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1st GRADE - WINTER PROGRAM 2025 PRACTICE LINKS:
Winter Concert Theme: Starry, Starry Night
Performance for school audience: Monday, Dec 15, 9AM & 1:30PM
Performance for Parents/Families/Friends: Tuesday, Dec 16,
9AM- Grades 3, 4, 5 & 1:30PM- Grades K, 1, 2
in the Wilson Gym
Kdgn-1st-2nd Combined Finale Song
Kdgn-1st-2nd Combined Finale Song
LighttheWorld-Demonstration.mp3HOME ACTIVITY: POPSICLE STICK SPINNERS!
Students are familiar with this activity from music class
and music learning centers days!
Supplies Needed:
One dozen popsicle or craft sticks.
You could also use straws, chopsticks,
pens, pencils, or small sticks from outside!
HINT: When building our stick notation,
we don't use the note heads, only the stems/beams!
DIRECTIONS:
1) Spin the wheel!
2) Build or draw the note
3) REPEAT until you have FOUR notes written/built
4) CLAP and say your new rhythm sentence
PIE (quarter note/"Ta")
APPLE (Eighth note pair/ "Ti-Ti")
HUCKLEBERRY (4 sixteenth notes/ "Ti-ka-Ti-ka")
SHH (Quarter Rest/ "rest")
CHALLENGES:
*Try building or drawing two in a row, and clap all eight beats!
*Now create your own words
with the same amount of syllables for each note:
Example:
ta = SNOW
ti-ti= WIN-TER
ti-ka-ti-ka= BUILD-A-SNOW-MAN
res= BRR
PRINTABLE CARDS:
There are also note cards and blank cards in this file to print if you prefer:
HOME ACTIVITY: CREATE YOUR OWN MUSIC!
Check out the awesome links below to explore sounds, rhythms, looping,
and creating your own digital music!
Explore and create with instruments from around the world! (PBS Kids)
https://pbskids.org/luna/games/carmens-world-orchestra
Peg & Cat (PBS Kids)
https://pbskids.org/peg/games/music-maker
Monster Music (PBS Kids)
https://pbskids.org/sesame/games/monster-music/
CHALLENGE:
1) After exploring the links above,
find a few items around your home that you can create sounds with!
2) Set items out in an order you want to play.
3) Create a special rhythm for each "instrument" to play.
4) Use rhythms from class: Pie, Apple, Huckleberry, Rest, and Pie-eye
5) Make a pattern and write it out for each instrument!
6) Get family members involved and play your new song with your "band!"
*If you forgot what those rhythms look like, here's a sample link:
HOME ACTIVITY:
LADYBUG NOTATION!
DIRECTIONS:
1) LISTEN AND SING!
Sing along, keep the beat, and act out the songs!
2)CREATE LADYBUG THUMBPRINT NOTES!
What does the word LADYBUG look like with music notes?
HINT: the word LA-DY BUG is similar to our notes,
AP-PLE PIE or Ti-Ti Ta.
*Find a piece of blank paper
*Create several thumbprints on your paper-
for finger prints: use a stamp pad, a little water color paint on a plate,
or take a marker and color your fingertips with a little water!
* Draw some note stems on your ladybug thumbprints!
*LA-DY BUG is equal to our notes, AP-PLE PIE
or Ti-Ti Ta, (eighth-eighth quarter).
*Create a background scene for the ladybugs!
Extension: Are there other insects or spring words to add to the notation?
Example: Bug (Ta) Tulip (Ti-Ti) purple flower (Ti-ka-ti-ka)
Refer to the popsicle stick notation word guide link for rhythms,
and come up with rhythms to fit spring words.
Notation word guide: https://tinyurl.com/r9pdjv2
*Make fingerprint note heads and stems for the new spring words, and add them to the song and picture!
HOME ACTIVITY:
SING & MOVE!
Toom-bah-ee Lero- CALL & RESPONSE
Creative movement idea: Grab a piece of fabric, scarf, ribbon, or napkin! Have your child move the scarf on the "Call" part, and you can be their "response"
(you do whichever movement they've made with their scarf on the echo!)
TRADE! Now YOU or a sibling can be the call, and your child can be the response (echo)
NEED A BREAK? HERE ARE SOME EASY SONGS & IDEAS FOR FUN!
Get up and sing and add creative movements!
Five Green & Speckled Frogs
Added creative outdoor idea: have your child find five rocks outside, and paint them green with speckles!
Put them on a wood block, stick, bench, or whatever, and move the rocks each time one jumps into the pond as you sing!
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