PINK SHIRT DAY
Students are performing a SURPRISE song during our Pink Shirt Day assembly on Wednesday, February 23rd! Everyone can use these videos to practice the song over the weekend. All you need is a desk/table, a chair, and two pencils. Go to your class google classroom to play along with Ms. Towill!
Kinder
The kindergarten students have continued exploring with movement and rhythm sticks. We learned the 'Toolbox Song', and brainstormed many tools that our rhythm sticks can be. This week, we started listening activities with Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens. The first movement we listened to was March of the Lions. We heard the piano simulate the roar of a lion, and moved like lions throughout the classroom!
Grade 1
Grade one students finished their sound songs and performed them for the class. It was a great opportunity for students to help each other learn rhythms and body percussion sounds. We are moving on to a listening unit based on Camille Saint-Saens symphony Carnival of the Animals. Students will learn about orchestra instruments, their sounds, and why Saint-Saens chose certain instruments to sound like certain animals. Colouring in Carnival of the Animal workbooks will help us learn the instruments.
Students have learned notes middle C, D, and E, and have learned to read them on the treble clef scale. We practiced how to draw each note. Once we could confidently draw all three notes, everyone started working on their own song using C, D and E. Students are writing their own music, reading it, and playing the songs on the xylophones and glockenspiels.
Grade three and four students have enjoyed learning the ukulele. They have learned how to play a melody on the open strings (Rain Rain Go Away), a one-string melody (Twinkle Twinkle), how to read a chord chart, two different strumming patterns, and two chords (C and G7). The most important thing students have learned is how to properly hold the ukulele while playing and while resting. We have also practiced how to hold the string down against the frets with our 'clamp'. Grade four students are completing a playing quiz this week, where they have to play Twinkle Twinkle for me.