This week in music class...

Well, we survived the heat and were able to complete another great week of learning, singing and playing in the music room!

KINDERGARTEN:
In Kindergarten, we learned about our different kinds of voices (whisper, shouting, speaking and singing) and got to meet our friend Kiki the Koala. We also practiced singing our Bryant School song while Ms. Ritter played the guitar. For our second class, we started with our hello song and then each got a chance to play on our new gathering drum before going to our music spots on the rug. Once we were there we got to sing some fun songs and chants while moving with colorful scarves.

1ST GRADE:
In 1st grade, we got to choose our music spots and learned our new Welcome song. We practiced our body awareness by flowing with different parts of our bodies (one of the silliest ones was trying to flow with our noses!) We also sang an echo song called "Hello There" where we got to echo and sing with different emotions (happy, sad, angry, shy, excited, etc.) Then we talked about same and different patterns while doing our popcorn chant and got to play a fun popcorn game. We even played a game where we switched between beat and flow when Ms. Ritter hit the triangle while we were moving around the room.

2ND GRADE:
In 2nd grade, we started out the week watching a short video of children in South Africa playing the game "Kye Kye Kule" that we learned last week. We then learned a silly echo song called "Mama Lama Cuma Lama" and got to do a fun dance with a partner.  For humanities, we made connections with patterns in math by working on some rhythms by reading a pattern of numbers and dots. We had a lot of fun with this challenge and liked to pretend that we were robots reading codes! We also spent humanities time learning about our vocal cords and how our voices produce sound. We started out talking about our head voice and our chest voice and feeling where the vibrations are when we use both types of voices. We then learned about the all of the body parts that work together for us to speak and sing. We even got to see a video of real vocal cords in action!