Week of October 20

 

Welcome to HCA Joyful Music

Featuring our Early Childhood Music Makers

The first few weeks of October have been filled with fall fun and pumpkins in our music classes.  We have been singing and chanting about fall leaves, animals and pumpkins. The children have been having a great time with all the fall themed music activities.  The classes are doing well caring for their instrument sets and taking out instruments as they are asked to play. 

The Nursery 2 Class has enjoyed learning the rhythm poem entitled Flying.

They especially like tossing the leaves to the sky!

Our Nursery 3 students always enjoy a good play along.

Here they are playing along to the song entitled Harvest Dance.

Our Pre-K class has a great time moving to music.  They really had fun moving and shaking to the song Shake Those Simmons Down.

Our Kindergarten class loves the 5 Little Pumpkins song.  They have been singing it in the hallway and on the playground as well as in music class.

Week of October 5

 

Welcome to HCA Joyful Music

Featuring our Early Childhood Music Makers

Over the last couple of weeks we have been having all sorts of fall fun in music class.  We have been singing and chanting about apples and learning chants and songs about fall.  This week all of the children were introduced to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Autumn.    The students used scarves to move to the music.  The children were encouraged make their movements reflect the tempo and mood of the music, as well as whether the melody was high or low in pitch.  

Our Pre-K and Kindergarten learned about the string family of the orchestra (violin, viola, cello and double bass).   As they listened to Vivaldi's Autumn they were encouraged to listen for the different instruments.  

As we begin October, we have started with pumpkin songs and chants and other Halloween fun.  The child love these activities and are having so much fun with them. 

Our Nursery 2 students always enjoy a good play along.  

Our Nursery 3 class really liked the Way Up High in the Apple Tree chant.

Our Pre-K students enjoyed listening and moving to the music of Vivaldi.

Our Kindergarten students are having fun learning new rhythm patterns with the

There's a Cobbler chant.