In 1st grade humanities we have been talking about living things and have been making connections to Camille Saint-Saen's "Carnival of the Animals." While originally composer Saint-Saens wrote a piece of music to represent different animals as a joke for one of his composer friends, the "Carnival of the Animals" has become beloved to many. So far, we have listened and moved to "Aquarium" and pretended to be fish swimming in the water. Today, we listened to a different animal, and the 1st graders in Mrs. Lim's class were challenged to listen to it and decide what animal they thought it sounded like. They had to write the animal name on their board and could draw a picture if they wanted, but the most important part was that they wrote WHY they thought it sounded like that animal. Here is picture of their responses! The had great ideas as to what animal they thought it was, but more importantly, they were able to use their critical ears and back up their answers with what they were hearing in the music. In the end, we figured out that it was the elephant because the music sounded like a heavy elephant, slowly stomping around. Click on the video below to listen to "Elephant."
Here are the 2nd grade classes' "Pumpkin Patch" compositions. Each class decided what tonality they wanted their song to be in and together, they decided on the melody for each line of the chant. This week we had fun listening to each classes composition and comparing the shapes of the different melodies.
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