***For times when we need to learn music from home, please check out the videos below and go to the recorder pages under the fourth grade tab at the top of this page. Feel free to try some of the new songs!
Check out this quick lesson on line notes and space notes!
Another fun way to learn about lines and spaces!
Fishkill Plains Elementary Learning Plan
During Prolonged School Closure
Music: Fourth Grade
Directions: Please use the following prompts to discuss music and music activities on your own or with a family member. Don’t forget to use your singing voice and dance while you work! Have fun!
1.Think of a song or game that you have loved singing or playing in your music class at school. Take 20 minutes to teach your family. If it is a game, take time to play the game together. Make sure to explain to them why you chose this particular song or game. What do you like about it? Why did you want to share it with your family?
2. Using items from around your house (examples: toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls, rubberbands, string, pots and pans) create a musical instrument. After creating your instrument, play along with one of your favorite songs.
3. Take your favorite character from a book or movie, and write your own “theme song” for that character. Feel free to use a melody you already know, (like “Happy Birthday” or the “Star Wars theme”) but change the lyrics to create the song for your character.
4. Choose one of the composers we have learned about so far this year in music. Make a slide show 8 - 10 slides long about that composer. Be sure to include information about their life, their music, and their impact on music today (why are we still talking about this composer?).
5. Think about musicians in your house and Interview them. Does anyone in your house play an instrument? Does anyone else that you know play an instrument? What instruments do they play? How long have they played these instruments? Why did they choose these instruments? Did anyone that you know play an instrument for a while and then stop playing?
Check out this great note-reading skills game! Have fun!
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/interactives/steprightup/whackanote/
PICK AN INSTRUMENT
Many of you will start playing an instrument next year in school. If you have one that is your first choice, please create a slide show of 4-6 slides researching the instrument you chose. Tell me about it's history, any famous pieces of music for that instrument, etc.
If you are not planning on playing an instrument next year, pick one you don't mind the sound of and make your slide show about that one.
Watch this video of Riverdance. Write 2-3 paragraphs telling me your opinion of Irish dance.