Fifth grade week of 8.15-8.19

We started off the class, as always, with warming up our voices, and we talked about why we do this. (It's to warm up our vocal cords, which are muscles just like any others in our bodies.) One of the things we will cover this year is talking about world instruments, and we started this by talking about the sitar. We listened to a piece of (semi-)traditional Indian music -- a sitar/violin duet -- and then listening to "Norwegian Wood" by The Beatles. We discussed the sound of the sitar and how it was used in each piece of music. Finally, we reviewed note values.