Hello,
As we undergo our hiatus from school I will be posting musical activities on this site. We are fortunate that at this challenging time we have been given free access to the Music Play website. This comprehensive site is broken down in to multiple activities for each grade. I encourage you to explore the site along with your child. Please go to https://musicplayonline.com/ The password and login are: snow 2020 then find the tab with your child's grade level. Feel free to explore beyond the suggested activities. Many additional activities are linked to YOU TUBE. Although I have selected the content I cannot fully vet commercials, pop ups or recommended searches. Please continue to practice safe internet skills.
Musically yours,
David Pyrek
As we undergo our hiatus from school I will be posting musical activities on this site. We are fortunate that at this challenging time we have been given free access to the Music Play website. This comprehensive site is broken down in to multiple activities for each grade. I encourage you to explore the site along with your child. Please go to https://musicplayonline.com/ The password and login are: snow 2020 then find the tab with your child's grade level. Feel free to explore beyond the suggested activities. Many additional activities are linked to YOU TUBE. Although I have selected the content I cannot fully vet commercials, pop ups or recommended searches. Please continue to practice safe internet skills.
Musically yours,
David Pyrek
Music Play Activities: Concept(s): dynamics, tempo, beat, counting
Kindergarten tab
song list 25, 26
First grade tab
song list 13, 15
Listening/Moving Activities:
The Aquarium https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+aquarium+carnival+of+the+animals Listen to attached link, music is in a minor key. How does it feel? (Mysterious, sad, etc.).
Extension: Read the book Swimmy by Leo Leonni while listening to recording. Move gracefully throughout space.
The Royal March of the Lion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A7U8pZJgbI&disable_polymer=true. Discover how the composer uses a crescendo (quiet to loud) to create a lions roar.
The Kangaroo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjNhJ7l7Mk&disable_polymer=true Discover the composer skipping and leaping on the piano. Does it sound like a kangaroo hopping? Extension: Try hopping to the song. Remember, hopping is one foot.
The Parade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StQ4PZllgAM&disable_polymer=true Discover the crescendo (getting louder) as the marching band gets closer. Use your imagination. What happens at the end? (gets quieter as they pass on by). We call that a decrescendo.
Mozart K455 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgD2CE6Hsb8&t=113s Listen up to 1:40 sec. Explore the loud and quiet passages. Extension: try moving to express loudness and quietness.
An Old Dance https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=an+old+dance+kabalevsky Listen and discover the high sounds and the low sounds. Extension: Move high and low to illustrate the music.
Nursery Rhymes:
Hickory Dickory Dock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGgsklW-mtg&disable_polymer=true. Sing along and count while clapping on the clock chimes. Show direction of "up" and "down" with arms.
The Grand Old Duke of York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVUOhD1Ba2Y Sing along and march to the music. Show direction of "up" and "down" and "half way" with arms.
Jack be Nimble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Movement is jog and leap. Set up one or more obstacles to represent the candlestick. Jog around and leap over the obstacles.
Let Us Chase the Squirrel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wTd--BSlos Sing along and clap the rhythms during the spoken parts.
The Wild Horseman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ1OJyQYZzw Listen to the song. How would you move to it? Try skipping then try galloping. Which best fits the music?