Music

March 9 th – 13 th This week in music … Kindergarten -        Continued working on vocal development and working on singing in tune -        Started talking about the beat and learning how to walk to a slow, medium and fast beat Grade 1 -        Continued learning about the sol-fa notes “mi, so and la” and using our hand as a tool to place these notes on the musical staff Grade 2 -        Did an assessment on the sol – fa notes -        Continued working on vocal development and singing in tune Grade 3 -        Continued working with sol-fa notes and playing our songs on the xylophones o    Students had the chance to share one of their two songs that they could play on the xylophone Grade 4 -        Reviewed the time signature 4/4 and started creating their own xylophone compositions

March 2 nd – 6 th This week in music … Kindergarten -        Continued working on vocal development -        Continued improvising movements for high and low sounds Grade 1 -        Continued working on vocal development by singing in tune and using a singing voice -        Started to learn about the sol-fa notes “mi, so and la” and how to use our hand as a tool to place these notes on the musical staff Grade 2 -        Continued working on vocal development by singing in tune and using a singing voice -        Continued working with the sol-fa notes and using our hands as a tool to place these notes on a musical staff.  “Do” and “Re” were introduced this week -        Learned how to play tic-tac-toe by reading different sol-fa patterns Grade 3 & 4 -        Continued working with sol-fa notes, labelling the sol-fa notes on different songs and then playing these songs on the xylophones -        Reviewed what a time signature is and that it sta

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.