Music

This week in music … Kindergarten -        Continued working on vocal development and are learning how to sing “O Canada” -        Talked about high and low sounds and had the chance to improvise movements when they heard a high sound and low sound Grade 1 -        Continued working on vocal development and working on singing in tune -        Talked about high, middle and low sounds Grade 2 -        Finalized our drumming stories for our celebration of learning -        Grade 3 students came to visit us and we got to share our drumming stories with them then teach them our drumming patterns Grade 3 & 4 -        Started working with the sol – fa notes and learning where they go on the staff -        Started working with the xylophones – labelled a song with the sol – fa notes and then learned how to play it on the instruments

This week was our last week of African drumming.   The students had the chance to piece together their drumming song which consisted of 3 to 5 different rhythm patterns. The Grade 1 students also fine tweaked their songs for their Celebration of Learning and did an amazing job show casing their work.