WE LOVE to MAKE music! AND READ! SO of COURSE, they go together.
Students in the music room discover and learn in many ways! Sometimes our music connects to learning about other things too!
Sometimes our learning sinks in deeper through musical moments in a book. Take a look at the books we use around the music room to get a glance.
Sometimes our learning sinks in deeper through musical moments in a book. Take a look at the books we use around the music room to get a glance.
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How Old MacDonald Got his Farm: AUTHOR: Judy Sierra When our young musicians sing about life "Down on the Farm" Music program, we are learning all about the farm along the way. This book is a fun and creative way to look at how farming starts from the ground up! Mac and his chicken problem solve different ways to make life a little easier, and in the process, grow an amazing garden! Full of laughs and extra conversations about the growing world around us.
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Freddie the Frog and the Mysterious WAHOO!
AUTHOR: Sharon Burch |
Freddie the Frog and his elephant friend Eli are on a great adventure, until they are stranded on a mysterious island! Students in K/1 are using this fun-filled book to learn about the musical element of tempo. Largo, Andante, Allegro, and Presto are four different words we use to describe the speed of the music.
This is a great book SERIES that creatively teaches all about the world of music with kid-centric stories. |
Tikki Tikki Tembo
AUTHOR: Arlene Mosel Halloween Hustle
AUTHOR: Charlotte Gunnufson Pecorino's First Concert
AUTHOR: Alan Madison The First Music
AUTHOR: Dylan Pritchett K/1 classes are learning and reviewing the basics of music. This includes the steady beat and simple steps to group music making. During class this week, we are making sounds of the elephants, monkeys, crocodiles, and frogs to make jungle noises!
Follow the Drinking Gourd
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Tikki tikki tembo no sarembo chari bari ruchi pip peri pembo and his brother Chang have some adventures together as they play around the well. The 2/3 classes are learning a new rhythm (sixteenth notes) that matches the names of the Chinese son, and the brothers also learn a lesson along the way to the well.
What a fun book! Full of silly rhymes and rhythms that surround the fall celebrations of Halloween. "Bones scatter, What a Clatter, Spine is like a broke ladder" as we see the adventures of skeleton on the journey to the Halloween Hustle party wit his friends.
This entertaining book tells the tale of a little boy, Pecorino, who attends his VERY first concert. One the way there, and during the concert, he has some interesting adventures.... read the book to find out more!!! We read our story at school using our Norwich Tumblebooks account.
Click below to view at home: http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/full_book.asp?ProductID=2808 This book is a great way for 2/3 classes to connect history and story telling through music. Peg Leg Joe creates a song that leads slaves to freedom with clues from the song. And using the lyrics, they travel north as they follow the drinking gourd, otherwise known as, the stars of the big dipper. |
America the Beautiful
AUTHOR: Katharine Lee Bates Poetry and music are a natural mix, and in class this week, students are combing these elements with the beautiful illustrations of Neil Waldman. After learning the poem, we are singing the song with our voices as well as in American Sign Language (ASL). Poetry is not just a written form, it is alive in music, art and nature all around us! |
Peter and the Wolf
AUTHOR: Chris Raschka
As our students start to work on poetry in classrooms, we are combining musical elements and describing words into our daily vocabulary with 2/3 classes. Students are connecting different characters to specific instruments and themes. This book by Chris Raschka has used amazing descriptive pages to make us think about how words and music connect! Our next big project will be learning more about instrument tone color and voice with the work Carnival of the Animals.
AUTHOR: Chris Raschka
As our students start to work on poetry in classrooms, we are combining musical elements and describing words into our daily vocabulary with 2/3 classes. Students are connecting different characters to specific instruments and themes. This book by Chris Raschka has used amazing descriptive pages to make us think about how words and music connect! Our next big project will be learning more about instrument tone color and voice with the work Carnival of the Animals.
