Divisions 7, 8 and 9

June 24, 2020

Summer break is finally here and I don’t know about you all, but I am excited for long, hot, relaxing Summer days. This Summer, I want you to think of one song each day that makes you happy and of course I want you to enjoy yourselves this Summer. Now I will leave you with the song “So Long, Farewell” from Oscar and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music”. I hope you have a fantastic Summer break and I am looking forward to seeing you all in September!

June 17, 2020

Wow, I can’t believe that the last week of school is already here! It has been so great to see you all through emails and posts since we left school (and some of you even in class!) For this last lesson, we are going to do bucket drumming with items you can find at home. You can of course use a bucket, or the bottom of a garbage can, large Tupperware container or even a cardboard box and for mallets, you can use drum sticks, wooden spoons or any sort of long wooden item. Please get parent permission first, before using any of these items. Play along with the following videos and feel free to send me a picture or a short video of you playing your bucket drum by email if you wish. Have fun!

June 1, 2020

Hi everyone, welcome to June! This week, we will be learning some new music class songs. Under each song, I have posted instructions for the actions. Please sing along and do the actions for each song.

A Sailor Went To Sea

A Sailor Went to Sea is a silly action song. Make up actions to the song. For example “See, see, see” put your hand over your eyes three times (one for each “See”) as though you’re trying to see far away.

A sailor went to sea sea sea
To see what he could see see see
But all that he could see see see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea

A sailor went to chop chop chop…

A sailor went to knee knee knee…

A sailor went to foot foot foot…

A sailor went to oowatchiwah…

A sailor went to sea, chop, knee, foot, oowatchiwah….

Boom Chicka Boom

This is a repeat after me song. Each verse will be sung in a different “style” such as underwater style, whisper style, giant style, etc. Make your voice and actions match the “style” of each verse and repeat after the singer.

I Said A Boom Chicka Boom! (repeat) I Said A Boom Chicka Boom! (repeat) I Said A Boom Chicka Rocka Chicka Rocka Chicka Boom! (repeat) Uh-huh! (repeat) Oh yeah! (repeat) One more time (repeat)

Hop Old Squirrel

Listen to the song and listen to the motions given (i.e. “hop” old squirrel, hop along while you sing) and show your parents the actions. Afterwards, see if you can sing it all by yourself! You can even add more verses to create more actions if you wish (think of actions that a squirrel does and use those in your additional verses)>

Lyrics:

Hop old squirrel, Eidel dum, eidel dum
Hop old squirrel, Eidel dum dee
Hop old squirrel, Eidel dum, eudel dum
Hop old squirrel, Eidel dum dee

Fly old squirrel, Eidel dum, eidel dum
Fly old squirrel, Eidel dum dee
Fly old squirrel, Eidel dum, eudel dum
Fly old squirrel, Eidel dum dee

 

 

May 25, 2020

Welcome to week 8 of online learning. This week, you will have a chance to practice your music rhythms by playing with the “Build a Beat” online music maker. Using the website below, click on your choice of sounds to make as many rhythms as you wish. You can use Ta, Ti-ti or even tikatika by clicking the button that says “switch to sixteenths”.  You can share them with your friends or family by clicking the “send to a friend” button!
*Note- If you do no see the game pop up when you click the link, make sure you allow it to run adobe flash player or it will not work.*

http://jamzone.littlekidsrock.org/games/build-a-beat/ 

When you are finished, answer the following questions:
1. What was your favourite sound?
2. Did you make more than one rhythm?
3. Did you share your rhythms with any of your friends or family?

Have fun!

May 19, 2020

Welcome to week 7 of online learning. I am so excited to see you all in just a few weeks when we are back in school! This week, I’ve posted a music lesson video below. The activity this week will be for you to make two instruments out of items you find in your house, that you may not think of as instruments. Try and create two different instruments that either use different dynaimcs (loud and soft) or that are powered in different ways (e.g. wind, string vibration, hitting, etc).

Make sure you ask adults for permission to use these items. Easy ideas:

  • Items from the recycle bin
  • Rubber bands stretched across a box
  • Beans or rice in a container
  • Paper tubes
  • Crinkly paper/plastic
  • Flower pots, kitchen items

Create a 30 second composition for your instruments- you can include singing as well. Practice it until you have it memorized and then perform it for someone in your house or even better, make a video of your performance and send it to someone you haven’t been able to visit in a while, like your grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends or anyone else you can think of. I’m sure they miss seeing you! If you have older or younger siblings that go to Lochdale, create your composition together with them. Have fun!

 

May 11, 2020

Welcome to week 6 of online music! This week, we will be reviewing the instrument families by watching the following videos. Once you have watched the videos, complete the following activity.

1. Watch these videos:

2. Complete the following:

  • Pick three instruments, chosen from the videos you watched.
  • Go to YouTube and find three videos of the song “Hakuna matata” being played by each of the three instruments you’ve chosen.
  • Complete the compare and contrast chart by making a chart on a piece of paper, like the following example. Write down what was the same or different about each video. How did the different instruments make the song sound? Which did you like best?

