Week of April 26

 

Welcome to HCA Joyful Music!

Featuring our Early Childhood Music Makers

    Our early childhood music classes allow our students to have a fun musical experience and help them develop as young musicians.  Addtionally, our music classes help to reinforce other skills such as: language development, socialization, listening, following directions. auditory memory and so much more!

   Our Nursery 2 students had fun this week singing and acting out the song Five Green and Speckled Frogs. This music activity helps to reinforce a counting lesson Ms. Kerno introduced to the children last week.  As the children sang and acted out the song, they also worked on listening, following directions and identifying numbers 1 - 5.  They had great fun pretending to be the frogs and jumping into the pond. You can view their froggy fun here.

Our Kindergarten students are continuing to work on their composition unit with the Musical Alphabet.  This week they began composing and writing various 4 beat measures.  This activity helps to develop music literacy as well as decoding, visual discrimination, color correspondence and math skills.  Composing and playing their own music gives the children a real sense of ownership and accomplishment.  They are doing a wonderful job with the unit. We are on our way to composing our original Kindergarten song!

 

Welcome to HCA Joyful Music!

Featuring our Early Childhood  Music Makers

We have been having all sorts of fun with spring themed songs and chants in Early Childhood over the last few weeks.  The children have been enjoying the songs, chants and movement activities that spring brings with it.  

Through out the school year the children are introduced to songs and chants in a variety of rhythmic meters.  Below the Nursery 3 is having a great time with the chant, Here Is the Beehive which is in triple meter (6/8 time).  You can see their chant here.

Moving to music allows the children to develop their overall sense of rhythm.  Below the Pre-K enjoys moving to the song Inanay Gupu Wana with a simple choreographed dance.  This song comes from one of the indigenous groups of northern Australia.  You can see the Pre-K's dance moves here.

Week of April 12

 

Welcome to HCA Joyful Music

Featuring our Early Childhood Music Makers 

Kindergarten Composers!

The Musical Alphabet

     The Kindergarten class has begun experimenting with creating  their own original pieces of music.  We are using what I call the “Musical Alphabet” as a tool for the children to create their own 4 beat measures.  The Montessori moveable alphabet was the inspiration for this project.  Instead of choosing letters to spell words,  the children are choosing color coded music notes to create measures.

    The children were introduced to the Musical Alphabet this week. After creating their 4 beat measure they play it using an iPad app with corresponding colored bells. Each child will create & write a 4 beat measure which we will arrange in phrases and eventually a whole song!