Monday, April 27, 2020

Music Activities - April 27, 2020

All Grades
MusicPlay is a great music resource with lots of different songs and themes/musical concepts to explore. Check out some of the fun games that are on there too on the right hand side of the page.  

Log in to musicplayonline.com

Username: snow
Password: 2020
Kindergarten - Gr. 2
Once you are logged into MusicPlay, here are a couple of fun Spring songs you can learn and sing at home.

Copy and paste these links to listen to the songs Eency Weency Spider and Watch Our Garden Grow

https://musicplayonline.com/?s=spbu2&meter_stat= 

https://musicplayonline.com/?s=garden5&meter_stat=

(Hint: If you scroll down to the bottom to the page you can find the videos of the songs that include notation and lyrics)

Grades 3 - 4
Once you are logged into MusicPlay, here is a Spring song you can learn and sing at home. Notice the differences between ta, ti-ti and tika tikas (quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes). Also you will notice this song is a 'round'. Can you figure out what a round is, in music?

Copy and paste this link to listen to the song called Raindrops Round

https://musicplayonline.com/?s=spring1&meter_stat=

(Hint: If you scroll down to the bottom to the page you can find the videos of the song that include notation and lyrics)

Grades 2 - 4
Here is a body percussion challenge to try out this week. It starts off slowly, but watch out when the tempo increases! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXZWgOf2lSA

Continue to check out the website Classics for Kids. You can listen to Vivaldi's 'Spring' from the Four Seasons. There is also this month's activity sheet that you can download and take a look it

https://www.classicsforkids.com/



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