Kindergarten

  • Kindergarten

    June 9th – FINAL round of activities (Kindergarten)

    1. Draw a picture to show what you’ve learned and experienced as a Seaforth music student this school year.
    2. Make a short song or instrumental piece of music that expresses what you’ve learned and experienced as a Seaforth music student this school year.
    3. Record yourself singing solfege style (combinations of Do, re, mi, sol, la), using the hand signals that go with each syllable that you are singing.
    4. Complete a previously posted activity of your choice that you have not yet done.

     

    How to submit work

    Please submit work through one of the following three methods:

    1. Comment on any of the blog posts (if comments are to show on the blog site I have to ‘approve’ them, so I can just not approve your comment and view the work at my end).
    2. Email it to me at adrian.clift@burnabyschools.ca
    3. For large file submissions add them to Google Drive and invite Mr. Clift through the ‘share’ option.
    4. Also for large file submissions, Mr. Clift can add you to a Microsoft Team where you can upload the file in the “Assignments” tab.

    If you need assistance with submitting work please email me at Adrian.clift@burnabyschools.ca

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    May 26th – 5th round of activities (Kindergarten)

    1. Echo sing each of the patterns you hear at the following link: https://musicplayonline.com/solfa-practice-echo-sing/.
    2. Draw on a piece of paper a pattern of ta, ti-ti, and za symbols. Submit a recording showing the written pattern with yourself playing the pattern with body percussion (e.g. claps, pats) or with an instrument or object that you have at home.
    3. Imagine you are in a particular place where you would hear lots of particular sounds (e.g. in the city; in a forest with sounds of birds and leaves rusting). Recreate the sounds that you might hear using objects that you have at home. Write down your sounds and the instruments/objects you used to recreate the sounds, or if possible send a recording of yourself making the sounds and say what each sound is supposed to be.
    4. Complete any previously posted activities that you have not yet done.

     

    How to submit work

    Please submit work through one of the following three methods:

    1. Comment on any of the blog posts (if comments are to show on the blog site I have to ‘approve’ them, so I can just not approve your comment and view the work at my end).
    2. Email it to me at adrian.clift@burnabyschools.ca
    3. For large file submissions add them to Google Drive and invite Mr. Clift through the ‘share’ option.
    4. Also for large file submissions, Mr. Clift can add you to a Microsoft Team where you can upload the file in the “Assignments” tab.

    If you need assistance with submitting work please email me at Adrian.clift@burnabyschools.ca

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    May 12th – 4th round of activities (Kindergarten)

    1. Using the web site “Rhythm Randomizer”, play the rhythms that are displayed on the screen using body percussion or an instrument/object that you have at home: http://www.rhythmrandomizer.com/. If possible submit a video showing the rhythms on the screen along with you playing them.
    2. Watch the videos provided in this document that involve storytelling and musical learning. Tell me which video was your favourite, why it was your favourite, and what you learned from it. MUSIC VIDEO STORYBOOKS
    3. Make a list of sounds that you can hear when you are outside your home, in the yard or on the street. For each sound, pick a musical instrument that you think could recreate that sound. Write a second list of musical instruments that match the sounds that you hear.
    4. Complete any previously posted activities that you have not yet done.

     

    How to submit work

    Please submit work through one of the following three methods:

    1. Comment on any of the blog posts (if comments are to show on the blog site I have to ‘approve’ them, so I can just not approve your comment and view the work at my end).
    2. Email it to me at adrian.clift@burnabyschools.ca
    3. For large file submissions add them to Google Drive and invite Mr. Clift through the ‘share’ option.
    4. Also for large file submissions, Mr. Clift can add you to a Microsoft Team where you can upload the file in the “Assignments” tab.

    If you need assistance with submitting work please email me at Adrian.clift@burnabyschools.ca

  • Kindergarten

    Apr 28th – 3rd round of activities (kindergarten)

    1. Compose your own piece of music to from instruments/objects that you have at home. Maybe consider expressing in your music the thoughts and feelings you’ve experienced since you’ve been at home away from school. Maybe get family members to help by playing other instruments/objects at the same time. If possible submit a recording of your composed music.
    2. Pick a story that you like. Create music to accompany the story. Strategies could include using instruments or objects at home to create sounds that represent characters or events in the story, or singing some of the words of the story with a tune that represents characters or events in the story.
    3. Echo the rhythms played on the drum in this video using claps, pats, a combination of pats and claps, or an instrument that you have at home: https://musicplayonline.com/rhythm-practice-new/. Submit a recording of yourself doing the activity.

     

    How to submit work

    Please submit work through one of the following three methods:

    1. Comment on any of the blog posts (if comments are to show on the blog site I have to ‘approve’ them, so I can just not approve your comment and view the work at my end).
    2. Email it to me at adrian.clift@burnabyschools.ca
    3. Add it to Google Drive and invite me through the ‘share’ option (probably the best method for submitting large files such as long video recordings).

    If you need assistance with submitting work please email me at Adrian.clift@burnabyschools.ca

  • Kindergarten

    Apr 14th – 2nd round of activities (Kindergarten)

    1. Submit a video or audio recording of yourself singing at home. Suggestions include singing along to one of the videos on the HOME page, or singing one of our school concert songs along to the song’s Youtube video.
    2. Go outside, close your eyes, and listen. Think about what sounds you can hear. Then draw a picture of all the things that you heard.
    3. Learn and explore music using any of the resources posted on the HOME page of the blog site.
  • Kindergarten

    Term 3 beginning activities for Kindergarten

    Here are three musical activities that can be done from home:

    1. Can you find at least five things in your home that make high sounds, and at least five things that make low sounds?
    2. Can you collect sounds from things in your home to help make music to go with one of your favourite stories? Can you tell the story and make the sounds?
    3. Can you pick three songs and listen to the songs putting the beat into your feet, hands, and head?