Martins Big Words
AUTHOR: Doreen Rappaport The book Martin's Big Words is a wonderful introduction to children about how the work of Martin Luther King Jr. has had a lasting impact on our world and our school today. Children learn that MLK used words like Peace, Love, Freedom, and Togetherness to make improve our country instead of using violence to change the world. |
There Was an Old Man Who Painted the Sky
AUTHOR: Teri Sloat All classes K-5 in the month of November are learning about Native American Music and connections to our music learning. Check out the K/1 classes singing the Neesa song below. 2/3 groups are learning a song about Native American's growing into the United States culture and 4/5 are playing a drum and recorder song called Salish Hand Game |
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
AUTHOR: Linda Williams
Spooky sound effects are the perfect inspiration this time of year for children to enhance the impact of a story. In this tale, we work together in K/1 classes to create and imagine the sounds that accompany the story. We also use or ears to match sounds and images after the book is read and discuss the order of our sound effects.
AUTHOR: Linda Williams
Spooky sound effects are the perfect inspiration this time of year for children to enhance the impact of a story. In this tale, we work together in K/1 classes to create and imagine the sounds that accompany the story. We also use or ears to match sounds and images after the book is read and discuss the order of our sound effects.
I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello
AUTHOR: Barbara Garriel
What fun book we ready with 2/3 classes to celebrate all we have learned about instruments of the orchestra! This book, in the style of I Know an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly, has a wonderful story to tell by using instruments that have been swallowed. The story 'bellows' with imagination and musical ideas!
AUTHOR: Barbara Garriel
What fun book we ready with 2/3 classes to celebrate all we have learned about instruments of the orchestra! This book, in the style of I Know an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly, has a wonderful story to tell by using instruments that have been swallowed. The story 'bellows' with imagination and musical ideas!
The Old Chisolm Trail: A Cowboy Song
AUTHOR: Rosalyn Schanzer This book is part of our K/1 exploration of using our singing voices with our Cowboy Joe story. Children get to learn about the cowboy parade that went all the way from Texas to Kansas while traveling with the cattle across the county. There are many adventures as the cowboys tell the tale with song! |
The 39 Apartments of Ludwig van Beethoven
AUTHOR: Jonah Winter
4/5 Classes will be learning about Ludwig van Beethoven as a composer and as a person in the next weeks. He was a legendary musican, and personality in his time!
Then, we will become our own 'composers' using some skills we know.
AUTHOR: Jonah Winter
4/5 Classes will be learning about Ludwig van Beethoven as a composer and as a person in the next weeks. He was a legendary musican, and personality in his time!
Then, we will become our own 'composers' using some skills we know.
Snake Alley Band
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Nygaard
K/1 classes learn the value of a band with some extra sounds. We are using this book to discuss and learn about a variety of instrument families and materials. Sometimes, even a snake band needs some extra spice to acheive success!
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Nygaard
K/1 classes learn the value of a band with some extra sounds. We are using this book to discuss and learn about a variety of instrument families and materials. Sometimes, even a snake band needs some extra spice to acheive success!
Up, Up, Up!
It's Apple-Picking Time
AUTHOR: Jody Fickes Shapiro
K/1 Classes are learning about apple seasons and what we might find in the orchard! After reading the book, we are creating a web showing all the products we learned about in the book that we eat from apples. Finally, we learn and perform the chant "Apple Tree" as we practice our steady beat.
It's Apple-Picking Time
AUTHOR: Jody Fickes Shapiro
K/1 Classes are learning about apple seasons and what we might find in the orchard! After reading the book, we are creating a web showing all the products we learned about in the book that we eat from apples. Finally, we learn and perform the chant "Apple Tree" as we practice our steady beat.
Trout, Trout, Trout
AUTHOR: April Pulley Sayre
K-3 classes in music have been reading the book Trout, Trout, Trout this month in music class. It is a wonderfully illustrated book that also features many different types of fish. The book offers young children a great chance to practice the skill of using an echo and duplicating vocal sounds.
AUTHOR: April Pulley Sayre
K-3 classes in music have been reading the book Trout, Trout, Trout this month in music class. It is a wonderfully illustrated book that also features many different types of fish. The book offers young children a great chance to practice the skill of using an echo and duplicating vocal sounds.