Nice to meet all of you. Thank you for being here today.
And this is a group of fourth graders, just to explain.
We have about 60 fourth graders right now in our grade level.
And we have them divided into five groups
because we have two full-time PE teachers,
two full-time music teachers, and a math rotation.
So we really have small classes.
We have about 11 or 12 in each group that rotate between these teachers.
And so this is one of our groups of fourth graders.
So that's, that's why they're so small.
So. Gus is going to give you the signal.
If you would look at him, please. You may signal.
We're going to review our native American song
that we did yesterday from Canada.
And so let's get our conducting pattern with our canoe.
So we're going to feel that tee ta, tee ta.
And we're starting here.
My paddle's keen and bright. Flashing with silver.
Follow the wild goose flight, dip, dip and swing.
Dip, dip and swing her back, flashing with silver.
Swift as the wild goose flight, dip, dip and swing.
Let's go back and do some of those [inaudible] again,
startin on me. Let's go slowly.
Me-me-re-do-la-la,
do-do-re-me-so.
Me-me-re-do-la-la,
la-la-so-la.
And who can raise one hand,
what is new in what we're exploring with this. Gerald?
Um, there's low so and low la.
Low so and low la.
I would like for you to do an ostinato.
Ostinato's up on my word wall for third grade.
Do you remember what an ostinato is?
Can you sing after me?
- Ostinato. - Ostinato.
- What are you? - What are you?
- I'm a little pattern. - I'm a little pattern.
- Stubborn too. - Stubborn too.
Do you remember when we put,
put something on the instruments last time, we had a pattern.
It was D.
Hey. D. Hey.
That was an ostinato.
Here's the singing ostinato we're going to do today.
Dip, dip and swing.
Could you try that?
Dip, dip and swing.
I'm going to give that to you. You keep it.
No matter what I do, don't let me mess you up. Okay.
La-ti-do. Dip, dip and swing.
Dip, dip and swing.
Keep going.
- Dip, dip and swing. - My paddle's keen and bright.
- Dip, dip and swing. - Flashing like silver.
- Dip, dip and swing. - Follow the wild goose flight.
Dip, dip and swing.
Keep going.
- Dip, dip and swing. - Dip in and swing her back.
- Dip, dip and swing. - Touching the sail.
Okay. Let's get it going again.
Cause when I went back to the beginning it was like,
what is she doing?
Get it going again.
Dip, dip and swing.
Keep going.
Dip, dip and swing.
No matter what I do.
Dip, dip and swing her back.
- Dip, dip and swing. - Flashing with silver.
- Dip, dip and swing. - Swift as the wild goose flight
Dip, dip and swing.
That's pretty challenging isn't it?.
Yeah. Okay.
So next time we could do the song as a canon where one group starts
and the other group comes at a different time.
But this is an ostinato.
Let's go back and just do the whole song. One more time with here.
My paddle's keen and bright,
flashing with silver.
Follow the wild goose flight,
dip, dip and swing.
Dip, dip and swing her back,
flashing with silver.
Swift as the wild goose flight,
dip, dip and swing.
Excellent. That's our first spot.
So Gus is going to give our signal
and actually, um, if you could meet me over.
Flies in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo.
Skip to my Lou my darling.
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
All right, so the first thing we have to find is,
flies in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo.
And you can just say first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth.
Which one do you think needs to go to the top?
I'll wait till I have about five, six hands. Figure it out.
Flies in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo.
I've got two hands.
Three hands.
One more hand.
Okay. I'm going to have Aiden tell me which one do you think?
Four?
Flies in the buttermilk.
Dylan?
Um, the first one?
No. Cause it's flies in the buttermilk. I need about two more hands there.
- Jaylin. - Third one.
Flies in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo.
Thumbs up if you agree with Jaylin.
Okay. So let's figure out how many of those happened in the song?
Flies in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo.
Skip to my Lou my darling.
- So how many will I need, Nayali? - Three.
Three. And so he has found one of them for us.
We're going to just move all of these over,
out of the way for a second.
And so somebody needs to find the other two for us.
Alison, find another one.
I'm sorry, which one?
This one, one, two, three, four, five, you are correct.
And someone find another one for us.
- Sierra. - The sixth one.
Sixth one. Thank you.
Now we need to find this pattern.
