Highlights from our week!

 

Congratulations Grade1/2!  You are the first to complete your puzzle and are ready to move on to the next one!  You were focused, on-task and listened to the Fine Arts Instructions.  You should be so proud of yourselves. Keep up the great work!

Kindergarten:  This week we explored the art technique of POINTILLISM and tied it all in to our experiences of the FALL SEASON. When completed, they will go into our big, blue art portfolios. 

FOLK ART TREES

Source: Deep Space Sparkle

Highlights from the week:

 

Click on the Welcome sign to see a list of songs on the "Listening Log".  We play the song and students "listen critically" to that piece of music.  We ask: "What do I hear?"  "What does that make me feel?"  "Can I put those feeling into words?"

 

Students have been practicing O Canada in Sign Language this week.  I'm so proud of everyones' progress!  Well done, Vista Heights students!   Ask your student to perform the song for you.  (Head on over to Google Classroom for the link and to practice)

Google Classroom

 Hello Families,  Please head on over to your google classroom to see what's going on in FINE ARTS!  Sit with your student and let them show you what they have been learning.  I'm so proud of the growth and determination being shown so far. Way to go!

Highlights from our week:

Thank you to Ms. Sue for subbing in our school this week.

Grade 5/6:

-O Canada in sign language.  We can't sing in the classroom but we can "sing" using body language. 

-We worked on note naming, staff lessons, and the song: Mamma Don't Allow.  

-Curriculum Connections: Reviewed how notes are name, beat and rhythm, tempo terms.

Grade 3/4:

-Reviewed how notes are name, beat and rhythm, tempo terms.

-O Canada in sign language.  We can't sing in the classroom but we can "sing" using body language. 

-Songs this week: Missus Tong, Nothing - 

-Curriculum Connectoins: Echo chanting, ABA form, Contour (How melody can go fast/slow, high/low)

Grade 1/2:

-O Canada in sign language.  We can't sing in the classroom but we can "sing" using body language. 

- Songs this week: Little Red Wagon, Mountaintop Monster.

-Curriculum connections: adding actions to lyrics, creating own lyric to go with song/picture, High/Low and various voices, Tempo.

Kindergarten:

-Curriculum connections to Math and Art.

-I can count - I can move to the beat

-Songs we enjoyed this week: Listen as I Play the Beat, Count and Go, Join The Game

-Chant and actions to the poem: Open and Shut them. 

 

Highlights from the week.

 Kindergarten:

I can listen, clap, chant and follow along.

I can identify the colour BLUE

I can make my animal moves. 

We performed the "Freeze Dance" and the "action song",  read a musical story about violins, practiced different voices (high, low, loud, soft), did activities with the colour BLUE. 

Grade 1/2:

Worked on the song, "Monster Mountaintop" to explore timbre of voices, high/low.  Students can show high and low sounds and express using different voices such as my whisper voice, my yelling voice, my voice is like a mouse, my voice is like a bear.  Students also learned a poem with movements and voices.   This helps to develop audiation, or "inner hearing"

Grade 3/4:

Continued with our Body Language and PANTOMIMES, Gorilla story and connection to drawing, practiced the clap along song, "Bim Bum Biddy Biddy Bum".  Wow, they are getting so good at this! 

Grades 5/6:

Students performed Drama warmups and using body language to communicate, watched the Gorrilla story and connected it to a directed drawing lesson, began to learn O Canada in Sign Language.  We can't sing in our rooms yet due to COVID but we can "sing" with our body language.  Great work so far, everyone.  See Google Classroom for extra practice.