Kindergarten
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Since September, we have
been working hard to find our own voices. This is a life long process!
By now, we know we have a
voice, we know we can sing on our own as well as together in a group.
Right now, we are exploring
how the many voices we have:
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Whispering
voice, (voz de susurrar)
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Speaking voice, (voz de hablar)
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Singing voice,
(voz de cantar)
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Shouting voice
(voz de gritar)
Nursery rhymes are an
important part of our learning, as we see students as stewards of their
cultural inheritance both in English and Spanish. For this reason, we learnt,
sang and played “Lucy Locket,” the girl who lost her pocket; and we felt
sorry for “Old Mother Witch” the woman who fell in a ditch.
During November, we will
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Analyze loud
and quiet (fuerte y suave)
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We will meet
Bach and one of his Gavottes, and we will ponder how music makes us feel.
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We will
initiate the exploration of fast and slow (rápido y despacio)
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We will learn
a song about the days of the week, both in English and Spanish.
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We will
explore “lento” with La Tortuga from El Carnaval de los Animales, and we will feel how lento
lento could be.
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And we will
learn, sing and dance with a new nursery rhyme: “Bobby Shaftoe” the boy who
is gone to sea.
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Grado 1
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Since September, we have
been reviewing some Kindergarten concepts that establish the foundation for a
successful grade 1 experience. We concentrated on strengthening the Spanish
classroom language that support our positive classroom routines and
facilitate learning and communication.
During November, we will
work on
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“Juanito
cuando baila”, a song about the parts of our body in Spanish.
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Learn some
English songs related with Rembembrance Day, and use those songs to explore
the concept of “Frase musical”.
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We will learn
“Bota, bota la pelota”, and study beat, rhythm and accented beat.
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We will learn
the “Cucú” song, and use it as an opportunity to learn to label So and Mi.
So-Mi is the descending minor third. This interval permeates so much music in
so many cultures!
We will visit again our
old friend “Lucy Locket”. We learnt and played and dance with this song in
Kinder, but now we will use it to explore Phrase, and eco, and… So-Mi J
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Grado 2
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Since September, we
started to explore the elements of music language “by name”. So far, we sang and dance, and played, and
felt most of those elements. However, in grade two we will start to label
some of those elements with an “official” music name, and we will start to
search simple scores for those elements.
We have learnt that
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Notes may be
tied,
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The many looks
of La, So, and Mi in a score
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Fast and slow
is transforming in allegro, and presto and largo
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Notes can be
name in solfeggio and they can be name with a letter name.
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We can use our
rhythmic syllables to sing and to read a score.
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We can sing
songs of many different cultures. We learnt “Obwisana”, a song from Ghana. It
says “oh! Grandma. I just hurt my finger on a rock”. After learning this song,
we learn the Spanish song “Sana, Sana. Pupita de rana”. Excellent resource to
heal little auchies!
During November, we will
work on
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We will learn
“Starlight”, and with this song we will brush up our So-Mi; we will applied
our rhythm reading skills; and we will create a sound landscape.
·
We will honor
Remembrance Day, and we will learn “Sing for Peace”. With this song, we will
give it a gentle try to a two parts experience.
·
We will
revisit our old friend “Doggie, Doggie”. We have enjoyed this song so much in
the past! However, for this opportunity, “Doggie, Doggie” will teach us about
timber (el timbre de la voz); we will discover how La-So-Mi was there all
this time!
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Grado 3
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Since September, we have
extended our musical formal language. We don´t talk about fast and slow per
se. Now we now there are many different speeds, and each of those speeds have
a name. This year, our goal is keep the beat with accuracy, that way our
instrumentations will be way more interesting.
We explore form with
“Shake the Papaya” while improvising with our drums. We dance and explore the
score with “Plainsies and Clapsies”. And finally, we got really into
“ostinatos” with “Old Mother Witch”.
During November, we will
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Get ready to
sing our grade song during Remembrance Day Assembly! You can´t imagine how
much vocal exploration we are doing.
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Review our
note values.
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Learn “Three
Blind Mice”. We will use this song to review treble clef (Clave de Sol) and
dotted quarter notes (negras con puntillo). Alongside this English “Three
blind Mice” we will learn our Spanish “Ratón que te pilla el gato” and the
game that is associated with this song.
Finally, we will learn a
little “four square” dance with the song Old Brass Wagon. This song will help
us discover sixteenth notes (semicorcheas),
compare and contrast negra, corchea and
semicorchea; and review that notes can be name by their solfeggio name or
by their letter name.
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Grado 4
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Since September, we have
been advancing incredibly in our recorder skills on Mondays, intensely
reviewing our music vocabulary on Wednesdays and working our singing voice on
Fridays.
Our Spanish vowels are so
good! And we are training our intervals in our ears and our voices. We need these
skills as we are jumping into two parts singing through Round form.
In our recorders, we can
play a blues with great style, and we can keep an ostinato up with a whole
band of jazz musicians.
This last week, we have
concentrated in our ostinatos. Our goal is to become independent “ostinato”
players so we can mix and match those rhythmic patterns with different
instruments. That will make our instrumentations something really cool!
During November, we will
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Learn a
“tableau” inspired in Remembrance Day.
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We will work
on a “Scale Round”
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Review Land of
the Silver Birch in order to learn a new rhythmic dividison of the beat: Ti
ti-ka. Explore how minor keys patterns make us feel. And, build a really cool
instrumentation for that song.
Learn a Japanese song about
a crane. It is a song of gratitude. We will explore the letter names of the
notes, and we will build an instrumentation for this song. Then, we will
learn a Spanish song about gratitude.
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¡Qué Pasa!
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¡Qué Pasa! is a CBE Spanish
cultural festival held at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. All CBE Spanish schools are invited to
participate. This school year, ¡Qué Pasa! Festival will be on
Monday May 7th
2018.
¡Qué Pasa! Festival requires
careful preparation and lots of rehearsal and practice time. At Eugene Coste
School, we will prepare for ¡Qué Pasa! through a lunch club
which opens up this opportunity to all interested students who would like to
participate.
¡Qué Pasa! Club will be our only music club. It will
encompass all our other music clubs, as we will have choir, band, and dance
as part of ¡Qué Pasa! Club. ¡Qué Pasa! Club
will run on Mondays at lunch time all through the school year until the big
festival day. The three performance ensembles (choir, dance, and band) will
be taught on a rotation.
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Saturday 28 October 2017
Noviembre - Remembrance Day
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