Week of June 1 – 5
Hi kids!
Next week we will celebrate GLOBAL ARTS WEEK for our last week of school, so this will be our last week of music home learning! Thank you for singing, playing, dancing, and learning with us all this time. We look forward to seeing you in person at school next year and we hope you keep singing over the summer vacation.
Now it’s time to get out your stuffed animals and sing some songs about two animals we love: the RABBIT and the FOX.
Rabbit runs in the frozen snow! Enjoy this song about a fox trying to catch a rabbit. After learning the song, you can play with two of your stuffed animals!
Old Mr. Rabbit, you have a mighty habit… of sneaking in my garden, and eating all my carrots! Enjoy learning this song and seeing what that sneaky Mr. Rabbit eats from my garden next!
Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night. Sing along with a traditional folk song as we read Peter Spier’s book and listen to music played by the extraordinary ensemble Apollo’s Fire from their album Sugarloaf Mountain.
If you enjoyed the song “Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night”, we invite you to watch a real performance of the Apollo’s Fire ensemble performing it in a concert. What instruments do you notice? How is the singer telling the story by acting it out?
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Week of May 25-29
Hi kids!
Pizzicato! Enjoy listening and moving to “Pizzicato,” by Leo Delibes, and imagine a story about a frog walking on two legs! He can’t keep up his disguise when he reaches out his tongue to CATCH FLIES! Also – help us count how many flies the frog catches and read a music map!
Five green and speckled frogs! Enjoy singing along to this fun song and explore instruments as sound effects.
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Week of May 18-22
Hi kids!
This week we’ve got a story song for you! Puff the Magic Dragon lives by the sea! Enjoy this fun and famous song, and follow along with the beautiful story about Puff and his best friend, Jackie Paper.
“Old King Glory lives on the Mountain.” You can enjoy singing this song and playing the game with your stuffed animals (or your brothers and sisters at home.) Whoever remains at the end is Old King Glory! You pick one Old King Glory to start, but soon the next king is chosen when we sing, “the first one, the second one, the third switch with me!”
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Week of May 11-15
Hi kids!
This week is all about horses! Join in the horse race with the video below, and listen to Giaochino Rossini’s famous piece of music, “William Tell Overture!”
Now you can imagine being one of the Prince’s high stepping horses! Can you sneak out while he is sleeping and prance with your high steps through the field?
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Week of May 4-8
Hi kids!
This week we are exploring music that makes us think of the water! In the first video below, enjoy music called “The Blue Danube,” by Johann Strauss and help these two crazy crabs find the repeating pattern in the music. Then read a music map!
Now you can listen to a song about “The Goldfish” and pay attention to the silly things the goldfish do when they wake up from their nap!
You can also enjoy this song called, “Listen to the Water,” and find all the animals that we can see down by the river.
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Week of April 26-29
Hi kids!
We are continuing the celebration of our beautiful planet, Earth! Watch the video below to learn more about all of the planets in our solar system and why Earth is the best. Listen to the beautiful music called, “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!
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This week, we encourage you to keep creating instruments from recycled materials and items around your home. You can find the “how-to” videos by clicking the link below! Make as many as you want! Share your musical pictures and videos to @hkislpmusic on Instagram!
EARTH DAY Activities: Make your own instruments!
The Specialist teachers are so excited to chat with you! WE MISS YOU SO MUCH and can’t wait to see your smiling faces! Be sure to check the date and time of your class’s Specialist Zoom call for this week by clicking the link. The specialists will rotate each week. The music teachers will zoom with all R2 classes THIS WEEK on Monday, April 27!
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Week of April 14-17
Hi R2 students!
Welcome back! Bow Wow wow! Did you hear that? It’s my pet dog Buster asking to go on a walk. We know you will enjoy listening to this piece of jazz music called “Walk the Dog” by the American composer George Gershwin. Let’s see what that silly dog Buster gets up to on his walk!
Now we are excited to introduce you to some friends of ours. Give me a HIGH FIVE! You’ve got 5 beautiful fingers. Your POINTER is named PALO. Your pinky is named BONITO. And your thumb is named EH. Enjoy singing this song and trying this fingerplay game about your pointer “Palo” and his friends.
