Hello Grade 1 families,

Grade 1 music has been fun and educational this year and the students have really been involved and participating well!

We began our year slowly, as there were many interruptions due to the Jewish holidays in September and October. We had spent much of our time throughout the first part of the year, preparing for our first all-school assembly, where the whole school gathered and sang songs together, among other exciting events that occur every month at our Rosh Chodesh assembly. We learned to sing the classic Beatles song “ObLaDi ObLaDa” as well as the Jewish song “Acheinu”, which grade 1 was able to fully participate in singing along with the rest of the school.

Now that we have had more consistent school time, we have begun our next units which involve learning rhythm as well as high and low, fast and slow sounds.

We learned to clap along with the syllables of a song and students finished a worksheet where we sang together and they indicated how many syllables were in each short line of the song. Next, we learned to recognize high and low sounds, as well as fast and slow sounds. We did this by listening to the sounds of several different instruments, which I was able to bring to class, so we can identify if they are high or low sounding.

Students have been learning well and very engaged and we look forward to our next units in a couple of weeks, where we will begin to learn Chanukah songs as well as understanding their relation to the miracles of the holiday.

Thanks for reading,

 

Moreh David Kogut