May 11-15 Activities
Grades 3-5
The activities that I post are meant to be used many times. Please go to the Past Lessons page and dive deeper and MASTER activities from before! If you are able and want to record an audio or video of yourself doing them, I would love it if you emailed them to me. An audio version can be recorded using the "Voice Memo" app, and a video version can be made using the Camera on an iPhone. (I don't know what to use on an Android).
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Email: jeffrey.miller@gnspes.ca
Here are some excellent lessons by other music teachers! I have made some lessons for you with some really great videos, activities and percussion.
Introduction to Rhythm Reading: Bonus Challenge I would love for someone to email me a video of themselves doing one of these! You can also do these with a partner––split the singing and the playing.
This video covers rhythms we have done in class with a little different flavor. It uses ‘TI-Ti” instead of “Ti-Ka” for eighth notes, and “To-e” (too-ee) instead of “Two” for half notes (two beats).
Level Up:
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With a partner, one person plays the left side, one plays the right side of the bar.
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Make it faster!! On the bottom right of the video, down where you make a video fill the screen, you will see a gear icon that looks like a wheel. Click on that. You can choose to make it faster by clicking on “Playback Speed” and choose 1.25 to 2 Try it!
“Alpha Four” by Visual Musical Minds I'm leaving THIS one in here because it's so hard. If you've already mastered it, DO IT FASTER! LOL!
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Make it faster!! On the bottom right of the video, down where you make a video fill the screen, you will see a gear icon that looks like a wheel. Click on that. You can choose to make it faster by clicking on “Playback Speed” and choose 1.25 to 2 Try it!
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PLEEEEASE send me a video!
Woodwinds Family
I think we did a good job looking at the String Family instruments. Here is a video from the same local group that gave us our other videos, ON-A-CLOUD. This is a piece for Woodwind Quintet, “Trios pièce brève” by French composer Jacques Ibert. You are so smart...which one of these is NOT a 'woodwind'? Start the video at 4:25.
I am leaving this video up from last week because there is so much good music here. Did you listen to all the different musicians playing different pieces? Did you notice the artist making a painting for each piece that was played, and how it became one BIG painting? Or how about the animation starting at 41:20?