Author: ajones

Activity for April 22nd-23rd, 2020:

Create your own beats using Chrome Music Lab! Follow the link to the rhythm creator in Chrome Music Lab. You can change up the beats by clicking on the on the dots. To take away beats, simply click on the dots again! When you think you have a good beat, press play and hear what you made!

There are 4 different preset beats you can change around. Try your hand at all of them or whichever ones you want! Feel free to send me an email letting me know how you did!

Chrome Music Lab Rhythm Creator

Activity for April 22nd-23rd, 2020:

Grab your mad scientist gear, it’s time for a musical experiment! Follow the directions on the Science of Sound page below, and create your own musical instrument using glass cups and water! Write down any observations you have about how your experiment goes. Maybe try creating a song using your final product!

science of sound

Activity for April 8-9th, 2020: 

This week, use the song creator from Classics for Kids to create a song! If you want to play around with it before you make your final song, I will always encourage that! After you’ve made your final song, give it a listen and then answer the questions below. You can also share your song with me via email!

Reflection Questions:

Write these on a scrap piece of paper!

1. How would you describe your song? Happy, sad, long, short, fast, slow…pick 3 descriptive words for your song.
2. If you could give your song a title, what would it be?
3. What instrument would you want to play your song?
4. If you could change anything about your song, what would it be?

 

Activity for April 7th and 8th, 2020: 

Elements of music are all around us! This week, explore elements of music around your house or neighborhood with a Tempo and Dynamic Detective Activity!

Tempo is the speed of the music, how fast or slow it is. Dynamics are how we describe how loud or soft music is. See if you can fill out the Detective Page with things around your home or neighborhood that match the different tempos and dynamics!

Stay tuned after spring break for some ukulele videos featuring the award winning actress, Ms. Jones!

 

 

To print, right click and hit save image. Then open up the download and hit print in the photo viewer and it should be good to go!

TempoandDynamicsScavengerHunt

Assignment for April 1st and 2nd, 2020: 

Create a comic about the life of JS Bach! Using your graphic organizer from last week, or the one below, pick out 6 facts about Bach’s life (2 from each box). Then, illustrate those 6 facts to create a comic page! There are also pictures to help inspire you on the second page of the fact sheet (arrow in the top left corner). For the 7th and last comic panel, draw a self portrait since you are the author and illustrator!

bach facts
Big_Start_Big_End_Comic_Page

Assignment for April 1st, 2020:

Complete the 3 music note puzzles and use the words you uncover in a sentence! Then, on the blank piece of staff paper, create a puzzle for the 4th grade! I will post some of the puzzles next week for us to try and decipher!

musicnotepuzzle1
staff template

 

Activity for April 2nd, 2020: 

Create your own practice ukulele stick at home following this simple tutorial! What can the ukulele stick do? Well, it can help you practice where to place your fingers to create chords so that when you get a real ukulele you’re one step ahead of the game! I will be creating a new section under 4th grade music next week to show those that make their ukulele stick the first chord we will learn, and show you the strumming motion!

ukulele craft

 

Assignment for March 25th, 2020: 

Read the short biography of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and then complete the graphic organizer. You can print off the graphic organizer or recreate it on a separate piece of paper. Once completed, either send a picture of the assignment to me via email or put in your backpack to be graded later.

jsbio
JSB graphic organizer

Assignment for March 26th, 2020: 

Try your hand at playing this rhythm game on the website “Classics for Kids”. Can you match all the rhythms? You will need to listen to the rhythm first and then click your mouse at the right time! If you’re feeling confident, give it a shot on the advanced mode. How many can you get right?