Grade 1 Music

Welcome back, G1.
Here’s a song and a dance for you to learn from the country, Israel.
It’s a popular dance at weddngs and celebrations and a very famous song.
Try it with your family and post on SeeSaw how you got on.
Have fun!

Grade 1 music classes will be posted on Seesaw each Tuesday morning at 09:00

Good morning.
Due to the current shift to e-learning the music classes can now be found on seesaw.
Please take the time to join in with the activities posted and follow the instructions as posted.
We may be at home but the music lingers on………Have fun!
Mr Chris

We’re KIS!

The KIS Song

We’ve got the knowledge
Inspiring Individuals
We’re filled with the spirit of learning
The spirit of loving
The spirit of joy and we’re blessed
We’re KIS

They say that knowledge is power
And I’m a powerful girl
With my feet firmly planted
And my head in a whirl

The world is changing every day
But I’ll learn new things on the way
I’ll go the distance to make a difference
‘Til I can finally say

We’ve got the knowledge
Inspiring Individuals
We’re filled with the spirit of learning
The spirit of loving
The spirit of joy and we’re blessed
We’re KIS

I’m filled with inspiration
By the things around me
From music and dancing
To the birds in the trees

The world is changing every day
But I’ll learn new things on the way
I’ll go the distance to make a difference
‘Til I can finally say

We’ve got the knowledge
Inspiring Individuals
We’re filled with the spirit of learning
The spirit of loving
The spirit of joy and we’re blessed
We’re KIS

I’m filled with the spirit
That life was made for me
Surrounded by friendship
I know that I can be

The world is changing every day
But I’ll learn new things on the way
I’ll go the distance to make a difference
‘Til I can finally say

We’ve got the knowledge
Inspiring Individuals
We’re filled with the spirit of learning
The spirit of loving
The spirit of joy and we’re blessed
We’re KIS

G1 will be performing in the holiday concert at the end of this term. Costume details will be discussed a little closer to the event.

Finale:
The show will end with everyone singing ‘Reach for the Stars’ by S Club 7. Here is the song and a karaoke track to sing along to!

Song:

Lyrics Video:

Karaoke Track:

The class individual items will be as follows:

G1A: Raining Tacos

G1B: Witch doctor

G1C: Happiness

Here are the videos to help you along:

Raining Tacos

Witch doctor

Lyric video

Happiness

Welcome to a new year of music making here at KIS. We have many exciting things in store and many new things to learn.
Our first unit, Inspiring Individuals, a school-wide unit, takes a look at our quality learning behaviours and how they look in the music classes.

At KIS we believe that quality learning behaviours include:

Striving for understanding
Developing our passions
An inclusive and caring community
Taking ethical action.

How do we do this in the music classes?

We will be performing in the end-of-year show.
Your teachers will tell you more about what you are doing but we will be ending the show with ‘Try Everything’ from the movie Zootopia and the KIS song which we will all sing together.

Here they are to practice at home and in class:

Try Everything

KIS Song

The KIS Song

We’ve got the knowledge
Inspiring Individuals
We’re filled with the spirit of learning
The spirit of loving
The spirit of joy and we’re blessed
We’re KIS

They say that knowledge is power
And I’m a powerful girl
With my feet firmly planted
And my head in a whirl

The world is changing every day
But I’ll learn new things on the way
I’ll go the distance to make a difference
‘Til I can finally say

We’ve got the knowledge
Inspiring Individuals
We’re filled with the spirit of learning
The spirit of loving
The spirit of joy and we’re blessed
We’re KIS

I’m filled with inspiration
By the things around me
From music and dancing
To the birds in the trees

The world is changing every day
But I’ll learn new things on the way
I’ll go the distance to make a difference
‘Til I can finally say

We’ve got the knowledge
Inspiring Individuals
We’re filled with the spirit of learning
The spirit of loving
The spirit of joy and we’re blessed
We’re KIS

I’m filled with the spirit
That life was made for me
Surrounded by friendship
I know that I can be

The world is changing every day
But I’ll learn new things on the way
I’ll go the distance to make a difference
‘Til I can finally say

We’ve got the knowledge
Inspiring Individuals
We’re filled with the spirit of learning
The spirit of loving
The spirit of joy and we’re blessed
We’re KIS

We have been listening to music inspired by nature.

Here are some of the pieces we’ve listened to and used as an inspiration for artwork:

Fingal’s Cave (The Hebrides Overture)

Morning (Peer Gynt)

Spring (Four Seasons)

The Lark Ascending

What music can you find that is inspired by nature?

J S Bach wrote a lot of beautiful music, much of it for the pipe organ.
Pipe organs are magnificent instruments some of which are very large indeed and hundreds of years old.

Draw and colour a picture of a pipe organ and bring it to show me when we return to school.

Listening attentively to music is a real skill which requires concentration and effort. We will be listening to some beautiful music from the period of music history called the baroque period.
Here are some examples:

Vivaldi:

Bach

Handel

What can you find out about these composers and they time in which they lived and worked?

In our new unit we are exploring how musicians connect music with storytelling using music not only to enhance a story but to be the story itself!
We are looking at how musical instruments can used to be the characters in the story and there’s o better place to start than with Peter and the Wolf.

We have compared three different versions of the story and have one more left to go before we look at some other stories with music.

Here’s one with puppets:

Here’s a link to the Disney version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgUruOrrZnQ&t=5s

Here’s a link too the Oscar winning animation: