{"id":255,"date":"2020-04-09T14:08:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/nordstrandj\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2020-06-02T07:32:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:32:35","slug":"grade-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/nordstrandj\/grade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning Menu 7<\/h1>\n

Hi Grade 2’s! What Music activity will you try this week?<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to do the response so I know which one you tried.\u00a0 There are levels this week in the learning column.\u00a0 What one can you get too?<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to see this week’s activities.<\/p>\n

Hang in there!<\/p>\n

Mrs. Nordstrand<\/p>\n

Learning Menu 6<\/h1>\n

Hi Grade 2’s! What Music activity will you try this week?<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to do the response so I know which one you tried!<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a>\u00a0to see this week’s activities.<\/p>\n

Hang in there!<\/p>\n

Mrs. Nordstrand<\/p>\n

Learning Menu 5<\/h1>\n

Hi Grade 2’s!\u00a0 I’m missing you and thinking of you!\u00a0 What Music activity will you try this week?<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to do the response so I know which one you tried!<\/p>\n

It’s week 5 of your learning menus!\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to see this week’s activities.<\/p>\n

Hang in there!<\/p>\n

Mrs. Nordstrand<\/p>\n

Activity 6 (week of May 11)<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

For Mrs. Nordstrand’s Menu click here<\/a>.\u00a0 Did you see the video I made for the community?<\/a><\/p>\n

Below are items from Mme. Hesketh.<\/p>\n

Before you begin<\/strong>, please review the hand signs and solfa names of the 5 note (pentatonic scale) here<\/a> and review singing these notes along with this video of the do pentatonic scale here<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for a learning menu from Mme. Hesketh. Choose one or more to try out.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to send your response (picture, video, worksheet etc.) \u00a0and send to your music teacher.<\/p>\n

Have fun!<\/p>\n

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Materials:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for the sheet music for \u201cPeace like a River\u201d from “Actively Listen”<\/p>\n

Peace Like a River (lyrics)
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I\u2019ve got peace like a river,
\nI\u2019ve got peace like a river,
\nI\u2019ve got peace like a river in my soul. (repeat)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got joy like a fountain\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got love like the ocean\u2026<\/p>\n

–Pentatonic composition worksheet<\/em> from”Experiment and Create” here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Activity 5 (week of May 4)
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Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for a learning menu from Mrs. Nordstrand<\/p>\n

Below are items for Mme Hesketh’s menu.<\/p>\n

I hope you had a great week. Here are some more activities for you to try out.<\/p>\n

Click here <\/a><\/span>for a music learning menu from Ms. Hesketh. Choose one or more to try out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t forget to send your response (picture, video, worksheet etc.) \u00a0and send to your music teacher.<\/p>\n

Have fun!<\/p>\n

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Materials:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Activity 4
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Hello everyone, I hope you had a good week.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for a music learning from Mrs. Nordstrand.<\/p>\n

Make sure to send your entry to Mrs. Nordstrand for our special Music Monday project!<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for a music learning menu from Ms. Hesketh. Choose one or more to try out.<\/p>\n

Here is the recording for the “practice” activity<\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/nordstrandj\/files\/2020\/04\/Rhythm-assessment_week-3_grade-2.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Here <\/a>is the worksheet for the “practice” activity.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is the answer key to the “practice”activity.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to send your response (picture, video, worksheet etc.) and\/or fill in the form<\/a> from Ms. Nordstrand and send to your music teacher.<\/p>\n

Have fun!<\/p>\n

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Activity 3<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for a learning Menu from Mrs. Nordstrand.\u00a0 Choose\u00a0one<\/strong>\u00a0or as many as you wish to do on the menu!<\/p>\n

Here is a\u00a0response sheet<\/a>\u00a0you can use!<\/p>\n

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Activity 3 from Ms. Hesketh<\/span>
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Don’t worry be happy!<\/em>
\nHere is a great video to get you in a music-loving mood!<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to watch!<\/p>\n

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Hello!
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Hello grade 2’s! Did you have fun dancing in 3\/4 time? Did you feel the \u201cdown..up..up\u201d of the music?<\/p>\n

Did you notice that it was more obvious in some songs than others?<\/p>\n

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What is 3\/4 time again?<\/b><\/p>\n

When we say 3\/4 time or 4\/4 time we are talking about the \u201cmetre\u201d <\/b>of the music. The metre is basically the measurement of groups of beats into musical bars (not to be confused with chocolate bars;) You can hear a pattern because the first beat of the group- or bar- is stronger or accented a little bit.<\/p>\n

**Fun fact: The first beat in the group of beats is actually called <\/b><\/i>the down beat, just like how we felt the \u201cdown…up…up\u201d in the music! In the video link below, the teacher also refers to the first beat of each bar as the \u201cstrong beat\u201d or the \u201caccented\u201d beat.<\/p>\n

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So how do we show <\/i>3\/4 time in written music?<\/b><\/p>\n

