Divs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Monday, June 15, 2020

Hunt for the Family Treasure

One final assignment this school year! Name the notes to reveal the location of the family treasure. The assignment is posted in Teams.

Monday, June 8, 2020

Reading Notes on the Treble Clef Staff

For a review of how to read notes of the treble clef staff, watch this video by clicking HERE.

Sherlock Tones: The Case of the Empty Case

Use your note reading skills to solve the mystery. Begin on page one by decoding the six musical clues. Then, insert those clues into the sentences on page two. Further instructions are on the worksheets. For downloadable and printable .jpg’s, click HERE. For downloadable and printable .pdf’s, click HERE.

Monday, June 1, 2020

Colour by Note

Monday, May 22, 2020

Music Autobiographies

What is a song that is special to you and your family? Students reveal that music is connected to beautiful memories of family, culture, special occasions, performances, road trips, and fun times. How many of these songs do you recognize? Which ones are new to you? The music autobiographies are compiled below for you to peruse and maybe learn something new about one another through these stories from our Twelfth Avenue community.

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 (Divs 1-5)

Rhythm Baseball

Let’s play baseball – RHYTHM baseball! Add the number of beats on all the bases. Write the total of all the bases on home plate. See Teams for the assignment.

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Monday, May 11, 2020 (DIVS 1-5)

Listening Program & Zentangle-Inspired Art

Imagine the afternoon bell has just rung. We’re all gathering back in our classrooms and settling in for the Listening Program announcement. “Good afternoon. This week’s listening selection is …”

While learning from home, you’ll decide which Listening Program selection you would like to listen to this week. Choose one from any of the selections on the Listening Program page. Maybe it’ll be Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” or perhaps Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero”. There are so many worthwhile musical selections to choose from. Read the information that goes along with the music.

Settle in … this process needs time. It’s important that you be relaxed and focussed during the process of creating a Zentangle. Plan on listening to the piece several times. (You’d typically hear the same piece five times during the week at school.) As you listen, you are invited to create a Zentangle – an unplanned and abstract piece of art.

There are some guidelines for making a Zentangle.

Use a 10 cm squared paper and a fine-tipped black Sharpie (or anything you have to draw with).
Draw a free-flowing line that starts in one spot and loops its way around the square to create spaces in which to draw your patterns.
Fill in the spaces with simple, repeating patterns (called tangles).

Allow the music to inspire your art. How might your tangle patterns reflect what you hear in the music? How might the the overall mood of the music be reflected in your art? Is the music angry or tender, happy or sad, carefree or serious, etc?

Label your Zentangle with the title and composer of the piece that you chose for listening. Write a few sentences explaining how the music might have inspired your Zentangle. Can you find any connections between the music and your art? I look forward to seeing your work and will celebrate it by posting it on the blog.

Here are some examples of patterns.

A Zentangle-Inspired Art Gallery

The student responses to the assignment are as varied and unique as those who created them. Many have explored ideas – music and otherwise – through listening, thinking, and drawing. All together, the works are a delightful representation of our Twelfth Avenue community of learners.

'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' by George Frederic Handel
I chose this piece because it sounds like a mouse running really fast then falls on something! The parts that are more coloured is when the mouse is falling down. The ones that are not is when the mouse is climbing up.

'Spring' from 'The Four Seasons' by Antonio Vivaldi
The song is really graceful like the lines and patterns in the Zentangle.

'Peter and the Wolf' by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
My Zentangle is all different because the music in that piece was never the same.

'Waltz' from 'Swan Lake' (Act 1) by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
This Zentangle reminds me of the music because the music changes a lot and the directions of my lines are too.

'Wedding March' by Felix Mendelssohn
The mountains represent the beats.

'Amazing Grace' sung by Andrea Bocelli
My Zentangle relates to the man's voice while he sung the song. His voice was sometimes high and sometimes low.

'Violin Concerto in E Minor' (1st Movement) by Felix Mendelssohn
This piece makes me part sad and it was tender.

'Trumpet Concerto' (3rd Movement) by Franz Joseph Hayden
The music in the song goes from low pitch to high pitch and vice versa. I represented this by using the size of each pattern from small to big then from big to small. By increasing and decreasing the pattern, it shows how the notes ascend and descend throughout the music.

