This is our last week of music lessons for the year! I have had so much fun sharing these videos with you, and I am excited to take one last trip to the jungle! See you there!! And guess what?? I found Molly Macaw!!
Today we are going to take a trip to the jungle. Let's go! We are going to leave the jungle now, but where will we go next???? Grab your "rhythm sticks" or some other sort of wood instrument before you start. You will need it towards the end of the lesson! Now go back to our Google Classroom to complete your assignment!
We are going to do a Star Wars parachute routine! Grab a nice big sheet, gather your family, and get ready! Following are some instructions for the next three videos and your assignment for the week. You don't have to watch all 3 videos in their entirety (especially the first one). Just watch enough to get some ideas! Now find your own kitchen instrument, go back to our Google Classroom, and record yourself playing it to share with everyone! Now go back to our Google Classroom and complete the Google Slide assignment for Snail, Snail! Press play for this week's lesson! Grab your rhythm sticks and keep going! One more song! Now go back to our Google Classroom for a fun little Loud/Quiet assignment!! Our lesson is in a few pieces this week. Start with this first video! The next video will teach you how to play the Closet Key game. Learn how to play the game with me, and then find a family member to play it with. Did you play the Closet Key game? If you did, find Question 2 in my Google Classroom and let me know who you played it with and what you hid! PARENTS: When we get to the rhythm sticks in the next video, I forgot to mention that if you are using pencils for rhythm sticks, to make sure that they don't have points for safety reasons. Also, if you're using pencils or something pointy or very narrow, I would skip the pounding and hammering in the song and just use your fists.
Practicing the yankee doodle dance
Yankee Doodle - Full Song - Dance See you next week! Here is our Kindergarten lesson for this week! After watching the lesson, please pop over to the Field Day tab (under the Kindergarten heading) and go through the videos located there. They will take you through the parts of the songs that we have worked on in class step by step. Next week, we are going to start using rhythm sticks. See if you can find something at home that your child can use as rhythm sticks. Rhythm sticks are typically made of wood (a dowel about 8-12" long would be perfect), but anything could work - perhaps a set of drum sticks, paper towel tubes, two pencils? One of my favorite ways to make QUIET rhythm sticks is out of a pool noodle. If you have a pool noodle laying around, you can use a serrated bread knife to cut it into sections. For the pool noodles, somewhere around 15" would be a perfect length. If you cannot find anything to use as rhythm sticks before next week, I will also present modifications that can be done just using their hands!
See you next week! Welcome to virtual Kindergarten Music! Below you will find a videotaped music lesson for the week. Your child will be able to sit independently and watch and interact with the video. The video is about 30 minutes long, so please pick a day and time that works for you. It does not need to be your child's regular music day. I did not include our Field Day music as part of this lesson, so you should click on the Field Day tab and practice that separately. If your child is in Too Much Noise!, please check out that tab, which is also located under Kindergarten. We usually have a 40 minute rehearsal once a week for our show, so there is a whole separate lesson for the week posted there. After your child watches the video, help them answer the interactive question posted in my Google Classroom. Go to the classwork tab, and you will see the question for Kindergarten. You do not need to submit the answer as a piece of work, you can just type their answer into the comments. Next week in our video lesson I will share some of the answers that I receive! Thanks for helping to keep the music alive! See you next week!
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