This week's lessons and activities:
Grades 1 - 3 Modified for each grade level.
Bucket drumming
- how to hold the sticks
- singles and doubles
- ta and titi
- keeping a beat, playing with others
- self control
- active listening
Dooby Dooby Doo - singing a melody, call and response, Scat singing - improvisation
Little Red Wagon - Melody note matching, songwriting, rhythm, using your imagination
Duke of York - history, geography, tempo
I Don't Know - asking for help
The ABC Song - rockin 'round the alphabet. Beginning word sounds
Today is - the days of the week. Planning meals.
The Other Day - storytelling. Picturing things in your mind.
Elevator - Do re mis
One Big Family - multiculturalism, different families
Big Rock Candy Mountain (modified for content) - Trains, history
Crocodile Rock - comparing crocs and alligators
Ten in the Bed - puppetry, percussion instruments
Body percussion - snapping, clapping, whistling, beatboxing, singing, popping...
Class Band
- using guitars, xylophones, pianos/keyboards, and boomwhackers students will play the chord tonic along to various nursery rhymes. They's practice playing whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes.
Bucket drumming
- how to hold the sticks
- singles and doubles
- ta and titi
- keeping a beat, playing with others
- self control
- active listening
Dooby Dooby Doo - singing a melody, call and response, Scat singing - improvisation
Little Red Wagon - Melody note matching, songwriting, rhythm, using your imagination
Duke of York - history, geography, tempo
I Don't Know - asking for help
The ABC Song - rockin 'round the alphabet. Beginning word sounds
Today is - the days of the week. Planning meals.
The Other Day - storytelling. Picturing things in your mind.
Elevator - Do re mis
One Big Family - multiculturalism, different families
Big Rock Candy Mountain (modified for content) - Trains, history
Crocodile Rock - comparing crocs and alligators
Ten in the Bed - puppetry, percussion instruments
Body percussion - snapping, clapping, whistling, beatboxing, singing, popping...
Class Band
- using guitars, xylophones, pianos/keyboards, and boomwhackers students will play the chord tonic along to various nursery rhymes. They's practice playing whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes.
Grades 4 - 6 Modified for each grade level.
The Djembe
- to gather in peace
- history - the Mali Empire
- drum as a communication tool - "Here comes the King."
- bass, tone, and slap
- keeping a beat
- 4/4 time
- ta, titi, tikatika, tripleTi, syncopation
Quality Music
- make makes a song "good"?
- why do we gravitate towards certain genres?
- identifying genres and some sub genres
- what is quality music vs. people's opinions of music.
Power Chords
- why we use them
- how they're made
- ghost notes
- songwriting with power chords
- performing
- resilience
Air Band Contest
- how to lip sync
- working in a band
- air guitar techniques
- dealing with stage nerves
- audience behaviour for different venues and genres
Beat Poetry
- beat and rhythm
- interpreting and reading poems with expression
- beat poetry, slam poetry, rap, free-verse and metered poetry and how they are mechanisms to reach an audience more effectively. Exploring their purposes, similarities and differences.
- breaking poetry into 4 beats
- practicing and presenting the poetry in a way that will be fun for the audience
- collaborative skills and conflict resolution
- performance skills
The Djembe
- to gather in peace
- history - the Mali Empire
- drum as a communication tool - "Here comes the King."
- bass, tone, and slap
- keeping a beat
- 4/4 time
- ta, titi, tikatika, tripleTi, syncopation
Quality Music
- make makes a song "good"?
- why do we gravitate towards certain genres?
- identifying genres and some sub genres
- what is quality music vs. people's opinions of music.
Power Chords
- why we use them
- how they're made
- ghost notes
- songwriting with power chords
- performing
- resilience
Air Band Contest
- how to lip sync
- working in a band
- air guitar techniques
- dealing with stage nerves
- audience behaviour for different venues and genres
Beat Poetry
- beat and rhythm
- interpreting and reading poems with expression
- beat poetry, slam poetry, rap, free-verse and metered poetry and how they are mechanisms to reach an audience more effectively. Exploring their purposes, similarities and differences.
- breaking poetry into 4 beats
- practicing and presenting the poetry in a way that will be fun for the audience
- collaborative skills and conflict resolution
- performance skills
Ensuring a culture of powerful learning and engaged thinkers.