Spring Concert- May 16th!
Practice the following songs for our Spring Concert!
Mr. Chris' Classes
Piano 1:55
- Mary had a little lamb- page 10
- Hot Cross Buns- page 8
- Super Hero Blues
- Traffic Jam
Ukulele 2:30
- Yellow Submarine- page 8
- Eleanor Rigby- page 11
- Super Hero Blues
- Traffic Jam
Winds 3:00
- Yankee Doodle cha cha- page 13
- Caribbean Cruise- page 13
- Super Hero Blues
- Traffic Jam
Ms. Alondra's Classes
Beginning Violin 1:55
- I See a Star & Whistle at the Stars- page 19
- Mary Had a Little Lamb- page 28
- Super Hero Blues
- Traffic Jam
Beginning Piano 2:30
- More Hot Cross Buns- page 26
- Rain Rain Go Away- page 27
- Super Hero Blues
- Traffic Jam
- Advanced Selections:
- Moonlight Sonata
- The Sound of Music
Violin 3:00
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star- page 18
- Mary Had a Little Lamb- page 11
- Super Hero Blues
- Traffic Jam
Advanced Strings 3:30
- Spring Theme- page 14
- Ode to Joy- page 17
- Super Hero Blues
- Traffic Jam
Yellow Submarine:
Hokey Pokey:
Eleanor Rigby:
Watchin the Waves:
Three Little Birds:
Ain’t too proud to beg:
Helpful Videos:
Previous Weeks:
What we practiced this week- Feb 15th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Beginning Violin 1:55
Today we:
- Played a game to fix our postures and violin holds!
- Played our open strings
- Practiced and began learning “Shortnin Bread”
Beginning Piano 2:30
Today we:
- Warmed up with “Are you Sleeping”
- Continued working on “More Hot Cross Buns”
- Some of us started working on “Oh Susannah”
Violin 3:00
Today we:
- Warmed up with “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
- Practiced through “Hey Diddle Diddle” and “Cukoo Bird”
Advanced Strings 3:30
Today we:
- A major scale
- “Spring Theme from the Four Seasons” and “Ode to Joy”
What we practiced this week- January 10th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Beginning Violin 1:55
Today we:
- Played Simon says! Refreshed on our strings knowledge- note names, plucking, bowing, etc
- Practiced playing our F# on our E string
- Practiced ad learned from our blue books
**Please remember to keep off of the stage during class, otherwise we may not be able to use the auditorium for music any more.**
Beginning Piano 2:30
Today we:
- Practiced “Are you Sleeping” – some of us started the left hand chords!
- Played the song all together at the big piano – some of us played individually for the class
- Learned more about the piano- identified it as a percussion instrument
Violin 3:00
Today we:
- Practiced some exercises to get more dexterity on our fingers and help us remember our 1, 2nd and 3rd finger notes on the D string
- Rehearsed through the challenging parts of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and then played the whole thing together!
Advanced Strings 3:30
Today we:
- Warmed up with “Jingle Bells”
- Played a D scale in quarter notes
- started the beginning passages of “Spring Theme from the Four Seasons” in our yellow book
- Played through “Largo from the World Symphony”
What we practiced this week- December 13th
Mr. Chris’ Classes
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Beginning Violin 1:55
Today we:
- Played a competition game where we split into groups and fixed our friends postures and bowholds’ … had a couple of winners!
- Played and sand our open strings
- Played and remembered our first finger F#
- Started practicing “I see a star” from our blue books
Beginning Piano 2:30
Today we:
- Played “Musette” all together
- Learned about the C major scale: sang it together at the piano and then practiced playing it with our finger formula at our keyboards
- Practiced and played “Are you Sleeping” from our books
Violin 3:00
Today we:
- Practiced some slow exercises to get more familiar our third finger G, second finger F# on the D string
- Learned and understood “octaves” and how a note can exist in different places
- Practiced slowly together through our challenging parts of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
Advanced Strings 3:30
Today we:
- Warmed up with “Jingle Bells” in our yellow books
- Practiced and learned the first couple of lines of “The Nutcracker March” in our green books
- Learned and identified how to plate dotted eighth notes tied to sixteenth
What we practiced this week- December 6th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Beginning Violin 1:55
Today we:
- Warmed up by singing, then playing “Ping Pong”
- Played “Simon Says”, and this helped us remember the notes we’ve learned so far and find our F sharps!
