Learning Objectives: Students will explore timbre and sounds of different instruments.

Steps:

This we are going to find instruments that fit with the sound words, Zip, Wing, Ba-da, Boum!

1. Watch the video of Monsieur Stone, Madame Pickering and Louis L’éléphant. Try and follow along.

2. Watch Videos 2 and 3 to view two other versions of the song. Try to sing and play along while watching.

3. Watch Video 4, which explains the sounds and names of some percussion instruments in French.

4. Finally, watch and sing along with Video 5. This song, called“Nous sommes les musiciens," has some different instruments in French.

Learning Objectives: Students will explore dynamics (volume).

Steps:

1. Watch Video 1 of Madame Pickering and Monsieur Chat explaining dynamics and what they are in French.

2. Play Video 2 and find the different at home instruments suggested in the video.

• You can choose to play one instrument at a time or grab other family members and play along together.

• Listen to the different dynamics used in this song as you play along.

3. Video 3, "Forte Piano," is a song about dynamics in English. Play the video and try singing along!

Learning Objectives: Students will explore tempo, and working with legato and staccato.

Steps:

1. Today Monsieur Stone, Madame Pickering and Monsieur Bérubé are going to present a beautiful song called, “À la volette" (see Video 1).

   • Sing and move along to the video. If you have a scarf or ribbon in your house, you can add that to your movement.

   • Did you hear how sometimes the tempo in the song changed when Madame Pickering was singing and playing?

   • Did you recognize the instruments that Monsieur Stone and Monsieur Bérubé were playing?

2. There are many versions of the song “À la volette." Watch Video 2 to see how this version compares to the one in Video 1.

3. Watch Video 3. It is a song from composer Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnival of the Animals" called “Kangaroos." Can you see in the video when the music is legato and when it is staccato?

Learning Objective: Move and sing in 3/4 time.

Steps:

1. Today we are going to learn a beautiful song called “La laine des moutons."

2. Watch Video 1 of Monsieur Stone and Madame Pickering.

   1. • Did you notice that they used some classroom instruments?

      • Did you see the boomwackers, shaker eggs and the recorder in the song?

      • Also, Madame Pickering and Monsieur Stone were dancing to the song. Watch it a second time and try to move along with them.

3. Click on Video 2 ,"La laine des moutons," to watch a version of the song illustrated in pictures.

4. As a final activity, watch Video 3, "Rhythm Reading in 3/4 Time," and try to clap along with some rhythms in 3/4 time.

Learning Objectives: Sing, move and dance to a popular French Song. Clap, sing and echo rhythms ta, ti-ti and rest.

Steps:

1. Today we are going to learn a song and dance from France called “Sur le pont d’Avignon." Watch Video 1 of Monsieur Stone and Madame Pickering and follow along.

2. Do you remember the rhythms ta, ti-ti, and rest?

   1. • This portion of this lesson has been removed to honour copyright and timeframe restrictions set for use and sharing of previous materials.

Just for Fun! For a little extra practice, try speaking, clapping, or playing along to the rhythms in Video 2.

Learning Objectives: Learn body parts in French, create new verses, create and play musical phrases.

Steps:

1. Open the document “Les parties du corps." You can print this is you wish and use it for help later in the activity.

2. Play the video of Monsieur Stone and follow along with the instructions in the video. They are:

   1. • Step 1: Sing and move to the song.

      • Step 2: Choose four body parts from the document “Les parties du corps." Add them into the song.

      • Step 3: Now make a musical phrase with the four body parts you chose and add it to the song.

4. Watch Videos 2 and 3 to view other versions of this song and sing along.

Learning Objectives: Practice sol-fa hand signs, singing notes in a scale, and singing low, middle and high.

Steps:

1. Follow Madame Pickering and Monsieur Stone in the first video.

2. Now that you have learned the song, check out videos 2 and 3 to explore other versions of “J’ai perdu le do.” Try and sing along!

   • • I lost my clarinet-Songs and rhymes with Pinpin and Lili

     • « J'ai perdu le do de ma clarinette » - Mister Toony

3. Did you notice any differences?

   • • What did you notice?

     • Did the tempo (speed) change?

     • Did the words change?

4. Which one did you like the best? You choose!

• Madame Pickering and Monsieur Stone’s version

• Pinpin and Lili version

• Mister Toony version

Learning Objectives: Sing a song in French, and add actions, practicing with fast and slow. Experiment with body percussion, instruments, and internal hearing.

Cross curricular: FLA listen to a story in French about Napoléon.

Steps:

1. Today we are going to learn a song in French about Napoléon.

2. Who is Napoléon? Click on the first video to watch a two minute story video made by kids.

3. Click on the second video of Monsieur Stone. We encourage you to sing with Monsieur Stone and do the actions of the song.

4. Now add in the missing “sounds” with “percussion” instruments found in your home. For example, spoons, pots, pans, bowls, or even an unopened box of macaroni. Make sure you check with a parent or guardian first to make sure you have permission to use the "instrument" you have chosen.

5. When you were singing and playing the song with Monsieur Stone, did you notice that the speed of the song changed?

6. This step of this lesson has been removed to honour copyright and timeframe restrictions set for use and sharing of previous materials.