Second Grade
Students spent the beginning of the first trimester learning the rules and procedures of music class. The rules are more complex than those for kindergarten and first grade, so we spent more time accordingly. 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 we earn or lose “celebration day” time; how to raise our hand for permission to talk; what Ms. Dunn’s signals for quiet are; 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. Each year, there are more jobs than the year before, so job training takes at least one class period to complete.
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:
Everybody’s Welcome; Song Time; Head and Shoulders, Baby; Noble Duke of York; Bate, Bate; Scat Song; Kye Kye Kule; Good Friends; I Have a Car; Circus!; Take a Bite of Music; If You Need a Buddy; Vamos a la Mar; Every Time I’m Feeling Blue; Morning Song; Sing When the Spirit Says “Sing”; In the Name of All of Our Children; Toaster Time; Se, Se, Se; Sing All Along My Way; Puff, the Magic Dragon; Sorida; John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt; Old King Glory; Pizza, Pizza Daddy-O; Four in a Boat; Eh Soom Boo Kawaya; A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea.
Some of the songs listed above will be performed at our concert, in the Avery Parsons Elementary gym, on Tuesday, January 24th, at 6:15. Come listen to us sing and watch us perform skits and dances and movement on the stage!
Some of us were also assigned jobs. Each year, there are more jobs than the year before, so job training takes at least one class period to complete.
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:
Everybody’s Welcome; Song Time; Head and Shoulders, Baby; Noble Duke of York; Bate, Bate; Scat Song; Kye Kye Kule; Good Friends; I Have a Car; Circus!; Take a Bite of Music; If You Need a Buddy; Vamos a la Mar; Every Time I’m Feeling Blue; Morning Song; Sing When the Spirit Says “Sing”; In the Name of All of Our Children; Toaster Time; Se, Se, Se; Sing All Along My Way; Puff, the Magic Dragon; Sorida; John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt; Old King Glory; Pizza, Pizza Daddy-O; Four in a Boat; Eh Soom Boo Kawaya; A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea.
Some of the songs listed above will be performed at our concert, in the Avery Parsons Elementary gym, on Tuesday, January 24th, at 6:15. Come listen to us sing and watch us perform skits and dances and movement on the stage!