1st grade Same-Different

1st graders learned about same-different this week, which leads into musical form. They learned either "Tick Tock" or "Bell Horses" as part A, then had races with drum rolls as part B.

Staulcup's Class doing A-B racing.

Shoo Fly Dance Grade 2

Grade 2 did a lesson on the folk song "Shoo Fly" this week. We discussed the ABA form of the piece and then learned a fun double circle dance.

DeLuca's Class

To finish the class we listened to the book "Jazz Fly 2" where a fly who speaks jazz (scat) travels through the jungle to get to his gig in the termite nest. Along the way he has to use his Spanish phrase book to talk to the animals of the jungle. Here is a little taste of the book.

Kindergarteners Hatch out of Their Eggs!

Kindergarteners are learning about "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" this week by composers Mussorgsky and Ravel.
Here is the link to the youtube video students watched for their first listen to the piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAtAvF2cepg

Students discussed what it would be like to be a chick inside an egg ready to hatch. How would they feel? What might they do to try to break free?

Then students learned the story about Charli the chick and how he and his friends broke out of their eggs and then hid inside them again to surprise their mama and papa when they got back from the lake.

Here are some classes performing the cute version of this piece from "Fun with Composers Volume 2." We added instruments to part A and scarves to part B.

Words= 
PART A= "Let me out! Let me out! Icky sticky, icky sticky, I am feeling icky sticky!
Let me out! Let me out! Icky sticky, icky sticky, I am feeling icky sticky!
Peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, peck, PUSH! *Repeat*

PART B= Where is my mama, where is my papa? Where is my mama, my papa? Oh there!
Quickly, oh quickly, get back in the eggshell. Quickly, oh quickly, they'll love the surprise!"

FORM= AABA

 Mrs. MacDougall's class

Ms. McCluskey's class

'Galop' Ribbon Dance

Grade 3 has been learning about form. In this video students perform a ribbon dance routine to 'Galop' from The Comedians by Composer Kabalevsky .

Mrs. Perry's Class

Mrs. Wilson's Class

Ms. Lantz's Class

"Ice Skating" in music

Kindergarteners got to go "ice skating" using paper plates! How fun. :-)

First graders (Mrs. Greer's class in video) learn a ribbon routine and dance to: 

Émile Waldteufel's - The Skater's Waltz, Op. 183