What Did We Do This Week?

 If you are wondering what your student did this week.. here it is!

Kindergarten

- Learned the chorus to Treat People with Kindness

- Practiced high and low notes

- Played singing and drama games preparing the notes so and mi

- We played a variety of instrument, practicing rhythm and beat and switching between the two

- We learned about penguins and practiced hopping on one foot!

Grade 1/2 

- We learned the first verse if Treat People with Kindness 

- We sang in French and learned the name for some body parts in French.  We discussed how Canada is a bilingual Country and that the primary language of Quebec is French

- We practiced pitch moving from high to low as we pretended to be icicles

- We practiced reading rhythms, putting in bar lines for 2/4 time signature 

- We sang solo (all by ourselves!!!)

Grade 3/4 

- We learned the verse of Treat People with Kindness

- Played a super fun game called Bippity Bippity Bop

- We talked about the music of the First Nations, in particular the Blackfoot. We looked at a variety of instruments and talked about what they would have been made of in the past

- A few students rose to the challenge of deciding if a piano is a string instrument or a percussion instrument.  They had a chance today to defend their position before finding out it is a percussion instrument (when you push a key it moves a hammer up to hit a string and that is what produces the sound - the action of hitting puts it in the percussion family) Well done to everyone who did the research!