1st Grade

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Week of March 30-April 3 ✔

  1. Listen to Ms. Swango read the book "Do You Do a Didgeridoo?"

  2. Watch the 2 minute video to meet Nathan and learn more about the didgeridoo.

  3. Movement activity: Listen and drive around Australia on "Highway Number 1"

Story Corner with
Ms. Swango

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Week of April 6-10 ✔

This week we are going on a musical scavenger hunt! Look around your house for potential instruments. Do you have an empty milk jug you can bang a spoon on? Do you have a plastic lid you can tap? An empty Pringles can you can fill with beads (or pebbles) and shake?

Musical Scavenger Hunt

Use your new found instruments to play along with the videos below. Grab your family, assign instruments to the different colors/symbols and play along with one (or all!) of the videos!


Click the red button to let Ms. Swango know if you completed this activity! (One form per student, please.)

Week of April 13-17 ✔

If you have any plastic Easter eggs, fill them with the items of your choice (jelly beans, pennies, etc.) and play along with "I Know a Chicken." If you don't have an egg use whatever shaker instrument you discovered last week!

Click on the red box to let Ms. Swango know you've completed this week's activity!

Week of April 20-24 ✔


Down By the Bay

Sing Along with Ms. Swango and her daughter, Carissa! Then complete the activity below.

Download the worksheet to make your own rhyming verse for our song. If you don't have a printer, just use whatever paper you have at home! You can snap a pic of your drawing or even make a video of you singing your new verse and send it to Ms. Swango at swango_s@nrschools.org

Down By the Bay.pdf

Week of April 27-May 1 ✔

Family Musical Scavenger Hunt.pdf

🎵Week of May 4-8: Star Wars Week 🎵

K & 1st Gr. Choice_ May the 4th.pdf