Theory

Highlights of the Arts Week Opening Concert

Year 6 visit to the Dance School

Opening Concert Programme

Luncthime Concert Schedule

Arts Week opening Concert

The concert will take place on the 24th of May, Monday at 09.00. in the Old Gym. On the 21st, Friday we will have rehearsals all day and at 14.00. children will have their dress rehearsal. Please do not forget to bring your instruments on both days.
Hope to see many parents there!
I will post during next week the final programme and also the schedules of the lunchtime concerts.

End of the Year assessment for Years 4-6

End of the Year Assessment

Song for the Arts Week concert - 4LB

4LB Lyrics

Flute making workshop with Year 4

After weeks of preparation finally the big day! In their classroom children discussed materials, design, construction. Practiced mesurement. In music class we talked about musical instruments: how they work, how is their design, how the materials influence sound. We looked at different types of flutes from all over the world, why they are so different and yet so similar.

4D in Gulbenkian

Let's dance the Blues!

Year 3 notation skills

Year 3 students are now ready to write and read music using traditional notation. They are doing an excellent job, but now it's time to consolidate and speed up their reading. It is important that children practice at home, using this site (on the right side under Music helpers and games you find a link leading to the Note practice activity)or just using their music folders.

Year 5 and 6 students

This is a very important time of the year, when children are preparing for the Arts Week concert. It will take place on the 17th of May but we are already busy finalizing the music pieces. Children in Years 5 and 6 will play some of their recorder pieces for the audience. After the holidays I am going to select the students who are ready to play. Parents can help out by ensuring that your child is practicing regularly at home.

Accompaniment for "Totally Blessed" - Year 5

Accompaniment for "C Side Rock" for Year 6

Practice tempo:

Performance tempo:

Accompaniment for "Gobstopper Waltz" for Year 5

Practice tempo:

Performance tempo:

Accompaniment for "St Lewis Blues" - Year 6

Practice tempo:

And performance tempo:

Accompaniment of "Chilled" - Year 5

Video for practicing song for 1A

Lyrics for 1A

five senses

Accompaniment for "Mike Oliver's" for Year 5

You can use the practice tempo version first and then the performance tempo.

Accompaniment for "Tea with the Tumbers" for Year 6

Rhythm session accompaniment

These are the excercises for Years 2-4. Years 5-6 need to practice the new ones from the recorder books.

Question to Year 6 students

In your class you have been working on your UOI, where the Central Idea is: "The Earth is Part of a Vast and Complex Universe". During our visit to Gulbenkian we have learned about sound, how is it produced, how it can be changed, etc.
I have a question for you. Try to be a thinker, enquirer and knowledgeable as much as you can. Answer directly here on the blog, clicking on the "comment" link.

"We had several experiments with tuning forks. How would be the sound of a tuning fork in space?"

Good luck!

And finally the lyrics for 3VL

Santa Claus is Coming

Lyrics for 4D

Silver Sleigh

More Christmas lyrics

For 4LB:
12 Days


For 5T:

Portuguese and Brasilian

For 5G:

Himalayan
For 6L:

Chrismus

Year 5 in the Gulbenkian

We are learning about Jazz in music class, as it connects perfectly to their unit of inquiry: On the move. The central idea of the unit is "Throughout history people have been on the move with wide-ranging effects on themselves and the local population". As we have observed, jazz is a result of the fusion of african, native american and european musical traditions brought to America.
In the Gulbenkian children assisted to a presentation and jazz concert called "Journey to the world of jazz".
For further research this site is good starting point: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/history_of_jazz.htm



Children watching the presentation



After lunch writing in their learning journals



Sharing their thoughts with the other children and teachers

Christmas play lyrics for Nursery - Year 2

Parents please practice with your children at home!

Christmas Play Lyrics

Year 6 recorder homework

Look here:
http://www.mymusicclass.com/Video/Wish%20I%20Was%20A%20Chicken/Wish%20I%20Was%20A%20Chicken.html
and:
http://www.mymusicclass.com/Video/A%20Minor%20Blues/A%20Minor%20Blues.html

6M in Gulbenkian

If you want to know more about the relationship between sound, science and mathematics, follow the links.

About the Chladni plate:
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/demoweb/demomanual/acoustics/effects_of_sound/chladni_plate.html

A great site about Fibonacci:
http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibInArt.html

Pythagoras and music:
http://www.aboutscotland.co.uk/harmony/prop.html


Fibonacci Worksheet

1W in Gulbenkian

1001 Dances: music, movement, literature and visual arts activity.

Year 1 students and Peter and the Wolf

Connected to the current UOI "Once upon a time" childen will find out how a composer can tell a story. We are listening the story of Peter and the Wolf in three different versions, a ballet, a cartoon and a movie.
Parents can use this website to help their child.

http://www.philtulga.com/Peter.html

Year 6 Bass Clef worksheets

A few resources to help when you prepare for the next class. If you want to practice, you can continue using the usual site( "Practice your music reading" under Musical Games on the right side of this page), just click on settings and enable the F clef too.

Color That Note Bass Clef g Position

Ready Set Go Bass Clef c Position

Codemaker Bass Clef

Lets-crossword Bass Clef

More worksheets to study at home

Parents cen help to do these sheets with your children at home. I will check them at school.

Musical Words 1

Musical Words 2

Note reading overview and practice Years 4-6

Children who are new to the school or just need a reminder may use this resource to improve their understanding of music reading.
You can print out some of the worksheets, fill them in and bring to music class so that I can check and correct.


Notes in G clef

Music and technology

With all year levels I started to use the Educational programme "Groovy Music" from Sibelius software. During the year we will have an overview of all musical elements. With this software the children work on the whiteboard to explore the following concepts:

• Tone colour
• Loud and Quiet
• Music Words
• Music Symbols
• Long and Short
• Beat
• Fast and Slow
• Sounds and the Beat
• Upward and Downward
• High and Low
• Steps and Leaps
• Making Melody

Year 1 song lyrics

We have started to learn a new song related to the UOI: "I had a little nut tree"

I had a little nut tree,
Nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg
And a golden pear;
The King of Spain's daughter
Came to visit me,
And all for the sake of
My little nut tree.