First Grade
Students spent the beginning of the first trimester learning the rules and procedures of music class: (The rules are: When it’s time to listen, I will listen; When it’s time to sing, I will sing; Be nice; Follow directions). Some of the procedures we learned/reviewed were: how to enter and line up quietly; how to find an open space for movement; how to move through the room without bumping; where to sit on the ring (seating chart); how to raise our hand for permission to talk; what Ms. Dunn’s signals for quiet are; how we earn or lose “celebration day” time; how to move to music without making noise; we memorized our music class numbers; we learned about the “Oops Book” (where you sign your name if you’ve broken a rule).
Some of us were also assigned jobs.
Then we got down to business! We listened, chanted along, played music games, enacted skits, moved creatively, and/or sang along to the following songs:
Wishy Washy, So Long, Stop and Go; Sail, Silver Moon Boat; Duermete mi nino; Kaich Akum; All Around the Kitchen; March or Lullaby?; This Old Man;
Touch; Inside, Outside, Upside Down; We Are Going Down the Numbers; Long and Short Dance; Old MacDonald Had a Farm; A Tisket A Tasket; Ambos a dos; Hey, Children, Who’s in Town; Cobbler, Cobbler; If You’re Happy; The Old Gray Cat; One Little Elephant; The Bakery Shop; Music of the World a-Turnin’; Hunt the Cows; Hello There!; Hoo, Hoo; Grizzly Bear; Two, Four, Six, Eight; Kaich Akum; Buvah; Little Red Caboose; All Day Long.
Some of the songs listed above will be performed at our concert, in the Avery Parsons Elementary gym, on Thursday, January 19th at 5:30. Come listen to us sing and watch us perform skits and dances and movement on the stage!
Some of us were also assigned jobs.
Then we got down to business! We listened, chanted along, played music games, enacted skits, moved creatively, and/or sang along to the following songs:
Wishy Washy, So Long, Stop and Go; Sail, Silver Moon Boat; Duermete mi nino; Kaich Akum; All Around the Kitchen; March or Lullaby?; This Old Man;
Touch; Inside, Outside, Upside Down; We Are Going Down the Numbers; Long and Short Dance; Old MacDonald Had a Farm; A Tisket A Tasket; Ambos a dos; Hey, Children, Who’s in Town; Cobbler, Cobbler; If You’re Happy; The Old Gray Cat; One Little Elephant; The Bakery Shop; Music of the World a-Turnin’; Hunt the Cows; Hello There!; Hoo, Hoo; Grizzly Bear; Two, Four, Six, Eight; Kaich Akum; Buvah; Little Red Caboose; All Day Long.
Some of the songs listed above will be performed at our concert, in the Avery Parsons Elementary gym, on Thursday, January 19th at 5:30. Come listen to us sing and watch us perform skits and dances and movement on the stage!