Term End Classroom Music Junior Classes

Rhythm Conductor for Apple Tree

As we draw  to the end of the term's activity, here is a look back at the material we have been working on at Mobile Music School classes for  junior groups at The Marist Primary School.

Songs : Aon Do as gaeilge Snr Inf  , (One Two Buckle My Shoe Junior Inf)

Toot Toot, Hob Shoe Hob , Paddy on the Railroad, Engine Engine, Clap Your hands Oh Belinda, Tapping Song , Apple Tree, Hot Cross Buns, Zumba Zumba, Row Row Row Your Boat, Old Mc Donald,  Baby One , Plainy Mrs Brown, Baby One Two Three Head and Shoulders , The Farmer in the Dell, Rain Rain Go Away

Chants Alphabet Chant, Steady Beat Chant

Narratives Hairy Scarey Castle ( la ti doh riff ) vocal and percussion sounds skeleton rattle, creak stairs, rats, bats, door bang, ticking clock, whooshing wind , 

 Three Little Pigs : Songs adapted from Knees up Mother Brown, Muffin Man,  House building music – distinction in weight and duration.

 Elves and Shoemaker Hob Shoe Hob , Hammer Hammer (Elves song adapted from Frere Jacque)

 Listening  and resounding : Various samples include , The Swan, Vivaldi allegro, Rimsky K The Bumble Bee, Skaters’ Waltz, Carmen Prelude- march  related to Q & A on musical elements  Loud soft, tempo slow fast

 Improvising  Say your name -Beat Your name

Resources : Three Singing Pigs Kaye Umansky http://www.kayeumansky.com/teachers-resources/

                      Sing With Mike http://www.singwithmike.com/

                       Fiddle Time Starters Kathy David Blackwell  

 

 

 
 

 

 

Swans; Scarey Castles and Engine Trouble

A post to capture some of the elements of classroom music with Junior and Senior Infant classes at the Marist Primary School, Crumlin over the first half term.

Entrance Music: Students enter to a selected track and are ecouraged to  move to the music To date we have tiptoed to Vivaldi string music, marched to the Toreadors'March by Bizet. This week we calmed things down by swaying and gliding to this lovely movement, The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals . 

Rhythm Only: We begin with our speaking voices. Rhymes include the Musical Alphabet Rap, The Steady Beat Rap and some familiar nursery rhymes.

Singing Voices: We have been working on some new and old songs.

  Train Songs Engine Engine No 9, Paddy on the Railroad, Toot Toot Choo Choo
  Counting Songs Aon Do Muc is Bo; Baby One Two Three, Hot Cross Buns
  Animal Songs Old MacDonald Row Your Boat
  Action Songs Clap Your Hands Oh Belinda

Telling Stories with sound effects : We had lots of fun working on our Halloween Special -The Hairy Scarey Castle. The story includes a three note riff and we used percssion instruments and voices to make the noises for all the scary things in the castle.
 Next week, the story is the Three Little Pigs.

Teacher's Spot: Here is a really easy version of the chord of G




More information here : Lesson Plan 

Resources: Voiceworks  Peter Hunt

                     Three Singing Pigs  Kaye Umansky AC Black

                         Sing with Mike  Mairead Ni Chonduin