Seventh Grade - This week we are performing our pentatonic songs. We are learning the terms for music listening activities. We will be getting the vocab in the form of a study guide.
We will analyze the piece "Spring" using a perception chart. We will be reading music and playing a song together using the boomwackers. Friday we will be listening to songs in many styles and we will use our listening vocab to help us determine which style of music we are hearing.
Eighth Grade - We will finishing performing our own rendition of "The Banana Boat Song." We will do an experiment on the effect music has on our mood and how we write. We will be discussing the guitar and it's make up as well as being assigned a guitar for use this marking period.
We will begin learning the first four chords on the guitar.
Chorus Class - We will be working on getting our pictures for the power point presentations. I would like to get onto the stage with the microphones for a full sing through using the microphones we have available.
