Kids playing Musical Instruments

Digital Music Assignments Week of April 6, 2020

Good morning all, I hope these find you safe and home. These optional assignments are here for you to use. They are meant to engage your brain and to help review. Please do not stress them in any way. If I can help, please send me an email at stigginsl@smithcoedu.net, I’ll get back to you OR send email with your number and I can call you OR leave a message at school and they will relay to me. Regardless how you get in touch, just know we can figure this out! Please know I am thinking of you and missing you all! Stay safe!!! 

~Ms. Stiggins

  • Side bar: This week option #1 is similar for all grades because it could be applicable to all and could be useful processing for all brains.

K-2 Options

#1 - This is a new and weird time we are living through right now. For many of us, music can provide a release and a means to process what is going on around us. So, I thought this would be an excellent time for us to explore our music standards about music connecting us! As you listen to music, even just on tv, figure out what song makes you the happiest. If you can, have your parent/guardian email me your favorite song that makes you happy all the way to your toes and I will compile a song happy songs list for us all to enjoy. If you can not email, use your quarantine crew and make a happy songs playlist for your household. Get everyone singing a happy tune!

#2 - Go to musicplayonline.com with an adult’s help. Select ways to move from the left hand column. Then select either locomotor or non-locomotor or do both if you’re having fun. This should get you a chart of movements with which you can keep the steady beat to your  favorite song. Be sure to do each movement at least 8 times on the beat. See how many different ways you can keep the beat in your favorite song!   

3-5 Options

#1 - This is a new and weird and stressful time we are living through right now. For many of us, music can provide a release and a means to process what is going on around us. So, I thought this would be an excellent time for us to explore our music standards about music connecting us! As you listen to music, even just on tv, figure out what song makes you the happiest. If you can, email me your favorite song that makes you happy all the way to your toes and I will compile a song happy songs list for us all to enjoy. If you can not email, use your quarantine crew and make a happy songs playlist for your household. You can even call friends and family to make it bigger. Get everyone singing a happy tune!  

#2 - Let’s review some of the more serious versions of music - like opera. Remember that opera is just when you sing a story. (We watched What’s Opera, Doc? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vbbh3 when you were younger, If you want to watch to review that operas can be fun!) Select the below link and watch the Nashville Opera’s spring tour this year. Don’t forget to use the guide and color pages to add to the exploration. http://www.nashvilleopera.org/red-video

6-8 Options

#1 - This is a new and weird and stressful time we are living through right now. For many of us, music can provide a release and a means to process what is going on around us. So, I thought this would be an excellent time for us to explore our music standards about music connecting us! As you listen to music, even just on tv, figure out what song makes you the happiest. If you can, email me your favorite song that makes you happy all the way to your toes and I will compile a song happy songs list for us all to enjoy. If you can not email, use your quarantine crew and make a happy songs playlist for your household. You can even call friends and family to make it bigger. Get everyone singing a happy tune!  

#2 - As we can no longer play Composer Guess Who? to complete our unit on historical music (and the standards about music history), this week let’s look at John Williams in a bit more detail. He was a class favorite during Guess Who and he is MAJOR in our current movie music landscape. He has been responsible for all the music in the Star Wars movies, Superman, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and many many more. His influence on popular music is hard to fathom. Click on the youtube link to watch a short doc on WIlliams and the last recording session for The Rise of Skywalker. It is amazing to see him over the years and it is cool to see some of the orchestra in a recording session. Hope you enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g2LNSUowHc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1oNxXYbvhu7BKSAutbuokPlWpe4gmqSLkYJYmCOtD1yQxrL0qJLzA6oUU