Welcome to Music!

We are excited to help you explore your musicality and practice the skills that are the building blocks for all good musicians! Enjoy, explore and most importantly have fun!

Send us videos or pictures of your creations, we would love to feature some of them here!

Week 1: The History of Hip Hop

1. Watch the Welcome to Distance Learning Music with Ms. Watson

2. Watch the three videos posted, History of Hip Hop, Baby Shark and This is Hip Hop

3. Listen to the two stories, When the Beat was Born and The Story of Rap

4. Make Video of a favorite dance (or make up one), to your favorite Hip Hop song (SCHOOL APPROPRIATE) and submit it!

If you do not have access to a device, tell me what your favorite part of this lesson was, what you like or dislike about hip hop, and if you have a favorite hip hop song! Do you know any instruments that are in hip hop? Let me know!!!

Week 2: Make your own instrument

I want you to look all around your house to make your OWN instrument!!

Play it to your favorite song and submit the video/pictures to me at watsonk@chapelhillisd.org

Watch these videos for inspiration!

1. How to make DIY Musical Instruments for Kids!!

2. 4 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Crafts you can do anytime | Fast-n-Easy | DIY Labs

3. Make Your Own Pre School Kids Musical Instruments - DIY Egg Shakers!

4. Making a Carrot Clarinet!

5. How to make your own pan flute out of straws

Week 4: Instrument Families

Explore the various instruments through the videos.

1. Tell me your favorite instrument family and instrument. (String, Brass, Woodwind, or Percussion)

2. What instrument would you play if you could?

3. Check out the BrainPop game

4. Another fun music game can be found at https://www.incredibox.com/demo/

Week 5: Master the Music Staff

1. Watch this video refresher on the music staff

2. Watch this fun video of a parody of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” but its TREBLE!

3. The music staff is made up of 5 lines and 4 spaces. We make up sentences or words to help us remember the names of the lines and spaces in order.

4. Draw out a music staff by making 5 horizontal (sideways) lines on a piece of paper. Using the video as a guide, start on the bottom of the staff and write your own sentence to remember the names of the lines. Can you come up with a new sentence using the letters E - G - B - D - F?

Here is mine,

Every Good Boy Deserves Fortnite

5. Can you make your own? Draw a music staff on a piece of paper, and draw dots on lines and spaces to create your own words. If you’d like to share your work, take a picture and email it to your teacher.

6. Something else you could do is put some masking tape on the floor to make 5 straight lines, like a staff! Have a parent/grandparent/sibling call out note names and you try to jump to the space! They could even name more than one and you can use both feet. You could also cut out “notes” with paper and place them on the lines.

Week 6: Music Treble Clef Staff

1. Last week we learned about the Treble Clef Staff!

2. Watch this fun video of animals singing about the Treble Clef!

3. As a recap, the music staff is made up of 5 lines and 4 spaces.

4. Head over to Quaver Music (link below) to learn about the Woodwind Family in the orchestra!

   1. Username: ChapelHillMus

   2. Password: bulldogs

   3. Classcode SVV2F

5. Once you get in, go to Assignments and complete it.

6. After you do the lesson I have given you, browse around into Student Interactives for some fun music games!

7. What is something new you learned? Is there anything you already knew?

8. Why is this important? Why do we learn how to read the treble clef staff? Does it help us do something important?

Week 7: I can name the notes in the Musical Alphabet

1. Last week we learned about the Treble Clef Staff!

2. Watch the video about the Musical Alphabet

3. As a recap, the music staff is made up of 5 lines and 4 spaces. The musical alphabet goes on them to make notes!

4. Head over to Quaver Music (link below) to learn about the Musical Alphabet!

   1. Username: ChapelHillMus

   2. Password: bulldogs

   3. Classcode BNG2T

5. Once you get in, go to Assignments and complete it.

6. After you do the lesson I have given you, browse around into Student Interactives for some fun music games!

7. What is something new you learned? Is there anything you already knew? What letters are NOT in the musical alphabet?

8. Again, why is this important? Why do we learn how to read the musical alphabet? Does it help us do something important?

9. Can you make up a funny or cool sentence with ABCDEFG?

Week 8:I can sing confidently in a canon.

1. Head over to Quaver Music (link below) to learn about Canons and do the assignment!

   1. Username: ChapelHillMus

   2. Password: bulldogs

   3. Classcode BNG2T

2. Once you get in, go to Assignments and complete it.

3. After you do the lesson I have given you, browse around into Student Interactives for some fun music games!