Week of May 18-22
Hi kids!
This week we will learn more games from West Africa. These games come from a country called Ghana, and we learned these songs from our friend, Kofi! You might remember meeting Kofi when you were in R2!
First, you will enjoy learning a song from Ghana about the days of the weeks called “Amesi Wodzi.” We will sing, play, and clap. And when we sing the day of the week that YOU were born on, then it’s YOUR turn to get up and dance!
This is a song called, “Kofi Brayendi,” that is all about inviting a friend to play with you!
Remember the instruments that you will hear in the Bobobo style! Listen for the drum, rattle, and bell.
Make it a Musical May! We would like to share a listening calendar for the whole family. We have selected a family-friendly song for each day of the month. Click below to start listening!
Lower Primary Musical May
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The Specialist teachers are so excited to chat with you! WE MISS YOU SO MUCH and can’t wait to see your smiling faces! Music teachers will have zoom classes with Grade Two classes on Monday, May 18th.
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LISTENING CLUB! (Feb 10-April 3)
G2 students: Enjoy listening to these musical styles from around the world! See the bottom of this page for a step by step on how to DOWNLOAD the entire file and listen to the music! As you listen, pick a couple of questions to talk about. You can write your answers in the listening book found at this link.
Week 1 ~ Feb 10-14: India and Middle East Keynote Powerpoint
Week 2 ~ Feb 17-21: The Pacific Keynote Powerpoint
Week 3 ~ Feb 24-28: Africa Keynote Powerpoint
Week 4 ~ March 2-6: Asia Keynote Powerpoint
Week 5 ~ March 9-13: Latin America Keynote Powerpoint
Week 6 ~ March 16-20: Europe Keynote Powerpoint
Week 7 ~ March 23-27: Europe (pt. 2) Keynote Powerpoint
Week 8 ~ March 30-April 3: Family Folk Song Project
Wow! You’ve listened to music from so many regions. We would like to invite YOU to share a song with US! This is our Family Folk Song Project. We want to know what songs are important to you and your family. It can be a song in another language that you speak at home, a song from a religious ceremony, a birthday song, a playground song, a hand-clapping song, a lullaby ~ ANY SONG that is important to you and your family! Please take a video of yourself singing the song either alone or with a family member and add the video to THIS FOLDER. In your video, please sing your song and then tell us:
1. Title of your song 2. What does your song mean? (If isn’t in English)
3. How did you learn your song? 4. Why is your song important to you?
Watch this video to learn more!
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Enjoy these music activities again!
Play Adje Adjo!
Play O Ken Key again!
Sing again “If a Lion Calls”
Watch again “The Planets,” by Gustav Holst and follow along with Cosmo the Astronaut!
Now enjoy this beautiful song, “This Pretty Planet,” and sing in a round!
Watch and play “All Around the Kitchen!”
Watch the Prometheus story!
Dance the folk dance Zemir Atik, from Israel
Sing “We Are the Kids from HKIS”
Read again the story of Baba Yaga!
Do the Sasha dance together again!
Sing again to “All Around the World!”
Listen again to Hungarian Fantasy Number 3 by Brahms. We will tell a story about children playing and meeting some spooky spirits while we listen.
Listen to Brahms’s Hungarian Fantasy 3!
Watch the jungle movement again!
Listen again to the music by Philip Glass, Japura River, which is a river from the Amazon rainforest in South America. The piece was written for a ballet, so dancers would be moving to the music.
Sing along again to “Turn the World Around!”
Sing along again to “Tutira Mai!”
Watch this video to learn about our new Listening Club Project!
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STEP BY STEP for downloading music presentation:
- Below the video, you will see words that say Keynote and Powerpoint. (see IMAGE ONE).
- You need to click one of those two programs, based on your computer. If you are using an iPad or a Mac computer, you should choose Keynote, if you have anything else you should choose PowerPoint. You click on the word and it will open in another window. Then you need to DOWNLOAD the file. (see IMAGE TWO)
- Then you can open the file from your downloads folder and the music will be inside the presentation. There will be music icons to click on to hear the music. (see IMAGE THREE). Please contact the music teachers if you need more explanation!
