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Music production
Walt: understand the process of how sound and music is made using technology.
Focus:
This week, we are going to explore garageband as a technology used to produce music.
Instructions:
1. Read your texts.
2. Meet with Miss West to discuss your texts.
3. Complete the comprehension task.
4. Add new words to the vocab padlet.
5. Read the instructions on the 'Creating Loops in Garageband' task.
6. Explore garageband and, as a class, create a range of loops to create a piece of music to describe 'a school day'.
(Wonderopolis - ONLINE
Vocabulary
CREATE TASK
Animation
Comprehension Task
Animation cards
Attributions:
Youtube:
The orchestra
Walt: understand an orchestra
Focus:
This week, we are going to the Kiwi Kapers Concert with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra! Enjoy exploring information about orchestras to prepare for this concert!
Vocabulary
Animation
Animation cards
Attributions:
Youtube: Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Mahmut Onal, 4 Sept 2013
Percussion Instruments
Walt: react to a text
Walt: apply our knowledge
Focus:
This week we are going to learn about percussion Instruments. We will then use our knowledge to create our own percussion instruments.
Instructions:
1. Watch the youtube video about percussion instruments in the Cook Islands.
2. Read your first text for the week.
3. Add new vocab to the vocab padlet.
4. Using information you have learned through reading the texts, create a short video explaining how percussion instruments work.
Use musical vocab such as: rhythm, beat, pitch
5. Create a Percussion Instrument using items around school.
6. Create a blog post sharing your learning: writing, video, audio file of you playing a piece of music on your percussion instrument.
BLOG LABELS: 2017, Reading, Inquiry, Musical Madness, Percussion Instruments, Room 10
Vocabulary
CREATE
Create a video to explain how percussion instruments work. Make a model to help you explain.
Record a piece of music using percussion instruments which you create around school AND your woodwind instrument created last week.
Animation
Animation cards
Attributions:
Youtube: Percussions des iles Cook - "Symphony of Drums" SAMIRICO67 MOANA NUI (8 Sept 2011)
Woodwind Instruments
Walt: react to a text
Walt: apply our knowledge
Focus:
This week we are going to learn about Woodwind Instruments. We will then use our knowledge to create our own Woodwind Instruments. Remember, we have already started doing this by creating grass reed instruments!
Instructions:
1. Watch the youtube video about Woodwind Instruments.
2. Read your first text for the week.
3. Add new vocab to the vocab padlet.
4. Create a Woodwind Instrument using a straw.
5. Use your knowledge of woodwind instruments (thinking about grass reeds and straws) to create your own woodwind instrument using things around school.
Hint: How could you create a reed? Could you use paper in some way?
6. Create a blog post sharing your learning: writing, video, audio file of you playing your instrument.
BLOG LABELS: 2017, Reading, Inquiry, Musical Madness, Woodwind Instruments, Room 10
Vocabulary
Animation
SHARE YOUR CREATE TASK ON YOUR BLOG!
Animation cards
Attributions:
Youtube,How do Woodwind instruments make a sound? (Robert Reich-Storer), 27 January 2017.
Music tells a story
Walt: react to a text.
Focus:
Instructions:
1. Read the text 'The Seeing Hawk'.
2. Complete the task (red box)
3. Continue with last week's task for the poem, 'Dawn Service'.
5. Continue with your animation for the term.
Remember to:
- Add new music vocabulary to the vocab padlet as you learn it.
- Add your learning to your blog and to blog log.
YOUR TASK
Create a piece of music which tells the story of The Seeing Hawk.'
Think about how you will represent each part of the story.
Use garageband, your voice, other body percussion and/or instruments you have made.
Continue with this task from last week:
SJ L4, June 2014
See last week's work for your task.
Vocabulary
SHARE
1. Add new musical vocab to the vocab padlet.
2. Complete your create task for this week (The Seeing Hawk).
3. Complete your create task from last week (Dawn Service Poem)
Animation
Attributions:
Youtube,
Music and emotions
Walt: react to a text.
Focus:
Instructions:
1. Read your three texts for the week.
2. Add new vocabulary to the Vocab Padlet.
3. Complete the comprehension Task.
4. Complete the CREATE Task.
5. Begin your animation for the term.
1. Does music influence your mood?
(Wonderopolis)
2.
SJ L4, June 2014
Your task:
Create a piece of music (using garageband) which expresses the contrasting emotions in this poem.
Note: You do not need to use lyrics, however try to tell the story through the music.
Vocabulary
SHARE
1. Add new musical vocab to the vocab padlet.
2. Share your completed comprehension task on your blog.
3. Complete your create task for the poem. Share it on your blog along with a link to the poem.
Animation
Comprehension Task
Write a blog post answering the following question. Remember to use information from the texts to help you!
1. Reaction Question: Do you think it is a good idea to learn our times tables using songs? Why/ why not?
Attributions:
Youtube,
Musical Madness!
Walt:
Focus:
Instructions:
1. Read your three texts for the week.
2. Add new vocabulary to the Vocab Padlet.
3. Complete the comprehension Task.
4. Complete the CREATE Task.
5. Begin your animation for the term.
1. The Calling of the Conch
(Jill MacGregor)
SJ P3N3, 2010
BOOK
2. Conductor
(Jenny Powell-Chalmers)
SJ P2N2, 2009
BOOK - Poem
Vocabulary
CREATE Task
Your task is to create a piece of music (using garageband) which expresses the emotions or story in one of the two poems, above (text 2 or 3).
Note: you do not need to have lyrics, however try to tell the story through the music!
Animation
Comprehension Task
Attributions:
Youtube, How to blow a conch shell, FloridaKeys TV, 27 Feb 2012
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