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
In your hands.
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
Edwin.
Would it help if I put them all over here?
Then you can choose one, two, three, four, or five.
- Skip to my Lou, my darling. - Four.
Skip to my? Oh.
- Somebody who has an answer? Gus. - Third one.
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
You are correct.
Okay. Now we have to go to the next part.
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
So how many of those, Erin, do I need?
You wanted to tell me which one. You tell me which one?
The next one is, two, four, and five.
Okay, two, four, five. So there's three of them, right?
Okay. You're right.
And so what do I need to put at the end?
So now can we figure out the form of this whole thing?
The form of what we have here.
You can raise your hands.
Tell me the form of what we have up here.
Which ones are alike and we always start with A.
And where do we go from there?
So Jaylen, give it a whirl.
A, A, A, B, C, C, C, B.
You are correct. Would you say it with him?
A, A, A, B, C, C, C, B.
So could you read it with ti tika tika ti, ti, ti, ta.
We don't have to put them in we'll do with it. Okay.
Ready? Read.
Ti tika tika ti, ti, ti, ta.
Ti tika tika ti, ti, ta, ta.
Ta, ta, ti tika ta.
Ti, tika, ti, ti, ta, ta.
That was fabulous reading. Thank you.
We're going to use that song for a solo game.
So could you organize yourselves in a circle?
In the middle of the room quickly?
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
Skip to my Lou,my darling.
Card number one.
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
Okay, good try. Thank you.
- Can you guess those forms? - Aiden Nayali, Aiden, and Erin.
All right. Could you pick one to take your place?
Pick one to take your place.
Aiden.
Okay. And as we sing, can you pass out those cards?
Here we go. Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
Just give me one second.
All right, here we go.
Ready card one.
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
Okay. Can you guess those, who were singing?
Austin and Gerald, and Austin.
Good.
All right. We still need to go one more round.
Cause we have a few people who haven't had a chance to sing.
So could you pick one more person
- to take your place? - Alison.
Okay.
And we only have three people that need a turn.
So Alison's going to close her eyes and raise your hand.
So they make sure you get too.
You need a turn cause you haven't sung.
Raise your hand.
And you need to raise your hand.
And then the fourth one can go to somebody else.
Let's sing as they figure it out.
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou. Lou, Lou, skip to,
he already has one.
Lou, Lou, skip to,
you keep one.
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
- Card number one. - Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
- Card number two. - Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
Okay. Miss Alison.
Abby, Gus, Dylan, and Eva.
You are correct. Very nice.
All right. I'm going to ask Dylan to collect those cards for me,
and have you go back to your seats, please.
Excellent singing.
All right. The next thing we're going to do then is review some writing
for our ti ti ta's and tika ti's.
You can move those wherever.
And so these are all the rhythms that we're going to be working with today.
We're going to use some one beat rhythms.
Who can really quickly review for me what our one beat,
some of our one beat rhythms might be?
Jaylin?
- Tika ti. - Tika ti.
Any other one beat rythms. Gus.
- Ti. - Good.
One more. Abby.
- Ti ti. - Ti ti.
Austin.
- Ta. - Ta.
Somebody has an answer, Darren.
- Tika tika. - Yes, ma'am.
And there's one more that has no sound. Nayali.
Um, rest. Rest.
And then today we're also going to use some two beat notes.
So who can tell me the two beat notes that we have?
- Alison? - To.
To, and it's friend that has no sound?
Austin.
Half-rest? Half-rest.
These are all the elements that we can use today.
I'm going to give you some patterns from songs that we've done,
and you can write those, but at the end,
you're going to be making up your own four-beat rhythms.
So at the end you be thinking about the end.
If you use a to or a half rest,
then that's going to take up half of your rhythm isn't it?
And you can only use two other things.
And here's my other rule.
You'll have to either use a tika ti, or a ti tika.
So be thinking as we're writing some of these patterns,
what you would like to make up at the end for your own pattern,
but it will have those rules.
And I'll review those again for you when we get there.
So we're writing.
Make sure when you do a ti tika or a tika ti,
the secret to success for me is just to make the ti ti first
and put the post in the middle, and then decide.
Is the fast sound on the left?
Or is the fast sound on the right?
