TERM TWO MUSIC ROOM HIGHLIGHTS

Here we are in Term 2 already and there has been a lot of enthusiastic and creative music making happening in the music room.

Foundation students have been exploring the concepts of musical and non-musical sounds, high and low, loud and soft, fast and slow.

The Year 1/2’s have been playing around with the music alphabet, singing and playing songs on assorted tuned percussion instruments and writing their own nonsense stories using words they can play on their chime bars.

Year 3/4’s have been exploring the musical concepts of melody and harmony using keyboards, guitars, ukuleles and the marimba and experimenting with song arrangements using technology tools like Garage Band and other online music software, including Chrome music lab. Just last week which you can see on the 3/4blog, students from 3/4a led their level in a lesson using ‘Incredibox.’

I love to see the enthusiastic sharing that goes on in the 5/6 level as the students collaborate and create musical experiences together.Choosing personal music  goals and then following through on them has been a challenge for all of us and managing that in a practical sense in only one weekly lesson hasn’t been easy. However there has been some exciting and wonderful achievements and a great degree of engagement and enthusiasm for their self-directed work.