Miss West
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Music production
Walt: understand how music is produced using technology
Walt: decide whether words we read 'look right and sound right'.
Focus:
Weekly Reading Tasks:
1. Read your book to Miss West.
2. Complete the follow up task.
3. Complete 15 minutes on sunshine books.
3. Complete 15 minutes a day on your animation.
4. Work through the garageband task.
This week we are going to be creating loops on garageband.
Kitty Cat and the Paint
(Annette Smith)
Popcorn Fun
(Annette Smith)
Animals that live under the ground
(Debbie Croft)
Attributions:
Youtube:
The orchestra
Walt: understand an orchestra
Focus:
Weekly Reading Tasks:
1. Read a sunshine book of your choice to Miss West.
2. Complete the follow up task.
3. Complete 15 minutes a day on your animation.
4. Work through the 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'.
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!
Attributions:
Youtube: Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Mahmut Onal, 4 Sept 2013
Percussion Instruments
Walt: take note of word endings
Walt: read slowly for accuracy
Focus:
Weekly Reading Tasks:
1. Read with Miss West (Book 1).
2. Post about this book on your blog.
3. Read 2 sunshine books and complete the tasks online.
4. Meet with Miss West to read the Sunshine book.
5. Storyline online, Reading Eggs, and animations.
6. Watch the video about Woodwind Instruments.
7. Create a straw clarinet.
8. Create your own Woodwind instrument.
We will explore our music inquiry through our shared texts.
This term, our inquiry is Musical Madness! We will be making and playing our own instruments to create a piece of music.
Shared Texts
Jack and the Beanstalk
(Retold by Kylie Parry)
The Pied Piper
(SUNSHINE BOOKS)
Animation
Attributions:
Youtube: How do Woodwind instruments make a sound? (Robert Reich-Storer), 27 January 2017.
Woodwind Instruments
Walt: take note of word endings
Walt: read slowly for accuracy
Focus:
Weekly Reading Tasks:
1. Read with Miss West (Book 1).
2. Post about this book on your blog.
3. Read 2 sunshine books and complete the tasks online.
4. Meet with Miss West to read the Sunshine book.
5. Storyline online, Reading Eggs, and animations.
6. Watch the video about Woodwind Instruments.
7. Create a straw clarinet.
8. Create your own Woodwind instrument.
We will explore our music inquiry through our shared texts.
This term, our inquiry is Musical Madness! We will be making and playing our own instruments to create a piece of music.
Red Squirrel Hides Some Nuts
(Beverley Randell)
The Jungle Frogs
(Jenny Giles)
The Toy Farm
(Jenny Giles)
Animation
Attributions:
Youtube: How do Woodwind instruments make a sound? (Robert Reich-Storer), 27 January 2017.
Music and Emotions
Walt: read slowly for accuracy.
Focus:
Weekly Reading Tasks:
1. Read with Miss West (Book 1).
2. Post about this book on your blog.
3. Read your sunshine book and complete the task online.
4. Meet with Miss West to read the Sunshine book.
4. iPads: Sunshine books: 4 books of your choice.
5. Storyline online, Reading Eggs, and animations.
We will explore our music inquiry through our shared texts.
This term, our inquiry is Musical Madness! We will be making and playing our own instruments to create a piece of music.
A roof and a door
(Annette Smith)
Lollipop, the Old Car
(Annette Smith)
What a day!
(Carmel Reilly)
Shared Texts
(JJ44, 2012)
Task
Create a piece of music (using garageband) which tells the story of the poem.
Note: you do not need to have lyrics, however try to tell the story through the music!
Animation
IPad: Sunshine Books Online
Attributions:
Youtube:
Term 4!
Walt: find important words to give us more information.
Walt: find words that rhyme.
Walt: find the sentence which matches with the illustration.
Focus:
Weekly Reading Tasks:
1. Meet with Miss West (Book 1).
2. Follow up task (Book 1). Post about this task on your blog.
3. Meet with Miss West - Shared Text/ Book 2.
4. iPads: Sunshine books: 4 books.
5. Storyline online and animations.
We will explore our music inquiry through our shared texts.
This term, our inquiry is Musical Madness! We will be making and playing our own instruments to create a piece of music.
The Hungry Kitten
(Beverley Randell)
Telling the Truth
(Dawn McMillan)
The Gingerbread Man
(Annette Smith)
Shared Texts
Conductor
(Jenny Powell-Chalmers, SJ P2N2, 2009)
(Alan Bagnall, JJ 48, 2014)
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
IPad: Sunshine Books Online
Attributions:
Youtube: How to blow a conch shell, FloridaKeysTV, (27 Feb, 2012).