music

miss Marilee's music

name that tune
retell favorite story with instruments (Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything)

Number

Three Little Fishies: swam over the dam...
5 speckled frogs
5 little birdies
Goldilocks and the bears

Rhythm

shakers: (games) http://kids-and-music.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html
scat the cat:  and colors
Hickety Tickety: http://kids-and-music.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=50

• sing it (each syllable gets a different note)
• let's clap it
• let's slap it

Farm Day 'read' and play music

Drums:

This week we've been drumming on empty buckets while reading the book, Tanka, Tanka Skunk.  The book has lots of different animals that we drummed to the beat of their names.  Then we drummed our own names and talked about how many "beats" (early introduction to syllables!) were in their names.  For example, "Jack" has one beat, and "Lauren" has two.

After practicing the beats, we explored pounding on different parts of our drums, and mallets (using the stick end, tapping on the sides, etc.) Then we put on some drumming music and drummed til we ran out of time, or until our sticks broke - whichever came first.

You can easily make your own drum set with any empty bucket, a dowel (at least 1/2" round) and a rubber ball.  Use a sharp object (or a drill!) to make a hole into the ball to insert the stick.  Load up with lots of expoxy glue (I use EC6000), and place the ball on top of the stick.  Let dry overnight and then start banging!

book: tanka tanka skunk
book: Max Found 2 sticks

fun

Jump Jim Joe partner
http://kids-and-music.blogspot.com/2011/10/family-week.html
Grandma Moses
Shark Story
Grandma's Spectacles
Put Your Hands on Top of Your Head: change voice for broad shoulders, tiny waist
my dog rags
Little Red Box http://kids-and-music.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=50
Jack in the Box
This Little Piggie Went to Market
3 little kittens
Five in the Bed
ABC feet

Music Appreciation

http://kids-and-music.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html

• Handel's water music
• Carnival of the animals
• Mussorgsky
• Flight of the Bumblebee
• Tiptoe Feet with Bongo Drum

Composers & Conductors

This week we learned about music jobs - Conductors (who lead a group of musicians in playing a piece of music) and Composers - (who write down the music so musicians can play it).

 

We looked at a piece of music and noticed all the  lines and dots.  We talked about how the dots are the notes.  Solid notes are different from hollow notes and tell the musician how long to play the note.  We also learned that where the note is on the line tells the musician to play high (or low).

 

We learned about a famous composer: Chopin.  Chopin was 6 years old when he started composing, so you don't have to be a big person to compose music.  We played pretend pianos to Chopin's "Minute Waltz".

Then we "composed" our own music by coloring in notes on a piece of music.

 

 

Then we each got to conduct our music, first by calling out the colored notes on our music score, while the musicians played xylophones, chimes and bells.  Finally we waved the baton to lead all our friends in an all-out chime/bell choir!

jazz & playing real instruments http://kids-and-music.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html
book: Ben's Trumpet; Jazz Fly
Louis Armstrong
Rag Mop (ABC song)

instruments:

• make own drum sticks: dowel/ball
• milk jug, beach ball; etc
• plastic cups for horse clopping
• other cultures

Glow in the Dark

• "Tocatta and Fugue" by Bach, and the "Overture" to Phantom of the Opera while dancing with flourescent "magic" scarves in front of a black light.
• We also played the "drums" with glow-in-the-dark sticks to "Monster Mash 
• Glow Worm: Grab your own "glow worm" (light stick) and wiggle along to the tune of "Glow Worm" sung by the Mills Brothers. http://kids-and-music.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html 
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

 Cultural

http://kids-and-music.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=6 

• Halloween
• Winter
• Spring
• Space: http://kids-and-music.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html