Music Week 5

This week in music all of my classes in 3rd-5th watched a powerpoint story called -King Treble Clef. King Treble Clef is story that helps students learn how to read notes on the staff.

3rd grade continued their recorder skills by working on the B,A,G notes, and learning how to play Hot Cross Buns. Our quiz on how to holdthe recorder has been pushed back to next week. 4th Grade continued working on their piano skills. We are constantly reviewing finger numbers and the corrct playing position. Our quiz on Finger Position and Posture has been also pushed backed to next week.5th Grad continued their Ukulele/Guitar Skills-E, F, G notes and we worked on excercise 1 in the book. Our quiz on how to hold the ukulele/guitar has also been pushed back this week. The quizzes were pushed back due to technical difficulties with the gradebook software.

K-1 continued working on Beat-No Beat our objective was to respond to steady beat in a march style song. We used Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges and the Beat Buddies. The Beat Buddies are just stuffed animals we use to help find the beat of songs.Our Vocabulary for this lesson was :march, steady beat, loud, soft.

Here is the process:

1. Encourage students to use Beat Buddies to tap to the beat from Prokofiev's March mvt"The Love for Three Oranges

1. Ask what kind of movement would you do to this music?(March)



2. Have children stand and march in place to the music on the beat

1. Where would you likely hear a march?(concert or parade)



Finally, we did another beat game called Engine Engine No. 9. Here are the lyrics:

Engine, Engine No. 9
Going in down the Chicago Line.
If the train should junk the track
Do you get your money back?

Students learn song by rote, march to the pulse of the song, one student plays temple blocks at various speeds. The player will "get off" the beat, causing train to stumble. The temple block player will play frantically to imitate a crash, ending with loud tap and then silence. train players should "crash" and fall into an interesting shape. the watcherr picks someone with an intersting shape and takes his place in the train. The introduction signals train members to stand up and form the train and get ready to move. Everyone should get a turn if time allows

2nd grade continued working on Down, Down, Baby. We reviewed the moves and then we added instruments. We used the xylophones, glockenspiels, tamborines, bongos, and cowbell to make the different sounds of the body.