Video Project
I would like to invite you to join in our community building project.
First, choose a song, and work with your child to learn the song and sing it with the accompaniment track. Your child may choose to perform a body percussion pattern of their own design that goes with the song. If so, ask why they chose different levels or sounds. That could be a fun conversation. If your child would like to sing the song with actions, or do movements that do not include singing, that is fine too.
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Second, make a video with your phone or other camera. For best results be very close, perhaps just your child’s head and shoulders. Try to have the music source playing behind you, as quietly as possible so we mostly get your child in the recording, much louder than the background music.
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Third, send me, ecloud@isd21.mb.ca either your video or a link to your video (your phone should just do this…). I will grant you access to our private youtube account Friends of ÉRWBBS, and post your video.
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You and your child may look at the videos of others, as well as your own. As I get several videos of children singing the same song, I will knit them together into a virtual choir video, and we can all sing together.
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My Voice Alone is a song that we sing at RWBB every Remembrance Day. We would love for staff, parents, siblings that may or may not have ever been to ÉRWBBS to sing along and be one big community of voices singing about how our best future is together, not isolated.
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If you have any practical questions, again, email me, ecloud@isd21.mb.ca
The top link is the song with people singing, the pdf link is the words, and the bottom is the instrumental track, with which we would like to hear your child sing.
Music Play Online
Music Play is a Canadian leader in curricular resources for school classrooms, professional development conferences, and online content.
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They have made their online content free during this trying public health situration.
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Music Play student login:
Student Login (January - March)
username: snow
password: 2020
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Of all the games offered, Major/Minory would be great. Others such as Which Rhythm do you hear, Match the melody are awesome. Anything with beat is good, (#7, #8)
Contrasting word games like Fast/Slow, Up/Down, Smooth/Seperated, Loud/Soft are all good. Identifying the instruments of the orchestra and their sounds are good (#1, #2, #3)
Your child will likely enjoy the rhythm composer tool on the left bar of activities.
Click on the word grade 2 toward the top and there are other activities. You can click a video and sing along. There are 98 singalongs!
Also, if you click the search button, other songs appear with materials to make it work for you. Enjoy, search for anything you can do.
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Vegetable Sing along
Brian Beresford, a published children's song writer and music teacher in the UK, has released a free song for us to sing.
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It is called Vegetables are Abolutely Great.
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The words are below. Also a sheet representing the four verses. There is a box for each verse. The instruments change each verse. See if your child can identify some of the instruments in each verse and either write their names or draw pictures.
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Classics for kids
Classics for kids has several good games.
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Match the rhythm is excellent for grade 2.
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Compose your own music is great too. If you have tried this on MusicPlay, then you can enjoy the similarities and differences.
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Learn Musical Terms: The child can click letters to find out if they are in the word. You can reinforce letter names and reading strategies while discussing the definitions of musical terms.
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Open Instruments of the Orchestra: let your child explore the images and sounds of orchestral instruments.
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Explore the Composer Map: You could start with a discussion of your family tree. Not all of our families have European ancestors. That can be an interesting conversation. Orchestral music has its roots in Europe, but has spread many other places. Discover your connections to the music.