Grade Four

Kookaburra

Sing along with Ms Trites and her clones.

This song is a round or a canon.

The Song of Six Birds

Listen along, and see which bird sounds you can imitate with your recorder.

Long Legged Sailor

Try the Clapping game Long Legged Sailor. If it starts to feel automatic, you can start to build speed.

For an extra challenge, try playing it on the recorder or a virtual xylophone.

Learn the Game

If you're still learning Long Legged Sailor, start here! Take your time, and practice until it feels easy.

Virtual Xylophone

Try to play the song Long Legged Sailor using the notes G-A-B (do-re-mi)

Week 8: Drum Machines and Rapping

Drum Machines and Rapping: Part I

Watch this video first!

Musicca's virtual drum machine is easy to use, but gives you a lot of creative options.

Warm up by rapping some nursery rhymes, and the move on to parodies, freestyling, and writing your own lyrics.

Musicca: https://www.musicca.com/drum-machine

Drum Machines and Rapping: Part II

Watch the other video first!

Drumbit is a bit more complicated, but gives you access to a wider variety of sounds.

Drumbit: https://drumbit.app/

To record a chrome tab, you can use Screencastify: https://www.screencastify.com/

Double Double

Double Double, This This...

The hand clapping game is tricky, and playing it on instruments is even tricker. Build a Drum Set out of objects from around your home.

If you find this easy, then try learing the game Slide, posted on the Grade 5-6 tab.

Double Double

Here's what the game looks like with a real partner

Tic Tac Toe

You might need to watch this one a few times. Remember you can slow down the playback speed.

Week 6

My videos are late this week as I work through some technical problems with my laptop.

Bim Bum

This song starts off easy, but can you keep up as the tempo gets faster and faster?

Rhythm Review

Practice your rhythm reading as you tap or drum ta, ti-ti, and tick-a-tick-a

No More Pie

Listen to Ella Jenkins (a famous folksinger) sing the song No More Pie. This was recorded in 1968

Week 5: I've Got a Car

I've got a Car

Learn the song "I've got a car" and sing it while performing an ostinato.

Drag and Drop Tutorial

Tutorial Video: watch how easy it can be to create an eight-beat rhythm, then create your own.

Drag and Drop Composing Activity

Make a copy of this slide, then create your own "car-crash" rhythm.

If you're a Westmount student, I'd love to see your rhythm, or a video of you performing it!

Week 4: No More Pie

Have you ever had a day where nothing is going right? A day where so many things go wrong that it's funny? That's the idea behind the song "No more pie."

Learn to sing this call and response song, then try writing your own song about having a rotten day.

The first line could be: Oh my, I want to go outside...

Week 3: Let's Sing a Round

Learn to sing the song Sweetly Sings the Donkey, and practice singing it in a round (with a family member, or with the recording on Ms Trites.

If you'd like a challenge, you can try to play the song on a instrument (real or online)

Visit the Chrome Music Labs version to create a remix and share it in the google classroom

Try playing the melody on this cool Scratch Glockenspiel

Notice that the notes are colour-coded the same as boomwhackers

I wrote the melody of Sweetly Sing the Donkey in Chrome Music Labs. Create your own version, change up the instruments, or create a brand new melody.

I'd love to hear your creations, so please email me a link to your song

Week 2: Down by the Bay

Sing along with folksong Down by the Bay. Challenge yourself by seeing how many rhyming verses you can write this week.

If you are feeling artistic, illustrate your favourite verse. If you end up writing or illustrating a verse, I'd love to see it! (Snap a photo and send an email)

Week 1: Rattlin' Bog

It's been a long time since we could make music together. I'll be posting a video here each week that you can sing along to. Rattlin' Bog is one of your class' favourites.

Grab two spoons from the kitchen if you'd like to play along during the chorus. Remember the Italian word for speeding up in music is accelerando. Think of a car accelerating

Grade 4s: I've added you all to a google classroom. If you like, you can create a Google Slides presentation about one of your favourite songs.

Grab some pencils, chopsticks, or just use your fingers on the table to practice reading simple rhythms in 3/4 and 4/4

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