Welcome Video Website.mp4Welcome to Rose Avenue Music and Movement!
This site is a space where children and families can continue their musical development online.
Use the buttons below or the header at the top of the webpage to navigate to specific grade level activities.
Please continue to check to for regular updates.
Thursday, June 18th - Updated Notelfight Arrangements
Check out the Grade 5/6 page for links to updated arrangements for some of the pieces of music that we have learned. These arrangement should provide an opportunity to interact and improvise along with these pieces.
Tuesday, June 16th - New Grade 4/5 Activity and Worksheet
Check out the Grade 4/5 page of the website to learn two Protest Chants that were composed by grade four children in Rm. 325. As well, open and "Make a Copy" of the google doc Creating a Protest Chant Word Bank to create your own word bank filled with words inspired by the two Protest Chants.
Monday, June 15th - New Primary Videos, Grade 5/6 Protest Chant Recording Instructional Video
Check the Primary page for two new videos. One is a beat vs. rhythm compilation video of various songs we have sang this year, and some new ones. The other is a wonderful movement activity for the epic piece of music Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss.
Check the Grade 5/6 page for a video explaining how to record yourself performing your favourite Protest Chant and Ostinato from our Let the Children March activity.
Wednesday, June 10th - Let the Children March
In this series of videos we explore and document some of the work that has been done by children at Rose Avenue addressing anti-black racism and oppression.
The book Let the Children March was used to begin exploring anti-black racism and oppression, and was adapted to support an activity in which children learned a musical arrangement of text originally written by writer and activist Assata Shakur. In our school community this text is referred to as the Assata. This inital activity was then used as a spring board to launch into the composition of original pieces of music composed by children with lyrical and musical content that address the issues that we began exploring in this text.
It is important to acknowledge that this text explores these concepts within the context of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama 1963. In the larger context of continued anti-black racism and oppression this book offers a very narrow focus. This activity can, and should be done with other resources that can offer more perspectives, and with other activities that continue focusing on teaching music with social justice and anti-oppression frameworks.
For the purposes of this presentaiton, we have used an e-book pruchased through Vimeo. All credits are included in the third video presented in the series below.
Let the Children March Book Reading v1.mp4Video 1 - First Reading and Assata
In this first reading of the text Let the Children March we learn about children who marched peacefully in protest against segregtion in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.
As well, we learn a musical arrangement of text written by writer and activist Assata Shakur.
In our school, we have called this text the Assata.
Let the Children March Script.mp4Video 2 - What do students create?
This video describes the process by which students explore musical concepts (rhythm / beat / durration / texture) through the composition of original protest chants.
Let the Children March Book Reading v2.mp4Video 3 - Sharing Student Work
This video revists the activity from Video 1.
We reread the story, inserting the original protest chants composed by children.
All performances in this video are done by Mr. Andy
All protest chants in this video were composed by children.
Thursday, June 4th - Assata and Protest Chants
Check out the Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 pages to learn some Orff Body Percussion Protest Chants.
Monday, May 25th - Rhythm Canon
A new activity has been posted on every grades classroom page. It is the same activity for everyone, but that doesn't mean it's too easy or too hard. Creating a canon requires a lot of musical skill and concetration.
Check our your page, watch the video, and participate along!
Thursday, May 21st 2020 - New Activites for Primary and Online Music Survey
Check out the Primary page for two new activities - Tini Mini Hanim and Xiao Lao Shu.
Please continue filling out and submitting your Online Music Survey.
Tuesday, May 12th 2020 - Online Music Survey and Isle of Tune
There is a survey for all students on your class pages. Please complete the survey.
Watch the Video
Open the Google Doc.
Make a Copy
Rename your copy
Complete the survey
Share it with Mr. Andy (andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca)
Check out the Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 pages for a link to an interesting music sequencing website called The Isle of Tune. There is an instructional video and assignment as well.
Friday, May 8th 2020 - New Activiteis for Primary Children and New Pages on the Website
Check out the Primary page for a lesson in three parts called Things that Come in Threes. Credit to Catherine West and the Royal Conservatory of Music for developing these lessons. Watch theses videos, and participate with your families at home!
Check out the page Amazing Students to see some of the creatie work being done by our students at home!
Check out the page Past Blast for some videos of past performances by our Rose Avenue Children and Ensembles.
Monday, May 4th 2020 - New Activities for Primary Children
Check out the Primary page for some new songs and activities! Take a video of yourself participating in these lessons and send them to Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca
Friday, May 1st 2020 - Helping Hands Part 2 on the Chrome Music Lab
Check out the Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 pages for a new assignment - Converting your Helping Hands Part 2 Ostinato Layers into the Chrome Music Lab Song Maker
Friday, April 24th 2020 - Chrome Music Lab
Check out the Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 pages for an interesting activity using an online resource called the Chrome Music Lab.
Friday, April 24th 2020 - Wake Me, Shake Me
For my Grade 2 and 3 students. There is a new video for Wake Me, Shake Me in the Primary page of the website. This video shows you how to read pitch on a five-line staff when Doh is on the second line of the staff. Check it out!
Friday, April 24th 2020 - Havana B Section Composition and Instructional Videos
Check out the Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 pages for a new assignment and instructional video.
Wednesday, April 22nd 2020 - Havana!
Check the Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 pages for a video about improvising to the song Havana!
Friday, April 17th 2020 - LOTS OF NEW ACTIVITIES FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS!!!
Check out the Primary page of the site for a whole bunch of new activites! Watch the videos and participate along!
Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - New Activites for Primary and Junior
There is a new activity in the Primary section of the site. This activity is an echoing song called No More Pie.
There are new activites in the Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 sections of the site. Instructional videos with more detail will arrive later today or tomorrow.
Thursday, April 9th 2020 - New Activity for Primary! Wake Me, Shake Me
There is a new activity in the Primary section of the site. This activity is for the song Wake Me, Shake Me. Please enjoy!
The Helping Hands activities in the Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 pages of the site has been updated with an instructional videos.
Tuesday, April 7th 2020 - Updated Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 Activity with Videos
The Helping Hands activities in the Grade 4/5 and Grade 5/6 pages of the site has been updated with an instructional videos.