Div. 8 – 14

We have been working on March of the Royal Lions from Carnival of the Animals by French composer Camille Saint-Saens.

Read the poems to or with your family. Don’t forget to show the sound effects we’ve added to the first part of Rumble in the Jungle. In music class we used: different types of drums for the rumble, sand paper blocks/pool noodle scrapers for the whispering trees and shakers made from seeds and goat hooves for the rustling leaves. See what you can find at home to create those sounds.


Rumble in the Jungle
There’s a rumble in the jungle,
There’s a whisper in the trees,
The animals are waking up
And rustling the leaves.

Lion
The Lion’s the king of the jungle
Who quietly sits on his paws,
But everyone quivers and shudders and shivers
As soon as he opens his jaws.

Form or Design of the piece

  • Rumble in the jungle poem with sound effects
  • Music Introduction -sleeping lions wake up, stretch, yawn, preen (pause after the intro)
  • Lion poem
  • A Marching
  • B Roaring
  • A Marching (with smaller roars and growls)
  • Coda (ending) Big roar and final lion pose

Music concepts we talked about: moving to the steady beat when the Lion marches in the A section of the music and the Crescendo (getting louder) and Decrescendo (getting softer) in the Lion roars in the B section.

Show your family how we move to this music in class. Here is the link to the music: Lion.

If the link does not work, search Kanneh Mason, Lion on YouTube.

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Also, in conjunction with our student led conference theme of “I am…..”, we have been singing “I Am Enough”. Listen & sing this song with your family.
Here is the link: I Am Enough.

If the link does not work, search: Miss Katie, I am Enough on YouTube.