Our Goals For Today:  

  1. Figure out how we will be comfiest on the stage for music this year,
  2. Learn where everything is and what we will be expected to get for ourselves,
  3. Discuss Mr. LaMonica's expectations about how we will use cell phones, iPads, and laptops,
  4. Learn about Series Composition and Tone Rows,
  5. Listen to Outwards for Trombone Quartet and Florence Price's The Goblin and The Mosquito for Piano,
  6. Play boomwhackers for Florence Price's Bright Eyes and Cabin Song,
  7. Play Blooket to solidify our understanding of Series Form, where we use the numbers 0 to 11 to identify notes, and
  8. Discuss how and when piano, chorus, and band will be happening.

(I had the piano tuned, secured another keyboard, and have found time to teach piano to anyone who wants to learn it!)

Our New Vocabulary:  

Series Composition: Using the numbers 0 to 11 to create and change a set of notes.
Tone Row: The order of notes a piece is based on.
Prime Form: The original notes of the row, unchanged.
Retrograde: The row in reverse order.
Transposition: The numbers are all shifted up or down by the same amount.

Blooket:   Host Link

This Blooket focuses on switching between numbers and letters.

Answers are NOT case-sensitive, meaning that c# and C# are the same.

Our Goals For Today:  

  1. Figure out how we will be comfiest on the stage for music this year,
  2. Learn where everything is and what we will be expected to get for ourselves,
  3. Discuss Mr. LaMonica's expectations about how we will use cell phones, iPads, and laptops,
  4. Learn about composer Florence Beatrice Price,
  5. Listen to Florence Price's The Goblin and The Mosquito for Piano.
  6. Play boomwhackers for Florence Price's Bright Eyes and Cabin Song, and
  7. Discuss how and when piano, chorus, and band will be happening.

(I had the piano tuned, secured another keyboard, and have found time to teach piano to anyone who wants to learn it!)

Today, we will:

  1. Learn about the sticky notes and complete one as a class.
  2. Practice drawing our Five-Line Staff and G Clef.
  3. Talk about chorus.
  4. Figure out the instruments we're going to learn this year.
  5. Say our musical alphabet in reverse order, slowly.
  6. Play two songs on boomwhackers, both by Florence Beatrice Price: Bright Eyes and Cabin Song.
  7. Watch a short video about who Florence Price is, and listen to her piano piece called The Goblin and The Mosquito.

Today's Listening:  

We'll be listening to two different recordings of a piece called The Goblin and The Mosquito by Florence Beatrice Price.

 Today, we will:  

  1. Practice drawing our Five-Line Staff and our G Clef.
  2. Play two songs on boomwhackers, both by Florence Beatrice Price: Bright Eyes and Cabin Song.
  3. Watch a short video about who Florence Price is, and listen to her piano piece called The Goblin and The Mosquito.
  4. Figure out what instruments we want to play this year!!!

 Today, we will:  

  1. Introduce ourselves with a singing game and meet Mr. Fishy, who is back from vacation!
  2. Introduce our new friends to the DANCE PARTY!!!
  3. Look at a picture of Florence Price, a composer who writes music, and then listen to one of her songs called The Goblin and The Mosquito!
  4. Learn our mini-Alphabet Song, where we don't say the letter H!  No H's in music!
  5. Meet Mr. Rob for some Sweet Beets.
  6. Learn a song about Bluebirds.
  7. Play with egg shakers after we practice saying "please!"