Welcome to your first year in our Moñino High School.
We started our lesson singing a Welcome African song: Funga alafia
Different activities for groups:
Simamaka video with body percussion
We learnt how to sing the names of the musical notes accompanied by "Do re mi" .
Do, re , mi in the musical "The sound of music"
I hope we are having a very nice year.
We started to write our first short composition to explain all we did, what we learnt in our lessons or what we enjoyed most.
We learnt how to name notes and note values in English.
The staff or stave
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In order to learn all these contents easily, we watched these videos to play with boomwhackers:
Video no1: Twinkle twinkle little star
Video no2: Tetris
In order to review how to read half notes ( blancas) ,quarter notes ( negras) and eighth notes ( corcheas) and rests in general, we watched these videos:
Video no1: Introduction to rhythm reading
Etc
We learnt to sing "We will rock you" by Queen. Perhaps this song has the most rhythmic and known ostinato in the history of rock.
We started to describe the character of songs and pieces of music we sang and listened to.
We used our music books and a list of a lot of adjectives to do it.
We drew our first melody on a staff: Frère Jacques
We drew the parts of an ukelele
How to read tabs
Three easy pieces ( ukeaula channel):
Mary had a little lamb
Twinkle twinkle little star
Learn to play chords:
Do you want to play your first chord?
You can accompany Frère Jacques with C chord.
Inmediately after you can learn thre chords: C, G and F
For Halloween, we sang "Thriller" to review the parts of a pop song.
Intro
Verses
Choruses
Bridge or Solo
Chorus
Outro/Ending
We wrote an analysis about our favourite songs in order to learn a bit more about the structure of a pop song, how to describe the character of a piece of music, how to link a video on youtube in a document or how to look for information about a singer or a group.
We studied TEMPO writing a summary about our music book.
We learnt to strum the ukelele with the basic chords.
Intensity
SECOND TRIMESTER
We started studying what New Year´s Concert is with this link.
We learnt to dance polka and waltz steps.
We learnt to play Radetzky March with body percussion.
We learnt to dance the waltz step with a song by Marisa Monte.
Link to the best minipodcasts about this project.
Do you know that two pieces composed by two female composers were played this year? Great.
Sirenenzauber ( Canciones de sirenas) by Josephine Weinlich
Rainbow Waltz was composed by Florence Price, the first important Afroamerican female composer.
During this year, Yannit Nezet Seguin conducted the orchestra.
We played Ode to joy, by Beethoven in order to celebrate Peace Day at the end of January.
Inmediately after, we watched a video to know the families in the orchestra.
Before Carnivals
DANCING
Dancing salsa: "La vida es un carnaval" by Celia Cruz
"Vivir mi vida" de Marc Anthony
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