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Happy Friday, we made it through another virtual learning week!
Today I have a video of some recorder ensemble pieces. We learn recorder in 4th and 5th grade and I thought it would be fun to see the full capabilities of the recorder. Click here to watch today's music enrichment video. Next week, I will be adding a live music session though Zoom on Fridays at 3:00 pm for K-2 and 3:30 pm for 3-5 to end the week. If you want access to the Zoom links, I have posted them on Clever. They will be in the Lion Tales as well as the PTA eROAR. You may also email me directly for the link if you have trouble finding it. I hope you all have a great weekend and I will see you on Monday!
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Guess what? It's movement Wednesday!
Today we are learning to dance the Macarena! Click here to go to the video of me teaching you the dance. There is a chance for you to dance to the music for a short period, but if you want to listen to the song and do the dance you can click here. I hope you all have fun! If you are having trouble with dancing to the music without a guide you can also check out GoNoodle and follow along with Maximo. He doesn't teach you how to do the dance, but he does dance with you the whole time. Need more ways to move? Here is another musication video but this time it incorporates movement! Click here. Tomorrow evening the Air and Space museum is holding a musical event that you can check out here: https://airandspace.si.edu/events/space-songs They will be performing songs about space, how exciting! See you on Friday for music enrichment Friday! Welcome back,
I hope that you all had a nice Monday off. For singing Tuesday, I have a song that I learned over the weekend. It is called "Lhytyni." This song is a Finnish song about a lantern. The song was written as a song of hope during the winter time. In Finland, the days are shorter during the winter and it is dark for a good portion of the day. The song talks about lighting a lantern to bring hope to the darkness. You can find the song here. The composer of this song is Maarite Lavas, a Finnish Kindergarten teacher. You can watch a video of her performing the song here on a Kantele, a traditional instrument from Finland. If you want to listen to her teaching the words click here. Tune in tomorrow for a movement activity! Good morning!
Today's music enrichment Friday blog features a round called Viva La Musica meaning long live music. Click here to watch today's video. In the video I talk about the Amidons who are a husband and wife who publish music books. Here are a couple of their videos. The Eye of the Needle story can be listened to here. Where the Forest Meets the Sea, a story with music, can be seen here. Sleeping Bunnies, a singing game can be found here. Next week's video will come out on Tuesday since Monday is a teacher workday. See you then! Hi friends, it's Earth Day!
Isn't it so convenient that we sang Bee Bee Bumble Bee on Monday? Bees are so important to our environment. In honor of Earth Day, Google has dedicated it's homepage to learning about bees today. There's also a pollination game involved. Did I check it out before posting this blog? Of course I did! I enjoyed it and I bet you will too. So, go play and learn about bees! Today is movement Wednesday! I have a movement game that goes with our Bee Bee Bumble Bee song that we learned on Monday. The Earth Day theme continues! It is a circle game that involves tapping the beat in other people's hands while walking on the inside of the circle (almost like an inside out duck duck goose). Don't have enough people in your household to make a circle? Don't worry, I didn't either, so today you get to see all the different toys and stuffed animals I have lying around my house. If you have live animals that are willing to sit still, you could attempt to use them, too. There was absolutely no way Killian or Lola were going to be willing to sit long enough for me to play a game with them, but I bet if they were patient dogs it would have worked. Or, you could at least get a laugh trying. You can learn how to play the game here and watch me demonstrate, as well. I am going to emphasize what I said in the end of the video so that it is mentioned two times. If you have young siblings be very wary of playing with them. This game can get very upsetting when a young child who doesn't understand the concept of "out" gets out for the first time. Tears can happen and we definitely do not want that during quarantine. If you would like to teach them how to sing the song and be the person tapping hands, this would be the safest route. It assures they participate in the game and have a positive experience from the start. On a side note, I found this video this morning of Olaf playing instruments and had to share it with you. Speaking of instruments, a fifth grader from Mr. Albert's class wanted to let all of you know that a great way to make an instrument at home is with an empty box. An empty box easily becomes a great drum to play at home! Find a box and start tapping out some cool rhythms. Thank you to this fifth grader for some great ideas during our time at home! That's all for today. See you on Friday! Today we have one of my favorite songs! Let's be honest, though, I have so many favorite songs. The song is a spring song about bees. The lyrics go like this:
Bee bee bumble bee Stung a man upon his knee Stung a pig upon his snout Goodness me if you're not out Remember how last week we did some vocal improvisation? Today we are doing some rhythmic improvisation. It's the same thing only you get to speak in rhythm instead of singing. Click on the video here to listen and participate. Don't worry, we are also singing. It is singing Monday after all. Come back Wednesday for some movement! Happy Friday everyone!
