2018 Term 1 Weeks 1 & 2: A New Year and a New School

Welcome back to  a new year.  

Moving to music (Juniors)- Lullaby by Claudia Robin Gunn 

NEWSFLASH: Claudia (who visited our school and worked with some of our classes last year) will be performing songs from Little Wild Music at 11.30am on March 3 on the Auckland Kiddie Limits stage at the Auckland City Limits one-day festival at Western Springs.  Read more about it here.

Dances: (Juniors →)
The Freeze Game 
Get Ready to Wiggle 
Skip to My Lou 

(Middles←→)
YMCA
Shout
Land of 1000 Dances 
We No Speak Americano 

Viewing and Listening -  Sections of the Orchestra: (Juniors → )
This week we are going to meet an orchestra.  In this video, a young boy called George visits the Sydney Youth Orchestra and learns about the job of the conductor and the different groups within an orchestra. 

Vocabulary: orchestra, conductor, strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, 

Now watch this video of a live outdoor orchestra performance where Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. 

- Identify each section of the orchestra as you see the instruments played.
- Can you identify any specific instruments?  
- Which section you can hear clearly, but you don't get to see very often? 
- How does the conductor communicate with the musicians? 
- How can you tell that this performance is a bit more relaxed and light-hearted than an concert in an indoor theatre? 

Here's some hints of how to behave at a classical music concert.

Singing (Juniors→) : 
La La song.  This is a fun echo song where you have to listen and copy the sounds and actions of the singer.  In this version, you can see the singer and follow his actions - along with an audience of children.  In this version - you have to listen  and just follow what you hear and read. 


                                    

Making Music (Juniors →)
Body Percussion

(Middles →)

Nursery Rhymes (Juniors) 
                                                 

Jack Be Nimble
The earliest known time that it appeared in writing was in 1815. Jumping candlesticks was a type of fortune telling and also a sport. If you jumped over the burning candle without the flame going out, it was believed you would have good luck. (It was obviously good luck because you didn't get burned!) 

Here's a version with an extra verse to show you what happened to Jack when he didn't jump high enough . . .

Here's a Sesame Street Newsflash version of Jack Be Nimble 
Here's another sesame Street video to help you understand the word nimble. 

Homework / Extra/ Extension:

Musical Conductor Comedy Sketch This conductor is having a lot of trouble working with his choir and orchestra. How much music vocabulary do you understand in this video? 

Tom and Jerry - The Cat Concerto (1947) 

- What is a concerto? 

- What happens before the piano player comes on stage? 

- What is expected of the audience? What is the  correct way for the audience to behave?