- Practiced plucking and bowing different combinations of our first finger F# on the E string
Beginning Piano 2:30
Today we:
- Sang a C major scale in solfege and explored the concept of a tonal center and how improvisation ties to it
- Took turns in improvising a melody with all of our “white notes” as the teacher playing backing chords
- Practiced and finished Learning “Musette”, then played it at the big all together!
Violin 3:00
Today we:
- Warmed up by playing through “Mary Had a little Lamb” a few times
- Heard one our classmates perform “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” which led us to a conversation about major and minor keys
- We went to the piano to further understand how F# and F natural change the key our song
- After some examples, teacher quizzed the class on identifying major and minor chords
- We resumed to
- Our books by practicing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
Advanced Strings 3:30
Today we:
- Rehearsed together through “Jingle Bells”- focused on challenge sections and being together with the tempo
- Practiced slowly and together the first two lines of “House Up Top” a few times
What we practiced this week- November 29th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Beginning Violin 1:55
Today we:
- Reviewed and sang our string names
- Played Simon Says and identified our technique names and notes !
- Played “fix the teacher” to refresh our bow hold and posture
- Practiced our first finger F# on our E strings
- Practiced “Play the F Sharps. How many are there?” From our books
Beginning Piano 2:30
Today we:
- Refreshed on all the notes we have learned so far
- Learned new note “B”
- Sang and began learning C major scale
- Practiced and learned “Musette” from our piano books
Violin 3:00
Today we:
- Warmed up with a few rounds of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
- Refreshed our notes and fingerings
- Identified our 3rd finger G on the D strings and our first finger B on the A string
- Practiced and played through “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
Advanced Strings 3:30
Today we:
- Practiced the “Canon in D – Round” from our green books
- Practiced and learned “House Up Top” from our yellow books
What we practiced this week- November 15th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Beginning Violin 1:55
Today we:
- Reviewed our open strings, quarter notes and rests, and rest and playing position
- Played Simon Says to practice listening for the teacher’s instructions
- Also tried to play Ping Pong by bouncing around the class
- Practice Ping Pong and try to make your violins sound a little louder when you play!
Beginning Piano 2:30
Today we:
- Reviewed our hand position- CDEFG
- make sure your Thumb (1st finger) is on C and each other key gets another finger
- We played Twinkle Twinkle one note at a time around the room
- Keep track of where we are in the music by looking at the music pages
- As an orchestra, we have to play the same music at the same time and at the same speed.
- During class we may occasionally have solos but we work together as a group!
- Keep working on Musette
Violin 3:00
Today we:
- Talked about our bow arm
- wrists are what move the most. Bow Elevator!
- Try placing the frog on the strings, then lift and touch the tip to the strings. Go back and forth to warm up!
- Rehearsed Mary Had a Little Lamb a few times, and added a teacher harmony!
- Learned 3rd finger G
- Take a look at Lightly Row and try to learn it before our next class! This is a great song to play for family around Thanksgiving!
Advanced Strings 3:30
Today we:
- Warmed up with D major Scale
- Discussed Orchestra/Ensemble playing
- We are all important members of our Ensemble, and our class is a part of our School Orchestra! Remember that we all work together as a team!
- Learned Canon on page 3
- Be careful of quarter note and half note rhythm changes
- Repeat sign at the end goes back to the beginning
- Keep working on Canon and we can play this as a round in the coming weeks!
What we practiced this week- November 8th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Beginning Violin 1:55
Today we:
- Sang quarter notes and half notes and remembered the names of our strings
- Practiced and played “The Cheerleader” from our blue books
- Practiced and played “Skateboarder” from our blue books
- Played a game to fix the teachers violin hold and bow grip!
