Grade K-2 Music Home Learning Booklet #2

The second music booklet is going home with our K-2 students this week.


Here is a pdf copy of it for your downloading: Music Home Learning Booklet #2


Here is the first music booklet that went out in March if you haven't received it. Music Home Learning Booklet #1

Here are the links to the story and song in Booklet #2.

Never Play Music Right Next To The Zoo - John Lithgow - Read Aloud

If All the Raindrops

As per direction from MB Education, Grade K-5 students are expected to do no more than 1 hour of school a day with a focus on literacy, numeracy and physical movement. This is so great and we hope that this is manageable for you and your families. We are here to help. With that said, music is form of literacy and a wonderful part of life that helps relieve stress and bring joy. It is a creative art form that uses different parts of the brain that are good for us. I sincerely hope that your family finds time to make music together, whether it's just listening to a fun song or dancing or practicing an instrument.

I hope all my students enjoy the activities in these booklets. It would be wonderful to hear atleast once a week something you have been doing in the arts and feel free to email me pictures or videos or post it through SeeSaw login. (julianna.rempel@sjasd.ca)

And please let me know if you need anything.

Stay well and happy music making!

Ms. Rempel 💕

Kids Can Compose!

Today our Grade 1 classes were busy writing their own music on the instruments.  Stay tuned for our creations.

This past week we created a body percussion pattern to accompany the poem:

RAIN ON THE GREEN GRASS

RAIN ON THE TREES

RAIN ON THE HOUSETOP BUT

NOT ON ME!

Rhythm Test

Grade 4/5 classes have a rhythm test tomorrow.  Study sheets are going home or see the file below.  Happy studying!

Composing on the Instruments

Grade 3 students were hard at work creating melody patterns for their poems on the barred instruments.  We set up our instruments by taking off F and C.  The melody was only on B-A-G notes.  We got to share some of our patterns with the rest of the class and then we sang them.  Will blog about them another day.

How would you sing this?

I Can Write Music!

I am so proud of Room 11, 12, 17 & 18.  Today they learned a children's rhyme called "Pease Porridge."  We reviewed quarter (ta) and eighth (ti-ti) notes as well as the quarter rest (sh).  We did one measure together and then they had to complete the rest of the song independently.  For some students, this was their first experiences writing music and they did REALLY well!  After this, they had to practice playing it on the hand drum.

Hats off to this Grade 1 student for only learning about this a couple of classes ago.  She did this all by herself!

Next class, we are going to write our own melodies on the pitched instruments to create a little tune.  I wonder what this will sound like?

Note and Rhythms

The Grade 4/5 classes have been reading, writing and performing various rhythms showing whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes and rests.

Practicing rhythms on our hand drums.

An excellent example of a student's work!

Listening tests.  Can you clap these rhythms?