Kindergarten musicians are working hard to sing with gentle head voices, keep a steady beat with their bodies, and dance to show what they hear.  Kindergarteners have even started to read a few rhythms!  Here, we share "Dinosaur, Dinosaur" where we sing, move and act out our parts!  This song uses simple pitches accessible in early childhood.

Kindergarten musicians are working hard to sing with gentle head voices, keep a steady beat with their bodies, and dance to show what they hear.  Kindergarteners have even started to read a few rhythms!  Here, we share "Dinosaur, Dinosaur" where we sing, move and act out our parts!  This song uses simple pitches accessible in early childhood.

First graders are learning so much about pitch, singing, rhythm, and beat.  Here we sing a call-and-response song called "Purple Light."  One group sings while the other echoes.  And if that's not enough, every student got a turn to improvise on a xylophone.  (Ask your first grader what improvising is in music!)

First graders are learning so much about pitch, singing, rhythm, and beat.  Here we sing a call-and-response song called "Purple Light."  One group sings while the other echoes.  And if that's not enough, every student got a turn to improvise on a xylophone.  (Ask your first grader what improvising is in music!)

Second graders are traveling around the world to explore their musical identities through singing, dancing, listening and composing.  So far we have visited parts of Ghana and Japan.  Students have been learning "Chi Chi Pappa" (more commonly called Suzume no Gakko in Japan.) Students can sing in Japanese, tell you what the words are about, and improvise on a xylophone to create a sing-play-sing pattern.  Every student had a chance to improvise!

Second graders are traveling around the world to explore their musical identities through singing, dancing, listening and composing.  So far we have visited parts of Ghana and Japan.  Students have been learning "Chi Chi Pappa" (more commonly called Suzume no Gakko in Japan.) Students can sing in Japanese, tell you what the words are about, and improvise on a xylophone to create a sing-play-sing pattern.  Every student had a chance to improvise!

It's recorder year!  A recorder is a small woodwind instrument that gives many children their first experience reading notes, blowing and doing a fingering combination all at the same time.  What coordination!  Third graders just learned their third note!  In this video kids are playing "Baseball Hat," an improvisation game that lets them each experiement with playing on their own.  Every student gets a turn to improvise and be the "hat human."  Note their beautiful singing!

It's recorder year!  A recorder is a small woodwind instrument that gives many children their first experience reading notes, blowing and doing a fingering combination all at the same time.  What coordination!  Third graders just learned their third note!  In this video kids are playing "Baseball Hat," an improvisation game that lets them each experiement with playing on their own.  Every student gets a turn to improvise and be the "hat human."  Note their beautiful singing!

Fourth graders have been studying "marginalized" composers.  We defined the term as, literally, people pushed to the margins because of things like racism and sexism.  One of our featured composers is Akira Ifukube.  In this video, students have just learned to read and play the notes from Ifukube's "Godzilla Theme" on the xylophone.  In May, listen for the finished version of this song in our Open Music Classes!

Fourth graders have been studying "marginalized" composers.  We defined the term as, literally, people pushed to the margins because of things like racism and sexism.  One of our featured composers is Akira Ifukube.  In this video, students have just learned to read and play the notes from Ifukube's "Godzilla Theme" on the xylophone.  In May, listen for the finished version of this song in our Open Music Classes!