Reading Week at TRS is by far my favorite week! I love celebrating reading and reading to children. I decided to incorporate stories into our lessons this week. We had a great time taking our stories and bringing them to life by adding interments, movement, acting, and (of course) singing! Here are some of the books we explored. Ask your child which book they worked on last week!
K and 1st had a great time using creative movement to depict the animals in this story. We added instruments to different animals and sang along with Mrs. Morgans song!
5th Graders enjoyed making connections between African traditions, instruments, and rhythms and this harrowing tale about escaping slavery. Students were very interested in the drinking gourds meaning and secret messages in the song the Drinking Gourd. We added three instrument parts in the story and worked on some hard rhythms, way to go fifth graders!
K students also explored a musical obstacle course this week, using our book Rosie's Walk. We all had to take turns being the hen and the fox. We had so much fun!
First graders have been exploring themes from the book Dear Children of the Earth. We read this book while listening to
Canyone Chaconne by Paul Winter. The strong imagery and sounds lead us in to a great discussion of why we are doing a play about Earth Day. We have been practicing our songs for the play. Check out
this link to practice songs for our April 8th performance.
Students in second grade had fun using pantomime and xylophones to recreate this story. Ask your students to sing the "Wise Mans song" and pat Ming Lo's running rhythm.
Third graders had their final visit from the percussion section of the Venice Symphony this week. We read Orchestra Animals and made inferences about which animals would be paired with certain instruments. We discussed why certain animals were a good fit for the animals personalities. Can you tell your parents who CRASH was?
5th Graders enjoyed making connections between African traditions, instruments, and rhythms and this harrowing tale about escaping slavery. Students were very interested in the drinking gourds meaning and secret messages in the song the Drinking Gourd. We added three instrument parts in the story and worked on some hard rhythms, way to go fifth graders!
K students also explored a musical obstacle course this week, using our book Rosie's Walk. We all had to take turns being the hen and the fox. We had so much fun!
Third graders had their final visit from the percussion section of the Venice Symphony this week. We read Orchestra Animals and made inferences about which animals would be paired with certain instruments. We discussed why certain animals were a good fit for the animals personalities. Can you tell your parents who CRASH was?
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