
Students will use this skill again next week during their Valentine's Day lesson for our informances. We are excited to welcome parents into the music room soon! :-)
Kindergarteners did a lesson on loosing their baby teeth. First they sang a song called "Bye Bye Baby Tooth." Then students created a toothy rhythm as a class on the smartboard using teeth as "beats" and lost teeth gaps as "rests".
Then students each got to compose their own rhythms using paper lips and teeth.
Finally, two students got to be the tooth fairies and when they tapped a student's shoulder that student became a lost tooth and ever so slowly sat down, to the music of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies!"
1st graders used the book "Freddie the Frog and the Mysterious Wahooo!" to learn about tempo and rhythms. Then they got to use the popsicle sticks to make their own rhythms.
