Fourth grade week of 8.15-8.19

This week, we continued to learn how to follow a conductor's cues (stopping/starting, following the conductor to keep tempo) and how to stand properly in order to sing. The bulk of the class, however, was spent talking about themes and variations. We did this by listening to the song "My Favorite Things" as performed by Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music," then listening to a performance by the jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. We talked about how, in the Coltrane version, you can still hear the main theme of the song even though there are a lot of variations on top of it. We closed out the class by doing a review of note values. The fourth graders are doing a great job!