Hi 2nd graders!

This is week, you will have the opportunity to complete an activity you have not tried or make corrections to one sent back to you.

Please look below to see the list of Seesaw activities.

~ Mrs. Momohara-Ho


Parents, please feel free to contact me at cathlyn.momohara@wilsonschoolhawaii.org if you have any questions.

Catch Up on Seesaw

April 6-9: Rhythm Review and Music Arrangement

  • Activities - Ta-a Rhythm Composition & Electronic Arrangement of "Roll Over"
  • The creative process of making music can be done in many ways. Sometimes we focus just on rhythm. Use the rhythms we've learned to create two 8 beat patterns. Then, experiment with rhythm and pitch as you explore the website, Music Chrome Lab. You'll create your own arrangement by adding percussion and harmony to "Roll Over."

April 13-16: Continuation of Rhythm Review and Music Arrangement

  • Activities - Ta-a Rhythm Composition & Electronic Arrangement of "Great Big House"
  • This week is another opportunity to address some misconceptions we might have about using ta-a rhythms. You can also continue exploring harmony and arrangements with Music Chrome Lab.

April 20-24: A New Rhythm (Ti) and the Combination (Ti Ta Ti)

  • Activities: Adding Beats, Tied Rhythms, & Old House
  • We will be learning how to add beats and tie rhythms. Please complete "Adding Beats" before working on "Tied Rhythms." You will also be learning a new call and response song. Listen and sing along to the recording to learn the song. Always listen to your own recordings to check you are matching pitch.

April 27-May 1: Practicing Ti Ta Ti and Low La

  • Activities: Ti Ta Ti Practice & Yangtze Boatman - Practice Using Low La and Half Notes
  • Practice recognizing and performing the new rhythm, "ti ta ti." You will also practice using low la and half notes in a familiar song.

May 4-8: Low Sol

  • Activites: The Canoe Song
  • Apply "Ti Ta Ti" and low la into a new song. As you work through this activity, listen for your rhythmic and pitch accuracy while singing. Then, you'll use notation to show the music on the staff. There is a mystery note in this song. Can you figure out its name by the end of the activity?

May 11-15: Review Low Sol

  • Activities: Zou San
  • This week, we will be learning the Japanese song, Zou San, and using it in an activity with Matsutaka Sensei. In the music lesson, you'll identify the notes in solfege and sing the melody. This song uses the low la and low sol we've been working on.


2nd Grade ~ Learning Goals


Rhythm Goals

Duration

  • Maintains a steady beat
  • Sings and plays simple four-beat patterns using:

~ half note ("ta-a")

~ half rest

~ 4 sixteenth notes ("tiri-tiri")

~ dotted half note ("ta-a-a")

~ quarter eighth ("ta-ti")

~ single eighth note ("ti")

~ simple meter

~ compound meter

~ micro & macro beat

~ tie

  • Sings and claps 8-beat phrase patterns.

Movement

  • Responds to rhythmic patterns with movements that reflect duration and energy.

Creating

  • Improvises simple rhythmic patterns using known rhythms.


Melody Goals

Vocal Technique

  • Use appropriate posture for singing.
  • Produce age-appropriate musical tone.
  • Develops awareness of musical phrase.

Intonation

  • Sings pentatonic songs in-tune using a variety of tonal centers.
  • Sings songs using la so mi re do solfege
  • Demonstrates readiness for ti, fa ti do’

Creating

  • Sings or plays improvised phrases in pentatonic.
  • Creates and performs pentatonic melodies with a set rhythm or form.


Reading and Writing Goals

Melody

  • Reads and writes using the pentatonic scale in C-do, F-do, and G-do.

Rhythm

  • Reads and writes known rhythms
  • Reads and writes known meters


Part-Work Goals

Melodic

  • Sings a simple song while the teacher maintains a two-beat ostinato.

Rhythmic

  • Sings and maintains two-beat rhythmic ostinato with body percussion or classroom instruments.
  • Performs simple two-part rhythmic rounds.

Movement

  • Performs simple play parties, game songs, circle/line dances.

Hawai`i Content and Performance Standards

2.2.1 Demonstrate rhythmic notation of whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes and quarter rests

  • Performs chants, songs, and dances with the class using half notes, quarter notes, paired eighth notes, and quarter rests
  • In addition to the benchmark but not affecting grade: dotted quarter notes, three eighth notes, and quarter note-eighth note

2.2.2 Use melodic notation of simple four-beat patterns using three different pitches on a staff

  • Uses hand signs while singing solfege exercises (three note combinations of do-re-mi-sol-la)
  • Reads solfege patterns with on the staff when “do” is in space 1
  • Identifies when melody moves in a step or skip motion

2.2.3 Sing or play repeating rhythmic or melodic patterns

  • Consistently uses head voice to sing
  • Demonstrates repeating rhythmic patterns through independent movement and folk dances