Thursday, October 22, 2009
Holiday Program Venue Change
The Holiday program will still occur on Tuesday, December 15 at 6:30 PM, but the location has changed to the Dutchman Creek Middle School Auditorium. If you are available and willing to help on December 15 with either the transporting of instruments to DCMS or during the night of the program, please e-mail me at aodom@rock-hill.k12.sc.us. We'll need lots of helping hands to make this a merry night to remember!
This Week in Music
Kindergarten: We have added the quarter rest to our rhythms, and students are experiencing the rest in several songs, "I like to Play the Sticks" and "Into the Woods". Since Halloween is on its merry way, we have learned "We are Scary Skeletons", which reinforces pulse of music and locomotor skills.
1st Grade: Students play an imitative game with "In the Hall of the Mountain King", a well-known Halloween/mystery song. The rhyme, "Little Jack Pumpkin Face", is learned with different motions to show the pulse of the music during each phrase. For the song, "What Will you Be?", instruments are used to keep the pulse as each student tells the class and teacher what they will be for Halloween. Students are assessed this week on their ability to indicate whether music moves up or down when they hear it.
2nd Grade: The dynamics, piano and forte, are introduced in a spoken piece called "Three Little Muffins. Students are also using a three line staff to accurately place the pitches for mi, so, and la as used in their songs thus far this year. The song, "Must Be Halloween", allows students to determine the rhythm of the song when they hear it.
3rd-5th Grades: Students learn a hand game called "Double Double Ice Cream", a popular playground song/game. In pairs, students receive a felt five line staff and felt notes. They place the notes for do, re, mi, so, la on the correct line or space when the teacher calls them out. The half and whole rests are reviewed this week. The concept of Major and minor keys are introduced and students asked to brainstorm adjectives to describe a song in Major and minor keys. The book, Shake Dem Halloween Bones, is introduced, and students are taught a tune to accompany the chorus of the book. Third graders will add an instrumental part to the tune next week. Fourth and fifth graders will begin recorders next week.
1st Grade: Students play an imitative game with "In the Hall of the Mountain King", a well-known Halloween/mystery song. The rhyme, "Little Jack Pumpkin Face", is learned with different motions to show the pulse of the music during each phrase. For the song, "What Will you Be?", instruments are used to keep the pulse as each student tells the class and teacher what they will be for Halloween. Students are assessed this week on their ability to indicate whether music moves up or down when they hear it.
2nd Grade: The dynamics, piano and forte, are introduced in a spoken piece called "Three Little Muffins. Students are also using a three line staff to accurately place the pitches for mi, so, and la as used in their songs thus far this year. The song, "Must Be Halloween", allows students to determine the rhythm of the song when they hear it.
3rd-5th Grades: Students learn a hand game called "Double Double Ice Cream", a popular playground song/game. In pairs, students receive a felt five line staff and felt notes. They place the notes for do, re, mi, so, la on the correct line or space when the teacher calls them out. The half and whole rests are reviewed this week. The concept of Major and minor keys are introduced and students asked to brainstorm adjectives to describe a song in Major and minor keys. The book, Shake Dem Halloween Bones, is introduced, and students are taught a tune to accompany the chorus of the book. Third graders will add an instrumental part to the tune next week. Fourth and fifth graders will begin recorders next week.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Recorders!
Fourth and fifth grade students will begin recorders the week of Oct 26! Some extra recorders were ordered and will be sold on a first come first serve basis.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Holiday Program Date Set!
IHES music and art classes will present a Holiday/Winter Program on Tuesday, December 15 at 6:30 PM on the IHES cafeteria stage. All grade levels will be involved, so this will be a school wide event. Mark your calendars to save the date for this special program!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Acting Classes for Children
Rock Hill Community Theatre offers "Dramatize Your Life", an acting class for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, on Thursdays 4:30-5:30 starting October 8.
For more information on registration call 324-2578 or go to www.rockhilltheatre.org and click on "tickets".
For more information on registration call 324-2578 or go to www.rockhilltheatre.org and click on "tickets".
This Week in Music
Kindergarten- The Kindergartners continue lessons on distinguishing music that has a beat from music that does not have a beat. Using rhythm sticks and scarves, the students demonstrate the ability to acknowledge the difference in music with a beat and that without a beat. This week the students are introduced to "ta". Next week they will practice notating "ta" while listening to a piece of music.
1st Grade- The students learn a song titled "Big Black Cats", and then play a passing game which enforces steady beat with wood blocks. Each student has the opportunity this week to play an ascending and descending scale on the Bass Metallophone to the song "The Itsy Bitsy Spider". Students learn a chant, "The spider kept on working until the job was done" to recite during the story, The Very Busy Spider, by Eric Carle.
2nd Grade- The second graders learn two songs this week: "Poor Little Kitty Cat" and "Jockey". "Poor Little Kitty Cat" reinforces sol-mi melodies using the Glockenspiel. "Jockey" is about a race horse jockey. One student is the "jockey" who walks within a circle of all of the students. The "jockey" selects a "horse" and together they "do-si-do" to the music, and then the game continues with the "horse" as the new "jockey".
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades- The students in the upper grades are learning songs about Christopher Columbus in honor of Columbus Day. "Three Famous Ships" is a spoken rhyme accompanied by a partner clapping game. "A Famous Man" is a song that includes singing and instrumental parts: Tambourine, Metallophone, and Xylophone.
The 4th and 5th graders will recorder lessons by the end of the month.
1st Grade- The students learn a song titled "Big Black Cats", and then play a passing game which enforces steady beat with wood blocks. Each student has the opportunity this week to play an ascending and descending scale on the Bass Metallophone to the song "The Itsy Bitsy Spider". Students learn a chant, "The spider kept on working until the job was done" to recite during the story, The Very Busy Spider, by Eric Carle.
2nd Grade- The second graders learn two songs this week: "Poor Little Kitty Cat" and "Jockey". "Poor Little Kitty Cat" reinforces sol-mi melodies using the Glockenspiel. "Jockey" is about a race horse jockey. One student is the "jockey" who walks within a circle of all of the students. The "jockey" selects a "horse" and together they "do-si-do" to the music, and then the game continues with the "horse" as the new "jockey".
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades- The students in the upper grades are learning songs about Christopher Columbus in honor of Columbus Day. "Three Famous Ships" is a spoken rhyme accompanied by a partner clapping game. "A Famous Man" is a song that includes singing and instrumental parts: Tambourine, Metallophone, and Xylophone.
The 4th and 5th graders will recorder lessons by the end of the month.
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