2024 Term 3 Week 1

Tracing Map - Trepak from the Nutcracker 

 March of the Toreadors - Bizet from Carmen  - Tracing map 

March of the Toreadors -  Cymbals and marching

March of the Toreadors - Jacek Adamczak 

2024 Term 2 Week 2

Bee ay Bay warm up 

 One Pot Possum   by fleaBite 

Other - Little Lips 

 Because - Little Lips 

Let it Out  - Kiri and Lou 

2024 NZ on Air Best Children's Music Video 

Earth Sweet Earth - Claudia Robyn Gunn 

2024 Award winner of NZ Best Children's Music Artist 

How Far is a Light Year (Solar System Song) 

by Claudia Robin Gunn 

Musical Fruits - Rhythm clap/say-along 

Rhythm Clap Along 

John Williams Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra playing 

The Imperial March 

Imperial March  Rhythm pattern (7s) 

Songs to Help Learn Times Tables

 A Work in Progress 

Times tables songs: 

- 2 Times Table Song Cover of Can’t Stop The Feeling! By Justin Timberlake

- 2 Times Table from Laugh along and Learn

- 2 Times Table with Mr Numbers

 

- 2 Times Table from Love to Sing

-2 Times Table Multiplication Memorisation 

- 3 Times Table Cover from Moana "How Far I'll Go" 

- 3 Times Table from Laugh along and Learn 

- 3 Times Table from Love to Sing

- 3 Times Table Multiplication Memorisation 

- 3 Times Table  You've Got a Friend in 3 - Toy Story 

- 4 Times Table from Love to Sing 

- 4 Times Table from Multiplication Memorisation

- 4 Times Table Song Cover of I'm Still Standing  

- 5 Times Table from Love to Sing 

- 6 Times Table Multiplication Memorisation 

- 6 Times Table Silly School Songs

- 6 Times Table You're Welcome from Moana 

- 6 Times Table Song Cover of Shake it Off by Taylor Swift 

- 7 Times Table  Multiplication Memorisation

- 7 Times Table Silly School Songs  

- 7 Times Table to Katy Perry's Firework 

- 7 Time Table Rock 'N Learn 

- 8 Times Table Multiplication Memorisation 

- 8 Times Table to Sunflower by Post Malone 

- 8 Times Table Song Cover of Rolling in the Deep by Adele 

- 8 Times Table Rock 'N Learn 

- 9 Times Table from Love to Sing

- 9 Times Table Song (Shivers by Ed Sheeran)

 

- 9 Times Table Rock 'N Learn (skip to 33 seconds in) 

- 10 Times Table from Love to Sing 

Music to Help Learn Times Tables

 Two times tables:

Two times Tables: 

2x table - Can't stop the Feeling 

Three times Tables: 

Reggae 3x tables - with gaps to fill in and also multiples of 3

3x Table song to cover of Uptown Funk - multiples of 3 to 30 

3x table to tune of Moana 

3x Tables - visuals of numbers  - gets faster. Numberjacks.

3x tables - (Love to Sing) - visuals of numbers. Includes random order test at the end. 

Skip Counting  in 3s - including 3x tables - with bicycles. 

3x Table using rhymes  - can be sung in two parts 

3x table rap - with visuals of numbers

A trick to learning  the 3x table - a fun way to see the patterns 

Another version 

Using your fingers  to help you learn your 3x tables. 

Here's a link to a 3x table worksheet to test your new learning 

And another one 

Four times Tables

4x Table - Blurred lines tune 

4x Table - I'm still Standing 

4x Table - Something Jut Like This 

Five times Tables

Multiples of 5 rap 

5x Table Reggae 

Six times Tables

6x Table to Shake it Up by Taylor Swift 

6x Table Rap 

6x Table practice 

Pink Fong 6x Table 

Rhythm and Percussion Activities

 Rhythm playalong - Follow the bee and strike /shake your instrument when it lands on a flower. 

Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky - Musication with percussion and bee conductor (easier) 

Deteggtive Anderson  Level 1 - Keep in time as the detective leaps on each egg. 

William Tell Overture - follow the rhythm of each symbol - or use each symbol for a different instrument group. 

The Can Can

Eine Klein Nachtmusik 

Radetsky March 

In the Hall of theMountain King 

Hungarian Dance Number 5  - faster and slower parts - suitable for several groups following different parts. Hard!

Rondo all Turca - as above 

March of the Toreadors 

Bouncing Ball beat pattern - Three different patterns going at once. 

Blue Danube - Musication with Boomwhackers, percussion and movement 

We Will, We Will Rock You - Queen - Body percussion 

We Will, We Will Rock You - Queen - Body percussion with glockenspiel notes for chorus

We Will, We Will Rock You - Queen - Dance moves 

Aesop's Fables: 

The Fox and the Goat 

2019, Term 4 - Countdown to Halloween and Christmas

Christmas Dances and Songs for Juniors: 

Pop Bang Crack goes the Christmas Cracker 

He has a Red, Red, Sack  . . . 

Five Mince Pies in a Baker's Shop 

When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney 

Halloween Dances

Monster Shuffle

Banana Boat Song 

Monster Groove 

The Monsters Stomp around the House

Calling all  Monsters

Here's a  song to help you learn to tell the time in Spanish - with skeletons. 

The Skellingtons of Wellington is a song  by NZ musican and songwriter, "fleaBITE", and it has recently had a music video created to go with it.  

 Check out the background to the song and video here. 

 Click on this link to find the lyrics

 

Bollywood Christmas Dance 

Crazy Santa Christmas Dance 

Jingle Bells Dance 

Find out how Christmas is celebrated in other cultures.

Here's a Crazy Frog version of Jingle Bells with a dance you can follow.

