Music Class K-4 Lesson # 7 A & B

Hello JD Heros!

I hope that you are able to get outside and play in the sunshine that we are
starting to have more of!! Today’s Lesson is going to focus on Spring and how different
people share spring with us.  

Let's start each lesson this week by singing and signing a famous song about our beautiful
earth called "This Pretty Planet" byTom Chapin.

Lesson A: All grades (K-4):  

While you are outside playing, take time to notice the music that surrounds us each day!  (Go outside for this!) 

Think about it: 

Can you hear the different melodies (tunes/songs) of the birds?  Can you hear different pitches of their melody?  

Do you hear any bugs zipping along? Are their sounds quick and lively? Or slow and smooth?  Are they loud or soft?  

Can you hear the wind whistling or howling?  

What other sounds do you hear?

Activity choice board: Complete at least one activity

from the list below:
1. Draw what you heard:  Draw a picture of all the sounds you heard today and try to show
if they were loud or soft in the picture

2. Create a line map of the sounds you heard. You could
draw it or use a string (or something else you like, like macaroni or beads) and glue it on a piece of paper.  Make sure you identify the sound that you are drawing a line map for. And try to capture if it was: soft or loud, high or low, fast or slow.

Here is an example:  

Bird

Bee

Motorcycle

This line map is showing that the Bird’s sound was softly moving between

Low and high sounds and with an even rhythm.

It shows that the bee was a little louder with the thicker line and moving

Quickly with a crazy pattern, an uneven rhythm.  Lastly, it shows a Motorcycle

that was passing by that was loud at first, but then got softer as if moved farther away. Please represent at least 3 different sounds in your line map!  Have fun!

  

3. Write a story, poem, or song about the sounds you heard today. You could type it, write it on paper, or record yourself on your favorite recording device.
4. Perform a play about your experience outside with someone who lives in your house. Use found sounds, your own sounds (singing, body percussion) or props to make it fun!
5. Conduct: Pretend you are the conductor! Grab a Twizzler, a Pipe cleaner, or just your hand and show the music as if you are leading the String orchestra! Try to show the Load and soft parts, the smooth and bumpy parts with your conducting!

Lesson B: All grades (K-4):  

Learn about a composer that also created a way to show us spring

through music, his name is Antonia Vivaldi. 

In Lesson A  you created a way to show what you heard outside. So

someone else, including yourself, could know exactly what you heard

and how the sound went.  Long or short, fast or slow, loud or soft. 

That's what writing music is all about!  We do the same thing when

we write music for instruments or voices.  We just use notes instead of

string or macaroni!

Antonia Vivaldi lived a long time ago, but his music still is loved and played today!  

He loved all the seasons so much that he made music about all of them,

autumn, winter, spring, and summer in a piece he called

“ The Four Seasons”  BRILLIANT!

Do: Read this article about Antonia Vivaldi.

Now Listen up!

We are now going to listen to a part of his “Four Seasons” music. 

We will listen to Spring.  And like you Mr. Vivaldi wanted to show what he heard. 

So in this piece of music, you will hear musical sounds that are supposed to

represent birds and bees and even a thunderstorm.  Follow the map below

help you hear the sounds!   Can you figure out what the f and p mean based

on what you hear?  The answers will be below.

Grades K-2:   

This is the link to hear the music and the explanation of what is going

on in the music: Great for Grade 2

Here is an Animated listening map,

Great for K & 1

Now listen again and  Use your finger to tap the beat on each picture as you listen. 

Grades 3-4: 

Listen: To this Ted talk about Vivaldi!

Next: Tap the beat on each picture to follow the map as you listen!  Do you

Do you remember what the f and p mean? Listen for the dynamic changes in "Spring"

***The answer to what is F and P.  F = Forte or loud  and P= piano or soft 

Spring is one of the most famous parts of Vivaldi’s "Four Seasons..

Hope you enjoyed listening to his music.

Now go outside and enjoy the Spring weather!!  Miss you all! ♫♫♫

Extention: Read "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle, with music underscoring.

Extension: Watch a Professional String Ensemble Play "Spring" by  Vivaldi.

Mrs. Russell         Happy music making!