Primary Classes

Raising the Rockies

Enjoy creating your own movement story about the formation of the Rocky Mountains.

My friend Ms. Beth will lead you through some movements that follow the piece of music Also Sprach Zarathustra - an absolutely epic piece of music.

Take a video of yourself and send it to Mr. Andy.

andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Beat vs. Rhythm

Follow along with the songs in this video keeping the beat and showing the rhythm.

Some of these songs you will know, and some you will not.  Learn them!

Enjoy!

Moondance by Frank Asch

Uses movement and music to explore the book Moondance by Frank Asch.

Take a video of yourself participating in your favourite part of this activity and send it to Mr. Andy andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Credit to Marcelline Moody and RCM Smart Start for the lesson.  

Rhythm Canon

Create a Canon using this body percussion rhythmic phrase.  

Following along with the instructions in the video.

Take a video of yourself playing Part 2.  

If you can, memorize the phrase, find a partner at home and perform your very own body percussion rhythmic canon.

Share your video with Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Credit to Catherine West for the lesson.

Tini Mini Hanim

Let's explore keeping a body percussion ostinato while singing the song Tini Mini Hanim.

As well, let's explore reading and performing rhythm in standard notation.

Following along with the instructions in the video.

Take a video of yourself keeping your ostinato while singinging the song, and reading and performing the rhythms using body percussion.  Share your video with Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Credit to Catherine West for the lesson.

Little Mouse / Xiao Lao Shu

Let's explore creating and performing an ostinato with the song Xiao Lao Shu.   

Get out your glockenspiels, xyophones, or any pitched instruments (keyboard, iPad, etc.) and following along with the instructions in this video!

As well, lets explore our instruments as we improvise a B Section along with the images and descriptions of each phrase in the song.

Take a video of yourself keeping your ostinato, and improvising your B Sections and share it with Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Credit to Catherine West for the lesson.

Things that Come in Threes Part 1 - Moving to Music

Here is a video explaining different ways that we group beats in pieces of music.  

Move a long and discover different ways that beats can grouped.

Take a video of yourself playing this game with your family at home and share it with Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

In collaboration with RCM Smart Start.

Things that Come In Threes Part 2 - The Bear and the Bees

Here is a fun video expanding on our Things that Come in Threes lesson.  

Learn to improvise on your pitched percussion instrument a long to a silly poem by Dennis Lee.

Take a video of yourself improvising on your own pitched percussion instrument and share it with Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

In collaboration with RCM Smart Start.

Things that Come in Threes Part 3 - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Here are three the final video expanding on our Things that Come in Threes lesson. 

Move a long to the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by The Beatles.  Decide if you should be moving in beat groupings of Three or Four.

Take a video of yourself playing this game with your family at home and share it with Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

In collaboration with RCM Smart Start.

Respond to Music and Dynamics with Movement

Here are three of the Musical Movement Motif's that we used to do in our regular music classes.  

In this version, you can only move when I am playing loudly (forte).  If the music is playing softly (piano) then you can not move!

Take a video of yourself playing this game with your family at home and share it with Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

In collaboration with RCM Smart Start.

Tongo - Echoing and Improvising Rhythms

Echo a long with this wonderful song.  Echo back the rhythms being performed by Mr. Andy!   

Follow a long with the video, and improvise your own rhythms a long with the song near the end of the video!

Take a video of yourself echoing a long and improvising your own rhythms.  Share it with Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Credit to Catherine West for the lesson.

Tip-Toe - Musical Accent

Here is video featuring one of Mr. Andy's good friends - Bahareh.  

Learn more about the musical accent as you play the game Tip-Toe.

After you have learned the song, try playing the game on your own with your family.  Take a video and share it with Mr. Andy - andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Credit to RCM Smart Start for the lesson.

Wake Me, Shake Me - Doh is on the second line!!!!

Here is a video that explains how we read pitch on a five-line staff when Doh in on the second line.  

As well, this video shows you how you can make your own five-line staff at home.

Watch the video and play a long!

Wake Me, Shake Me - A Whole Bunch of Stuff!!!!

Here is a video for Wake Me, Shake Me that I showed in the longer Wake Me, Shake Me video (located above this one).

Sing a long, and show the rests, clap the rhythms, sing the solfa melodies with your hand signs, and improvise some of your own rhythms!

Yek Gol Da  - Updated Beat and Rhythm Activity

Here is an updated video for the song and activity Yek Gol Da.

This song celebrated the Persian and Iranian festival of Nowruz.

Take a video of yourself showing the rhythm and keeping the beat and send it to your teacher!

In collaboration with RCM Smart Start.

Cuckoo Cuckoo - with Improvisation

The week before March break, we began this activity.  This video shows how you might be able to do this at home!  Take a video of yourself and share it with me at andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

In collaboration with RCM Smart Start.

Pop Goes the Weasel - Musical Accent

Here is  video and activity that you can do at home.  It was alot of fun to create.  

Take a video of yourself and share it with me at andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Credit to RCM Smart Start for the lesson.

No More Pie

Here is a sing a long you can do at home.  This is a fun song that we sang this year in class.  You can sing at home with a partner.  One person sings each line first while the other person echos back.  Try to make up some of your own words!

Take a video of yourself singing this and send it to Andy at andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Cuckoo Cuckoo - Song and Game

Here is a fun game you can play at home using the song Cuckoo Cuckoo.

Take a video of yourself singing the song or playing the game with someone in your family, and share it with Andy at andrew.luck@tdsb.on.ca

Video 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.