Journey Montessori September 19
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We continued working on some basic musical concepts this week with the songs we sang, danced to, and played instruments with in class.
The students are continuing to work on finding the steady beat for the Hello and Goodbye songs. I change the steady beat to make it faster or slower, so they have to listen closely to the guitar to know how fast to pat the beat.
We did two familiar, and fun, rhythmic chants this week in music class.
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
I read a great book to go along with the poem "Hey Diddle Diddle."
"Hey Diddle Diddle" by: Eve Bunting
The rhythm from the original poem is continued in the text in the book. Each animal in the book plays a different instrument. Students who I had last year that remembered what family different instruments belonged in could also identify those instrument families while we read the book!
http://www.amazon.com/Hey-Diddle-Eve-Bunting/dp/1590787684
We danced with scarves this week to the song "Pop Goes the Weasel." Again the students had to work on listening closely to the music to know when to dance and when to freeze and throw their scarves up (they threw the scarves any time they heard the music or words for pop goes the weasel.)
We played sticks this week and worked on when to play and when not to play. The students found very creative ways to keep their sticks quiet! They were all very good listening for when to play and when to stop.
Our instrument play along song was "Rocky Top." All of the students are doing a fantastic job waiting until they hear the music begin to get the instruments, keeping all of the instruments with their "family" in the correct box, and putting them all back as soon as the music ends. The play along time also gives me a good opportunity to see who can play along to the beat of the song, and who can change the way they are playing to match the music (loud, soft, fast, slow, etc.)
Click the link below to listen to Rocky Top at home. Help your children identify the instruments they see playing, and see if you can figure out what family of instruments they belong to.
The students are continuing to work on finding the steady beat for the Hello and Goodbye songs. I change the steady beat to make it faster or slower, so they have to listen closely to the guitar to know how fast to pat the beat.
We did two familiar, and fun, rhythmic chants this week in music class.
I Have a Little Frog
I have a little frog
His name is Tiny Tim,
I put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim,
He drank up all the water,
And gobbled up the soap!
And when he tried to talk
He had a BUBBLE in his throat!
His name is Tiny Tim,
I put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim,
He drank up all the water,
And gobbled up the soap!
And when he tried to talk
He had a BUBBLE in his throat!
Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey! diddle, diddle,The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
I read a great book to go along with the poem "Hey Diddle Diddle."
"Hey Diddle Diddle" by: Eve Bunting
The rhythm from the original poem is continued in the text in the book. Each animal in the book plays a different instrument. Students who I had last year that remembered what family different instruments belonged in could also identify those instrument families while we read the book!
http://www.amazon.com/Hey-Diddle-Eve-Bunting/dp/1590787684
We danced with scarves this week to the song "Pop Goes the Weasel." Again the students had to work on listening closely to the music to know when to dance and when to freeze and throw their scarves up (they threw the scarves any time they heard the music or words for pop goes the weasel.)
We played sticks this week and worked on when to play and when not to play. The students found very creative ways to keep their sticks quiet! They were all very good listening for when to play and when to stop.
Our instrument play along song was "Rocky Top." All of the students are doing a fantastic job waiting until they hear the music begin to get the instruments, keeping all of the instruments with their "family" in the correct box, and putting them all back as soon as the music ends. The play along time also gives me a good opportunity to see who can play along to the beat of the song, and who can change the way they are playing to match the music (loud, soft, fast, slow, etc.)
Click the link below to listen to Rocky Top at home. Help your children identify the instruments they see playing, and see if you can figure out what family of instruments they belong to.
