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Month: April 2020

Second staff lesson for Primaries! Freddie returns to say hello :)

April 30, 2020 / / 0 Comments

Hello primary students! Please watch my new staff lesson video below 🙂

Below is a link to the page on Music play online that lets you practice all the things you have learned in this lesson and the previous Freddie the Frog lesson. There is also some songs that help you learn about the staff!

 

UNITS – Staff Lesson

If you would prefer to use pencil and paper to do your practice, here is a PDF for you that you could print out and fill in 🙂

staff lesson PDF

Please do the following for your assignment:

1.) Watch my video!

2.) Practice note naming and drawing the staff lines in musicplay online – or use the PDF to practice. (Click on the link

3.) As you’ll hear in my video, the lines of the staff are remembered by the words Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. The first letter of each word tells us the name of the note on that line. Can you come up with your own phrase to help you remember the lines on the staff? Let me give you an example. I’ll use my own name since it fits! Elaine Griffiths Bakes Desserts Fast! What can you come up with?

 

 

Skye Boat Song

April 30, 2020 / / 0 Comments

Hi students! A couple of weeks back I interviewed my Dad about his recorder collection – if you haven’t watched the interview already, you should! It’s here on my blog. While he was sampling the different recorders he played a song called the “Skye Boat Song”, and I mentioned that I would post the music for my recorder students. I also made a video of myself singing and playing the song.  I had a little fun trying out a new app called “Acapella”. The link to the video is below the picture!

/https://mixcord.co/acapella/p/eGnXleWFrbxi7miLjufIvg/

I recorded this in my study at home,  no microphone or editing done so it’s a bit rough, but I thought it would be fun to share with you and encourage you to try! The words to the song appear in the bottom of the screen as I sing it. I have also made a Muse Score file with the notes for recorder, the words for singing, and the chords for playing Ukulele (or guitar). The blue/green words are link to a PDF, and I’ve included a screenshot below.

Skye Boat Song

 

Music Happiness Project for all Intermediate classes!

April 16, 2020 / / 0 Comments

Hi everyone:) Watch the video assigned to your class for instructions on how to your first assignment, the Music Happiness Project for all Intermediate classes.

Music Happiness Playlist

I will upload your class’ individual playlist in your Team.

I’ll get us started with my Happy Song, which I’ve included in all the playlists.

https://safeYouTube.net/w/Al66

This song is called “December, 1963 (Oh What a Night)”, and it is by a group called the Four Seasons. This song came out in 1975, and was considered an “oldie” when I heard it. The first time I heard this song I was at Helen’s Grill, which is a diner style restaurant, kind of a 60’s theme, with little juke boxes at the end of each table. Maybe you don’t know what a juke box is? They are music players that you would put a quarter in and they would play songs for you. There were little books you could flip through by using a toggle on top of the machine – very cool, check them out if you have a chance. Anyway, of course juke boxes are a thing of the past so to see one is very rare. I was out to breakfast with my boyfriend, and we were fairly newly met at the time. He put  a quarter in and played this song for me, and I have loved it ever since! It certainly takes me back to those days, but there is also something so joyful about this song that I can’t quite put my finger on. I really love the vocalist, and always sing along with him especially the two lines ” late December 1963″, and “you know I didn’t even know her name”. Something about the melody here really gets to me.  Actually, I like to sing along with the whole song! When we are having one of those Friday nights where we take turns playing each other favourite songs on youtube and dancing in the living room, this is always on my playlist, sometimes even twice! There is also a French version of this song called  “Cette année-là“. I hope you enjoy it, and enjoyed sharing my memory 🙂

 

 

April 16, 2020 / / 2 Comments

Good morning students! Here’s a couple of new videos from me 🙂 The first video is a hello and thank you, and gives you instruction on your suggested activity.

The next video is a read aloud of a story that introduces Freddie the Frog and Treble Clef island!

Lastly, here are the colouring pages I mention in the first video. If you are able to print these out and colour them in, that is one option. If you are not able to print them out, create your own! All you need to do is draw a five line staff (you’ll know what that is after you watch the video) show me where on the staff the place you’ve chosen exists, and then draw me a picture of it! If you need some ideas to get you started, check out the pages below! If you are able to take a picture of your drawing/colouring and send it to me, I’d be most grateful 🙂

Azaleas

Crocodile River    

Eli’s vacation home

Eli’s home

Freddie’s Home

Freddie’s vacation home

 

CHROME MUSIC LAB!!

April 8, 2020 / / 0 Comments

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/

Hey grade 5/6 students!

 I hope you are doing well in these strange times! I miss you all very much. It’s unfortunate that we don’t have access to our Garage Band assignments that we have been working so hard on – I was so looking forward to our sharing of our final projects once the iMovie films were done. I am thinking of ways to continue with the project in a similar vein and will be sending out a Form asking about what type of devices students have etc., but for now check out the CHROME MUSIC LAB that I have posted above . It’s web based program and pretty intuitive.
I had to watch this short youtube video to understand the basics of how chrome music lab works. I found the video to be pretty entertaining whether or not you’re a Billie Eillish fan! For now, watch the video, and then check out the CHROME MUSIC LAB link.

Welcome message, and new song to learn for primaries!

April 8, 2020 / / 14 Comments

Chorus:

Run Salmon, Run (run salmon)

Run Salmon, Run (run salmon)

Run Salmon, Run

 

Grow egg, grow

As the currents flow

In a gravel nest you grow

Grow egg, grow

Hidden down below

In a freshwater home you grow

 

Chorus

 

Drift by drift

In a stream so swift

Bigger every day you drift

Drift by drift

As the water shifts

In the river home you drift

 

Chorus

 

Bridge:

Run Salmon, run

Your story is a circle

Beneath the moon and sun across the whole world (X2)

 

 

Chorus

 

Swim fish, swim

A flash of silver skin

Returning to your home you swim

 

Swim fish swim

A splash of tail and fin

Your story ends another begins

 

Chorus

 

Bridge

 

Chorus

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