What Did We Do This Week?

 Every class is involved in this upcoming Peace Assembly.  This week we recorded individual speakers as well as every classes part in the song, Treat People With Kindness. It was nice to hear everyone's voices and get up and moving. 

Kindergarten

- we worked on the terms rhythm (the way the words go) and beat

-we reviewed ta and ti-ti and introduced a quarter rest and half note and worked out how to read them

-we sang solo and tried to match pitch

-we listened to different timbre of voice and tried to guess who was singing

Grade 1/2 

- we learned about Mozart and listened to Balletmusik while playing a beat game

- created our own ways to keep the beat

- talked about ostinatos (in our case a 4 beat rhythm that repeats over and over) and composed a short song

- looked at the form of a song (Into, middle, End) 

- Played a variety of unpitched percussion instruments to our new song

Grade 3/4 

 - we reviewed the string and percussion family

- introduced the woodwind and the brass family

- learned about composer Benjamin Britten

- Listened to The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and watched a short movie made to this piece of classical music