BLUE - FALL HOMEWORK
BLUE FALL - FALL
Please plan to spend 5 or 10 minutes a day with music. If you ever have questions please ask me during class time to explain. Please go over the music booklet once per day.
For the FALL term the goal is to continue to build a repertoire of songs and positive musical experiences.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: For the Fall term we will listen to the music of Johann Sebastian BACH. Please play Bach music in the home while the children are colouring their weekly handouts.
The piece of music by Bach I want the children to recognize is the MINUET IN G. The BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS are also fun to listen to while colouring the weekly handouts.
For the FALL TERM we will also be learning about the instruments of the WOODWIND FAMILY.
WORKBOOKS
By the end of the year the students will learn to read and write music upon the staff in three full major scales (F, G and C majors). They will learn about the Bb, and the F#, and will learn many new rhythms by the end of the year. For the FALL term we will start to write music in the key of F major.
RECORDER:
They will also continue to play the recorder. The recorder is an excellent first instrument for learning how to read music. When playing the recorder think of the letter names (not the solfege names). And play the new recorder song three times each day. They only need to play the songs in the recorder section, not in the theory section.
We will start to learn songs in the KEY OF F MAJOR!
Remember we use two names for a note.
Above the music staff (solfege) :we will write the solfege names (d=doh, r =re, m=mi.....etc. ) in lower case letters.
Under the music staff (pitch names) : Then, for recorder we will write the pitch names in upper case letters under the notes on the staff. (F G A C D) This year the children will learn to play in three different keys by the end of the year.
STAFF BUILDER PAGES: On the staff builder pages that I hand out they are exercises, not songs, so only add PITCH NAMES under the notes, no hand sign names.
Page numbers for the Blue Workbook are in brackets:
Music Workbooks (go over a few minutes each day)
The FALL term starts with Lesson 1. Workbook page numbers are in brackets.
BLUE HOMEWORK Lesson 1
Draw a pic (p2)
Colour BACH (p5)
Hand Sign review (p21)
Rutabaga Rhythms (P22)
To Me Music Is..... (23)
RECORDER: Lesson 1:
Review the notes F G A C D
SUNNY WEATHER (p59) add Pitch Names under the notes and play 3 times each day.
SONGS & RHYMES for the FALL:
SONGS & RHYMES:
DOWN BY THE BAY
P-A-R-I-S
TELL ME THE CONTINENTS
SHAKE AND DANCE
SUNFLOWER
SUNNY WEATHER
KITTY CAT
WHALE WHALE WHALE
FLYING TO EUROPE
BUTTON
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
BOW WOW WOW
HERE COMES A BLUEBIRD
BOW WOW WOW
BUTTON YOU MUST WANDER
JOHNNY WORKS WITH ONE HAMMER
DINAH DINAH
HERE COMES A BLUEBIRD
APPLES & BANANAS
PUMPKIN PATCH
ROUND AND FAT
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
CUT THE CAKE
MISTER ANDRE
PHOEBE
LET US CHASE THE SQUIRREL
HALLOWEEN NIGHT
DOWN CAME A GHOST
NAUGHTY PUSSYCAT
COTTON EYE JOE
GREEDY GIRL
HOP OLD SQUIRREL
WALK ON THE LEAVES
LIGHT A CANDLE FOR PEACE
NAUGHTY PUSSYCAT
TWINKLE TWINKLE
SALLY GO ROUND THE SUN
UP ON THE HOUSETOP
JOLLY OLD ST. NICHOLAS
GO TELL AUNT RHODY
SNOW IS FALLING
HEAR THE ANGELS
JINGLE BELLS
BLUE Lesson 2
Theory: Copy F pentatonic scale (pp 25 & 26)
REcorder: SUNNY WEATHER
New song: WHALE WHALE WHALE p60
Pipe Organ pic
BLUE LESSON 3
Electric Keyboard (p7)
Listen to Bach while colouring
Recorder (3 times a day)
JOHNNY WORKS (p61)
Theory:
add the Half Notes (p27)
BUTTON (p 28) sing with HAND SIGNS once every day
Staff 12 (p29)
BLUE Lesson 4
Theory: (p30) Clap DINAH DINAH every day one time with new rhythm: TIKKA TIKKA
pic (p8) Upright Piano
Staff (p31)
Recorder: New Song HERE COMES A BLUEBIRD (62)
BLUE Lesson 5
Grand piano p9
Recorder: SUNNY WEATHER
New: BUTTON YOU MUST WANDER -63
Can also do GREEDY GIRL if you have time p64
Theory: DINAH DINAH clap with new rhythm once each day
TIKKA TIKKA tee tee.......
Also add notes
Staff Builder page 33 add pitches under notes
BLUE Lesson 6
pic: Acoustic Guitar p11
Theory: write the notes for PHOEBE using the 'low la' (p34)
Careful not to fill in the half note as well
Staff 15 (page 35)
Recorder: New song LET US CHASE THE SQUIRREL and HALLOWEEN NIGHT (don't get scared) pp 65 , 66
Also go over words for FLYING TO EUROPE and MISTER ANDRE
BLUE Lesson 7
Recorder: DINAH DINAH p67
Note: actually say 'tikka tikka' when playing the notes with the tikka tikka rhythm!
Theory: pages 36, 37 38
Tikka Tikka rhythms
Chicken on the Fence post
write: TIKKA TOCK song with high doh!
Can colour the HARP
and also the ELECTRIC GUITAR!
Blue Lesson 8
Electric Guitar
Harp
Recorder: Play BUTTON by memory
NEW Note: Bb
I CAN PLAY Bb p 68
Theory: low la, low sol
COTTON EYE JOE - p41
GREEDY GIRL - 40
Listen to Bach
BLUE Lesson 9
Tchaikovsy p 13
Please listen to the NUTCRACKER SUITE while colouring the handouts. We have finished listening to Bach
REcorder: BUTTON everyday by memory
New: NAUGHTY PUSSYCAT with Bb note! p 69
Theory: p 42 TWINKLE sing everyday with hand sign names
BLUE Lesson 10
p14 Violin CAT
Recorder: BUTTON by memory once a day
New: TWINKLE p 70
Theory: write TWINKLY in notation with Bb for fa, p 44
BLUE Lesson 11
Theory Write GO TELL AUNT RHODY
Recorder: BUTTON by memory
New UP ON THE HOUSE TOP
Violin Croc p15
BLUE Lesson 12
Viola p 16
Listen to Tchaikovsky
Theory: p47 SNOW IS FALLLING add notes
Recorder: BUTTON by memory everyday.
New CHRISTMAS songs
pp 74, 75, 76
BLUE Lesson 13
The main thing is to go over the lyrics for the Christmas songs at the end of the book.
RECORDER: play at least one song everyday
JINGLE BELLS
UP ON THE HOUSETOP
TWINKLE
BUTTON
CHRISTMAS TIME
Pic CELLO
