We continued our So-me musical stories with "So-me Finds 'Dough'" adds the sound do to the so - mi interval. Thus the tonic chord (s m d) is established melodically. We learnt about half note (ta-a) and we played the rhythm dictation pop-stick game.

So-mi Jazz

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This week we listened So-me Goes to the Party. This story approaches rhythmic patterns through word phrases. We played a game Guess who? and we had lots of fun guessing the names of some percussion instruments from their sounds (tone color).
We sang a new song So Mi Jazz.

 
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This week we practiced audience etiquette as we listened to some of our classmates play the piano, violin and guitar. We sang a new song from Peter Pan: I Wont Grow Up! and we reviewed the songs Scales and Arpeggios and The Bare Necessities.  We played rhythm games ( ta, ti-ti, and ti-ka-ti-ka) using different percussion instruments. 

 
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This week we listen and sang the musical story So-me at the Dance, which introduces La-so-me, So-me’s sister. In this story we lernt about different ethnic dances and hand signs appear for so, mi and la.

We listened and danced to different kind of dance music as Haka, Ballet and African Drum Dance.

We practice our echo and canon technic in singing and we sang two new Afro-American songs: Every Night When the Sun Goes In and Kum ba yah,