Welcome parents! I'm so excited to be teaching music to the 3's, 4's and kindergartners this year! Although each age group is working on a different curriculum there are concepts that we are working on in all classes. These include:
developing a steady beat
listening for specific sounds and instruments
rhythm patterns in both duple and triple meter
singing in major and minor tonalities
working as a group to coordinate circle dances to music
Here is what each age level has been working on!
Pre-K 3's: We have been celebrating our day with some fun poems and songs! The children really enjoy singing and moving to the songs Hands a-Washing and See How I'm Jumping. We sang songs about cooking such as Hot Cross Buns and The Soup is Hot! Students have been also working on repeating tonal and rhythm patterns.
Pre-K 4's: T
he four's have been working on some musical "stories". They acted out the musical story of "Little Feather" and had fun taking turns singing the song "A Big Black Bear" and taking turns being the bear in a cave. We completed our "Johnnie Appleseed" ensemble piece which included singing and playing different percussion instruments. We have been listening to the sound of different tools used to build a house and used a song to mimic this process. Over the next few weeks we'll be talking about some different instruments of the Native Americans.
Kindergarten:
Kindergarten has been having fun learning new songs such as "Tree in the Wood" and "Hop Old Squirrel". They've been listening and identifying instruments from the brass family as well as instruments that make both long and short sounds. We've started learning some songs for our upcoming Christmas concert and will continue over the next several weeks. Our new unit will include writing and composing with duple rhythm patterns and learning about different percussion instruments.