Welcome to Music at The Wheatlands!!

We're so glad to see you!! This blog will post many different things this year including pictures of things we are doing in the classroom, kid projects for your listening and laughing pleasure, and a bunch of different updates through the year. The Grade Level Links on the top bar will take you to information about our curriculum and things that we will be focusing on in music throughout the year! There are also music games for the kids to play around with, videos for the kids to watch on various topics, and a kid safe music search engine! I hope you have a wonderful school year!! SRains@sd308.org

Friday, October 4, 2013

Rhythm Games

One of the best ways to learn is to play games!!  A lot of the grade levels are working on learning new rhythm symbols, so we are playing plenty of different games to reinforce what we are learning.

Check out 3rd Grade playing "Climb the Mountain" where they move spaces based on how many beats the symbol on their flipped card gets!


Proudly showing that she got a whole rest worth 4 beats!!!


They just started their game!!

Now, check out 4th grade playing "Shut the Box" where they roll a rhythm dice and add or subtract the two to come up with a number.  This is combining music and math because they have to be creative to cross out all their numbers before their partners!!


She just rolled and is trying to figure out how many beats her syncopa and the whole note get!!


Marking off the number they rolled!


Smiling for the camera!!


He has almost marked off a whole line of numbers!!


Sometimes we need help from our friends... which helps both of them!