Halloween!

 Normally I do one week of Halloween activities before Halloween but it felt like this year we needed a bit more spookiness.  For the next two weeks we will be working through Halloween material - songs and games.  Of course there will be lots of movement and drama as well. 

Halloween activities look a little different from grade to grade but there are some favourites that we all do every year.  Unfortunately we can't play my favourite Halloween game this year, Pass The Witches Broomstick but I have discovered some new exciting Halloween activities. 

Grade 3/4

Mr. Kelly's class started working on the sign language for Imagine today.  I have set up a Google Classroom assignment with the parts of the song that we learned so far.  Please look on the classroom and practice so that we can really know it. We are going to have to film it for the Remembrance Day Assembly. 

Mrs. Zwack's class continues to work on their Remembrance Day movement piece as well. Please check your Music Google Classroom for the choreography. 

All the grade 3/4's spent some time listening to Camille Saint-Saens piece The Danse Macabre. It is not easy to sit and listen to a 7 min. piece of music but we followed a listening map with some fun pictures.  We tried to see the song come to life as we listened.  We discussed how the different instruments represented different parts of the story. 

We also had fun "creating" a witches brew.  Ask your student what they threw into the Brew!

We discussed 6/8 time signature and how math and music are related.  We also discussed dynamics (volume) and how we can create effects using different ones.