2015 Term 3, Week 4: Making a Song and Dance of it . . .

This week's tongue twister:

Following on from our last few weeks' blogs about stringed instruments of the orchestra, here's some examples of more modern versions of stringed instruments.  
This is a group called Asteria Strings and they are playing at a music awards show in Turkey.

Asteria Strings

They are playing electric instruments which look a little different to what you would expect. 

Electric violins

Electric violins

Can you work out what each instrument is? How can you tell?
The music they are playing is called  the Allegretto from Palladio by Karl Jenkins, and it was  written in 1995, so it is a very recent piece of music. 


This one  by Asteria is called "Storm"  from Winter by Vivaldi
and includes dancers. What instruments can you recognise? 

 Check out the tab above for "Songs we Sing"  for some of our favourite songs.

After August, we will no longer be able to use our hall as it will be demolished soon. This week we are going to practise some of our favourite  - and new - dances and songs s we can have some combined class singing and dancing in the hall before it goes forever. Here's some of our favourite dances - and some new ones to practise for our  dance party. 

I like to move it move it - because just about everybody has had to move  classrooms and offices at least once over the past year - and for some, more than once

Celebration - because we will get a new hall eventually. 

Footloose from the movie Footloose.  

Kung Fu fighting - but only when you're dancing!

Who let the dogs out?

Barbara Ann  
 
Mickey  

Hot, hot, hot - after all that dancing! 

Juniors:  Here are some special dances for you


The Chicken Dance 

The Hamster Dance

I've Been Working on the Railroad 

Sid Shuffle from Ice Age: Continental Drift.

I'm a Gummy Bear 

Freeze 

 And we will do last week's poem again - with sound effects - and the previous week's poem about the Turtle.    But try the  tongue twisters as a warm up first.