This is the Technology for Music Teachers at MSU Course Podcast.

Here are my Kindergartners singing "3 Black Bats"...another nice song for a Halloween Parade.

Here is another installment of my Kindergartners singing one of their Halloween songs. This one is titled "Do You Know."

Please enjoy.

5 Little Pumpkins

Here are my Kindergartners singing "5 Little Pumpkins." Please enjoy!

The students in second grade learned about the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). We read a book titled Ludwig van Beethoven by Louis Sabin. We then listened and moved to his music. Finally, we watched Beethoven Lives Upstairs, a movie about a nine-year old who comes to adore Beethoven and realizes that Beethoven is a musical genius. We then wrote facts about Beethoven’s life and music, recorded ourselves speaking about Beethoven’s life, and picked the music to accompany our podcast. We hope that you will enjoy podcast!

Sincerely,

The Students of 2H

During the winter trimester, we studied Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. We learned about the characters of the story and how the instruments of the orchestra represented each character.

At the end of the trimester, we created this podcast. For this project, we composed new rhythms for each character, performed our rhythms using classroom instruments, told Mrs. Burns the story so that she could narrate it, and drew all of the pictures.

We hope you enjoy our rendition of Peter and the Wolf.

Sincerely,
The Students of 1C

At the end of the school year, I wanted to reinforce the notes B A and G or mi, re, and do in 3rd grade general music. They learned to read and perform the notes B A and G on the treble clef staff through singing, performing on the recorder, and performing on the Korg X50 keyboards that we used when we visited the grades 4-8 music lab. In this project, they were given guidelines on how to create a background accompaniment to the B A and G improv that they would record in GarageBand. They were given a style and created a four-measure intro, an eight-measure accompaniment, and then a four-measure coda. As you can hear, they improvised during the eight-measure accompaniment. This 3rd grader decided to use a synthesizer sound as his improv instrument. Please remember that this is a 3rd grader. He did a nice job.