Category: Grade 2/3

New Seesaw Platform

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Dear beloved students and families,

This message is for all my primary students at Gilpin Elementary School. As I have slowly been introduced to new possibilities and ways of learning, I have collaborated with the primary teachers and we have established that using SeeSaw for all your schoolwork and activities may be the best option. Therefore, (with the exception of Ms. Song’s Grade 3/4 class. Ms. Song’s class will get activities through Teams) Div. 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 music activities have all been moved to SeeSaw. Please look forward to music activities there.

Thank you very much!

Treble Clef Note Review

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NOTE NAMES GAME

Try practicing your treble clef notes! This game is played similarly to Wacky Wanda. The note names will spell out a single word. Please practice 10 words each day! If you’d like, you can send me photos of you practicing and playing the game at lucy.chang@burnabyschools.ca. Hope you have fun!

Review:

Lined Notes: Every Good Bear Deserves Fish

Space Notes: F A C E

 

Make your own instrument!

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Hi everyone! I hope you have all had a great Easter long weekend! Here is an activity you can do with your parents and family when you have the time. The activity this time does require some props. Please feel free to do them at your own pace or not at all if things get too overwhelming. The activity is meant to be fun and entertaining, and not as a stress factor.

Make a musical instrument #1 – A Shaker

Materials you will need:
A clean and dry small plastic bottle (like a juice bottle)
A piece of paper
Dried beans, lentils, popcorn or rice
A funnel
Tape or white glue and water
A paintbrush (if using white glue and water)
Markers or crayons
Scissors
A ruler

Make sure your bottle is clean and dry. Take the label off of the bottle.
Use the funnel to fill it up with beans, lentils, popcorn or rice. Something that will make a sound when you shake the bottle. Only fill it about 1/8th of the way.
Put the lid back on tightly.
Shake the bottle to make sure it sounds like you want it to. Add or take out some of the beans or whatever you used to get the best sound.
To decorate the bottle, draw and colour on a piece of paper using crayons or markers – make small pictures of things that you like.
Cut the paper to the right size to fit around the bottle.
If you used marker, tape the paper on the bottle on one side, then wrap the paper around the bottle and tape it on the other side. You are done!
If you used crayons or want to decoupage an already make picture on your bottle (from a magazine or something), mix the white glue ½ and ½ with water well.
Put some white glue mixer on the bottle. Stick the paper on to the white glue mixture on the bottle and then cover the paper with the white glue mixture. Do this to the paper all around the outside of the bottle until it is all stuck. Let dry overnight. Then you are done!
To decorate the bottle, you could alternately stick stickers around the outside if you wish.

Here are some more instruments you could make, if you want to try another one or would rather build one of these instruments!

Make your own instrument!

BEGINNING ACTIVITIES FOR GRADE 2 AND 3

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  1. Can you sing at least three of the Primary Days of Music songs unaccompanied and without seeing the words?
  2. Can you make up your own short melody to sing using the word “la”? Can you sing your melody while walking on the beat and clapping the rhythm?
  3. Can you write about one of your favorite songs and why it’s one of your favorite songs? Can you talk about elements of music such as pitch (high/low), tempo (fast/slow), and dynamics (loud/soft)?

Please put your writing into a binder specified for music. Every week, I’ll be giving out new activities and assignments. A good idea is to regularly do them each week and put any additional paperwork into the binder. Please put your name and date on each assignment.