Hello families!
Enjoy the playlist of activities for this week (click on the playlist relevant to your student):
Week of April 27th (Kinder, 1st, 2nd) or
Week of April 27th (3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th) or IS students (information at end of post). I'll also include links to each video below if you'd rather have 1 video available at a time.
These activities are based on the at-home music lesson templates I explain in
this video.
Below I suggest when you can add other activities that don't involve our Youtube channel (those will have << >> around them to show you'll need to have other materials available). Remember: do what works for your family. Have fun, and happy music making!
Kinder, 1st, and 2nd
1.
Echo and canon clapping game: do the echo/canon clapping with me in the video, or make some rhythms and sounds with someone in your house.
2.
De Colores Song: We're continuing to learn De Colores.
This website gives you the full translation of the lyrics. This week please try to sing more of the song with me (In fact, I'd like you to come back to the song again after a break to get some extra practice this week)
<<3. Music Book: read a music book, or watch someone else read a music related book to you>>
<<4. Wiggle Break: do some more echo/canon clapping, or go to
https://family.gonoodle.com>>
5.
De Colores/
Practice Singing!: Kinders - watch the video again and try to sing more of the song with me (the 2nd half is much easier to learn b/c it's mostly the animal sounds), and 1st/2nd graders get to singing with me in the video using Do, Re, Mi, So, and La!
<<6. Make some music: play an instrument in your house, sing-a-long to any video our Mrs. Harreld's youtube channel, use a virtual instrument, or make choices in a music game (digital or otherwise). Check out
this blog post for more ideas >>
7.
Little Hawks Song: sing our Little Hawks and remember you're not alone! (Bonus: if you want to sing along to "
High Hopes" as well I've included it in the playlist).
3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th
1.
Learn/Review how to hold a ukulele (3rd graders this is a head start for next year!), and then
how to read ukulele tabs (this will also help you piece together how to read guitar tabs - it's the same idea but with 6 strings instead of 4, and different note names)
<<2. Wiggle break: do some echo/canon clapping, or go to
https://family.gonoodle.com>>
3.
Treble Clef Song and Game (3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th): For this game, you need to eventually remove a word from our phrase "Every Good Banana Does Fabulous" much like you leave out letters in the song "Bingo". Let me know which word you chose to leave out!
<<4. Make some music/musical choices! Play an instrument (remember, a cup is an instrument!), sing a song, dance to music, draw to music, make choices in a musical game (check out
this blog post for more ideas), or listen to music>>
5.
Little Hawks Song: Sing with me and remember you're not alone! We're all in this together. (Bonus: if you want to sing along to "
High Hopes" as well I've included it in the playlist).
Ms. W-J and Ms. Arbuckle's students
Please review the notes names in our boom whacker videos, or choose from one of the playlists above to enjoy! You can practice the boom whacker songs by picking one note (A, B, C, D, E, F, or G) to clap every time it appears. I know a bunch of you liked "E" (the yellow one), so you can try clapping only when the yellow "E" appears and move on from there :)
Skeleton Dance
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Smashing Pumpkins
Pirates of the Caribbean
Ghostbusters
Popcorn II (the harder version)
Popcorn I (the easier version)
How Far I'll Go
If a student would like feedback about their performance, or they have questions, they can fill out this google form using their district email and I'll respond there:
Get Feedback from Mrs. Harreld
Miss you all tons, take care!
