Recently, in 2nd class, we have been exploring sound as part of our music lessons. We’re developing our performance skills, our listening and responding skills and our composing skills, using body percussion and our voices. One of our favourite songs at the moment is Boom-Chicka-Boom and we’ve been using it to explore the elements of music and different sounds that we can make with our voices.
We recorded a version of Boom Chicka Boom using Sound Cloud!
We also made a list of sounds that we can make with our bodies and our voices. We worked together as a whole-class activity to list 29 different sounds (and we really could have kept going…) and then we designed symbols for our sounds. We’re going to use these symbols to compose a piece of music next week. Check out Nathan’s set of symbols!
We’re learning all about body percussion in music in 2nd class. We’re designing symbols for our sounds. pic.twitter.com/fl7zGMkZhc
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We each chose sounds to perform and acted as conductors in our little orchestra. The conductor pointed to that person, who then made their sound. We learned a lot about performing and conducting different combinations of sounds. Check out our Vines to see what we tried out.
