MTCT #50: Focus on 1st Grade

This week Carrie and Tanya are talking about 1st grade in the music room.

You can listen to the episode here.

Mentioned in the episode:

Game 1:

Students sit in a circle and pass an apple around the circle, on the beat.

The student who is holding the apple on the last beat (“out”) is out.

The “out” student leaves the circle to play the beat on a small percussion instrument

or a bourdon on an Orff instrument.

The game repeats until all the students are “out”.

Game 2:

Students stand in a circle, and the teacher makes a tree with one student, (the student stands inside the circle and the teacher stands outside while they join hands in a high arch. All sing while the circle rotates counterclockwise  and the students move their feet to the beat. On the word “out,” the teacher and the student (the tree) bring their arch down, “catching” a student. The caught student now makes an arch with the teacher and the “tree” student goes to an Orff instrument to play a simple bourdon. Game and song repeat until all students are at an instrument.

Game 2 variation:

Students stand in a circle, and the teacher makes a tree with one student, (the student stands inside the circle and the teacher stands outside while they join hands in a high arch. All sing while the circle rotates counterclockwise  and the students move their feet to the beat. On the word “out,” the teacher and the student (the tree) bring their arch down, “catching” a student. The caught student now makes an arch with the first student and the teacher pairs with another student to become a new “tree.” Game and song begin again until all students are trees.

Coda (what we are enjoying in and out of the music room)

Tanya:

Band: The Raconteurs

Carrie:
Registration for OAKE 2020 is now open!

Happy musiking!