What has been happening in music class?
SONG OF THE WEEK:
Each week all the K-5 classes I teach learn a quick song that connects us as a Whittier family. The first week we learned the Wildcat song. In the upcoming weeks, we will start to brainstorm ideas about what makes a wildcat wild. Students will sing this and the Whittier song before we start our next all school assembly.
Here is a link to a first grade singing the song!
PARENT SURVEY:
Have you filled out the specials survey this year? (It helps us learn about your child, you and the Whittier Community as a whole)...
Some interesting stats so far:
Kindergarten and 1st grade:
Students have been working on our procedures for music classes over the past few weeks. We enter with our "Follow the Leader" song where students sing and do steady beat motions. We then move into our "hello song" and jump right into call and response hellos where we explore different parts of our voices. We have been reviewing steady beat, tas and ti-ti rhythms with 1st and in kindergarten have been doing many singing and movement activities to learn how we work with each other in music.
2nd grade- 5th grade:
In 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade after having a few weeks of review, we have started learing a new rhythm. Last week we explored the new rhythm through movements and drums. This upcoming week we will do stations to learn more about these new rhythms. Students will play Go Fish, Busted, I have who has, and a supervised composition station.
