We had such an awesome week in Exploring Music and are excited to share everything that we have learned with you!
We kicked off the week by having our very first performance quiz! Our performance quiz was on a piece called "Spanish Theme Song". This short melody contained all of the notes that we have been working so hard on. After some rehearsal time in pairs, students performed "Spanish Theme Song" in front of their classmates! Congratulations to each and every Exploring Music 6 student on a job well done on the first performance quiz of the unit!
On Wednesday, we used Ipads to help us learn three new notes: B, C, and D. We played a game called NoteDerby. Students were transformed into an equestrian character racing in a horse derby!Students were shown a note and in order to advance in the race they had to select the correct name of the note being shown. We had a lot of fun using the Ipads to help us read musical notation!
We kicked off the week by having our very first performance quiz! Our performance quiz was on a piece called "Spanish Theme Song". This short melody contained all of the notes that we have been working so hard on. After some rehearsal time in pairs, students performed "Spanish Theme Song" in front of their classmates! Congratulations to each and every Exploring Music 6 student on a job well done on the first performance quiz of the unit!
On Wednesday, we used Ipads to help us learn three new notes: B, C, and D. We played a game called NoteDerby. Students were transformed into an equestrian character racing in a horse derby!Students were shown a note and in order to advance in the race they had to select the correct name of the note being shown. We had a lot of fun using the Ipads to help us read musical notation!
The remainder of our guitar unit will be spent focused on "Ode to Joy", a famous piece by the composer Beethoven. Students spent Thursday learning a little bit about the history of "Ode to Joy" and the composer Beethoven by watching a Brainpop video! We also took part in a sight reading challenge! Students were challenged to see how much of "Ode to Joy" they could play without practicing it at all just by looking at the notes! They did a good job with this sight reading challenge! Today (Friday) we took some time to learn the melody for "Ode to Joy". This is a challenge for students because it uses all six notes that we know how to play and it has notes on two different strings of the guitar! I am so excited and proud of the progress that the students of Exploring Music 6 have made!
Check back next week so see (and maybe hear) our progress with "Ode to Joy"!
Check back next week so see (and maybe hear) our progress with "Ode to Joy"!