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.

1st Grade Long-Short

Last week 1st graders learned about the sound opposites forte (loud) and piano (soft). They watched and danced to the song "Forte Piano":

This week students are learning about long sounds and short sounds. The song "Pizzicato" uses very short sounds. We learned a cute little poem about a froggy in disguise eating flies. I read the poem along with the rhythm of the music and students responded with "catch flies!" They played the guiros and tone blocks. Poem credit= Activate Music Magazine.

Staulcup's Class

Greene's Class

Then students learned the rhythms "beat" (quarter note), "beat-t" (paired eighth notes), and "rest" (quarter rest). They used our new foam hearts with rhythms on them to compose 4 beat rhythms. Then they got to combine their hearts with 2-3 friends to create a "super long rhythm".

1st Graders Play Glockenspiels

The 1st graders played the glockenspiels this week while learning about the sound opposites up and down. First, students played the glockenspiel up and down along to the poem "Hickory Dickory Dock." They were able to change different parts of the poem for each time of day.

Ms. Scott's class

Next, students learned a song called "The Sun is Rising." They learned how to play up the scale, notes "C, D, E, F, G." After they learned the song they worked in small groups to practice and then perform the song for the class.

Mrs. Greene's class

Ms. Scott's class

Long-Short Grade 1

1st graders have been learning about sound opposite in music. First they learned about forte-piano and now they are learning about long and short sounds. In the video below students play short sounds using their rhythm sticks and make long sounds using their scarves. They pretend they are pulling taffy like you see at Goldenrod on Short Sands in York, ME!

Mrs. Dorazio's First Grade Class

Lesson Idea Credit

Music from SoundPlay Book

High/Low Songs on the Stretchy Band

1st graders learn about sound opposites throughout the year. They just learned about the opposites high and low. In the two videos below students perform the song "High Low Song" by MusicK8. View the video here!

Students were excited to use the music room's new stretchy band! We were able to purchase this awesome new stretchy band through our Best Seat in the House Raffle at our Winter Concert. 

Ms. Nealey's Class

Mrs. Jagentenfl's Class

The song below called "bounce high, bounce low" showed the high, middle, and low notes using the stretchy band.

Mrs. Greer's Class

Forte-Piano Song Grade 1

Students in grade 1 have started learning about sound opposites. The first opposite is LOUD-soft. The Italian musical terms are forte for loud and piano for soft.

This is a fun video we loved doing in class where students raise their arms up for forte and bend down for piano.

Forte-Piano Song!