As we are wrapping up the year, Grade 5 students are getting ready to celebrate their learning on June 4.  Save the date!  They will be performing the jazz pieces they have learned in class.

Kindergarten students explored the concept of "musical form".  After listening to Vivaldi's Spring from the Four Seasons, they were asked to represent their understanding using a variety of approaches.  Inspired by the science topic of five senses, Grade 1 students explored the concept of "texture".  They brainstormed a list of words to describe the texture of different objects and then used these words to describe a number of musical excerpts.  As part of their "Acadian experience", Grade 2 students continued to refine their skills on playing spoons.  They also learned a number of French folksongs.

Grade 3 and 4 students have taken their first step in learning how to sightread 4-beat melodic fragments on the recorder.  They are applying what they have learned in rhythmic reading as well as treble clef reading in order to tackle this task.  Grade 5 students are getting their first exposure to 12-bar blues.  Some of them are taking on the challenge to improvise short 12-bar phrases using the blues scales.

While Kindergarten students continue to learn songs connected to Spring, Grade 1 students are consolidating their knowledge of solfège.  They have extended their solfège vocabulary to sol, mi and la.  Being inspired by the social studies curriculum, Grade 2 students are learning songs from the Atlantic provinces.  They are also experiencing, for the first time, how to play spoons. 

Grade 3 and 4 students have started learning how to read notes on the 5-line staff and refining their recorder skills.  Grade 5 students' interdisciplinary project is well on its way.  They have listened to two contrasting musical excerpts, identifying key elements in arts and music:  colour, lines, texture, etc.  They will be creating an original work of art to represent what they hear in the music.