Kindergarten: The Kindergarten students are learning to classify different sounds into those that have a beat (ie. clock ticking) and those that don't have a beat (ie. the wind). They will bring home a piece of paper where they drew to music with a beat and music without a beat.
1st Grade: The songs for 1st grade this week are centered around spiders! We are learning a song about two spider friends named Fang and Twang as well as a spoken piece about spiders called "Legs and All". Ask your child about using the puppets to sing their name in class.
2nd Grade: The 2nd graders are learning a song called "Down in the Valley". The song pairs with a game in which the students pass a bean bag to the half note pulse of the song. Whoever holds the bean bag at the end of the song is "out" and the game continues. The song and game prepare our study of the half note in the weeks to come.
3rd, 4th, and 5th: The upper grades are learning a song named "Mukava" which means "marvelous". The song pairs with a partner clapping game. We practice the game at a slow tempo, and then the students have time to work with their partners to coordinate singing and clapping at the actual, quicker tempo of the song. Their "assignment" is to practice the game with their partner this week. I look forward to seeing the "Mukava" experts.
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