Kindergarten - Celebrations

The Kindergarten students have been creating their own celebrations with Mrs Cutmore and Miss Glyde.  In music class, we chose pieces of music to play at their celebrations.  First, we discussed different choices of music. After that, each student chose a piece to play at their celebration justified their choice. Have a look at some of our choices below:

Year 1 - So and Mi

This week in Year 1 we composed our own so-mi songs.  We wrote them down and sang them with our hand signs.  We're getting really good at so-mi!

Year 2 - Recorders

Year 2 will be playing recorder in Music class for the remainder of this term.  Please bring your recorder and yellow book every Tuesday!

Year 2 - Reading Music

Today in Year 2 we practised reading and writing the notes on the treble clef. We made posters for the classroom to remind each other how to remember the notes.  Have a look at two examples below:

Year 3 - Instruments of the Orchestra

The students in Year 3 each became an 'expert' on an orchestral instrument of their choice and made a PicCollage to present their findings.  Have a look at some of the posters we made:

Year 1 - So and Mi

This week Year 1 composed their own pieces using the notes So and Mi.  We notated these as a class and performed them using our voices and xylophones.

Year 5 - Elements of Dance

Today Year 5 learned about the elements of dance.  We focused on the element of dynamics. We created movement phrases and filmed them on our iPads.  We then made a copy of our movement and slowed it down.  We reflected on how the dynamic of the movement changed when we altered the timing of the movement phrase.  Have a look at an example below:

Year 1 - Pitch

This term Year 1 is enjoying learning about pitch.  We've been using our voices, bodies, pictures and a variety of classroom instruments to demonstrate the pitch of a variety of songs.  Most recently we've started using hand signs to match the pitches that we sing.  Have a look at them below:

Parents, ask your children to see if they can sing the song 'Starlight, Starbright' using our hand signs!

Year 2 - Time Signatures

Today Year 2 learned about time signatures. We learned that 4/4 means 4 crochet beats in each bar and that 2/4 means 2 crotchet beats in each bar.  At the end of our lesson we had free rhythm writing using our new knowledge of time signatures.  Have a look at some of our work below:

 

Kindergarten - Celebrations

This term Kindergarten are learning about celebrations with Mrs Cutmore and Miss Glyde.  In music we are integrating with this unit to learn about the use of music in various celebrations.  Today we reflected on the music that was used in our school ANZAC day ceremony on Friday.  We discussed why each piece of music was included in the ceremony and how each piece made us feel.

One of the things that we learned was that the instrument below was originally used to play the Last Post even though the trumpet is often used now.  We tried to remember its name.  Parents, perhaps you can ask your Kindy child if they can remember the name of this instrument? B....