WELCOME BACK MUSIC MAKERS
TO THE 2008-2009 SCHOOL YEAR!
Thank you to our wonderful PTA's and MBUSD Ed Foundation for all your support and donations towards arts education.
***A special thanks goes to:
The Ulrich Family for their donation of a piano to Pacific School's music program.
Kathy Crawford at Robinson for her special projects work getting music rugs and shelves set up.
THANK YOU!
Ms. Jordan will be teaching 1st and 2nd grade music every week beginning September 9, 2008 and running through April 3, 2009. She will then switch to the intermediate grades, teaching music to 4th and 5th grades beginning April 13, 2009 and running until the end of the school year. This is Ms. Jordan's second year teaching music at all 5 Manhattan Beach Elementary Schools.
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MUSIC SCHEDULE:
Monday - Meadows
Tuesday - Pacific
Wednesday - Robinson
Thursday - Grand View
Friday - Pennekamp
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MUSICAL NOTES FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH!!
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2/23 "The Ants Go Marching!" Students will learn ensemble names for groups of 1-5 performers through the song "The Ants Go Marching." They will practice identifying and forming solos, duets, trios, quartets and quintets while singing and marching along.
3/2 Dynamics review! Practice of allegro/andante, legato/staccato, and forte/piano.
3/9
3/16 "Irish Music!"
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2/23 "Whole notes!" This week students will add a fifth note to their musical language. Having already learned and practiced quarter notes, barred eighth notes, barred sixteenth notes, and half notes, students will move onto the longest note yet: the whole notes which is held for 4 beats. Second graders will play the mailman game and have to be able to read, perform and recognize 4 beat rhythms using all these notes, including a quarter rest.
3/2 "There will be Weather!" Second graders will use Orff techniques to speak this chant rhythmically, add body percussion, create ostinatos, and internalize rhythm. They will also be able to identify the difference between 'weather' and 'whether' and use them correctly in context. The chant is as follows: "There will be weather, whether it's cold or hot. There will be weather, whether or not!"
3/9 "Musical Thunderstorm!" Students will use their knowledge of expository writing for this fun lesson. As a class, students will create a paragraph that uses a first/then/next/after that/finally sequence based on what Ms. Jordan has them play when they walk in. The sequence is as follows: sand blocks, claves, shakers, cymbals, drums. Students must identify this sequence and create good describing words for each instrument sound. For example - First, the 'sand blocks' rubbed together gently. After this paragraph is written, students will go back as a class and substitute thunderstorm elements for instruments sounds in the appropriate order they occur. For example - First, the 'wind' rubbed together gently. Students will do this for each element, and a topic and concluding sentence will be added to finalize the paragraph. The final performance will involve the paragraph read aloud while students perform the thunderstorm on instruments.
3/16 "Irish Reels and Jigs!"
CALIFORNIA STATE MUSIC STANDARDS USED FOR THIS MONTH CAN BE FOUND BELOW:
1.1, 1.3, 2.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.2
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