To show what metre the music is in we need..<\/p>\n

1: A time signature:<\/b><\/p>\n

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A time signature has 2 numbers.<\/p>\n

The one on top shows the number of beats<\/b> per bar (in this case it is 3 beats per bar), and the one on the bottom show what kind of note<\/b> the rhythm is in.<\/p>\n

For now, the bottom number will be 4 (which means a quarter note) but we’ll talk more about this later.<\/p>\n

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2: B<\/strong>ars and bar lines <\/b><\/p>\n

We also need to put in “bars” <\/strong>and “barlines”<\/strong> to divide the music into the groups of beats. So if you are in 3\/4 time, you need a bar line every 3 beats .<\/p>\n

Bar lines are suuuu-per important. If we didn’t have them, the music would be really confusing to count.<\/p>\n

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So… Musical \u201cbars\u201d <\/b>are divided by \u201cbar lines\u201d.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Here are 3 bars separated by 2 bar lines with a double bar line at the end (don’t worry about this one for now, it just means the piece is over):<\/p>\n

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Actively listening\/ watching<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a little video explaining it again in another way. Watch until minute 1:30. If you want to continue watching after 1:30, please do, but don’t worry if it what he says afterwards doesn’t make sense quite yet- we’ll learn about it soon!<\/p>\n

Click here <\/a>to watch<\/p>\n

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Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n

So in the songs from last week you heard a pattern of beats: 1..2..3, 1..2..3 over and over again.<\/p>\n

The pattern is divided by \u201cbar lines\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

The bar lines separate the \u201cbars\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The \u201cmetre\u201d<\/b> is written at the beginning like this below and tells you the number of beats in each group. The number of beats in the group doesn’t change unless the metre says so. Here we have 4\/4 time which is 4 beats per bar instead of 3.<\/p>\n

graphic. Here is that picture again:<\/p>\n

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And…<\/strong>The first beat of each group of beats is a little bit stronger, and we call it the \u201cdown beat, the strong beat, or the downbeat\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Active listening\/review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have a watch to this video again and see if it makes a little more sense now. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GJRItpXDizA<\/a><\/p>\n

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Experiment and create:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Go back to the songs in 3\/4 time from last week’s lesson and try to dance in 3\/4 time again now that you understand metre. <\/b>This time instead of just dancing as down..up..up<\/b>, try to accent the \u201cdownbeat\u201d or \u201cstrong beats\u201d with your movements in other ways.<\/p>\n

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What kind of movements did you discover? <\/strong>(Think back to our freeze dances for inspiration.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Try moving in 3\/4 time like<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Animals<\/strong><\/p>\n

-With qualities (sticky, bubbly, sharp, round etc.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Click below for the links again from last week:
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here<\/a><\/p>\n

and here<\/a><\/p>\n

and here<\/a><\/p>\n

the metre is not as obvious in these ones…<\/p>\n

here<\/a><\/p>\n

and here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Share<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take a video of your dancing with your new moves and send to your music teacher by email with your full name and division in the title.<\/p>\n

Happy dancing!<\/p>\n

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Activity 2<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n

Did you find the first activity on the Week One page?<\/p>\n

Hello fabulous grade 2’s! Here is a little recording that I (Ms. Hesketh) made just to say hi!<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/nordstrandj\/files\/2020\/04\/hello-to-primaries_week-1.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n

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I have missed your beautiful singing but we are strong and we can adapt right? Can you guess what is an even better way to beat cabin fever than exercise? Right! Exercising with music… and dancing!! <\/span><\/p>\n

In these next lessons we are going to work on feeling 3\/4 time *three four time, (or three beats per bar). This is the “metre” of the music. If you’re not sure what it sounds like, think of a dance you might know that goes \u201cdown..up..up\u201d like a waltz. To listen to an example and to check how it is different from 4\/4 time *four four time, (or four beats per bar) listen and watch here\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Active listening:<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

A) Can you hear the \u201cdown..up..up\u201d in the music? It’s kind of like the first beat is heavy and the next two are light. That is what 3\/4 time feels like when we dance: heavy light light.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some actual waltzes (a dance with steps that go \u201cdown up up, down up up\u201d, you can imagine dancing down…up..up <\/span><\/p>\n

here<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

and here<\/a><\/p>\n

and here<\/a><\/p>\n

B) Here are more examples of songs in 3\/4 time, but the metre is not as obvious, can you hear the down.. up.. up? Play them… <\/span><\/p>\n

here<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

and here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Practice:<\/span> Now play a few of these examples again and move around the room any way you like in 3\/4 time. The trick now is to keep the \u201cdown..up..up\u201d beats in your movements nice and steady. <\/span><\/p>\n

Share: <\/span>Ask someone in your home to take a video of you dancing in 3\/4 time to the music and send it to your music teacher by email with your full name and division in the title!
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Happy dancing!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Video and activity from Mrs. Nordstrand<\/h1>\n

Click here<\/a> for a video from your teacher<\/p>\n

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