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Dear Parents,
Students will look at their Google Classroom pages for lessons if we go to online learning.
I will be posting Remote Learning Lessons and Activities on my web page which is linked here.
I encourage you to bookmark this link so you can readily access it in the future.
Music students would have around 2 or two and a half hours of instruction in a month, so this is what I will try to do.
Respectfully,
Mrs. Ewigleben
Welcome to E learning
from home
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PREVIOUS- music activities FOR FUN
PREVIOUS- music activities FOR FUN
Kindergarten and First Grade Suggestions
Walk and clap beats of 4
March and clap beats of 4
Skip or Gallop and notice the uneven rhythm pattern of long and short sounds.
Make up patterns of beats of 4 with motions or movements.
Sing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and the “ABC” song.
Dance to any music on the radio or whatever device you listen with.
Get a scarf and practice moving it in the air to make a phrase of music. Start down and go up and then go over like a rainbow. Make slow phrases and fast phrases. Bend your knees and go up on tiptoes. Experiment going around the room.
Second and Third Grade Suggestions
1.Musical terms you need to memorize-------
Forte means loud
Piano means soft
Repeat sign means play or sing the part over again
Dal Signo or D.S. means go back to the sign
Music staff has 4 spaces and 5 lines
Treble Clef sign means you are playing or singing higher notes
Quarter note
Half note
Eighth note
Quarter rest
Ostinato is a stubborn repeated pattern
Write these terms and notes down and memorize them.
Write some music with these terms or notes.
2. Sing your favorite songs. Write down the names of the songs on a paper.
Fourth Grade Suggestions
Watch a video about Impressionism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVvu3XOJ-8w
Look up Impressionism in the dictionary. Write a paragraph describing what you believe Impressionism is.
Draw, color, paint a picture with the qualities of Monet’s paintings. Put music notes somewhere on your picture.
Listen to “Au Clair De La Lune” by Debussy or any music by Debussy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNcsUNKlAKw
Sing your favorite songs and make a list of them. Make up motions or moves to go with the songs. Share what you invented with brothers and sisters. If no siblings, share with your guardians or parents.
Fifth Grade Suggestions
Watch a video about Impressionism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVvu3XOJ-8w
Look up Impressionism in the dictionary. Write a paragraph describing what you believe Impressionism is.
Draw, color, paint a picture with the qualities of Monet’s paintings. Put music notes somewhere on your picture.
Listen to “Au Clair De La Lune” by Debussy or any music by Debussy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNcsUNKlAKw
Watch a video about recorder playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d6uVjIEkMY&t=574s
6. If you have your recorder, practice the breathing and playing of the notes. If you have your book, play the songs in the book. The back page has the notes.
*****As of 4/2/20 We will not be playing recorder in class. Your money will be refunded to your lunch account. If you want to get a soprano recorder and practice at home, go to https://musiciselementary.com/recorders/ . Music Is Elementary website, 800 888-7502 and get a soprano recorder. Also get the beginning recorder book-My First Classical Recorder Book. https://musiciselementary.com/product/my-first-classical-recorder-book/
ALL GRADE SUGGESTIONS
Watch the paintings of Monet and listen to music by Debussy-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNcsUNKlAKw
Review the music games we know.
MISS MARY MACK
THE THREAD FOLLOWS THE NEEDLE
RIBBON BRAID or SWIRL/SNAIL
DRAW A BUCKET OF WATER
POP! GOES THE WEASEL
HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH
SCHOOL GOAL-Ruth Ewigleben
Music Standards-Indiana
Cn.1.2.1, Cn.1.5.1, Cn.1.5.2, Cn. 2.2.1, Cn.2.5.2, Cn. 3.2.1, Cn.3.5.1, Cn.3.5.2, LR.4.2.1, LR.4.5.1, LR.5.2.1, LR.5.2.2, LR.5.5.1, LR.5.5.2, LR.6.2.1, LR.6.2.2, LR. 6.2.3, LR.6.5.1, LR.6.5.2, LR. 6.5.3, P.7.2.1, P.7.5.1, P.7.2.2, P.7.5.1, P.7.5.2, P.7.5.3, Cr.9.2.2, Cr.10.2.1
PLAYGROUND SONGS AND CHANTS
Each month all students will learn a song or chant they can play outside on the playground.
September-MISS MARY MACK
**Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
All down her back, back, back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For fifty cents, cents, cents,
To see the cow, cow, cow, (clown, elephant, monkey, horse, etc.)
Jump over the fence, fence, fence,
It jumped so high, high, high,
Into the sky, sky, sky,
It never came back, back, back,
Till the 4th of July, ly, ly.
With clapping and body percussion.
Clap on thighs
Clap partner’s hands
Clap thighs, own hands, partner’s hands
Clap thighs, partner’s hands, jump
Side claps for groups of 3 or 4
Day 2-review with groups making up motions or body percussion for the 3 beats on the repeated words or notes.
REFLECTION-The students were very creative on Day 2 and figured out that if you alter the speed or tempo of the chant/song, you can do many more motions. Examples-jumping and twirling on beat 3, using feet instead of hands, moving from one group to another in the beats of 3. They also brainstormed how to include an extra person for groups of 3 and then that expanded to groups of 4. I was surprised by their creativity. I was expecting only 5 or so classes to come up with more motions, but all classes were able to do this.
2. October-THREAD THE NEEDLE or THE THREAD FOLLOWS THE NEEDLE
Students form one line and leader goes in and out the openings to
make different shapes. After all facing with arms crossed, the end
person “pretend” snips everyone apart.
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9YoATmie10
Song Words-
The thread follows the needle,
The thread follows the needle,
In and out the needle goes
As Mother mends the children’s clothes.
