Thursday, May 20, 2021

Week of May 17

 

Welcome to HCA Joyful Music

Featuring our Early Childhood Music Makers


There is a difference between rhythm and beat in music. In our music classes, we work on both. We work on keeping a steady beat while we play or sing a song. We practice feeling macro and micro beats (or big and little beats as I sometimes say to the children) in various time signatures, duple, triple, and asymmetric. We isolate rhythm patterns separately from the songs. Feeling the beat and  keeping a steady beat is a developmental music skill that we work on week to week. Check out our Nursery 3 class with the chant, Bee, Bee, Bumblebee, in this video here.. You will notice that we play with the beat, switching from macro and micro.





Friday, May 14, 2021

Week of May 10

 







Welcome to HCA Joyful Music

Featuring our Early Childhood Music Makers

We are rounding out our year in music class with friendship, fun and movement.  The children have been learning some  entertaining dances, such as The Chicken Dance and The Macarena.  Maybe you can try them with your child as home. They can show you their dance moves! 

We have also been preparing for the end of the school by learning to sing songs about kindness and friendship.  The children are doing very well with these songs. (You may have heard them singing at home.)

Kindergarten Composers!
The Musical Alphabet

The PsP Bells App

Our Kindergarten class is coming to the culmination of their music composition project.  Each child has used the Musical Alphabet, the PsP Bells app on the iPad, and colored markers to write several original 4 beat measures.  This week each child chose one measure to be part of our original Kindergarten song.  The children wrote their measure on sentence strip which we will arrange as a class into musical phrases and finally a song.  















It has been so much fun watching the children in their creative process! They are making musical  discoveries and sharing their music with friends! 



Friday, May 7, 2021

Week of May 3


Welcome to HCA Joyful Music
Featuring our Early Childhood Music Makers

May is here!  Spring has sprung and we are in the home stretch of our school year!  Phew!  It’s been a year like no other.  Thankfully we have been able to spend the year in the classroom together.  We are celebrating the end of this extraordinary year with songs about kindness and friendship and we are focusing on joy and fun in music class. 

Our Nursery 2 always enjoys a good play along.  This song, I Need You, by John Batiste is so much fun that the children couldn’t listen to it without dancing so we danced and played along and had a ball! You can check out the fun here.




Week of June 1

Welcome to HCA Joyful Music Featuring our Early Childhood Music Makers As our school year comes to a close, I am reflecting on all the fun a...