Mrs. Tally's Music Class: September 2011

Friday, September 30, 2011

Animal Songs

This is a project we did with Kindergarten, 1st & 2nd graders. By the end of the week, you will be able to click the links below the pictures to hear sound clips from each group's project. In the featured pictures are 2nd graders' animals they colored and made a song about. This was such a fun project!

Monday, September 26, 2011

Who's This Dude? for Sept. 23

This last week's Who's This Dude is a very tragic character. The prolific composer's name is Robert Schumann. His life very much coincides with Mr. Brahms. The commonthread? The love of Mr. Schumann's life as well as Mr. Brahm's love - Clara Wieck Schumann! Scandal, I say!

To view the presentation as well as the videos we watched together, you can click the link below:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AaXaHXYlP7MuZGNtZHh4YmNfMTU3Z2g0bXF3Z2M&hl=en_US

This week's Who's This Dude is American! Aufedersein, German composers for this week!

Sept. 26-30

Another full week of classes! This week is going to be focused on the notes of the treble clef for grades 2-6 and solfege will be the big thing for K & 1st grades. I will not be posting specific lesson plans this week because our pacing has been thrown off by last week's picture day, Oh Say Can You Hear Presentations, etc. We will get a lot covered this week and be back on track by Monday! Happy Fall Ya'll!

Monday, September 19, 2011

Oh Say Can You Hear? The Presentations!

Sept. 19-23

Another exciting week!

We will continue to work on solfege in all grades this week. We're all learning, including myself!

K
TUES - Giant's Shoes
WED - Giant's Shoes
THURS - All Work Together
FRI - Time to Sing

1
TUES - Scarves activity
WED - Willum
THURS - Sleep Bonnie Bairnie
FRI - La ranita cri

2
TUES - Do Re Mi
WED - This Little Light of Mine
THURS - add instruments to previous songs
FRI - learn quarter notes

3
TUES - Happy Wanderer add boomwhackers
WED - solfege simple songs
THURS - write in solfege wksht
FRI - student generated songs

5
TUES - finish projects
WED - present projects
THURS - present projects
FRI - present projects

6
TUES - present projects
WED - present projects
THURS - solfege simple songs
FRI - solfege wksht

Friday, September 9, 2011

Oh Say Can You Hear?

In 5th & 6th grades, we have gone into great detail about national anthems, not just our own but other country's. We studied India's, Canada's, China's and the US's thoroughly. They now are creating PowerPoint presentations for this project. They were assigned into groups and each group has a different country. Here is the list of their responsibilities for the project:

1. at least 6 slides with a title slide

2. Video on PowerPoint

3. Song learned & ready to sing

4. Lyrics in original language and English translation

5. A picture of their flag

6. History or story behind the national anthem & its themes

7. Location of the country in your Slideshow

8. Location on your grade’s big map photo

9. RESOURCES!!!

We will be posting the link to all these presentations when they are finished. I will take video of all of them doing their presentations for us so all you parents can see the hard work they've done!

Sept. 12-16

Yay for full weeks! This week, we're working on using our voices much more efficiently and beginning to use the most important tool to being good singers I believe - solfege.

K, 1
MON - The Ants Go Marching - drumming
TUES - Scarves activity for high & low sounds
WED - Singing high & low sounds on piano
THURS - Create their own sounds - groups of 2
FRI - Finish sharing songs created

2
MON - The Ants Go Marching - Drumming
TUES - Scarves activity for high & low sounds
WED - Singing high & low sounds on piano
THURS - Solfege hand signals
FRI - Pitch memorization of solfege beginning with middle C

3
MON - Matching pitch sliding around up & down until it's found, pitch memorization of middle C
TUES - Learn solfege hand signs
WED - Add rhythm to stepwise motion
THURS - Add rhythm to short skips
FRI - Something fun out of book

5, 6
MON - Work on project
TUES - Work on project
WED - Work on project
THURS - Presentations (?)
FRI - Presentations

Who's This Dude for Sept. 9!

Our Who's This Dude? for the week is Mr. Johannes Brahms! Quite possibly the most handsome of the composers of his day, he hung with unsavory characters, playing in bars for immigrants. As a result, his music is colorful, vibrant and very unique. He mixed the Hungarian styles with the more traditional European music of the day. He was one cool dude. I really wish this cereal was real!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Sept. 6 - Sept. 9, 2011

This week, we'll be spotlighting other country's patriotic songs as well as moving and grooving in the younger grades!

Kindergarten, 1st & 2nd Grades
TUES. - You're a Grand Ol' Flag, book, What's a patriot?
WED. - Review You're a Grand Ol' Flag, My Country 'Tis of Thee, Star-Spangled Banner, different versions, instrumentations
THURS - Marching games - Jump Jim Joe & finding the beat
FRI - Finding the beat with drums, difference between beat & rhythm

3rd Grade
TUES - Review legato & staccato
WED - Star-Spangled Banner
THURS - other national anthems
FRI - Go over project & start work

5th Grade
TUES - Finish compositions
WED - Star-spangled Banner
THURS - Other nat'l anthems
FRI - Go over project & start work

6th Grade
TUES - Star-Spangled Banner
WED - other nat'l anthems
THURS - Go over project
FRI - Work day on project

Have a great week!

Mrs. Tally's Music Class