3rd Grade Music

Third grade has been having a BLAST in music classes throughout the month of September. We opened the year with a drumming circle, in which all children played their name and the class had to repeat the pattern. We also did other 'echo patterns', did echo patterns with "What's For Lunch?" and drummed to the song "Funga Alafia."

Here are some of the songs we've been singing in September:

• Royle School Song
• Hello There
• Hello Everyone
• Welcome to Music
• Funga Alafia
• Take Me Out to the Ballgame
• Black Socks
• Happy Birthday
• Hey, Mr. Beat Boy
• Better When I'm Dancin' (from the Peanuts movie)

Here are some of the Orff activities that we've worked on in September:

• I Wanna CCC
• 99 O'Clock
• Can You Click Your Tongue? (Yabba Dabba Do)
• Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear
• We learned the term pentatonic scale

Other activities that we've worked on in September:

• Meter chant
• Creating rhythms in different meters
• Dynamics such as piano, pianissimo, forte, fortissimo
• ABA 'form'
• Concert etiquette
• Marrayilyil - aboriginal dance from Australia (with rhythm sticks)
• Aroostasha - fun vocal warmup to work on high voice
• Chocolate Cookie - fun vocal warmup with hand motions
• Learning about woodwinds and the recorder, since we will start playing it in OCTOBER!