Thank you, Estevao! We actually learned that song “Palo Bonito” from our friend Estevao Marques (and his dragon friend Maracatu) who came to teach music at HKIS during Global Arts Week next year.
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Music Home Learning: March 30 – April 3
Hi R2 Students!
Look up into the tree branches. Can you see some squirrels hopping to gather acorns? Now you will meet these two squirrels and sing a song with them!
“Kangeroo” is a piece of music that was written by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens. You will notice these two kangaroos hopping and then resting to look and listen. Can you move your body too, just like they do?
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Music Home Learning: March 23-27
Hi R2 students!
This week our music is all about the mighty king of the jungle… Lions!
Let’s listen to a piece of music called “March of the Lions” by Camille Saint-Saens. When we listen, we imagine the lions starting their day. They stretch! They march! And they chase their tails. You can play along.
Now let’s sing a song together. Here we are in the jungle, with a lion closeby to our village. Let’s sing a magic spell together to make the lion fall asleep (aWimawea Wimawe!) You can help us by singing along with actions.
We want to tell you a secret about the real meaning of this song! The inspiration for”Lion Sleeps Tonight” comes from a Zulu song from South Africa called “Mbube.” This tribe had a mighty leader who everyone called “the Lion.”. When this leader passed away, the people of the tribe sang, the “lion is sleeping.” They sang to honor their leader who left them, the “lion” of the tribe.
One more listening turn! If you love the song, “Lions Sleep Tonight” you might enjoy this silly animation of a a singing dog and hippo.
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Now the music teachers and our friends the Chinese teachers have a treat for you! Let’s sing one of our favorite schools song together. “We Are the Kids from HKIS” and we love to come to school each day!
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Music Home Learning: March 16-20
Hi R2 students!
We’re about to take a deep dive into the ocean and listen to a piece of music called “Aquarium.” Get ready to swim and dance along with us!
“Aquarium” is a piece of music that was written by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens. You can listen more times and pretend to be different sea creatures!
Now let’s sing a song together. “All Around the World” there are children like us who like to play games, tell stories, and sing songs!
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Music Home Learning: March 9-13
Hi R2 students!
We hope you’re in the mood for dancing! Once upon a time, there was a frog who went into the swamp and met a fairy. The frog just wanted to try being something else for a change, so the fairy taught the frog a magic trick to transform. What animals can the frog turn into?
Abracadabra! We’re in the Savanna of South Africa. Let’s say it together – Siyahamba! – that means we are marching in the light of God.
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Music Home Learning: March 2-6
Hi R2,
This week it is all about bears! Do you remember how to tiptoe quietly in the cave? Make sure you stop and LOOK!
The music about tiptoeing in the bear cave was composed by Joseph Haydn. You can listen again!
Now it is time to map this song using song dots for the tiptoe music and a line map for the dancing bear! Watch this video to remember how to do this!
You can read music for Surprise Symphony in two ways: song dots and notes! Print Me! Surprise Symphony by Haydn – Reading. (You can use another blank page to make a music map for the “dancing bear” B section part of the piece.)
We can also play a game about the grizzly bear sleeping in the cave. Remember -“if you wake him, if you shake him, he gets very MAD!”
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Music Home Learning: February 24-28
Hi again R2!
Let’s sing and play our song about the frog who went Garumph! Can you hop like a frog whenever you hear “Garumph?” Now do a silly dance during “la-di-da-di-dah!”
R2, we have a beautiful song to share for you called “I See With My Hands.” How can YOU see with your hands? Try closing your eyes and touching your face and imagining what you look like. Play this game: ask someone in your family to put an object in your hands, and use your senses to guess what it is. People who are blind learn to “see with their hands” and use all their other senses to learn about the world. What are all the senses YOU use to learn?
Now you can listen as many times as you would like!
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Music Home Learning: February 17-21
Hi R2!
Welcome back! We’ve got some exciting games and songs to share with you this week. Please watch the videos below to learn more!
Watch this video to remember how to play “Zudio!”
Zudio music track! Play and sing along “all night long!”
Learn a new song called “Dim Sum for Everyone!”
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Music Home Learning: February 10-14
Hello R2 students!
Please enjoy singing along to “Bling Blang!”
Please enjoy singing along to “I Love Hong Kong!” Can you sing in a round?