5th Grade students explored Garage Band using the mobile computer lab. Projects were saved to the shared drive to edit or to use in video, slideshow or power point presentations later this year.

Kindergarten students added some Holiday Cheer to their singing by playing the jingle bells. Students can now identify over five classroom percussion instruments by sight and sound.

4th grade to the Symphony

Northview 4th Graders went to the symphony on October 17th. They learned about all the different instruments and some even enjoyed a front row seat! Take a look at the link to watch as the student tell you about the symphony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d3jc0U-lkg&feature=youtu.be

Strong and Weak Beats

Second grade students feel strong and weak

beats between their shoe and sock feet.

Single shoes lined the walls of the music classrooms this week as second graders put the beat in their feet. First, students learned the poem Giants and tapped the steady beat. The beat became an alternating pattern, a marching-in-place pattern and finally a stepping pattern.

Students removed the shoe from their non-dominant foot and stepped around the room to the beat as they recited the poem.

“We could hear the strong and weak beats from our steps,” remarked one student. 

Mango Walk

5th Grade Students performed Mango Walk with instruments and movement as they learned their new rhythm, syncopation.