Okay. You need a board and a sock,
January birthdays, February's,
March, April,
May,
June, July, August,
September, October, November,
And December. Here you go.
Very nice.
All right.
Let's go ahead and write some of the ones we've read today from Skip to my Lou.
Let's do the Skip to my Lou, my darling.
Ti tika ti ti ta ta.
Can you say that one please?
Ti tika ti ti ta ta.
And once you've written it, you can show it to me.
Yes, yes.
Um, Aiden, you need a ti tika and you had a tika ti.
Yes, yes.
So if you'll just fix that first one,
ti tika ti ti. There you go.
Ti tika ti ti ta ta.
Ti tika ti ti. Good.
Can you do it left to right please?
Yes.
Second one's ti ti Dylan, ti tika ti ti ta ta.
Can you check my marker isn't writing.
Okay let me get you another one.
Ti tika ti ti ta ta.
Yes, so your fits one needs to be ti tika, instead of tika ti.
Okay.
All right. Good.
The other one I'd like to write from Skip to my Lou is the very first one.
Flies in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo.
Ti tika tika ti ti ti ta. Okay thank you.
Ti tika tika ti ti ti ta.
And then make sure you start with ti ti.
Yes, yes.
Let me see Jaylin.
- You don't need all the little notes. Okay. - Okay.
Thank you. Good.
Ti tika tika ti ti ti ta.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Good. Excellent.
Okay. Let's go back to, uh, Kookaburra.
Let's just practice some tika tika's,
the part that went Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra,
ta, tika tika, ta, tika tika,
Remember, tika tika's are four down and two across.
That's correct.
It's been a long time since we've written.
Good.
Uh, excellent. Excellent. Yes, yes, yes, Yes.
Four down and two across. Yes.
Four down and two across.
And it's ta tika tika, ta tika tika.
Your ta's in the third spot.
Ta tika tika, four down and two across.
For tika tika.
Tika tika is four down, and two across.
There you go Aiden, one more tika tika and you're done.
Just two across, not three across.
Do the next one correct and I'll give it.
Good.
Yeah, that's it. Okay, good.
Um, let's practice a half note.
This is the last part of Kookaburra.
Ti ti ti ti to, simple rhythms. Say it for me.
Ti ti ti ti to-o. You got it. Elsa.
Show me that the to-o takes up two beats.
Thank you with, for the arrow.
Good.
Excellent.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Good.
Okay. Excellent.
Okay. To-o.
There you go Aiden. All right.
Now we're going to go to Early in the morning at eight o'clock.
Which was another song that had some of these.
Let's do one letter, two letter, three letter, four.
It's ti tika ti tika ti tika ta.
Could you say that for me?
Ti tika ti tika ti tika ta.
Now full. Ti tika ti tika ti tika ta.
Excellent.
Yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes.
One more ti tika and then a ta, very good.
Okay, good.
All right. This next one is also from that song.
Up jumped Ella to open the door.
It's ti ti tika ti tika ti ta.
Say it for me. Ti ti tika ti tika ti ta.
Excellent. Yes.
Ti ti tika ti tika ti ta.
Yes. You have two ti ti's at the beginning and I only need one.
Your first tika ti is incorrect.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Just fix that first tika.
Just change where that little thing is.
Okay. Ti ti tika ti tika ti ta.
So your second and third need an adjustment.
Second one should be a tika ti.
Tika ti.
The tika on the left, tika on the left.
The tika's first. Tika ti.
Then another one.
And then a ta.
You got it. All right. Yes.
Okay. I think we've practiced enough.
I was going to, I was going to do one more with a tika tika.
Let's do Early in the morning at eight o'clock.
It sounds like this. Tika tika tika ti, ti ti ta.
It's tricky. Say it with me. Tika tika tika ti, ti ti ta.
First beat is tika tika.
Second beat is tika ti.
Third beat ti ti. Last beat ta.
Good. Good. Good. Good.
Yes. The first one said tika tika.
Yes. First one's a tika tika. Second one's a tika ti. Tika ti.
With the tika on the left. And then a ti ti ta.
Yes.
Okay. You may now make up your own four beat rhythm.
Here are the rules again.
Four beats must have a tika ti or a ti tika, either one.
And if you use one of these, be sure it's only four beats.
And you have to be able to read it to me.
