KING SPRINGS GOES TO THE FARM! Our sweet Kindergarteners performed on stage for the very first time! "King Springs Goes to the Farm" was a sweet program full of dancing, singing, and playing instruments. Their smiles were truly contagious!
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This picture is blurry, but so full of joy! The second graders are learning all about "form," or "patterns in music!" But of course, we learn through feeling and moving! We danced to, sang, and played instruments with many different pieces of music, and then figured out the patterns that occurred in them. For example, in the above picture, we danced to the play party called "The Grand Old Duke of York." We learned a line dance, and had a blast! Then, we discovered the form is AB (AKA Verse/Chorus, or binary form). We did the same with the piece, The Syncopated Clock by Leroy Anderson. After thinking about the different parts of the piece, we added instruments to it and discovered that it is ABACA form, or Rondo form! Can you listen to your favorite song and discover it's form? Early February had crazy weather in store for us! Not only did snow find it's way to Georgia, but so did severe thunderstorms! One day was so severe that all of our second graders needed a place to learn inside the school building so that they could escape their waterlogged cottages. KSE specials crew to the rescue! We gave our classrooms to the second graders and taught music, STEM, art, and PE all together in the cafeteria. Pictured above are the students enjoying some relaxing yoga. Second Grade took their long-anticipated music field trip in February! We have been talking about their field trip to the Atlanta Ballet since Kindergarten. They were so excited to show their good manners and see a live performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
The New Year is off to a great start!
Kindergarten loved learning some new play parties this month. Play parties are a special type of song that tells you the dance moves in the lyrics! In the song, "The Skaters," the students learned how to perform a right hand star and left hand star! It was so fun to work together. First and Second Grade's favorite activity had to do with the grumpiest monkey in the jungle! Suzanne Lang's children's book, Grumpy Monkey, is a fun book that anyone, even adults, can relate to! Sometimes, you are grumpy for no apparent reason. What can you do with those emotions when you have them? I added a run rhythmic refrain that the students chanted and moved to, and then we added rhythm stick and xylophone parts to make it beautiful. Block days are so fun for the students. This year, we have been taking advantage of our extra time during block rotations to do center work. I set up different centers in each corner of the room, and the students rotate through them. One center the students especially loved was the audio book center, where they read the book, The Napping House. After reading the book, they listened to a song based on the book. Then, they worked together to create their own "napping place," draw a picture of it, and write a song about it. Some of my favorites they created were the napping rocket ship, napping school, and napping tent. |
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