I'm Yours by Totara Team!

Hi everyone! This is the final blog post for this year. The Totara Team at Grey Lynn have been learning ukulele and a few chords on metallophones this term. Each group chose to make an introduction or arrangement of the song 'I'm Yours' for their end of term task. This is my 'favourites' edit!

I'm Yours from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

Happy Holidays!

Highlights from the Totara Elements Bands

Rm 10 Elements bands from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

Rm 12 Elements Bands from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

Rm 9 Elements Band from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

Rm 13 Elements Bands from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

Rm 11 Elements Bands from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

The Totara Musical Elements Bands

Recently in Totara music we have been learning about the musical elements. We used what we learned about timbre, texture and structure to improve the quality of our rhythm compositions.

Look out for our audio and video performances soon to appear at The Music Room!

Rm 3 discover 'London's Burning!'

On 5 June Room 3 put 4 beats into their carriage of the Music Train. Clapped through all of the carriages on the Train and were off on another Journey to discover the music of the world.



The music train clap from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

They ended up in London in 1666 where a dreadful fire was raging.

Room 3 learned to sing London's Burning as a round.



London's Burning! from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

 Room 2 in Never-Neverland

Today Room 2 went on the Music Train to Never-Neverland

We listened to music from the musical version of Peter Pan and practised performing the role of Lost Boys.

The Lost Boys from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

We thought about which instruments we would choose for Tinkerbell music and also what we would choose for Captain Hook music.

We thought Tinkerbell should have high tinkly sounding instruments because she is little and magical.

Tinkerbell Music from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

We chose low sounds and sharp sounds for Captain Hook because he is big and bad. The boys' music for Captain Hook is exciting and full of action.

Captain Hook Music from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.

Room 8's Pan pipe experience!

We started the lesson by putting the right amount of notes into the Room 8 carriage and clapping the rhythm the notes make.

 

Then off we went in the Music Train.

Our journey today took us to South America where a culture group was playing guitars and pan pipes.

We drew faces to show whether the music sounded happy, sad, exciting or peaceful.

We made pan pipes out of straws!

We found out that the short straws make the high sounds and the long straws make the low sounds.

 

The Music Train

This term in music we are learning about the music notes ta and te te. Ta is a 1 beat note that goes at a walking pace whereas te te notes are running notes. Te te notes are joined by a beam. Today Room 1 made their own music notes to go in the Room 1 carriage of the Music Train.

  

 The Music Train has carriages which can only carry four beats. We put four beats in the
room 1 carriage. I wonder whose notes will end up in the room 1 carriage next week!

Now that the train has passengers we are off on a Music Train journey!
This week we travelled to the Wild West of America and listened to 'Ive been Workin' on the Railway".




The Music Train from Rosalind Mason on Vimeo.