Grade 3 - Swimming Swimming

Music helps build up memorisation. And its just not memorisation of the lyrics/words that happens at a single time in a song. Its the rhythm in the tune, the actions that go along and the tune. Inner hearing helps process this faster as you listen at first and then make up the rhythm and melody in your head. Inner hearing - a very good process of learning.

The kids in this activity learn to sing a song, and then are asked to sing the song after erasing a few words off from the song but continue to sing the rest of the song. Thats the time when the students are encouraged to sing that part in their head.

This activity was done a few weeks back.

Potatoes And Tomatoes

The students in their current Unit of Inquiry (in their homerooms) have been learning about food processes. As we began with the Music Theory - Rhythm Composition unit in the music class, there was this song that was composed that spoke about potatoes undergoing processes and what were the wonderful results.

1C performed this song at the assembly yesterday.

Grade 1 Assembly

PTM

Appointments are being scheduled in full swing. HRTs are trying their best to suit the needs of the visiting parents, who will be visiting the school on Friday - October 25th for the Parent Teacher Meetings. We specialists are looking forward to meeting up with parents as well. Unfortunately we will not be able to accommodate every parent on the same day and so we will have sign ups just outside our door to show you which parent has booked the slots and which slots are still available to meet up. We would be meeting up with parents for not more than 10 minutes each slot. Please feel free to send me your appointments well in advance and I will work it out accordingly. If we cannot meet on Friday, we could meet anytime later on any of the working days after scheduling appointments for a mutually convenient time.

Have a nice week ahead 

Literacy Week

What a wonderful start to the day with books!!! Thats whats happening during this week at school in the primary. There are some other time slots in the day to read as well, that are specially marked for this week. The students will also have other guest readers come into their room to  read them books. I wish I was a student now.

We have this literacy song that I composed. The students are enjoying singing this for sure. I have adapted the words in the song. They belong to a famous poet called Michael Rosen. I have made up the words for the chorus bearing in mind how all the children in primary are participating in the literacy week, reading together. Happy listening!!!

Come from England - Grade 2

As the students are learning about communities in their current UOI, it was enlightening to understand about Mumbai as a community with so many different cultures and people in this city. Here is a song performed by two Grade 2 classes during their assembly last week.

Reflections

Reflections provide meaningful insights into educational strategies and help teachers with great scope for student learning. Here is a summary shot of the responses collected from Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3 end of the Unit Reflections for Melody And Vocal Expression.

Grade 1 responses

Grade 2 responses

Grade 3 responses