Learning Menu 7
Hi Grade 3’s! What Music activity will you try this week?
In the learning channel there are skipping levels to master. Can you do it? Let me know how many you can do!
Click here to see this week’s activities.
Take care!
Mrs. Nordstrand
Learning Menu 6
Hi Grade 3’s! What Music activity will you try this week?
In the learning channel there are skipping levels to master. Can you do it?
Click here to see this week’s activities.
Take care!
Mrs. Nordstrand
Learning Menu 6
Hi Grade 3’s! What Music activity will you try this week?
Hope to see you in our online lesson.
Click here to see this week’s activities.
Take care!
Mrs. Nordstrand
Learning Menu 5
Hi Grade 3’s! I’m missing you and thinking of you! What Music activity will you try this week?
Don’t forget to do the response so I know which one you tried! Hope to see you in our online lesson.
It’s week 5 of your learning menus! Click here to see this week’s activities.
Take care!
Mrs. Nordstrand
Activity 6 (week of May 11)
Hello everyone,
For Mrs. Nordstrand’s Menu click here. Did you see the video I made for the community?
Below are items from Mme Hesketh.
I hope you had a great week. Here are some more activities for you to try out.
Click here for a music learning menu from Mme. Hesketh. Choose one or more to try out.
Don’t forget to send your response (picture, video, worksheet etc.) and/or fill in the form from Ms. Nordstrand and send to your music teacher.
Have fun!
Materials:
-“Practice”- Solfa hand sign poster here
-“Create and experiment”- pentatonic composition worksheet here
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Activity 5 (week of May 4)
Hello everyone,
Click here for a learning menu from Mrs. Nordstrand.
Below are items from Mme Hesketh.
I hope you had a great week. Here are some more activities for you to try out.
Click here for a music learning menu from Ms. Hesketh. Choose one or more to try out.
Don’t forget to send your response (picture, video, worksheet etc.) and/or fill in the form from Ms. Nordstrand and send to your music teacher.
Have fun!
Materials:
Click here for the sheet music for “Peace like a River” from “Actively Listen”
Peace Like a River (lyrics)
I’ve got peace like a river,
I’ve got peace like a river,
I’ve got peace like a river in my soul. (repeat)
I’ve got joy like a fountain…
I’ve got love like the ocean…
Recordings of chants for “Experiment and Create”
Words for chants in “Experiment and Create”
Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums
Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums
Tell me when your birthday comes
Green Cheese, Yellow Laces
Green cheese, yellow laces,
Up and down the market places,
Turn, cheeses turn.
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Activity 4
Hello everyone, I hope you had a good week.
Click here for a music learning menu from Mrs. Nordstrand. Choose one or more to try out.
Make sure to send your entry to Mrs. Nordstrand for our special Music Monday project!
Click here for a music learning menu from Ms. Hesketh. Choose one or more to try out.
Don’t forget to send your response (picture, video, worksheet etc.) and/or fill in the form from Ms. Nordstrand and send to your music teacher.
Have fun!
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Activity 3
Click here for a learning Menu from Mrs. Nordstrand. Choose one or as many as you wish to do on the menu!
Here is a response sheet you can use for drawing and writing.
Here is a writing response sheet you can use for only writing.
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Activity 3 from Ms. Hesketh
Don’t worry be happy!
Here is a great video to get you in a music-loving mood!
Click here to watch!
Hello!
Hello grade 3’s! I hope your week back at virtual school is going well. We miss your smiling faces very much! You must miss each other too. I know my little 4 year old son misses his buddies at daycare like crazy!
Did you have fun reviewing and/ or learning how to sing “La, Sol and Mi” with the hand signs?
The video of Bobby McFerrin was pretty neat heh? He’s the same guy who sang the famous song “Don’t worry, be happy”- I’ll post that one too below in case you’re curious.
Anyways, the reason why the whole audience could follow along with him in the video is because he taught them a great way to improvise using the “pentatonic” scale. Improvising is another word for doing something without a concrete plan, and we do it all the time in music, it’s so much fun.
What is “pentatonic”?
What do you think pentatonic means? Do you recognize anything in that word? What about penta?
Here’s a hint… these shape names tell you how many sides they have:
Pentagon-5 (“penta” means 5, octagon-8 (“octa”means 8) or hexagon-6 (“hexa” means 6)
Did you ever wonder why an octopus is named and octo-pus, right 8 tentacles!
Ahh…look how many connections you can make when you think about language!!
So a pentatonic scale, is a scale with only 5 notes!
More on the video
Have a look to it again here
Do you see how he teaches the audience 5 notes. He uses his body to jump in the spaces like we would on a piano. When he goes to (our) right he goes higher in pitch, when he goes to (our) left, he goes lower in pitch. (He is starting on the middle DO).
It might look a bit like this if we drew it:
| DO | RE | MI | FA | SOL | LA | TI | DO | RE | MI | FA | SOL | LA | TI | DO |
Move and sing
Try following along again with the audience and Bobby McFerrin this time using your whole body and voice, (just singing “ba ba” like the audience for now). Can you mirror him and predict the notes he will sing? Here is the link again
Review
Here is a review of La, Sol and Mi from last week to use in our own improvisations now:
Experiment and create
Now make your own improvised song using “La, Sol, and Mi” with your hand signs to help you. You can try jumping along the imaginary track like Bobby McFerrin does too using this picture.
| DO | RE | MI | FA | SOL | LA | TI |
Share
Take a video of your improvisation and send it to your music teacher by email with your full name and division in the title.
Happy improvising!
And most importantly…
Don’t worry be happy 🙂 Watch it here
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Activity 2
Did you find the first activity on the Week One Page?
Hello you wonderful grade 3’s! Here is a little recording that I (Ms. Hesketh) made just to say hi!
How are you all doing? Things have sure changed in all of our daily lives haven’t they, but it’s nice when some things can stay the same. If you were in Ms. Hesketh’s class you will remember the little songs we sung together like “Escargot, escargot, jusqu’au ligne rouge, escargot, escargot jusqu’à la porte”, or “Doggie, doggie”? Those songs are using La Sol and Mi. We are going to start writing our own songs using La Sol and Mi in the next lessons, but first let’s review and practice!
For fun: Here is a cool video of the amazing Bobby McFerrin getting everyone to sing together. We’ll talk about this more later, but check it out and see if you can join with the audience here
Active listening and Practice:
A) Have a listen and watch this video to practice singing using La, Sol, and Mi here
B) To get really good at using La, Sol and Mi while doing the hand signs, you can try practicing with this helpful video here
C) Now can you try singing Doggie doggie with the hand signs, here is a video to help you practice
D) Now can you practice singing Doggie Doggie using the hand signs and La, Sol and and Mi instead of the words?
E) Here is another La-Sol-Mi song called Lucy Locket. Can you sing the words along with the video here?
F) Now can you sing along to Lucy Locket using your hand signs and La Sol and Mi instead of the words?
Share
Please take a video of you singing one of these songs (Doggie Doggie, Lucy Locket or Escargot) using La, Sol and Mi with the hand signs and send to your music teacher by email with your full name and division in the title!
Happy singing!
Video and activity from Mrs. Nordstrand
Click here to watch
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