Hey Everyone!!
I am so excited to see everyone again and have my class filled with music. Even though we can't sing at the moment we have so many other things that we can do. Today we brainstormed some ideas for what would be fun. We are going to play instruments, dance, play games and act... to name a few.
Today some of the grade 3/4 and some of the grade 1/2 classes had their first class. The music room is mapped out so that each student has their own square in which they can do all of their movement and activity.
Grade 3/4
For the next few weeks the grade 3/4 students will be doing drumming. We have some great Home Depot paint buckets that make for perfect drums. We reviewed our rhythm names, created our own rhythms which we turned into group rhythms and played along to Katy Perry's song Smile! We tested our ability to drum on the beat using a concentration game. At the beginning of the class we played a fun chanting game where we got to tell about ourselves and make some fun poses with our bodies.
Grade 1/2
I'm sorry that I don't have any pictures for you today but we just did a lot of movement! I am trying to make sure we are not sitting for too long so we did a lot of echo movement and echo chanting songs. We had some dance breaks and played some dance games. We read the book Up, Up, Down by Robert Munsch and used our bodies to act out the story as we went along. We used our listening skills to listen to a variety of pitches and decided if they went up or down.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten will have their first music class on Thursday. I am so excited to see them!
