First Grade Fun

First Graders are playing with the Boomwhackers.  They are pitched percussion tubes and they are color-coordinated to match what is happening on the screen.  This allows them to learn how to play with a song very quickly...plus, it's fun!

Rhythm Circle

 

First grade has been working hard on keeping a steady beat as we play our instruments, so we created this rhythm circle where they have to play along to the music and then all pass their instrument to the next person in the direction of the arrows.  It makes practice this skill interesting because they get to switch instruments as we go along and it also makes them work as a team!  Great job guys!

Vivaldi's Four Seasons

First graders have just finished up a unit on Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which is a series of songs that were written to sound like the seasons of the year.  We think the Baroque composer did a great job illustrating the seasons through music so to end the unit we listened to each movement and drew pictures of things that reminded us of that season as we were listening to it.

#1 - Spring
#2 - Summer
#3 - Autumn
#4 - Winter