'In Taberna Quando Sumus' from 'Carmina Burana' by Carl Orff

'Procession of the Nobles' by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The tempo is fast and sometimes slow. My art looks like when the sound is a bit fast. Also, whenever I hear the music, it sounds dramatic when it is dramatic - that is how I did my Zentangle with lots of shapes.

'Mend Your Heart and Be Happy'
I chose broken heart Zentangle because I love the drawing and it shows that part of that broken heart was there and full of good memories and happiness, so much love. As you can see in the drawing, the half of the heart there is still love but the other half is [torn] apart. I chose 'Mend Your Heart and Be Happy', [for] my music because in this music, it reminds you how hard to move on and be broken but it gives you calm your mind and think positive. Bring peaceful of mind. Don't surrender and move on and see the brighter future ahead of you. It reminds you it's not the [end] of the world.

'Trumpet Concerto' (3rd Movement) by Franz Joseph Haydn
This piece makes me feel joyful and bright. The music is quick and filled with cheer.

'Comedians Galop' by Dmitri Kabalevsky
This song makes me feel relaxed and chill.

'Peter and the Wolf' by Peter Ilyich Tcchaikovsky
The squiggles represent the ugly, nasty wolf. The lines represent Peter. The dots represent the bird. The last one is the bumps which represent grandpa.

This girl is surrounded by all different kinds of mysterious puzzles. She has no other way to get out. The only way she can return to her home is to complete all the levels before she goes. It was very hard and tricky but she had a little help from it. The mysterious puzzle name was a combination of two movies, Journey II and Jumanji.

'Summer' from 'The Four Seasons' by Antonio Vivaldi
It makes me calm when I look at it, just like the music I heard.

'Moonlight Sonata' by Ludwig van Beethoven
The melody was very soft and a little slow. It was played in a serious tone and a little bit uplifting.

'Sicko Mode' by Travis Scott
I think of this song as a way to get a little beasty or wild!!! It gives me a groove. The space in the middle describes me as a person (DEAD AND ALIVE)!

'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' by George Frederick Handel
A Zentangle is a combination of different patterns and designs. Similarly, this composition is a blend of high and low notes.

'Bolero' by Maurice Ravel
The music feels happy. The three lines are drums, the squiggly lines are violins, and the smooth lines are the flute. The jagged lines are the loud and soft instruments together.

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Monday, May 4, 2020 (Divs 1-5)

Star Wars Day

Funny Cantina Band Tribute by VSO Musicians

Do you remember hearing Vern Griffiths and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performing in “Wall-to-Wall Percussion”? Here he is again, along with VSO musicians celebrating ‘Star Wars Day’ in isolation. This music another hit from the movie and is called “Mad About Me”. Click HERE to see the video.

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Students created many variations on the main Star Wars theme.

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Notes & Rests

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 (Divs 1-4)

Division 1-4 used a virtual deck of 36 cards to practice and develop their music understanding about notes and rests. Seventy three (73) students completed the Notes & Rests challenge receiving an average score of 27/36. Well done Twelfth Avenue!

Some students in Division 4 have discovered Chrome Music Lab and shared their recreations of pop songs.

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Chrome Music Lab

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 (Div 5)

Division 5 students used Chrome Music Lab Song Maker to create some interesting compositions that are also interesting to look at!

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Hand Washing Presentations

Monday, April 20, 2020 (Divs 1-4)

We are going to create a video with a montage of photos submitted by you! It’s going to be kind of like a PBS presentation for the school community to remind everyone about the importance of hand washing especially during the outbreak of Covid19. Hand washing is one of the most important actions we can take to slow down the spread of this disease. It’s a behaviour we want to reinforce. Check out the assignment in Teams for instructions.

Click on the captions to view the videos inspired by “Twenty Seconds”.

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Scavenger Hunt

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 (Divs 1-4) / Monday, April 20, 2020 (Div 5)

Here’s our first music exploration – a scavenger hunt! Go to your class Team to find this form and start your adventure.