And once you've read it to me,
if I say yes, you can put your supplies away.
So four beat rhythm.
Alison's ready to read for me.
Tika ti ti tika ti to-o.
Perfect. You may put your stuff away.
- Okay. Jaylin read. - Ta tika ti ti tika ti.
Perfect. Very nice.
Yes, Evelyn.
- Ti tika ta. - It says tika ti.
- Tika ti ti ti ta ta. - Perfect. Thank you.
Sierra.
- Tika ti ti tika ta ta - Perfect.
Ta ta ta tika ti ti. Perfect.
Aiden.
- Ta ta tika ti ti tika ti ti. - Good.
- Aaron. - Tika tika ti tika ti ti ti.
Very nice.
- Uh, tika ti. - This is tika ti.
- Ta tika ti, ta tika ti. - That's it.
How many beats do you have? Check, check, check.
You cannot use both a half note and a half rest.
Ready. Read.
Excellent.
Ready. You must have a ti tika or a tika ti.
So change that ti there. Ti tika or tika ti.
Okay, read yours.
Ti tika, half rest, tika ti.
Okay. Thank you. Nice job.
- And? - Tika ti ti.
Thank you. Excellent. All right. Good job.
That's all for now.
Okay. We learned a song yesterday from Russia, that was called Troika.
And can anybody remember what Troika means?
Aiden.
- Three. - Three.
So it's three horses pulling a sleigh.
Oh. I didn't realize you didn't have your stuff.
This needs to, Oh.
- Thank you. - Welcome.
Okay.
So, um, we're missing Samantha and we had Sierra yesterday.
So we have four.
I will, I think we'll be all right.
So what was one Jaylin, who was your group?
Me, Alison and-
would you guys be a demonstration for us?
Okay. Just reviewing the A part.
You are harnessed together as horses and we're walking.
Let's say our center of our circle's right here.
So let's start here and let's see how well they can walk together.
Walking, walking, walking, walking, walking.
And you need to stay closer to the center.
If this is my center,
and you're just gonna be walking just forever in there.
Try it again.
Walking, walking, walking, walking, walking.
Walking, walking, walking, now you stop.
Outside goes under, five and six and seven eight,
inside goes under.
Now you circle left and going left, left, left, and left, left left.
And left, left, left. And stomp stomp stomp.
Going right, right, forward.
Right, right, right and open up into your lines again.
See if you can walk if I took the stool away.
Walking, walking, walking, walking, walking,
walking, walking walking. Now you stop.
You've got it. Good.
Austin. What was your group?
Uh, Abby and-
- Okay, could you guys- - oh yes and Sierra.
Was it Abby and Nayali?
- No it was Sierra. - Sierra and Nayali.
You guys be right here.
And Abby, who were you with?
Um, Evelyn and Samantha.
Okay, Evelyn and Samantha.
- All right. And so, um, - I can't use Dylan, he--
Yeah, that, wasn't a good combination.
So I will take,
I will work with Gus right here and Aaron,
and I'd like Abby to be in the center and work with Dylan and Evelyn over there.
Could you do that for me?
So Dylan and Evelyn work with Abby at the center.
So I complimented Aiden yesterday
because he immediately got his gate up when I said outside goes under.
Could you show me that, everybody, inside gate.
Gate up.
Outside goes under, five and six and seven, eight.
Inside goes under.
Okay. Let's try that one more time.
Everybody wasn't quite sure where I was.
Hey, here we go. Ready?
And outside goes under, five and six and seven eight.
Inside goes under. Then we circle left.
Circle left, left, left, left, left, left.
Left, left left. And stomp stomp stomp.
Going right right right, right right right,
and open up into our lines.
And let's just practice our walking.
Walking walking walking, walk.
Go ahead and harness together.
Walking walking walking, and then we stop.
I think we're ready to do it with the music.
Stomp your hooves. Stomp stomp stomp.
All right. Very nice job.
All right. Move up and meet me up here please.
So we're going to review our intervals.
And the first time we review them,
we're not going to put low la and low so in.
But the second time we will.
Okay?
Let me arrange them up here.
All right.
All right. Start with do in a tone that we have, high do.
And then we'll add our low la and low so.
So we're going to sit up tall and use your air
and fill in the blanks for me.
- Do re. - That's a second.
