Category: Primary (Page 1 of 2)

Learn a WONDERFUL song by Louis Armstrong, one of the most famous jazz musicians ever. You might recognize this song, especially if you have a younger brother or sister who is in Mr. Hersog’s music class.

Click here for the video if you are having trouble watching it on my site.

I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, “How do you do?”
They’re really saying
“I love you”

I hear babies cry
I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more
Than I’ll never know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Oh yeah

Activity 8: Instruments of the Orchestra

May 27, 2020 / Mr. Martin ♫

Use this website to review the instruments of the orchestra. Choose 1 instrument from each family (group) to look at and listen to: https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/instruments

If you click on an instrument name on that website, you will see a picture of that instrument. There will also be a music box where you can hear what it sounds like. Feel free to explore even more instruments on the website if you like.

click here for the video if you are having trouble playing it on my website.

After reviewing 1 (or more) different instrument from each family, watch this video of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (made up of students aged 13-19 years old) performing a piece of music by Gustav Holst called MARS: The Bringer of War. The planet Mars is named after the ancient Roman god of war, which was Holst’s inspiration for the title and mood of this music

click here for the video if you are having trouble playing it on my website.

After, answer these questions in Teams or in an email to me.

What instruments did you recognize in this video?
Were there any instruments that you saw on the orchestra page that you did not see or hear in this video?
What was your favourite instrument in this video?

Music Activity 7: The Moral of the Story

May 20, 2020 / Mr. Martin ♫

Do you remember the stories from Activity 5?

These are a special type of stories called fables.

A fable is a short story, usually with animals or objects as the characters, that has a lesson or a “moral” in the story’s meaning.

Most fables are so old that we don’t know for sure who first created these stories, but we think that many of them were told by someone named Aesop.

Aesop lived so long ago that we don’t know much about him, but apparently he was a slave who lived in ancient Greece or Turkey who had a brilliant mind and a special gift for telling stories.

This week, we’ll be learning to sing a song called “The Moral of the Story” about Aesop and a few of his famous Fables.

Use this video to learn how to sing the song. Can you learn how to sing along with the video? Try watching just a small part at a time and repeating it over and over, using both your ears and your eyes to learn the words:

click here for the video if you are having trouble playing it on my website.

After practicing the song, do you think you know it well enough to sing along by yourself with this version? click here for the video if you are having trouble playing it on my website

Let me know if you learn to sing the whole song. You can even record yourself singing and upload it to Teams to show off your hard work!

Music Activity 6: Solfa Practice and the Poison Melody Game

May 13, 2020 / Mr. Martin ♫

CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO if you are having trouble playing it on my website.

Go to https://musicplayonline.com/solfa-practice-echo-sing/ and sing along with the videos on these activities:

Echo Sing (La-So-Mi-Re-Do)

Poison Melody (La-So-Mi-Re-Do)

and Listen & Sing (So-Mi)

Each activity starts with only SO and MI, you will need to click on the tabs that include other notes in order to add them to the videos.

Let me know on TEAMS what is the hardest one that you try!

Music Activity 5: Soundscape Stories

May 7, 2020 / Mr. Martin ♫

Learn how to create your own soundscape for a story!

After you have watched the first video, there are 3 stories you can choose from for creating your own soundscape:

The Tortoise and the Hare: click for STORY VIDEO – click for READ-ALONG STORYBOOK

The Lion and the Mouse: clock for STORY VIDEO – click for READ-ALONG STORYBOOK

The Fox and the Grapes: click for STORY VIDEO – click for READ-ALONG STORYBOOK

Share what you do on Teams. You can write down what sounds you matched to each word in your soundscape, take a picture of each sound-maker you used for your different soundscape words, or even share an audio or video recording of you performing the story with your soundscape!

This is our final online music activities post for this school year.

It has been wonderful to see and hear all the amazing and creative music-making that people have been doing during this strange and unusual time.

Primary Activities:

Intermediate Activities:

Hello everyone,

We are getting close to the end of the school year!

I have a few questions that I would like you to answer about this year in music, and things that you would like to do in future music classes.

Use this website to review the instruments of the orchestra. Choose 1 instrument from each family (group) to look at and listen to: https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/instruments

After, answer these questions in Teams or in an email to me.

What instruments did you recognize in this video?

Were there any instruments that you saw on the orchestra page that you did not see or hear in this video?

What was your favourite instrument in this video?

Do you remember the stories from Activity 5?

These are a special type of stories called fables.

A fable is a short story, usually with animals or objects as the characters, that has a lesson or a “moral” in the story’s meaning.

Most fables are so old that we don’t know for sure who first created these stories, but we think that many of them were told by someone named Aesop.

Aesop lived so long ago that we don’t know much about him, but apparently he was a slave who lived in ancient Greece or Turkey who had a brilliant mind and a special gift for telling stories.

This week, we’ll be learning to sing a song called “The Moral of the Story” about Aesop and a few of his famous Fables.

Use this video to learn how to sing the song. Can you learn how to sing along with the video? Try watching just a small part at a time and repeating it over and over, using both your ears and your eyes to learn the words:

click here for the video if you are having trouble playing it on my website.

After practicing the song, do you think you know it well enough to sing along by yourself with this version? click here for the video if you are having trouble playing it on my website

Let me know if you learn to sing the whole song. You can even record yourself singing and upload it to Teams to show off your hard work!

CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO if you are having trouble playing it on my website.

Go to https://musicplayonline.com/solfa-practice-echo-sing/ and sing along with the videos on these activities:

Echo Sing (La-So-Mi-Re-Do)

Poison Melody (La-So-Mi-Re-Do)

and Listen & Sing (So-Mi)

Each activity starts with only SO and MI, you will need to click on the tabs that include other notes in order to add them to the videos.

Let me know on TEAMS what is the hardest one that you try!

Learn how to create your own soundscape for a story!

After you have watched the first video, there are 3 stories you can choose from for creating your own soundscape:

The Tortoise and the Hare: click for STORY VIDEO – click for READ-ALONG STORYBOOK

The Lion and the Mouse: clock for STORY VIDEO – click for READ-ALONG STORYBOOK

The Fox and the Grapes: click for STORY VIDEO – click for READ-ALONG STORYBOOK

Share what you do on Teams. You can write down what sounds you matched to each word in your soundscape, take a picture of each sound-maker you used for your different soundscape words, or even share an audio or video recording of you performing the story with your soundscape!

Recent Posts

Archives

Tags