Secret Chicken - Grades 1/2 and 3/4

Secret Chicken - Grades 1/2 and 3/4 

Grades 1/2 and 3/4 have enjoyed playing Secret Chicken.  

In this activity, students watch a video where a chicken spells out 4 beat rhythms which when decoded, provide the name of a place in the World.  

Once they have decoded the 4 beat rhythm, we learn about the Music from that place.  For example, we recently decoded Japan and Ireland while playing the game and then learned about these countries' instruments and music.  

Music Curriculum covered in this activity:

-listening, recognizing and decoding rhythm patterns including quarter notes, quarter rests and pairs of eighth notes.  

-follow music notation from left to right

-identify like and unlike patterns in music

-learning about Music from other places

Drumheller Dinosaur Dance Grade 1/2

 Drumheller Dinosaur Dance Grade 1/2

The Grade 1/2 students did a lesson around the book "Drumheller Dinosaur Dance" by Robert Heldbreder.

Through this lesson, students were learning about the four different families of the non-pitched percussion (woods, metals, skins, shakers and scrapers).  They also performed rhythms on non-pitched percussion.

After reading the book, we took out 4 sound phrases from the story: boomity boom, rattley clack, thumpity thump, whickety whack.  These phrases repeat several times throughout the story.

The students decided which of the non-pitched percussion families represented each of the 4 phrases.

We did this activity 4 times so each student had a turn to play an instrument from each of the non-pitched percussion families.  

 Music Monday

On Monday May 5, Lake Bonavista School came together twice to celebrate Music Monday.

In the morning, a Brass Quintet from the CPO came to perform for us and teach us about the French Horn.

In the afternoon, we gathered to sing the 2025 Music Monday Anthem "Hold On" by Triumph along with Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and O Siem by Susan Aglukark.

At the end of the assembly, Mr. Link performed some songs for us.

What a great day!