Tuesday and Wednesday....because I forgot!

Ok so I didn't forget yesterday, I just didn't have time! I got here at 8:00- left at 3:30 and never stopped to even look at my computer! So all today was, was looking at emails that I had gotten from last Wednesday! AH!!!

Tuesday first!

Kindergarten watched Peter and the Wolf and we had to practice closing our eyes and sticking our fingers in our ears to show that we didn't want to see the wolf! I do think however, that no one was frightened, and we learned something about the instruments that accompany the video. Ask your children what a Kettle Drum is!

2nd graders are now able to understand Beat, rhythm and pattern, and they also know that patterns don't just happen in math, but in music as well! We however, have to work on making sure that our rhythm sticks stay quiet when I am talking!

1st graders listened to a variety of "Styles" of music, everything from classical (Mozart's Dies Irae) to ROCK AND ROLL! (The new song from Transformers- New Divide) to Opera and Country. We discussed how we could tell that each one of those songs fit into one or more of those categories.

Jonah's Wailers listened to Andrew Johnston , a 13 year old boy from Britain sing "Pie Jesu" If you ever want to trick your students into thinking that all girls sing high, and all boys sing low... think again! 3 of the 36 said it was male, the rest believed it was a female singing. Here is the link to the youtube site if you want to hear him sing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJidPdlBKm8

6th grade bells reached their goal today of 1-24, fairly efficiently. They also listened to their song on CD and tried to play along with it... That was pretty scary! They weren't quite ready to play it that quickly!

Good News choir is singing this Sunday(at 8:00am), so they learned and polished the remained of their song. They are singing it tomorrow for chapel as well.

4th grade chimes can tell you one thing from our class today... after you play measure 1, you ??? PLAY MEASURE 2!!!! What a revelation they all had! We had a good laugh after our neurons had finally connected theory with practice! Let's just hope that those synapse stay connected until next week!

Wednesday

Good News choir sang very well for chapel this morning, we could have sung louder, but we had never practiced outside before! See you all on Sunday!

Oh advanced band. . . after listening to the recording this afternoon, you are going to want to practice more than you have ever practiced before! Amazingly enough I was able to listen to it once through, after that, I wanted to erase it from my memory. And after you hear it tomorrow... oh the torture! we will know what to fix! I really do apologize in advance for not having enough battery to tape you the second time around. It really was much better! When I get more tech savvy, I will put the recordings on the blog to let your parents hear the torture!!

Beginning Band is chugging right along with their first few notes! Our assignment, due tomorrow in class is ww/br- 5, 6, 7 and Dr- 10, 11, 12. Watch yourself in the mirror! Some of you look like you are in pain when you play!! We also discussed how you should practice when at home. No TV or radio (unless using the accompaniment CD) and try to be free from other distractions. Practice at least 10-15 continuous minutes without being interrupted, and if you get stuck on something, formulate a question to ask me in the next class period.

3rd graders got to experience Music Ace for the first time. Music Ace is a computer software program that is designed to teach the students about the staff and how to read the notes. It is all interactive and works very well on the smart board (too bad I don't have one!) We made it through lesson one today with very little trouble. Next week- on to lesson two!

8th grade bells listened to their Holy Jesus Think on Me, and was able to successfully play with the CD until about measure 26, when the reason it is a Level 2 piece came into play, the key change! Oh please! There are NO Bb in the Key of G!!!!! Thanks to those who stayed after to make sure the room was clean!

Off to rehearsal...again!