Cinderella

Thank you School Council for funding the 80s version of Cinderella by Alberta Theatre Projects. The presentation was FANTASTIC! Students were so well behaved and sang along as well. Please see photos to the right.

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All students receive 37 hours of music instruction with our Music Specialist. As well, there are opportunities for students to join a choir during the school year. We would like to thank our school council for enhancing our music instruments over the years. We have a great assortment of instruments for students to learn with. 

Grade One Music 

Grade one classes will start out the year by learning about beat and rhythm. They learn how to keep a steady beat using their bodies, while moving, and on instruments. They also learn to differentiate between their speaking voices and their singing voices through chants and songs. Students learn to sing with the hand signs for soh and mi, and will learn how to match their singing pitch with the others in the class. Students begin to learn about the different families of instruments in the classroom and will learn to play them using the proper playing technique.   

Grade Two Music

Grade two classes learn the difference between beat and rhythm through many simple folk songs, chants, dances, and movement games. They learn about ostinatos (repeated rhythmic patterns) and will get to play ostinatos on their bodies (with body percussion), with movements, while singing, and on the classroom instruments. Grade two classes continue to differentiate between their speaking voices and their singing voices. The students will learn to sing with the hand signs for soh, la, mi, re, and doh and will learn how to match their singing pitch with others in the class.

Grade Three Music

Grade three classes review the grade two notes and rhythms. Grade threes will learn about all of the different barred instruments in the classroom, including the different pitches of these instruments and will learn how to play them using the proper playing technique. The grade three classes continue to develop their singing voices by learning and reviewing the hand signs to the notes soh, la, mi, re, and doh (the pentatonic scale). The students play simple patterns and pentatonic scales on the xylophones and metalophones to accompany and improvise their own melodies during simple folk songs.  As well, the grade three classes learn the basic Djembe drum rhythms and playing technique on our African drums. 

Grade Four Music

Grade four classes review the basic rhythm patterns and time signatures from grade three. They learn how to keep a steady ostinato (repeated rhythmic pattern) going on the classroom instruments and through movement. They continue to develop their singing voices by learning and reviewing the hand signs for singing, and by singing songs in canon and with two or more parts. Then grade fours may study the recorder, learning to play with proper tone, hand position, and breathing technique. The students will first learn to play and read the notes, B, A, and G, on the musical staff, and will continue on to learn low E and D. 

Mrs. Leslie