Music Week 8

This week in preparation for Halloween, all of my classes learned two songs. The first was called Mwa Ha, Ha. In this song you get to laugh like a mad scientist. The second song was called Skin and Bones. This is a school wide favorite because the students get to scare their teachers. It's a little harder to scare the veterans than the new teachers.

Third grade continued playing recorder but we worked on a song called B A Marching Monster.

Objective: Play the B note and the A note

Materials: Recorders and Music K-8 Magazine 2009 vol. 20 number 1, pg 59


Process:

1. Review how to play B note, A note-we do
2. Review rests, quarter notes, half notes-we do
3. First and second ending-I do
4. Have students write in notes for song-you do
5. Play measures 9-17-you do
6. Repeat process for rest of song



Playing quiz in 1 week.


4th grade continued piano skills:

Book-Alfred's Piano Lessons

pg. 16 My Best Friend, if time left pg. 17 I Can Do It

EQ: How do we play piano?

Objective: Students will learn how to use fingers 2,3,4 on left and right hands


Review Music Theory basics-staff, treble clef, quarter notes, half notes, rests-we do


Review posture, hand position at keyboard

1. Review finger numbers and hand positions-we do
2. Go Have students begin to write in notes for song-we do/you do
3. Play line as teacher helps call out numbers-we do
4. Practice playing My Best Friend with headphones-you do
{Pairs Check-make sure each partner has the correct posture and using 2,3,4 on the appropriate hand on the appropriate page}



Assess: Have students kept hands in correct positon? Are students following the finger positions as indicated in the book?


5th grade continued working on guitar skills. They learned how to play an Em chord using two fingers. They actually learned how to play the Skin and Bones Song. Try to get the to play it for you if you have a guitar handy.

K-2 learned a song about caramel apples:

Song: Apple on a Stick


Objective: Sing on the beat, act out a skit based on words in a song

EQ: Can you sing/play to the beat?


1. Post lyrics to Apple on a Stick on Board
click to play http://www.musick8.com/html/current_tune.php?numbering=96&songorder=6
2. Have students listen and sing song while teacher points to lyrics-I do/we do
3. Teach Skin and Bones by rote-I do/we do
4. Teach movements to song-I do/we do
5. Students perform for teacher-you do