April Update!

All grade levels

Easter music and March Madness basketball rhythm/melody activities

PRE-K

Singing/playing “Naughty Kitty Cat” (reinforcing high/low and fast/slow)

Kinder

Singing/playing “We are Dancing in the Forest” (preparing to label and dictate quarter/eighth note patterns)

First

Singing/playing “Apple Tree” and “Al Citron” (reinforcing steady beat and preparing to label “so-mi”/minor 3rd patterns)

Second and Third

Singing/playing “Bounce High-Bounce Low” (creating own basketball notes to dictate “so-la-mi” melodic patterns on the staff.

Fourth and Fifth

Playing “Amazing Grace” on recorders (reinforcing letter name recognition in treble clef…preparing to label and practice conducting meter/time signatures)