Dancing reindeer disco dancing to Jingle Bells

2019 Term 3, Week 9

Tom and Jerry Episode 52 - Tom and Jerry at the Hollywood Bowl (1950) 
The cartoon is set at the Hollywood Bowl in California, where Tom is conducting a large orchestra. The music makes use of Johann Strauss II's Overture of "Die Fledermaus," with intro and outro making use of Franz Liszt's "Les préludes.


Some new Junior dances: 

Small Foot: Do the Yeti 

Can't Stop the Feeling 

Kidsbop - Footloose 

Tom and Jerry (1964) Episode 12: "The Cat Above and The Mouse Below" : Tom (the cat) is singing  a performance of operatice songs and Jerry (the mouse) who lives underneath the stage is trying to get some sleep.

Maori Language Week Activities and Songs

Some Songs for Juniors for Maori Language Week

The Taniwha Song 

Tena Koe - Hello Song 

Colours song      and another version of the Colour song 

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (lyrics under video) 

Action song (propositions) 

Baby Shark in Maori 

Some videos to Watch 

Poi E (original video) 

Just Dance

Blame It On The Boogie

Bugs Bunny - The Conductor 

Singing games for Juniors 

2019, Term 3, Week 2 - Junior Activities

Junior Dances:
Chicken Dance 
Can't Stop the Feeling (Junior) 
Boogiesaurus 
YMCA (Junior version)
Get Ready to Wiggle 
Hot Potato

Dancing with scarves: 
Goodnight Moon  by Claudia Robin Gunn 
Blue Danube (Line Riders)

And if you have time  here's a Loony Tunes cartoon from 1943 based on the Blue Danube. 
And no for something completely silly.  Next time you have a cold, see if you can do this in time to the Blue Danube! 

Marching Music: 
Radetsky March  by Johann Strauss Senior
Liberty Bell by John Phillip Sousa (Monty Python Theme) 

Here's some of our favourite songs:
Hello, Nice Day
Alice the Camel
Five Little Ducks
Taniwha Song
Favourite Undies

Little Miss Muffet:

Click on this page and scroll down until you see the Miss Muffet activities.

2019, Term 3, Week 1 Welcome back to Term 3

Dances: 
Junior 
Can you point your finger and do the twist?
Can't Stop the Feeling (Junior Version) 
Chicken Dance (follow the teacher) 
The Freeze Game 
I'm  Gonna Catch You 

Middle /Senior 
YMCA
We No Speak Americano
Surfin' USA 
Feelin  Good 

This week's tonguie twister: 

Tongue twisters are a fun way of helping improve our enunciation when singing (and speaking).  Start saying a tongue twister slowly, then gradually speed up until you can say it three times in a row without a mistake. Make sure you really move your lips and tongue to get the best pronunciation and enunciutaion. 

 "Selfish Shellfish" 

Line Rider - The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss 

Would you know what instrument the musician was playing if you didn't see it beforehand?  What is it that makes the object sound like a guitar? 


Scat singing is just making up sounds and rhythms to fit a song. 
Have a go following the singers in this scat song - just follow their lead. 

A new song to have fun with: Virus by fleaBITE. 
Have fun with the scat singing lines  "Skippity Bop ... . Make up your scat singing sounds to fit the space. 

Virus

Virus, Virus, Virus

 I picked it up one day at the swimming pool

I’m talking virus

Now that I have caught it

I can give it to you

 Infectious virus

Skipitty bop ….x2

If you’ve got a chicken pock, a measle or mump

You’ve got a virus

Spreads all through your body

Till you’re covered in lumps

Infectious virus

Skipitty bop ….x2

I’m going viral

I’m going viral

I’m going viral

I’m going viral

A virus is a parasite

And we are the host

They live inside us

So tiny you can see them

With a microscope

Infectious virus

Skipitty bop ….x2

I’m going viral

I’m going viral

I’m going viral

I’m going viral

Do Animals Enjoy Music?

Do animals enjoy music?  
Can they sing?  
Can they play a musical instrument? 
What do you think? 

Have a look at this dog (a beagle) singing along with the guitar player. 

Paul Barton works with elephants in Thailand.  See how they respond to, and participate in, music.   
Peter the elephant plays the blues! 

The Proms  is an eight-week summer season of classical music in London.  Here is a fun promotion of the event - using animals. 

I wonder what chickens could do with Pachebal's Canon . . . ? 

And what about chickens? Can they play the piano (or the guitar)? 

Canon in D

This group of musicians is having fun with Canon in D  by Pachelbel (1653-1706).
It is considered to be Pachelbel's most famous pieces of music. 

Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer and organist and is best remembered for his Canon in D, which is often heard at weddings. He wrote a considerable number cantatas for the Lutheran church, hymn settings, and chamber sonatas for various instruments, especially the violin.

Mozart Group

The Mozart Group uses a range of items to make music, whilst playing well-known tunes.
Try this at home with a balloon. 
Can you play part of a song? Try a simple tune, perhaps a nursery rhyme. 

What do you think of this partial rendition of The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, and then Habanera, (most famously sung by Maria Callas 2:03) from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet (1838-1875)? 

Bizet, who was a heavy smoker, died of a heart attack aged 36, three months after the première of Carmen, unaware that his opera would become a spectacular and enduring success. His other works also began to be performed more frequently in the 20th century and he is now recognised as a composer of brilliance and originality.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Click here  to watch the official video of Queen perform Bohemian Rhapsody.
  

                           Line Rider Bohemian Rhapsody

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It is a six minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a balladsegment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda.
Bohemian Rhapsody is the UK's third-best-selling single of all time.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody)

In 2018 a biographical film about Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the British rock band Queen was released. It follows the singer's life from just before he joins the band in 1970 to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium in London.

And here's the Muppets' version of Bohemian Rhapsody.