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As Kindergarteners embark on their "Sound Games from Around the World" unit they will sing in multiple languages, expand their understanding of rhythm, phrase and "part," and work cooperatively. In this video, students are playing "Button You Must Wander." Every child has had a turn to be the searcher, hide the button and hand out the button!
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Kindergarten musicians are working hard to sing with gentle head voices, keep a steady beat with their bodies, dance using moods and play instruments. Kindergarteners have even started to read a few rhythms! Here, we share three kinds of echoes for you: rhythm, pitch and silly! (Even the silly ones help us understand musical phrasing.)
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As Kindergarteners embark on their "Sound Games from Around the World" unit they will sing in multiple languages, expand their understanding of rhythm, phrase and "part," and work cooperatively. In this video, students are playing "Button You Must Wander." Every child has had a turn to be the searcher, hide the button and hand out the button!
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Kindergarten musicians are working hard to sing with gentle head voices, keep a steady beat with their bodies, dance using moods and play instruments. Kindergarteners have even started to read a few rhythms! Here, we share three kinds of echoes for you: rhythm, pitch and silly! (Even the silly ones help us understand musical phrasing.)
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First graders are practicing their musical opposites. "Kye Kye Kule," a song from Ghana with nonsense lyrics, is a great way to practice using different tempos. Students can say and aurally identify LARGO (slow,) ANDANTE (walking pace,) ALLEGRO (fast,) and PRESTO (super fast.). Listen for their ability to choose and sing tempos when performing!
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First graders are learning so much about pitch, singing, rhythm, and beat. One of our favorite songs to work on is "Ti-O-O," a Hokkien language folk song from Taiwan. This song is about a loach! (Ask your students what it is!). This song was taught to Dr. Huntley by Ms. Jannelle Lo, a music teacher in Newton, who sang this song as a child in Taiwan. Every student in first grade has had a chance to accompany their peers with a boomwhacker.
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First graders are practicing their musical opposites. "Kye Kye Kule," a song from Ghana with nonsense lyrics, is a great way to practice using different tempos. Students can say and aurally identify LARGO (slow,) ANDANTE (walking pace,) ALLEGRO (fast,) and PRESTO (super fast.). Listen for their ability to choose and sing tempos when performing!
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First graders are learning so much about pitch, singing, rhythm, and beat. One of our favorite songs to work on is "Ti-O-O," a Hokkien language folk song from Taiwan. This song is about a loach! (Ask your students what it is!). This song was taught to Dr. Huntley by Ms. Jannelle Lo, a music teacher in Newton, who sang this song as a child in Taiwan. Every student in first grade has had a chance to accompany their peers with a boomwhacker.
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Second graders have just begun an in-depth study of the European symphony orchestra. By the end of the unit they will be able to identify sixteen common orchestra instruments by sight and sound and they will know how each of these instruments in played. Students have begun singing "The Orchestra Song," an Austrian round. In this video they feature the 'violin' part!
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Second graders are traveling around the world to explore their musical identities. We have visited parts of Japan, Ghana and now Mexico! Students have fun singing "Tia Monica" and adding body parts to wiggle "asi, asi asi!" While this song is beloved in many Spanish-speaking nations, research shows its roots are in Mexico. Enjoy seeing us create, dance and sing in Spanish!
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Second graders have just begun an in-depth study of the European symphony orchestra. By the end of the unit they will be able to identify sixteen common orchestra instruments by sight and sound and they will know how each of these instruments in played. Students have begun singing "The Orchestra Song," an Austrian round. In this video they feature the 'violin' part!
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Second graders are traveling around the world to explore their musical identities. We have visited parts of Japan, Ghana and now Mexico! Students have fun singing "Tia Monica" and adding body parts to wiggle "asi, asi asi!" While this song is beloved in many Spanish-speaking nations, research shows its roots are in Mexico. Enjoy seeing us create, dance and sing in Spanish!
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Third graders are using their recorders to travel around the world! They are singing, playing, dancing, reading and listening to music from several major world cultures. Their first experience in this unit was to travel to South Africa to learn the Zulu song "Siyahamba." Students continued to learn that South African music is the basis for the Lion King and many other songs already familiar to students.
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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 are using their recorder playing to learn about musical structures. In "Duke's Place," we get a chance to sing and improvise. We also did a mini-lesson on the great Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong!
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Third graders are using their recorders to travel around the world! They are singing, playing, dancing, reading and listening to music from several major world cultures. Their first experience in this unit was to travel to South Africa to learn the Zulu song "Siyahamba." Students continued to learn that South African music is the basis for the Lion King and many other songs already familiar to students.
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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 are using their recorder playing to learn about musical structures. In "Duke's Place," we get a chance to sing and improvise. We also did a mini-lesson on the great Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong!
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Fourth graders used a study of Roland Hayes to connect their first unit on marginalized composers to their second unit about Black American music. Students learned to sing two Negro Spirituals made famous by Roland Hayes: "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" and "Good News." Listen as students perform these as partner songs (at the same time!)
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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 Angélica Negron, a Latina composer and educator from Puerto Rico. Ms. Negron created a song called "Un, Dos, Tres" for children to sing and improvise. Watch and listen as fourth graders perform her work!
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Fourth graders used a study of Roland Hayes to connect their first unit on marginalized composers to their second unit about Black American music. Students learned to sing two Negro Spirituals made famous by Roland Hayes: "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" and "Good News." Listen as students perform these as partner songs (at the same time!)
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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 Angélica Negrón, a Latina composer and educator from Puerto Rico. Ms. Negrón created a song called "Un, Dos, Tres" for children to sing and improvise. Watch and listen as fourth graders perform her work!
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