Year 6 have been learning the song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot as part of their Dimensions topic on Culture.
Here is their final rendition.
In our Dimensions theme this term we have been learning about the Arctic. We have been learning about the animals and people who live in the Arctic. We have learnt about the Inuit people; what the eat, wear, where they live and some of their pastimes.
We have learnt that traditionally Inuit women would have “throat singing” competitions to pass the time while the men were away hunting.
Throat singing is a tricky skill of repeating the sound just a second after the other person has made it, while keeping a beat and rhythm. The first one to stop for breath or giggle is out.
We had our own “throat singing” competition to see who could keep making noises longest. The children had a great time making some very strange and loud noises and also were amazed when we watched a video of some throat singers and how lovely their music was.
See below for more:
Inuit Throat Singing in Year 1 (1)
Class 7 enjoyed their first drumming lesson of the year today with Mr Bird.
They found out that samba drumming originated in Brazil. They then learned names of all the Samba drums and percussion instruments (from left to right) agogo bells, tamborims, surdos, the repinique and the caixa.
Finally, Mr Bird split the class into two groups and the children had a go at repeating a rhythm altogether as a band on the samba drums.
Class four have been exploring the sounds they can make using musical instruments. We used the story Little Red Riding Hood to try to create a sound scape to reflect the mood and events in the story. We annotated a story map for our graphic score to help us know when to play our instruments.
Listen to our piece of music and see if you can hear the mood change.
We have been learning about tempo in music, which is the speed of the music. We played “speed fiends” and had to Copy the tempo created by one of our friends. We also had to move to the speed of different pieces of music.
Year 4 have been learning all about tempo. They discussed the meaning of fast and slow before comparing 4 pieces of music and grading them by Tempo.
They listened to a metronome and practiced clapping to the beat. Then played a few rounds of follow the leader with their musical instruments.
They also became composing champions when they chose our own tempo and instruments to create mini pieces of music. They had a great time!
Class 8 are thoroughly enjoying their weekly drumming lessons with Mr Bird! Here they are performing altogether.
Year 3 have enjoyed their final drumming session with Mr Bird today. They’ve worked so hard over the last 4 weeks and gave an excellent performance!
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Class 4 have been learning to sing the blues this week.
In Literacy we are studying the story of Red Riding Hood and this week have been thinking about the poor wolf who only wanted something to eat!!!!
The children have loved learning to sing the Wolfie Blues and even added their own little wolfie wimpering howls as they sang!
Mr McCormack’s class had a fun afternoon with Mr Bird learning about percussion. I’m not sure if we’ve got the next Dave Grohl yet but they were all very enthusiastic!
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