This week we listened and sang another two musical stories and learnt about note La. So-me at the Pole and So-me in Space, introduces La in the name of La-me, So-me’s brother. A so-mi-la-mi song is sung and whistled. We played this song on xylophones, glockenspiels and boomwhackers.
The song of the week is Boom Boom.

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We also sang three new songs: I Sent a Valentine, Look Who's Coming and Boom Boom.

I sent a valentine to my love and
On the way I dropped it
A little doggie picked it up and
Put it in his pocket
And I won’t bite you
And I won’t bite you
And I won’t bite you
And I will bite you!!

Look who’s coming
Down the walk
Mr. mailman won’t you stop
With a knock! Knock! Knock!
Anyone at home?
A Valentine for you has come!

This week we start to listen (and sang) two musical stories So-me Goes Missing and So-me and the Spider. These stories are designed to help children to sing in tune and to move in time. The stories introduces So-me as a character whose name often has a particular sound interval, and it directs children's attention to everyday sounds around them. We also sang Scales and Arpeggios from The Aristocats and Aussie Rock.

Scales and Arpeggios - The Aristocats

We continued our Chinese Music topic and we learnt about another two chinese musical instruments: Dizi - the chinese flute and Yang Qin. We sang two new songs: All Together Now and Skidamarink and we had fun adding drums on the songs.