Spring is here!

Using songs about Spring as an inspiration, Grade 1 students continue their inquiry on what makes songs the same.  They have expanded their knowledge of the solfège to include la.  Grade 2 students continue their inquiry on Musical Storytelling.  By exploring French-Canadian folksongs, they gain an appreciation of the Acadian culture. 

Grade 3 students are creating musical Q & A, in which they have to create a two-phrase musical structure using the concepts they have learned so far.  In May, students will be exploring the recorder.  Grade 4 students continue their study on musical texture.  Through the performance of traditional folksongs, they explored the monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic textures.  They too will be learning the recorder starting in May.

A note to the Grade 3 and 4 students:  Don't forget to bring your recorder next week!

Drip, Drip, Drop

As we greet Spring, Grade 1 students will explore a number of songs along that theme.  Through this experience, they will expand their solfège knowledge including la. They will also begin to explore different barred instruments including the xylophones, the metallophones and the glockenspiels.  Grade 2 students will continue their music inquiry by telling musical stories from the Acadian community.  They will learn a number of traditional French Canadian folksongs.

Being inspired by Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Grade 3 students begin to see how a musical structure can be built using very limited music motives.  They explored the concept of "question" and "answer" in music.  They will expand on this concept in the weeks to come in order to build larger musical structures.   Through the performance of a number of songs inspired by the First Nations culture, Grade 4 students continue to experience the concept of texture by playing multi-voiced textures on the barred instruments.