Ms+Painting's


 * MS. PAINTINGS AWESOME 4/5 SPLIT CLASS**

Sept 3 Vocal warmups and breathing exercises.

Sept 10 Intro Solfege for first five notes. Divide into groups of 4. Two xylophones per group. 5s play AND sing, 4s sing. Arrange a melody based on names. Sing the solfege first, than the names.

Sept 17 Solfege the whole scale. Solfege version of 1,121,12321. 5s leave. 4s compose a song that leaves home (Doh), gets to SO and gets back. Compose 4 bar songs in small groups. Some end on SO others on DOH, put them in NOTION? ( Arrange them to our liking, that could fit into next class)

October. Worked on Monster Mash Solfege presentation as "Steal Your Solfege"

SAVE FOR AFTER HALLOWE'EN WORK TOWARD HOLIDAY ASSEMBLY

Nov 7 Begin"Awesome Ostinattos" composition and performance project inspired by Harry Potter Puppets, but based on our upcoming Holiday Celebrations. "Harry Potter Puppets" as our inspiration, discuss how the piece was put together (ostinattos, simple melody, complimentary rhythms create a rhythmic ostinato song based on getting ready for recess

Harry Potter Puppets Analysis. The following elements made this performance easy to follow, entertaining, and musical.

-theme, names of the characters in Harry Potter

-beat provided “the ticking noise”

-each character (lyric) has it’s own space (timing) in the bar,

it’s own “Ostinatto” staying in tempo

-each character or lyric has a difference in pitch

-each character had it’s own motion or dance that accompanied their lyric

-Timing (characters appear one at a time, gradually, increasing and decreasing dynamics)

-at the end, all characters sang as a chorus in unison

Nov 14 -Discuss our Holiday Theme. Come up with six subthemes within the main idea. Create groups strategically placing the grade 5s to either lead groups, or form groups of themselves to take their performance to another level. Get started as fast as we can, getting lyrics on sheets

Nov 24 -Putting it together and polishing, think about musical decorations, (instruments, ukulele's, recorders, piano )

Dec 1 LAST rehearsal day for assignments to tighten it up.

Dec 8 Perform works for class and for evaluation.

Dec 15 Edit and Polish our performance for Friday's assembly. Using the stage to rehearse hopefully