Music Math and Mystery Word Combine!
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Can you solve a double mystery??  We have music notation with a math equation as well as notation spelling words.  Can you solve both problems?  I have a sample of the problem with the answer pictured below.   The first puzzle will be posted later tonight.

Post your name, homeroom and answer in the “reply” box for this post.  This is just like the Mystery Word Game only with a new problem.  There will be one winner from each school and each winner will receive a cookie coupon from me.  New games are posted on the weekend as well as the winner from that week.

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Literacy Night at Oakman Elementary School
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We were quite busy in the music classroom on Thursday, March 13, for Literacy Night.  With the assistance of a few 5th grade girls we read and performed instruments on repeated phrases in the story, “Up, Up, Down” by Robert Munsch.   Here is a link to a short video of a portion of this musical story reading recorded by one of my student helpers.

 

Literacy Night in the Music Room

Mystery Word #9
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Mystery Word #9 is open to all 4th & 5th grade students at Oakman and Salina Intermediate Schools with one winner from each school.

How to play:

  1. Click on the Mystery Word Title to open the new page.
  2.  Scroll down to then”Leave a Reply” box.
  3. Type your answer, your first name and last initial and home room teacher.
  4. Post your comment.
  5. If you post your comment under the wrong blog title your answer will not count.

Mystery Word # 9

 

If you are the winner please come see Mrs. Reed for your cookie coupon.

Oakman winner is: Heba from Habhab’s class

Salina Int. winner is: Malak Hussein from ??class??

Mystery Word # 9 Answer

Mystery Word # 9 Answer: BAGGAGE

Trumpet Tips
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If you play trumpet and are struggling to get a good sound check this trumpet players website out.  He has some helpful videos, too.

https://youtu.be/Q17qIjoZ0-k

https://www.charlieportermusic.com

 

Mystery Word #8
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Mystery Word #8 is open to all 4th & 5th grade students at Oakman and Salina Intermediate Schools with one winner from each school.

How to play:

  1. Click on the Mystery Word Title to open the new page.
  2.  Scroll down to then”Leave a Reply” box.
  3. Type your answer, your first name and last initial and home room teacher.
  4. Post your comment.
  5. If you post your comment under the wrong blog title your answer will not count.
Mystery Word # 8

Mystery Word # 8

 

If you are the winner please come see Mrs. Reed for your cookie coupon.

Oakman winner is: Heba from Habhab’s classroom

Salina Int. winner is: Maher Mohamed from Koss’ classroom

 

A Question for Salina Honors Choir Students…..
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If I were to remove one of your honors Choir concert selections and give it to a 5th grade class which song would you like to give to them?  I have added a new song to your concert list which I think you will really like.  It is titled, “To Swing or Not to Swing”.  If we sing this one then we can drop one or two other songs.  The song or songs we drop will give me an option to give one to a 5th grade group.  Send me comments on this blog post so I know what your desires are.  🙂

 

Concert preparations are underway….
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Our Spring concerts are just around the corner.  We are all working hard in preparation for these two events.  Students in grades 1, 2 and 3 will be performing at the end of March and grades 4 and 5 will perform in May.

Check out our 3rd graders preparing Orff Orchestrations for the Big Black Fly song and story.

Here we are using “body percussion” to learn the part:

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In this video we are demonstrating the proper way to remove bars from the instruments:

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After much practice we have a chance to play the ostinato on the instruments:

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