She will point you to her synchronous and asynchronous lessons. Feel free to look around my website, and I hope to see you soon!
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Dear 1st graders, I hope you have a wonderful summer! Keep checking the website over the summer. I will continue to add new websites/games, ukulele songs, and videos. I miss you, and hope to see you again soon! Love, Ms. Rothfeld While I wish we could be together in the music room, I've decided to bring the music room to you! Click on the picture below. It will take you to a website that looks the same as the picture, but with clickable links. The links are a combination of music websites, games, books, and videos. Some of them will be familiar, but a lot will be new! Explore the different links. Let me know which ones you like the best!
Mr. Fisher's Field Day is coming soon! To prepare for it, we are doing 2 weeks of field day challenges! Ms. B begins the challenge on Monday. She has challenged the 3rd grade teachers. My challenge is on Tuesday. Check back here on Tuesday to see if the 2nd grade teachers were able to do my challenge! In the meantime, here is a cheesy but fun music warm up to stretch out you face and get you ready to sing. After you watch the video, sing your favorite song and see if feels different. This chant, "Rainy Day" is all about rain and puddles. Do you like to splash in the puddles? Listen to me saying the words of the chant below. Count how many times you see the word, "splash." Pretend to jump into a puddle every time you read the word, "splash."
After you do the chant a few times, try one of the rhythm patterns to the right, or make up your own. Whatever pattern you decide to do, make it an "ostinato." Remember, an ostinato is a repeated pattern, so do your pattern again and again. Someone else in your family can read the words while you do your ostinato, or for a challenge, while you do the ostinato, read the words at the same time! If you want to see a video of me doing different ostinatos, it's on my YouTube channel. Your families should have gotten an email about it. If they can't find it, they can send me an email, or post a comment below and I will send it to you! We only used this website this once or twice in music class this year, but it was definitely a favorite of the 1st graders in Chrome Music Lab. It is called Kandinsky, and was inspired by an artist named Wassily Kandinsky. He was an artist that compared paintings to making music. The website turns anything you draw into sounds. Try drawing different shapes, lines, letters, even spell your name. Ms. Rothfeld's favorite shape to draw in this activity is a circle. If you haven't done it yet, try drawing a circle and see what it does! You can get to the website here. See what music you can create with your drawings! Here's a fun video for you to try. There are four different moves you will do. There will be four people with shapes next to them. The screen will tell you which person to follow. Here are the four movements you'll need: Triangle=Squat Jumps Circle=Fold down and reach up Square=Run X=Run and Clap Once you go through it once, create your own movements to go with each shape. Have fun! We've talked about the difference between duple and triple meter in music class. Listen to the song below. It's called Balafon and is one of the songs we use for our Pattern Maker game. See if you can figure out if it is in duple or triple meter. Remember in duple you are audiating du-de, du-de, and in triple you are auditing du-da-di, du-da-di. Which do you think it is? Feel free to tell me in the comments below.
Earlier in the year, I told you a story of Peer Gynt and the Mountain King. Then we tried to picture the story taking place with the music of "In the Hall of the Mountain King." Below is a video with some rhythm patterns. See if you can read them while the song plays in the background. Do you remember the story? Try writing your own story that fits the music. Listen for parts that are slower/faster or louder/softer to go with the story you write. Try to sing the melody of Bow Belinda. Then sing the chord roots. Do you have someone at home that you could teach this to? You sing one part, they sing the other, and then switch! Did it work? Once you sing the two parts, try the dance and see how much you can do.
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1st Grade MusicThe 1st grade has music 5 times a week--twice with Ms. Rothfeld and twice with Ms. Vaujin (Mrs. Krohn, when she comes back from maternity leave). Archives
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