*This game is actually a 500 year old game. (Renaissance time period)
REFLECTION-Third graders found out that if they skipped a “window” of hands, then they had a pattern where one student faced one direction and another faced the opposite direction at the end of the game.
We experimented with going in different windows to see the patterns of people.
3. November/December-
RIBBON BRAID AND SNAIL or SPIRAL (SWIRL)
These games are called Farandoles which means “shape dance” in the Renaissance and Baroque time periods.
I played “When I See Winter Return” and “Old French Song” on recorder while the students made the shapes. This prevents them from going too fast through the shapes. These tunes are from the MEDIEVAL and RENAISSANCE DANCES RECORDER BOOK by Carley.
Students hold hands in a line. One student leads the others through upraised arms and makes a braid of people. Each student drops hand they are holding to hook onto the line. The leader leads the others out and makes a circular snail or spiral pattern until they can’t move anymore, then they unwind. The students in the middle make an arch and the rest go through the arch. Or, what we did was the last student leads everyone out of the spiral. *DOUBLE SPIRAL-Once into the spiral, the last person leads the others out and makes another spiral the opposite direction.
REFLECTION-Students had a little trouble remembering to drop the hand they were holding to hook onto the line. They wanted to keep holding hands like they did for the THREAD THE NEEDLE game. The SPIRAL was a hit all by itself.
I spent a lot of time reviewing the games with the younger classes as they got them mixed up.
4. January-DRAW A BUCKET OF WATER
Students are in groups of four and sing song with arms going over
each other at the end of the verses. Students jump up and down in
their group at the end of the song with the frog in the bucket section.
Begin with holding hands with 2 across from each other and hands
above the other 2 people in the group. Arms go over one person after
First verse so they are in the middle. Do the same for the other side
on the second verse. Go on with song until all 4 people are in the
middle.
During the “frog” part, students can jump up and down or circle to the
right or left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iZocWg21PA
SONG----
(Other or alternate words)
Draw (me) a bucket of water for my only (eldest/lady’s) daughter,
There’s one in the bunch, three out the bunch,
You go under sister Sally.
Draw a bucket of water for my only daughter,
There’s 2 in the bunch and 2 out the bunch,
You go under, sister Sally.
Draw a bucket of water for my only daughter,
There’s 3 in the bunch, one out the bunch,
You go under, sister Sally.
Draw a bucket of water for my only daughter,
We’re all in the bunch, none out the bunch,
You go under, sister Sally.
Frog in the bucket and can’t get him out-4 times.
REFLECTION-
We put extra people in the middle of the circles (buckets) and they became the “Frog.” The students loved this game.
5. February-POP! GOES THE WEASEL
https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=1329
Students in a circle with partners. Extra players in the middle.
Hold hands and circle left until the Pop! line of the song. All clap and
jump on Pop! and drop hands and then swing a partner. People in
the middle try to snatch a partner and get a place in the circle.
Start over and circle right.
All around the cobbler’s bench, the monkey chased the weasel. The monkey thought ‘twas all in fun. Pop! Goes the weasel. A nickel for a spool of thread, a penny for a needle. That’s the way the money goes, Pop! Goes the weasel.
REFLECTION-
We started with one person in the middle and then branched out to 2 or 3. I had them tap a person on the shoulder to take their place.
I told them about the real meaning of the song and taxation in England. We sped the song up when they were ready. We had the outside circle going one direction and the inside circle going the opposite way. Some students swung all 3 people in the middle of the circle.
6. March-HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH
Circle game from 1840, Romantic time period. Students go around skipping in the circle and then act out the verses. I picked one person to be in the middle to tell what would be acted out. They picked another person to continue the game.
https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=1463
Original sailor tune-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdwX6qoemF0
More verses-
https://kidsongs.com/lyrics/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-bush.html/
Promoting hygiene and routines for children-
https://www.letsplaykidsmusic.com/here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-bush/
REFLECTION-
K-3 made up new verses each day.
more activities
more activities
Listen to music by composers we have discussed.
You can use the suggestions below or listen to another selection.
Make a list of what you listen to. WBAA on the radio has classical music every day.
BACH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY
HANDEL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAyiidg25uE&t=459s
VIVALDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA
BEETHOVEN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olMP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUzwdBQDzxw
MOZART https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCKBl-TpRzc
TCHAIKOVSKYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdduPpnqre4
Or you can listen to the full Nutcracker Suite with ballet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ofysvpgv7o&t=4229s
Listen to cool instruments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v62YjjV-Roo
Write a music composition with notes and /or words.
Make up new words or a dance to a song you already know.
Make up a rap about animals, weather, school, or friends. Write your rap down on paper.
Make instruments out of toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, boxes, or oatmeal cans. Maracas can be made with a small amount of gravel or rice. Rubber bands can be put on boxes for strings instruments. Use big spoons and beat on oatmeal "drums" or pots and pans. Accompany any music on the radio or your phone. Make up your own music to play to or use the songs you know from the play ground songs above.
5. Read books about music from the list on my website or any books about music.
6. Cool Boomwackers to play virtually
https://www.musick8kids.com/html/play_bw.php?bwswitch=true
https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/how-to-read-music/
Read the notes and write your own song.
All grades
Have a listening day where you notice the sounds of the birds and other critters. Try to sing back to them. Sometimes my outside birds answer me! Listen to a storm and hear the rhythm of the thunder and rain. Count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder.
Make up your own word search about composers, birds, musical terms, songs, etc.
Scramble names of composers, instruments or birds and make a page of these names for someone else to unscramble.
Count the steps on a walk around your house and figure out what time signature this could be in music. Divide the steps by 4 for beats of 4 or 3 for beats of 3. Maybe it is 6 or 9 beats. Maybe several time signatures will work.
Have fun while you explore music!
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