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3rd Grade Music (Period 1)

Course Description

Hello 3rd Graders!
Come here each week on your music day and find fun music videos, powerpoints and games you can do at home for music! 
 

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Orchestra year end concerts!

5th grade concert - May 17th at 6pm
6th grade concert - May 17th at 7pm
 
7/8th grade concert - May 20th at 7pm
 
Students need to wear black bottoms and white tops.  We will be performing in the field behind the school outside.  Hope to see you there!

Mandalorian Theme song played by the 8th grade Chamber Orchestra

We loved playing the Mandalorian Theme song! There are some tricky rhythms in this song and our class rocked it! It's a different arrangement because it is all strings but so fun to play on our instruments! The percussion is the sound of students tapping the top of their instruments and the base of their stands. I didn't film the class playing it because the synchronization license to do so costs hundreds of dollars - however, I was able to obtain a mechanical license (you can see it at the end of the video) so that we could put the audio recording on our school website for a limited time.

"Scoo Bee Doo song" composed by Susie Davies-Splitter and Phil Splitter

We had such a great time playing this song and improvising (making it up as you go) with it. Jazz is so much fun!

Blues for You

This is an audio performance video of the 8th grade music AT's performing a piece called Blues for Four by Mike Christiansen. There are four guitar parts to this song. They did a nice job and as you can see in the video I am going to use their recording as part of my unit on the Blues and Jazz. Thanks ladies!

5th Grade Holiday Concert!

It was so fun to put the cellos, violas and violins together for the first time to play in the auditorium! Good job! Special thanks to my 8th grade orchestra AT's Emma Roundy and Payton Blackburn for helping in the classroom and in the concert!

7th Grade Orchestra - Thank You Reagan Academy

7th Grade Orchestra performing "Simple Gifts" and "Hymn of Praise." We are thankful for the amazing teachers and staff at Reagan Academy that make it great! Happy Thanksgiving!

7th Grade Orchestra's Spooky Story

This story was written a few years ago by former Reagan student Ava Mickelson. We thought it would be fun to video it this year!

Spooky Sound Effects for a story

Click on this link

https://musicplayonline.com/units-halloween/

to get to Musicplayonline.com the Halloween Unit.  Scroll down until you find

4. Halloween Sound Effects

Click on Spooky Sound Effects!  I encouraged the students this week to go home and write a spooky story with these sound effects.  Good Luck!

Liberty Bell March by Denise Gagne

3rd and 4th grade will be virtually performing this for Veteran's Day this year. Please have your student practice with any kind of stick you can find including pencils or pens. If possible, please have them wear a red, white or blue polo (collared) shirt on Mon. Oct. 12th (Russon's Class),Wed. Oct. 21st (Crowder's class) and Thursday Oct. 22nd (Bursey's class). 4th grade please wear a polo shirt on Mon. Oct. 12th and Oct. 19th. This helps us look sharp and professional for the video! They are amazing! Thanks!
Here is a screen shot of Musicplay - an online music website for elementary students.  Click on the orange "Student Login Guide" to the right of the screen to find out how to access the online lessons.
 

Elementary Music for Online learners

Hello!
If you are in Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade and would like to do music at home I am going to give this link to the Musicplay website.  Click on your grade and look around the site! There are music games, videos and ways you can learn about rhythm, note reading and listening activities.  Click on the link below and then click on the "Student Login Guide" which will give you information on how to access the online learning section.  This online learning section will give you lesson plans, activities and worksheets your student can do at home.  I will be using this website in the classroom as well. Online students don't need to turn in anything to me - just participate in the lessons at home.
Here is the link:
 
 
Have fun!
Mrs. Ahlborn

Link to my Elementary Music lesson plans

Here is a link for my elementary music lesson plans for this week and next week.  It says 3rd grade on it, but I will be using differentiated versions of this for 1st -4th grade these two week.  Feel free to click on the links included in the lesson plan.  You can scroll through the different days by clicking the arrows in the left hand corner.  Sorry if you can't access the book "A Little spot Stays Home" from my kindle reader.  It is a great book about Covid for children and why we wear masks, social distance and quarantine etc.  "The Anxiety Spot" is another great book about how to manage our anxiety.  I will be using the "Spot" books this year in my curriculum.