I did not get to making a movement video this week... I'm sorry :( Today I only have one video for you from me. I have extension videos to also send you to, though. Today's video is the song "You Will Be Found" from the musical Dear Evan Hansen. The song is about feeling lost and alone but in the end states "you will be found." The song has resonated with so many during this time of self-distancing and I enjoy listening to it and feeling hopeful. I hope that you, too, enjoy listening to it and get a feeling of hope to help carry you through the weekend. You can click here to see my cover of the song "You Will Be Found." James Cordon held a virtual version of his show and ended with the cast from the original Broadway production of Dear Evan Hansen. Ben Platt acquired the lead role of Evan after playing Benji in the movie Pitch Perfect. If you watch the video, you may recognize him. You can watch him sing the song here with his other cast-mates from the Broadway production. They do not sing all the verses, most likely to preserve time. On the official Dear Evan Hansen YouTube page, there is a cover created from several videos submitted and spliced together. You can find that here. This is what the full song sounds like, only without the original actors/singers from the broadway music. There are so many covers of songs out there from amateur musicians to professionals. It is always fun to see different renditions of pieces. I hope that you enjoy listening to different versions of "You Will Be Found" today and I look forward to singing with you all on Monday. Have a great weekend! It's back!
Here is my first video of many more future videos! I have re-thought what I plan on doing with this blog and I think that I can make more than 1 video a week. So here is the layout: Mondays: Interactive singing Wednesdays: Movement activities Fridays: Music enrichment (videos for you to listen to whether they are made by me or other people out there) If any of these days have to be cut due to my inability to keep up, it will be Fridays and I will let you know if this happens. Since we missed Monday, I am doing some interactive singing today rather than movement. Friday's video will either be just music enrichment or I will also do a movement activity. In today's video (click here) we start by warming up with some solfege echoes and then singing the echo song Bill Grogan's Goat. Remember, you have to fill in the silence after me in order for the song to be an echo song. The last activity is something new and different. It is vocal improvisation and I give 2 different examples of improvisation for you to listen to and consider. The first example echoes the teacher using a similar melody line and the second example uses whatever notes the student wants to. So, you can echo the tune that the teacher sings or you can just sing on one note. Up to you. If that is too hard, start with just speaking in rhythm. You can do it! See you all on Friday. Stay healthy! Welcome back LCTA!
Coming back from Spring Break things will be a little bit different on here. Grades 3-5, all of your content will be posted directly into your Google Classroom. If you do not have access to your Google Classroom, you can send me an email and I will send you the code for you to get access. Need my email address? Go to the contact section of the blog to send me an email. Grades K-2, I will be uploading one video a week. All of you should be receiving a packet with some music resources in it. I will be making my videos based on what the packet has you doing during each week as an extension to these activities. You will also be able to access music videos through segments on ACPS-TV. I hope you all had a wonderful spring break! I will upload the first post-spring break lessons and K-2 video by Wednesday this week. Looking forward to seeing you then! . Happy Friday before spring break!
Today I have two videos for you. The first is an echo song for all of you to practice your echo singing. Some of you will recognize it from extra music last year. For others it will be new. That is the hard part about uploading videos that will reach everyone. Either way, it is a great way for you to practice some echo singing. It's a funny story song about a worm. It makes me smile whenever I sing it. I mention in the video that this is geared towards the younger grade levels, but upper grades will enjoy it just as much. Click here to take a listen to that video. As I was thinking about what else I wanted to share with you today, I thought it would be nice to give you something that your family could easily do together and that would keep you up and moving over the break. Go to the video here to learn how to do the line dance the Electric Slide if you are interested in doing something over the break and dancing with your families. You can do the dance to the original song Electric Boogie by Marcia Griffiths which you can find here on her YouTube channel. You can also use songs like Wannabe by the Spice Girls, Rolling in the Deep by Adele, Think by Aretha Franklin, Sign Sealed Delivered I'm Yours by Stevie Wonder, or Ob-la-di ob-la-da by The Beatles. If you would like to use Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music to find one of these songs and dance to, feel free to try it out! Want an easier way to keep moving during the spring break that doesn't take practice and watching a video to learn? Go check out the Cha Cha Slide here. Or go to GoNoodle.com and check out the Kidz Bop Shuffle which is the Kidz Bop version of the Cupid Shuffle. You can also do the Chicken Dance on GoNoodle as well as the Macarena. Just make sure to get up and get moving during your Spring Break instead of continuously sitting in front of a computer. Moving is important! Have a wonderful Spring Break. I will update you all with anything that will be changing when we come back on Tuesday, April 14. |
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