- Learned new note F # on our E string
Beginning Piano 2:30
Today we:
- Identified several different notes on our piano
- Played through “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” All together
- Practiced quarter notes, eight notes and half notes
- Started learning and practicing “Musette” from our books
Violin 3:00
Today we:
- Played through “Mary Had a Little Lamb” all together
- Reviewed our first two fingers
- Became familiar with the terms “treble clef” “staff” and “octave”
- Practiced and played “Karate Chop” from our books all together!
Violin 3:30
Today we:
- Tried a few different G major etude exercises from our green book to warm up
- Played together through “Musette” from our yellow books
- Started learning and practicing together “Spring Theme from the four Seasons” from our yellow books
What we practiced this week- November 1st
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Beginning Violin 1:55
Today we..
Today we:
- Started class with a bowing competition to use the rainbow bow!
- Remembered and sang the names of our strings
- Practiced changing between A and E string with the help of our elbows
- Played the Cheerleader song from our blue books!
- Learned about Treble Clefs- and drew them in our books
Beginning Piano 2:30
Today we:
- Practiced playing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” from our piano books all together !
- Remembered and identified the notes C through A on our keyboards
- Reviewed and sang quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes. Then we became familiar with eighth notes!
- Started learning “Musette” from our books
Violin 3:00
Today we:
- Played “Mary Had a Little Lamb” from our brown books all together and without the teacher!
- Learned our first finger B note on our A string
- Practiced switching strings with the help of our elbows
- Began learning a “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” from our brown books
- Discussed and shared some of our favorite scores with violin!
Violin 3:30
Today we:
- Warmed up with the D major arpeggio from our green books
- Learned about triplets and practiced adding it to our list of rhythms that we use for our arpeggio exercise!
- Had a long bowing competition to challenge our technique
- Finished class by kea fixing together “Jingle Bells” from our yellow books
What we practiced this week- October 25th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Beginning Violin 1:55
Today we..
- Remembered and sang the names of each string
- Learned about half notes, remembered quarter notes, and sang different combinations of both.
- Learned, practiced and finally played all together “Karate Chop” from our blue books
- Practiced pour bowing with the ‘longest bow competition’
- Drew half notes in our books!
Keep practicing and bring your books, violins and pencils every week!
Beginning Piano 2:30
- Started by playing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” all together
- Went over finger numbers and note names C through G, and learned new note ‘A’
- Began learning “ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
- Some of us started adding left hand chords!
Keep practicing and bring your books, violins and pencils every week!
Violin 3:00
- Went over 1st finger E, 2nd finger F#, and 3rd finger G on our D strings
- Practiced and played together “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
- Started new song “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” from our brown books
Keep practicing and bring your books, violins and pencils every week!
Violin 3:30
- Started class by playing “Ode to Joy” from our yellow books
- Became familiar with the terms “retake” and “half rest”
- Learned and practiced “D major arpeggio” from our green books. Played the exercise in quarter notes and eighth notes
- Began learning and practicing “This Little Light of Mine” from our yellow books.
- Practiced listening to our intonation with each other, and our togetherness as an ensemble!
Keep practicing and bring your books, violins and pencils every week
What we practiced this week- October 18th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Today we:
Beginning Violin 1:55
Beginning Piano 2:30
Violin 3:00
Violin 3:30
What we practiced this week- October 11th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
Winds 3:00
Today we:
Beginning Violin 1:55
Beginning Piano 2:30
Violin 3:00
Violin 3:30
What we practiced this week- October 4th
Piano 1:55
Today we:
- Talked about proper keyboard usage.
- Worked on recognizing high vs low notes
- Started to identify first 3 notes: C, D, and E
- Please practice these first 3 notes (C,D, and E)
- How to turn on/off and adjust basic settings
Ukulele 2:30
Today we:
- Talked about tuning and tuning notes
- Reviewed basic chords and shapes
- Playing and created strumming patterns using C and A minor chords
- Please practice making your own strumming pattern using C and A minor chords
Winds 3:00
- Talked about tuning and tuning notes
- Reviewed basic chords and shapes
- Playing and created strumming patterns using C and A minor chords
- Please practice making your own strumming pattern using C and A minor chords