October 1 - 3 (Music Week 5)

 Learning Intention Legend (Blue = Kindergarten, Green = 1 / 2, Purple = 3 / 4, Red = 5 / 6)

-I can demonstrate steady beat through movement.

-I can differentiate speaking from singing voices.

Students performed silly action songs and kept beat on different parts of their bodies to reinforce rhythmic awareness. We practiced humming, whispering, speaking and singing to explore our capacity to make sound with our voices. We will continue to explore the potential of our voices in coming weeks. 

-I can play a steady beat using rhythm instruments.

-I can perform simple action songs and singing games. 

Grade 1 and 2 students continue to learn and perform a variety of silly action songs as part of their daily singing warmup. We incorporate increasingly complex body percussion to reinforce beat. Students played shakers, drums and sticks to accompany singing. Students also performed with excellent enthusiasm at our Terry fox assembly. As a large group, these young students demonstrated effective listening and participation to make the experience successful for everyone.  

-I can identify repetition and contrast; use awareness of patterns to perform movement sequences. 

-I can demonstrate pitch awareness while singing.

We continued to revisit some familiar singing games this week. There are many singing games that involve passing an object to the beat around the circle. Students are eliminated at the end of the song and then keep the beat on a percussion instrument such as a shaker, drum or boomwhacker. We also learned some rhythm patterns with sticks to accompany the Friendship Stick Game song. This activity reinforces awareness of repetition and contrast but more importantly, it is an excellent way to build community through singing and having fun. 

-I can demonstrate use awareness of patterns and musical notation to sing and play from a musical staff.

-I can demonstrate pitch awareness while developing skills for playing recorder. 

Students continue to review absolute note names - we played together as a large group, reading 2 and 3 note melodies on recorder accompanied by a youtube backing track. Students were asked to focus on efffective posture for breathing to produce consistent and clear tone on notes B, A and G. We will continue with recorders to strengthen skills for reading and playing in coming weeks.  

You can support students at home by playing music at home with the intention of listening for same and different sections or voices. Sing along, create movement sequences to show different sections and have fun. Challenge yourselves to try new styles and artists to hear somethng new!

Best wishes for these sunny days and look forward to seeing you soon!.

Musically Yours, 

Mrs. M