by Eric GRIEBENOW | Sep 30, 2015 | ECC, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Kindergarten 3 (ICS), Music, The Grades
During this year’s Book Week, Primary students have been “musicalizing” two stories of the Pout-Pout fish. One is a review from last year, The Pout-Pout Fish, and one is the highly anticipated prequel, The Pout-Pout Fish Goes To School. Students have...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Sep 22, 2015 | ECC, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Kindergarten 3 (ICS), Music, The Grades
All primary students have been learning the song of the month, Cirandeiro. It is a circle song from Brazil, and we have had (some challenging) fun learning to pronounce the Portuguese. Below is a picture of some Grade 4’s experimenting with circle dancing. Quite...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Sep 16, 2015 | Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
Throughout the week, G5-8 Band students have been working on producing sound with just mouthpieces. While everyone had been eager to play with their entire instrument, there is a pedagogical reason for the slow start. Learning a new instrument means learning new mouth...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Sep 10, 2015 | Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades
As the music team works to increase the opportunites and advance the quality of music making at ABIS, we get many questions about why we have chosen to go in the direction of musical ensembles and specifically band and choir. While the full answers to the questions...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Sep 3, 2015 | ECC, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Kindergarten 3 (ICS), Music
At this week’s assembly, students (and parents!) got to learn a new song. Once students learned the melody and phrases through call and response, we all experimented with moving our bodies to the steady beat and crossing the body mid-line (a tough task for...
