Music
K-5 Activities for the week of 6/1
K-2 Activities for the week of 5/25
Grade 3-5 Activities for the Week of 5/25
K-2 Activities for the Week of 5/18
Grade 3-5 Activities for the Week of 5/18
K-2 Activities for the week of 5/11
Grade 3-5 Activities for the week of 5/11
K-2 Activities for the week of 5/4
Grade 3-5 Activities for the week of 5/4
K-2 Activities for the week of 4/27
2nd graders - here's a video to watch that will help you to learn the pitches so and mi.
K-2 students please try this interactive game. Do sounds go higher or lower when the object is taller? Does a big bass violin sound higher or lower than a flute?
3-5 Activities for the week of 4/27
3rd graders - Here's a fun immigration song to learn.
5th graders - I hope you enjoy this animated video of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Click on the letter name of the note written on the staff, and spell a word. Here’s a helpful hint: the space notes spell F-A-C-E, and the line notes are Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (E,G,B,D,F)
K-2 Activities for the week of April 20th
K-2 Try moving and freezing along with this video.
3-5 Activities for the Week of April 20th
K-2 Activities for the Week of April 13th
Hi Kindergarteners, I know you are studying the environment, and I thought you might like learning this song for Earth Day.
EARTH SONG by Bryant Oden
We dream of a world where
People love to take good care
Of Mother Earth, keep her green and blue
Just because it’s good to do
From the mountains, to the oceans
And everywhere in between
From the animals to the waterfalls
Earth is wonderful let’s keep her blue and green
Hi Kindergarteners, First, and Second Graders - this is a fun site for creating a parade. You choose a character to lead your parade and then add up to 10 more characters to join, each of them playing a different instrument. Now march to the sounds of your parade! If you’d like, post a video of you marching to Seesaw.
3-5 Activities for the Week of April 13th
Third, fourth and fifth graders - this amazed me! Smash Mouth All star melon version. Watch how to carve out three different types of melons to play a song. Which melon has the lowest pitch?
Third, fourth and fifth graders, check out this recorder ensemble from Taiwan playing Leroy Anderson’s “The Typewriter.” I think they’re having fun!
K- 2 Actvities for Week of March 30
Do you remember the game “Cuckoo, Where are you?”?
Second graders - here is a song called Lucy Locket. Please clap the rhythms and sing so, la, and mi to the notes. Then try to add the words to the tune. Last, you can try to play the game with a family member. It's in the style of duck-duck-goose.
Kindergarteners, First graders, and Second graders - Have fun moving with your favorite characters from Frozen.
K-2 Listen to the story of Hansel and Gretel with music by Englebert Humperdinck.
Grades 3-5 Activities for Week of March 30
Click on the grade to see the activity
Hansel & Gretel: Go Classical for Kids!
Third, fourth, and fifth graders, this is a wonderful and interactive site for learning about opera. You will learn about Hansel and Gretel, written by a German composer named Englebert Humperdinck. He called this a "fairy tale opera", and while watching the opera, you can try your hand at being a costume designer, a choreographer (the dance routines), a set designer, a prop manager, and a lighting technician.
Go Classical for Kids! This is a good site for listening to classical music.
K- 2 Activities for Week of March 23
Grades K-2
Make your own musical instrument!
https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/make-your-own-instrument
Hi Kindergarteners, First Graders, and Second Graders,
This link above will bring you to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. You might have fun, and at the same time learn about instruments that are part of an orchestra. You might like clicking on the link to make maracas, coffee can drums, or a woodwind instrument. If you can, please post your instruments on SeeSaw so I can see them.
Keep singing,
Mrs. Vallone
Hi Wonderful KES Students - please take a minute to watch these three brothers singing, with one playing the piano, about how important it is to stay home.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders - this is a fun game to try. Go to the site linked above, and then click on Music Band. You will need an Adobe Flash player. Once you open up the game, click on the green circle and the musician will play their instrument. Click on the red circle and they will stop. Do you like it best when only one musician is playing, or do you like it when they all play together? Which instrument do you like best?
Grades 3-5 Activities for Week of March 23
Grades 3-5
Hi KES 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders,
I so wish we could still be learning music at school, but at least for awhile, we’ll have to rely on music online. Another music teacher, Katherine Walden, came up with the idea to create a BINGO game with musical choices. I took her idea and changed some of the ideas for choices. But you know how BINGO works, so I hope you’ll have fun trying to complete some of the activities. The activities involve singing, listening, responding, moving, and creating. I’d love to see a SeeSaw post about which activities you liked best.
Can’t wait to see you all again!
Mrs. Vallone
Fourth and fifth graders - do you remember how we read the story of The Fox? Here are two versions of this story that are sung by very good musicians. The first link is Pete Seeger, and we will learn more about him when we return to school.
The second link is to a group called Nickel Creek, and it is really fun to watch them improvise (play music on the spot without anything written down) and “jam” with each other.