- Re mi. - That's a second.
- Fa la. - That's a second.
- Fa la. - That's a third.
- That's a third.
- So mi. - That's a third.
- Mi do. - That's a third.
- Re so. - That's a fourth.
- Mi la. - That's a fourth.
- So do. - That's a fourth.
- La re. - That's a fifth.
- So do. - That's a fifth.
- Do la. - That's a sixth.
- Me do. - That's a sixth.
- Do re. - That's a seventh.
- Do do. - That's an octave.
Okay. So now we are going to add low la and low so.
So it's going to give us a few more.
Here we go. It's down low, it starts so la.
That's a second.
- Do re. - That's a second.
- Re mi. - That's a second.
- So la. - That's a second.
- Fa la. - That's a third.
- So mi. - That's a third.
- Me do. - That's a third.
- Do ra. - That's a third.
- So do. - That's a third.
- So do. - That's a fourth.
That's a fourth.
- La re. - That's a fourth.
- Re so. - That's a fourth.
- Me la. - That's a fourth.
- So do. - That's a fourth.
- La re. - That's a fifth.
- So do. - That's a fifth.
- Me la. - That's a fifth.
- Re so. - That's a fifth.
- So mi. - That's a sixth.
- Do la. - That's a sixth.
- Me do. - That's a sixth.
- Do re. - That's a seventh.
- So la. - That's a seventh.
That's hard to sing, isn't it?
- So la. - That's a seventh.
- So so. - That's an octave.
- La la. - That's an octave.
- Do do. - That's an octave.
A-plus for you.
Very nice job. Back to your seats.
Excellent. Excellent.
We haven't done this for a long time either,
but I'm wondering, if our leader and recorder,
if Gus and Dylan, could remember what order these go in.
So I'm going to give them a while.
Let's see if they can figure that out.
From softest to loudest.
It's been probably a month since we did this.
From softest to loudest.
Think about some of the things we talked about.
I didn't do them.
Were you not here? Were you absent that day?
I don't know where these go.
Okay the softest one's going to go over here
and we're going to go all the way over to the loudest.
Does somebody remember that can, I don't think Dylan was here.
I think Gus was here. But Dylan wasn't here.
So I'm going to let Nayali come help them a little bit.
They're getting there almost. I just disagree with a couple.
No, that one was right.
Let's flip those around the right way. So that we can read them.
And that one also.
Yeah. Okay. So back to your seats, let's review these really quickly.
- Can you say them out for me, pianissimo. - Pianissimo.
- Very soft. - Very soft.
- Piano. - Piano.
- Soft. - Soft.
- Mezzo piano. - Mezzo piano.
- Medium soft. - Medium soft.
- Mezzo forte. - Mezzo forte.
- Medium loud. - Medium loud.
- Forte. - Forte.
- Loud. - Loud.
- Fortissimo. - Fortissimo. - Very loud. - Very loud.
Who can tell me some relationships that you see between these?
We always talk about relationships we can see.
Aiden, what do you see?
That they all go from the lightest color to the darknest color.
Okay. So I kind of did that for you lightest to brightest,
but tell me about things like double consonants
or other things that you see?
Gus, what do you see?
The lowest and the,
- the softest. - Pianissimo
- and the other one. - Fortissimo.
- Uh-huh. - They are double consonants.
And then right next to it,
we take away one of those continents and it becomes that.
So then we have single.
And then in the middle, we have our ones that have VM, right?
Medium soft, or those are in the middle. Right?
Okay.
So I am going to just sing a song and when I move,
you've got to change the dynamic.
Okay. So we're just going to start softly.
God bless America.
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her.
Through the night with the light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies.
To the oceans, white with foam.
God bless America,
my home sweet home.
God bless America.
My home sweet home.
Good for you. Say it one more time after me.
- Pianissimo. - Pianissimo.
- Piano. - Piano.
- Mezzo piano. - Mezzo piano.
- Mezzo forte. - Mezzo forte.
- Forte. - Forte.
- Fortissimo. - Fortissimo.
All right. Dylan, tell us what we have in our boxes.
Uh, all tens.
I am not surprised.
So Gus, you may dismiss our class for a final ten.
So you can give us a signal.
And Gus is going to lead out, and Nayali can follow.
Excellent job.
All right.