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.

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. 

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, 

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.