I had two fun activities I wanted you to see this week.  Also, remember to follow us on twitter:

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5th GRADE – We have been working on internalizing pulse and moving expressively to show musical styles (legato and staccato).  Students are partnered up where 1 holds the drum and the other plays.  They have to move expressively to show the music, but always return together every 8 beats.

 

4th GRADE – This was a new song I’ve been wanted to try out as a round.  It’s called “Whether the Weather” and its from our Music K8 resource provided to us by Cobb County.

1st GRADE –  Ready, steady, go!  Steady beat is a huge part of 1st quarter music class.  This week we played a rotation game to practice playing steady beat with 2 mallets on the bass xylophones and metallophones.

 

2nd GRADE – Our musical is progressing nicely and I could not be happier with the way our students are singing the songs and performing their choreography!

 

3rd GRADE – We were developing our two handed mallet technique with the song “Down To The Baker’s Shop” and a rotation game.  Rotation games a great for adding lots of repetition to a skill and letting students play all the instruments.

 

4th GRADE & 5th GRADE – we took a trip to “Pitch Hill” this week and expanded our pitch vocabulary.  4th graders learned the solfege hand symbols for Ti and Do’.  5th graders learned about low Sol, low La, and Low Ti.  Solfege is a great singing and pitch reading skill for developing singers.