Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. The various Experiments clearly connect science, math and art to music. Spend a few minutes each day experimenting with the various labs.
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Staying Musically Active From Home
I am so sorry we are all going through this right now and I wish you all health and wellness. Please make wise decisions and remember to wash your hands well throughout the day.
Until we can meet again in the classroom here are some engaging activities you can do from home. All students can use the resources at Music Play Online. Students can log in at musicplayonline.com with the username: snow and the password: 2020
Nowlin Students in 4th and 5th grade general music are highly encouraged to post videos of themselves practicing recorder. The videos can be posted in our Google Classroom. I am expecting students to work on the Sundown BAG song sheet sent home with them this past week. All students can post videos of the recorder Karate songs, too. Look for the Recorder tabs at the top of my blog page for additional resources to assist with online learning from home. Students can also use the Recorder resources located on the Music Play Online website.
Becker Instrument Students are expected to post videos 3 times per week of the student practicing concert songs. The videos can be shared with me through our Google Classroom or through our iLearn classroom.
I am here for all of you. If you have any questions please be sure to email me. Please add your email address to subscribe to my blog. I will be posting some additional resources and videos throughout the weeks that we are off.
Pi Day 3.14
Have you ever wondered what Pi. might sound like? Pi is a constant value used in math that represents the ratio of a circumference of a ⭕️ to its diameter. What this video to see how they came up with the way Pi could be represented musically.
Stay Current with Lessons
Music students can stay up to date with our music assignments by following my blog and also checking out my posts on the following site:
iLearn
Google Classroom
Class Dojo
Email me if you have any questions.
Music Play Online
Music Play Online has many lessons, divided by grade level. Students can log in at musicplayonline.com with the username: snow and the password: 2020
Have a great time exploring this site!
For additional fun check back on Monday for a Music Bingo game you can play while exploring Music Play Online.
Staying Healthy
The District has recommended some guidelines for staying healthy and keeping the virus away. I will post those items here:
Music Form
Learning about A B Music form in the music classroom.
STEAM Night at Nowlin
I had the pleasure of helping out for STEAM Night at Nowling School this week. It is possible that I was even in the best location – sure loved teaching students how to drive the robot cars and when one was not in use driving it myself. LOL! They had a lot of fun stations – making snow and slime, mixing colors, and owl pods. Next year they will need to set up a music station. 😀
Making Steady Progress
Ask yourself if you are making steady progress on your violin or band instrument. Monitor the amount of time you are practicing and the number of days you are practicing. You can make your own chart or ask me for one. If you are falling behind in your class assignments that would be a sign you need to spend more time practicing at home.
Today we learned about playing songs in small sections and working on those 2-4 notes slowly and increasing speed until it felt good. Then we added one more measure or a few more notes. Always starting slow when adding more notes and then increasing speed as it becomes easier to play.
In band I had mentioned that we would want to be sure every note we play sounds beautiful. If it is not beautiful, stop are begin again at a much slower speed. Do not increase speed unless each note is lovely. This would be true for violin students as well.
Have fun practicing – but practice with a purpose – increase your ability each time you practice. You are your own competition. Can you beat yourself at playing tomorrow? If you don’t practice today then you will lose to yourself tomorrow.
Music Game and Mrs. Reed’s Recorder
We are going to play a recorder game at Nowlin. If you can tell me the name of the note Recorder Dude is fingering you could win a treat. Only one winner per photo.
Also, the recorder in this picture belongs to Mrs. Reed. She got this recorder when she was 9 years old. The recorder is 49 years old. How old is Mrs. Reed?