Compare and Contrast Chart

instrument: instrument: instrument:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

May 4, 2020

May the fourth be with you! Today is Music Monday. Music Monday has happened every year across Canada since 2004 and it is a time when musicians from across Canada get together to sing a song together. Music Monday goes live today at 9:30am and repeats throughout the day.  The song this year is “Hymn To Freedom” . Here is a link to watch Music Monday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ww79FJaCXg&feature=youtu.be

Here is this week’s music lesson video:

 

April 27, 2020

Welcome to week 4 of online learning. Wow is time ever flying! I’ve been so excited to receive emails from all of you and see your pictures, videos and all of the work you’ve been doing for music class. So far in music class we’ve been learning how to read musical rhythms, such as ta, ti-ti, rest, etc… but today we are going to start to learn about how to read music notes on the musical staff. Please watch the following video and then print and fill out the worksheet below and take a photo of your work and email it to Ms. Olsen. Please make sure you include your division number in the subject line of your email.

*If you do not have a printer at home, answer the questions on a lined piece of paper and take a picture of your work and email it to Ms. Olsen. (For example 1- Low, 2- High- these are not the actual answers, just examples).

Line and Space Note Worksheet Link –Please click here to go to the line and space worksheet

For more information about high and low notes, watch this video

 

April 20, 2020

Welcome to week 3 of online learning! For this weeks activity I would like you to get outside and do a listening walk.

Step 1: Watch Ms. Olsen’s video instructions of how to do the listening walk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W4rf0gQZXI

Step 2: Please watch the book “The Listening Walk” by Paul Showers

 

 

Step 3: Draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper and at the top on one side of the line write the word “Piano” (quiet) and the other side of the line write “Forte” (loud). Draw a line across the middle of the page and under that write “Mezzo” which means “Medium”.

Step 4: Bring your piece of paper and pencil and go outside with your mom, dad, older brother, older sister, grandma, grandpa, or guardian. Go for a walk around your neighbourhood and write down all of the sounds you hear. If it is a loud sound, like a car honking, you would write that on the “forte” side. If it is a quiet sound, like a cat meowing or purring, you would  write that on the “piano” side. If it is a medium sound, like a crosswalk beeping, write it on the “mezzo” section, In order to hear these sounds, I need you to be quiet and listening walk instead of talking.

Example:

Step 5: Please take a picture of your sheet and email it to Ms. Olsen (calena.olsen@burnabyschools.ca)

Step 6: I would like you to think of your favourite game that we play in music class and teach it your family and play it with them. If you have a sibling who was assigned this same task, I want you to pick a different game than they chose to teach your family.

Have fun with this week’s music activities and I look forward to hearing from you this week!

 

April 14, 2020

Hi everyone, welcome back to week 2 of online learning. I hope you all had a restful long weekend and spent time doing fun activities with your families. I enjoyed hearing from many of you about last weeks activities and seeing pictures of you participating in the activities and I look forward to hearing from you again this week!

Here is this week’s music video. At the end I have given you an activity to do this week (I’ve included written instructions below as well):

This week, I would like you to interview someone you live with about their favourite song. I want you to ask them questions such as:

  1. What’s the name of their favourite song?
  2. Who is it by?
  3. Why is it their favourite song?
  4. Where is this song from?
  5. Where and/or when did they first hear this song?
  6. Why is this song important to them?

If they’re feeling brave, you can take a video of them singing their favourite song or just have them sing it to you without taking a video or have them let you listen to a recording of their favourite song. Next, write down your own opinion of the song (What do you think of the song? Do you like it? Do you not like it? Why?) and email it to Ms. Olsen (calena.olsen@burnabyschools.ca)

Bonus, fun link to check out! Ottawa-based, Juno nominated singer, songwriter and producer Jeremy Fisher performs a livestream concert every Saturday at 11am ET on Facebook. Each week, parents and kids get curriculum-ready opportunities to learn about a new instrument, dance to the rhythm, practice rhyming, and discover how emotions inspire Jeremy’s songwriting. There are also videos posted of previous concerts posted here https://www.jeremyfisherjunior.com/education. Also please check out links to more fun activities on the home page of this blog, which I am adding to regularly!

 

April 6, 2020

Here are some activities you can do at home:

1.Can you sing at least three of the Primary Days of Music songs unaccompanied and without seeing the words?

2.Make up your own short melody to sing using the word “la”? Can you sing your melody while clapping the beat? Either write down the rhythms of your song (ta, ti-ti, rest…) or make a video of you singing your song and email it to Ms. Olsen (calena.olsen@burnabyschools.ca)

3. Write about one of your favourite songs and why it’s one of your favourite songs. Talk about elements of music such as high/low (pitch), tempo (fast/slow), and dynamics (loud/soft). Email this to Ms. Olsen (calena.olsen@burnabyschools.ca)

Here is a link to the Primary Days of Music songs and background tracks: http://lucastds.com/PDOM/ 

New activities will be added weekly. I look forward to hearing from you all soon!