Working Hard in Music

Working Hard in Music

The Senior Choir has been working hard learning their music for the Mass Choir Festival this term. On Monday, August 8 we rehearsed for the first time with 500 other students. Well done on a sensational rehearsal!

 

We will be performing on Tuesday, August 30 at Winthrop Hall. We would love to see as many parents as possible there on the night. Please remember to purchase your ticket online, before they sell out! 

 

Tickets are available to purchase from the website below:

www.ticketsWA.com/event/massed-choir

Password: wattlegrove

 

 

Year One and Two

We are learning to play in parts with the song 'Little Brown Owl' using the boom whackers and the xylophones. This is quite tricky and we are doing a great job keeping in time to the beat, singing a melody and playing a melody all at the same time! Very talented!!

Year Three and Four

We are beginning to learn the ukulele and xylophones this term. We are working on coordinating our strumming in time to to the beat and getting a nice sound from the instruments. This song we are learning is called 'Funga Alafia' which is a West African song meaning: 'With my eyes I greet you. With my words I greet you. With my heart I greet you. There's nothing up my sleeve'. 

Year Five and Six

We are also learning to play the ukulele and xylophones this term. We are learning the C chord and coordinating our strumming patterns. This class is playing 'Funga Alafia' in a round. Well done Zara for leading the round 

Well done, Wattle Grove

Mrs Miell

Naidoc Week

Wanjoo (Welcome)

All classes have been learning Wanjoo a welcome song in the Noongar language  to celebrate Naidoc Week. 

Mass Choir Finalists

Good luck to the finalists for the Mass Choir Auditions

Syreeta Kumar will be auditioning for the soloist position for the Mass Choir Festival this Saturday 23 of July. 

Samara Ody will be auditioning for the compere position for the Mass Choir Festival this Saturday 23 of July

Congratulations for being the finalists from Wattle Grove Primary School. Good luck for the auditions!

Mrs Miell

End of term 2

Composition

This Term all classes composed a song using rhythmic notation. They were then asked to clap or perform their piece on a percussion instrument. 

In Room 21 have some excellent musicians who extended themselves and play a melody on their chosen instruments. Well done.

Year One and Two

In Year One and Two we have been learning to improvise and make up a melody on the spot. Students have been using the xylophones.and playing  melody for 8 beats between singing the verses of the song 'Fiddle Diddle Dee'.

The year ones and twos have also been playing with the Boom Whackers which have been lots of fun!

Year Three and Four

In year three and four we have been learning to layer parts in our song 'Caravan'. We play a bass line and a ostinato whilst singing the melody of the song. It is starting to sound amazing. 

Year Five and Six

 We have been learning out song 'Waterbird' and layering 3 part harmonies together. Well done Year 5 and 6!

Mrs Miell

Term 2

Year One's and Two's

The Year One and Year Two classes have been reading 'Freddie the Frog'. This story book has been helping us learn our music notation. Freddie lives on an island called Treble Clef Island. The students have learnt the notes: F(Freddie), C(Crocodile), A(Azaleas) and E(Ellie) on the Music staff. We have also been learning a new song called 'Fiddle Diddle Dee' on the xylophones. Their progress so far is sensational. Well done.

Year Three's and Fours

We have been working on our new song 'Caravan' in class. We have also learnt some chords to accompany the song. We are now working on playing the melody against the chords in harmony.

Year Five's and Six's

Students have been learning a song called 'Waterbird'. The bass line uses our left and right hands on the xylophone and has taken a great deal of practice to achieve this standard. Well done Year 5 and 6 students.

Junior Choir

The Junior Choir is preparing for an excursion in Week 8 to the Octagon Theatre at the University of Western Australia. Students are reminded that they are required to attend each Friday rehearsal in preparation for this event.

Thanks

Mrs Miell 

Wrapping up Term One

Year Ones and Twos

We have been listening and responding to music. We listened to Vivalidi's Four Seasons and guessed the season he wrote the music about. These are some amazing drawings done in class illustrating their ideas.

The Year One and Two classes having been working on beats and rhythms. We walked through the beat dots to work out how to write music. Well done on your compositions they were superb.

Music Theory

Year 3-6's having been working on writing music in bars. Students worked in pairs to write 8 bars of music and perform these to the class. I have seen a great improvement this term.Well done! 

Music Star Performers

Year 5/6 working on their Djembe performance. Well done!

Year 3/4 working on playing 'I've got an action' on xylophone. Well done!

Year 1/2 working on playing 'Flying Man' on xylophone. Well done!

Anzac Performance

The Senior Choir will be performing for the Anzac service on Friday 8th of April. Please make sure students have the correct uniform to wear on the day. (Go to Senior Choir Page)

What a fantastic Term One. Have a brilliant holiday and I will see you next term. 

Mrs Miell

Harmony Day

Harmony Day Preparations

All classes have been learning the song 'I am Children of the World' for Harmony Day. 

What an amazing job Room 22 did in their first lesson. Well done. This video makes me gleam with joy :)

Room 26 also did a super job!

Happy Singing

Mrs Miell