Kindergarten and 1st Grade Students:
William Ford Kindergarten and 1st grade students had fun singing about traditional Thanksgiving foods by singing the “Thanksgiving Feast” song.
Kindergarten students are also working on moving and singing songs to a steady beat. They learned “The More We Get Together” and “Mr. Sun”, and several songs and rhymes about bees!
1st grade has just begun to learn about short and long sounds in music. They have practiced singing and moving to a steady beat, and are ready to start learning how to read and perform rhythm patterns!
2nd Grade:
2nd Grade has been practicing singing with pitch syllables. So far, we have practiced Do, Mi, Sol, and La. We have also been practicing quarter notes, eighth note pairs, and rests using the rhythm syllables “ta,” “ti ti” and “shh.”
Can you sing this pattern?
How about this one?
…and a hard one!
3rd Grade:
The 3rd grade has been working on a song called “Tideo” and learning a double circle dance that goes with it.
We have also just learned how to say 16th notes, using the rhythm syllables “tika tika”. We have practiced finding 16th notes in songs, and saying rhythm patterns using rhythm syllables when playing different games in class.
Can you read these patterns using syllables?
4th Grade:
4th grade students have just started working on songs that have more than one part. We have learned the song “Dance of the Nations,” which we will eventually learn to sing as a round. The song “Sitting Around the Campfire” is a partner song. This means there are 2 different songs that can be sung by themselves, or you can sing them together at the same time! We have also started learning a funny song called “Turkey’s United” that is about turkeys trying to convince us to eat something else on Thanksgiving.
See if you can sing the melody for part 1:
Sitting around the campfire,
Watching the fire glow.
Gazing at twinkling stars from down below.
Sitting around the campfire,
Everyone is my friend.
Wishing this lovely night would never end!
5th Grade:
William Ford’s 5th grade students are working on songs using the notes B, A, G, and E. Students are practicing reading rhythms using “ta” and “ti ti” and playing patterns on their recorders. They are also reviewing how to read these notes on a music staff. Students have just started to practice several songs for the holidays, and are working on learning how to read those new pieces.
What is the sentence that helps us remember the notes on the lines?
