First grade week of 8.29-9.2

We tried a new warmup this week that was a little more rhythmically challenging. After we got our faces nice and limber from that, we practiced "Santa Lucia" some more and talked about smooth, connected patterns in music as well as rough-sounding patterns. I showed the kids my sheet music and told them that, as the year goes on, they'll see sheet music more and more and begin learning some basic music-reading. Finally, we read Fiddle-I-Fee.