Blog Posts - Music with Mrs. Hatch

Distance Learning: Lesson 1 Hello Song/Steady Beat

3/30/2020

Welcome to Distance Learning with Mrs. Hatch!
I will be posting music activities daily for you to try at home!

I would love if families would e-mail me pictures/videos of students completing the activities
so that I can post them on here as well!

Every music class at the Gengras Center begins with the Hello Song and Steady Beat.
Here are some videos for you to sing along at home!

Good Morning Song

Good Afternoon Song

Lyrics:
Good morning/afternoon
I'm feeling ____________ today
and when I feel this way
it makes me want to say,
Good morning/afternoon
I'm feeling ____________ today
and when I feel this way
it makes me want to say,
_________________

Hello Song Example

Steady Beat Song

Keep the beat using anything you can find!
ex. clapping, instruments, pots and pans

Lyrics:
I think music's neat, I can keep a steady beat
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Steady Beat Example

Virtual Talent Show!

I will also be putting together a "Virtual Gengras Center Talent Show!" E-mail me a video of your Talent and I will upload it on the "Virtual Talent Show" tab for all to see!

Bucket Drumming

3/12/2020

St. Patrick's Day Parade

3/10/2020

Peter and the Wolf

1/9/2020

Peter & The Wolf Instrument/Character Matching Game

Memorial Day

5/24/2019

You're A Grand Old Flag

March Madness

3/29/2019

This year, we brought March Madness to the music room! We used basketballs for a variety of different activities including keeping a steady beat, bouncing the balls to different rhythms, and playing a pass the ball circle game.

Classes filled out brackets to get exposed to music from different time periods. We listened to songs by each of the composers and picked our favorite until we ended with a final champion.

IRELAND

3/22/2019

Classes played rhythms sticks to better understand the form of the song "Live Alive" performed by a popular Christian Folk band called Rend Collective.

The leprechauns caused some mischief in the music room and took away the bar lines in a piece of music! Students looked at the time signature to put the bar lines back where they belong.

We played a game similar to "Hot and Cold." One students hid a pot of gold and another student, the leprechaun, had the task of finding it. The class played tambourines quietly when the leprechaun was far away and played louder as the leprechaun got closer to help them find the gold!

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

3/4/2019

We celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday in music class by listening to songs, playing instruments and doing other hands on activities based on books written by Dr. Seuss.

Here are a few!

Green Eggs and Ham

Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb

We tossed bean bags along with a song about green eggs and ham. As the music got faster and faster, we did our best to not drop our "eggs!"

We played drums and followed the rhythms and directions of the book Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.

Ten Apples Up On Top!

We placed bean bags on our heads to represent apples
and saw how many we could balance "up on top."

ITALY

2/27/2019

WELCOME TO ITALY!

This week, we learned about the accordion and danced to some traditional Italian music.

We couldn't travel to Italy without talking about pizza!
We created songs, completed puzzles, and played rhythm games based on our favorite pizza toppings.

We finished our Italy unit with a hilarious game called "Pasta of Composer" in which students have to guess if the Italian names displayed are the names of Italian Composers or delicious pasta!

CHINA

2/15/2019

We traveled to China just in time to celebrate the Chinese New Year!

We played a variety of instruments, watched and created our own Dragon dances and composed songs based on the Zodiac signs.

Many songs in China are based on the pentatonic scale, so students took turns improvising on resonator bells to create their own Chinese arrangement.

Students also created their own personal drums using plates, pencils, string and beads.