by Eric GRIEBENOW | Feb 15, 2017 | Grade 3, Grade 4, Music
Students in Grades 3 & 4 are starting their recorder units using the “Recorder Karate” method. Through this program, students will learn how to better read music, play the recorder, while they pass tests to earn “belts”, from white to...
by Kirrili WILLIAMS | Jan 26, 2017 | Creativity, Action, Service, ECC, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Music, Secondary Music
The benefits of music education are well documented. However, the main benefit is that it brings us joy and helps us share that joy with others.
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Jan 25, 2017 | ECC, Music
The K1 & K2 Musicians have been learning a new fingerplay about 5 fishes and a hungry shark. See if your student knows it! 5 little fishes, swimming in the sea, Teasing Mr. Shark,”You can’t catch me, You can’t catch me!” Along comes Mr....
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Jan 19, 2017 | Grade 1, Music
In G1, we have been experimenting with rhythms and connecting them with “ta”, “ti-ti”, and rests. Today, these musicians used their own name and bodies to make rhythms that others copied. After we listened to ourselves, we tried to find the...
by Kirrili WILLIAMS | Jan 19, 2017 | Grade 3, Music
Grade 3 have been exploring poetry with Ms Drower this week. They discovered some meanings of words and looked at how ideas are expressed in poetry. What a surprise to find that the rhythms we have learnt in Music are actually in our poetry! We found the rhythms to...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Jan 12, 2017 | Kindergarten 3 (GS), Kindergarten 3 (ICS), Music
K3 Musicians have started learning how to play the xylophone while singing known, class songs. Students had fun learning the parts using only body parts, then trying it on the instrument. The best part was seeing students teach each other.
