All grades in the music room are currently working on learning several holiday songs to prepare for the all-school holiday sing-a-long on Friday, Dec. 20.
Kindergarten is currently learning about opposites in the music room including fast and slow tempos. Ask your child to demonstrate fast and slow singing and movement!
1st graders are learning all about melodic direction – music going up and down. Ask your child to sing a melody that goes up and down or move like a slide whistle!
2nd graders are learning all about solfege and how it connects to the music that we sing. Ask your child to sing patterns using Sol, La, Mi and Do! One of the songs that includes Sol, Mi and Do is Mouse, Mousie which can be seen below.
3rd graders are also learning solfege. They continue their work from 2nd grade and add Mi, Re and Do to the scale. A popular song to learn about scales in music class is “Do Re Mi” from “The Sound of Music.” You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drnBMAEA3AM
4th graders are preparing for recorders and learning and reviewing the notes on the treble clef scale. Here are some ways that we remember the pitches on the lines and spaces of the treble clef.
5th graders are comparing and contrasting different versions of the same Holiday Songs using venn diagrams. Ask your child if they can tell you some similarities and differences of the songs in these links:
Santa Claus is Coming to Town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWv72L4wgCc
Santa Claus is Coming to Town by the Jackson 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmUW2pVAopc