GREEN Fall Homework

 GREEN: FALL- 
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.If you ever have any questions please ask me during class, or email me.

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 KEYBOARD and STRING FAMILIES.

PETER TCHAIKOVSKY: For November and December we will listen to the NUTCRACKER SUITE. 

THEORY: In the Green class the students will now learn to read and write music upon the staff in F major pentatonic. 

RECORDER: We will learn songs in the key of F major with the recorder! We will add the pitch names in capital letters under the notes.

  SOLFEGE: The Musical Rainbow Program gets the children writing music. When writing music we start with using solfege names : do, re, mi, fa sol, la ti, doh'. The solfege indicates the function of the note within the scale. We write these in lower case letters on top of the notes on the staff. 

We will learn two names for a note. Above the music staff we will write the solfege names (s = sol, m = mi, etc) in lower case letters. Then on the Green recorder papers we will write the pitch names in upper case letters under the notes (F G A C D)

GREEN WORKBOOK Page numbers are in brackets: The Fall Lessons start at Lesson 1

LESSON 1 HOMEWORK
Theory: draw a pic of an instrument you like (p2) 

Colour BACH Pic while listening to music (p5) 

Recorder: Practice saying rhythm names when playing the recorder. We don't just 'blow' we actually say the rhythm names as we play, example:TA TA TEE TEE TA

THEORY: 
STARLIGHT CHART - point and sing with 'HIGH LOW' once each day. (p 23)

STAFF (p24)

HAND SIGNS (p22) 

I have made a video to help with the homework for each lesson in the SPA. This is something extra if you need help. To join the Rainbow Hummingbird Magical Musical Spa costs $7.77 per month.

Songs & Rhymes for the FALL: 

SONGS & RHYMES: 
DOWN BY THE BAY
P-A-R-I-S
TELL ME THE CONTINENTS
SUNFLOWER
SHAKE AND DANCE
STARLIGHT
TICK TOCK 
SUNNY WEATHER 
KITTY CAT 
WEE WILLIE WINKIE 
ROCKY MOUNTAIN 
ENGINE #9 
JOG JOG 
SARASPONDA
APPLES & BANANAS
WEE WILLIE WINKIE 
EENY MEENY 
JOHNNY WORKS WITH ONE HAMMER 
I LIKE ICE CREAM 
PUMPKIN PATCH 
ROUND AND FAT 
PEASE PORRIDGE HOT
TINKER TAILOR 
PEASE PORRIDGE HOT 
HALLOWEEN NIGHT 
LUCY LOCKET 
WALK ON THE LEAVES
LIGHT A CANDLE FOR PEACE
ROUND THE GARDEN
SNAKES IN THE GRASS
HOT CROSS BUNS 
BEE BEE BUMBLEBEE
UP ON THE HOUSETOP 
JOLLY OLD ST. NICHOLAS 
HEAR THE ANGELS 
CHRISTMAS IS COMING 
SANTA CLAUS 
JINGLE BELLS 

Note: You can find a video on how these songs go in the SPA in the Songs & Rhymes Module! 

GREEN Lesson 9

Tchaikovsky p13 
We have finished Bach, please now listen to the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky as you colour the weekly handouts. 

Recorder: LUCY LOCKET p68 
New: WEE WILLIE WINKIE p71 

Theory: sol - doh 
p 39 write notes for ROUND THE GARDEN and sing with hand signs every day! 

GREEN Lesson 2

Pipe Organ pic (p6) 
Listen to Bach music 

Theory: (pp 25 & 26) 
add dots to the staff 
TICK TOCK 
HIGH LOW 

Recorder: first notes: C A 
Play TICK TOCK 3 times everyday. 

GREEN LESSON 3 

Theory: Add the dots for 
BRUSH YOUR TEETH (p27) 
JOG JOG (p28) 
Rule to remember: if s (sol) is on a space, m (mi) is on the space underneath 

Recorder: (play 3 times each day) 
JOG JOG (p58) 

Electric Keyboard (p7) 

GREEN Lesson 4

Pic (p8) Upright PIano 

Recorder: (p60) Two songs 
RAIN RAIN & BRUSH YOUR TEETH 

Theory: EENY MEENY add dots and repeat sign at the end (p29)

STARLIGH (p30) add the hand signs ABOVE the dots! 

GREEN Lesson 5 

Pic p9 Grand Piano 
Recorder: p 60 & 61 Eeny Meeny (with repeat sign) 

Theory: p32 I LIKE ICE CREAM 
sing with hand signs each day. We discovered where 'la' will go in relation to 'sol' on the staff. 

p31 rule of stems: If the dot is above the middle line, the stem goes down on the left side of the note. And vice versa for dots below the middle line of the music staff. 

You can go back and add the stems to STARLIGHT page if you wish. 

GREEN Lesson 6

pic: Acoustic guitar p 11

Theory: (p 34) PEASE PORRIDGE HOT - add the dots, New symbol to write - THE REST! 

TINKER TAILOR(p35) - add notes 

p 33 practice stems and rests 

Recorder: New note high D (note, this is the D pitch, NOT the hand sign doh) 

p 64 and 65 Play I LIKE ICE CREAM 3000 times a day! 

GREEN Lesson 7

Everyone is getting good on the recorder - keep playing everyday! 

REcorder: TINKER TAILOR p66
can also try HALLOWEEN NIGHT p67 if not too scary! 

Theory: sol, la , sol , mi 
Write LUCY LOCKET p 36 

GREEN Lesson 8

Pics: Electric guitar and harp 

Recorder: HALLOWEEN NIGHT
New: LUCY LOCKET p68 

Theory: Write HALLOWEEN NIGHT p39

GREEN Lesson 10

p 14 Violin Cat 
Listen to Tchaikovsky

Recorder: LUCY LOCKET by memory 
New: A to D jumps 

BEE BEE write notes with doh= to F 

GREEN Lesson 11

violin croc p15 

Write HOT CROSS BUNS 
mi re doh p47

Recorder: LUCY LOCKET by memory
New: SANTA CLAUS p73 

GREEN Lesson 12 

Viola p16 

Theory: p 46 write SNAKES IN THE GRASS on staff 

pp52 and 53 BARLINE TRAINS to complete barlines on each train. 

Recorder: LUCY LOCKET by memory 
and keep playing SANTA CLAUS everyday - 73 

GREEN Lesson 13 

The main thing is to go over the Christmas songs at the end of the book. 

RECORDER: Play at least one song twice everyday. 
LUCY LOCKET
SANTA CLAUS 
or pick favourites

Pic: CELLO