Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Mrs. Doty's Class: "Viva Valentine"

Happy Valentine's Day!
This song, "Viva Valentine", by Teresa Jennings is from Music K-8 Volume 11, Issue 3.  These kids learned this song in no time.  They got a little camera shy.  Before I got the camera out, they were dancing like crazy!

Mrs. Dowers' Class: Composing

After creating a whole-class melody, the third graders became composers of their very own song!  Here they are hard at work.  Beethoven would be proud.
 

Mrs. Dowers' Class: Original Melody

The third graders have been working with dotted quarter and three 3 eighth-note patterns in 6/8 meter all year, as well as improvising. We combined these two skills to create a class melody to the poem "Oh My Fish in the Sky". We used an F pentatonic scale, so our melody ends on F, which is Do.
 

Mrs. Yoker's Class: Original Melody

The third graders have been working with dotted quarter and three 3 eighth-note patterns in 6/8 meter all year, as well as improvising. We combined these two skills to create a class melody to the poem "Oh My Fish in the Sky". We used an F pentatonic scale, so our melody ends on F, which is Do.
 

Mrs. Petrovitch's Class: Original Melody

The third graders have been working with dotted quarter and three 3 eighth-note patterns in 6/8 meter all year, as well as improvising. We combined these two skills to create a class melody to the poem "Oh My Fish in the Sky". We used an F pentatonic scale, so our melody ends on F, which is Do.
 

Mrs. Burns' Class: Original Melody

The third graders have been working with dotted quarter and three 3 eighth-note patterns in 6/8 meter all year, as well as improvising. We combined these two skills to create a class melody to the poem "Oh My Fish in the Sky". We used an F pentatonic scale, so our melody ends on F, which is Do.
 

Mrs. Mrs. Fonville's Class: Original Melody

The third graders have been working with dotted quarter and three 3 eighth-note patterns in 6/8 meter all year, as well as improvising.  We combined these two skills to create a class melody to the poem "Oh My Fish in the Sky".  We used an F pentatonic scale, so our melody ends on F, which is Do.
 
 
 

Friday, February 1, 2013

Mrs. Petrovitch's Class: Fill That Bus

Our district-wide Fill That Bus Campaign is Feb. 4 - 15.  This is Mrs. Petrovitch's class in their part of the 3rd grade video that will be show each morning while students donate canned/boxed food and personal items.
 
I re-wrote the words to a song by David & Anne Ellsworth called "Ride the Bus" to fit our needs. The original song can be found in Music K-8 Resource Magazine for Elementary and Middle Music Teachers, Volume 10, Number 1.