Jan. 27th - 30th

January 27^th – 30^th

It has been another busy week in music class …

The Grade 1 and 2 choir started Tuesday at lunch and 159 students made it to the music room.  The students had a great time and left the classroom singing one of their new songs.

This week in music …

Kindergarten

-       Continued working on vocal development and worked on singing instead of yelling while learning the song “Baby Bumblebee”

-       Continued working with the African drums – learned the secret code and was able to end their rhythm pattern all together upon hearing the secret code

Grade 1

-       Continued working on their songs for their celebration of learning – also added in O Canada as well.  Practiced standing and sitting quietly.

-       Learned a pattern called 8 big booms on the African drum

-       Continued having the chance to echo back simple rhythm patterns on the African drums

Grade 2

-       Started to piece together our African drumming story

o   Ask your child what their favourite drum pattern is

Grade 3

-       Continued our African drumming work and started to break ourselves up in to 2 groups to play 2 different rhythm patterns at the same time

Grade 4

-       Continued working with the African drums by playing rhythm patterns together as a large group, breaking up in to 2 smaller groups and playing two patterns at the same time and keeping a steady beat

o   Ask your child what their favourite drum pattern is