Music Monthly Update #7

As part of their Unit of Inquiry, students are learning songs that tell a story.They are also exploring some of the devices and conventions that composers use to suggest or convey qualities of movement in their music.

Students will be increasing their repertoire of songs and using tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments to accompany performances. We will also be examining the way we can notate musical ideas such as pitch and rhythm.

Students are exploring musical accompaniments.

Using classroom instruments they are composing short pieces exploring the timbres of the different instruments as well as their voice.

Students are continuing to learn new music and songs on the ukulele. They are also developing their technique and their repertoire of chords in preparation for their performance at the Summer Concert.

Drawing on their knowledge of musical conventions that composers use in their composositions such as major minor tonality, sequences, drones and ornamentation, the students are devising their own variations on “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”.

Students are learning some of the music and songs from Once on this Island that will be performed by the Year 6 students next in June.