Primary Years Music: February 2014

Welcome Message

Greetings from Naveen Cabral, the Primary music teacher for Grades 4 and 5. I have also been assigned the responsibility of a Performance Co-ordinator in the Primary, under which I do run the Primary Musical and the Festival of Choirs. I am very excited to be entering my 13^th year in teaching, 11 of which have been with the best of PYP schools. I play the guitar, recorder, keyboard/piano, xylophones and a few other instruments but my forte lies in singing. In addition to my strong PYP experience, I recently completed my Grade 8 Vocals in Trinity - Rock and Pop. I have also completed various other music certifications through the Trinity College of Music. I have been trained by quite a few professionals in different instruments and musical technique. In addition to the Music Together certification that I have, I have attended quite a few IB workshops (PYP). I do perform as a musician in my spare time, as a vent to my outburst of passion and love for music.

I believe my education and degree in my career has mainly been my teaching experience, which has helped me acquire the best from my students as we worked together to create great music and events. My aim will always be to help the students acquire musical skills and knowledge that will help them improve as an overall personality towards a better future for our world.

Students are moving on in their Keyboard Karate Unit. Parents have been inquiring about how they could help work with their children back home. I am putting up some images that have also been used at school, that could help parents work together with their children to get a better understanding of music and keyboards.

Friday 7 February 2014

Music Theory - How to read music theory

Its nice having students learning to play instruments as they learn to read music notations. A guide to understand how to read music notations and understand music theory is given below. This guide could also be used by parents who are trying to work with children and help them grow musically.

HOW TO READ MUSIC

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Grade 4 - Respiratory Song

This is a copy of a famous One Direction song called "Live while we're young". This song, called the Respiratory Song, has the lyrics changed to suit the learnings of the human respiratory system. Grade 4 D singing the song :-)

5 D - Recorder Karate - White Belt

Students from Grade 5 D playing the White Belt song "French Folk Song"

Grade 4 - Recorder Karate Booklet

Just in case you need to look at or print out the Recorder Karate Booklet, below is a link that will take you to a scanned copy of the booklet for your perusal.

https://drive.google.com/a/oberoi-is.org/file/d/0B2WBR2BrDPnfbHh0YmpwTTlzTjg/edit?usp=sharing

Recorder Karate Booklet - Grade 5

Just in case anyone needs to look at or print out the Recorder Karate Booklet, below is a link that will take you to a scanned copy of the booklet for your perusal.

https://drive.google.com/a/oberoi-is.org/file/d/0B2WBR2BrDPnfQmVwUkt4MDBTdkk/edit?usp=sharing