Music This Week

Here's what we're doing in music this week:

Kindergarten:
-Review "One Potato, Two Potato" and keeping a steady beat with our rhythm sticks
-Learn a hand clapping game to accompany the nursery rhyme, "Pat-A-Cake".

First Grade:
-Discuss the use of themes in "Peter and the Wolf" to represent the characters in the story
-Play a matching game between animals and instruments to explore which instruments would represent the animals best in the orchestra.

Second Grade:
-Label "Barline" and "Measure" in a musical context
-"Five Little Monkeys"- label "tempo" and "forte/piano"
-"A Thousand Hungry Savages"- prepare "rondo" form
-" Cut the Cake"- Singing game from Nova Scotia

Third Grade:
-Continuation of preparing for the May 20 performance of movements from "Carnival of the Animals"

Fourth and Fifth Grades:
-"Mallet Madness": rhythmic echoes, body director, and crazy 8's