E-Learning Week 2: March 23-27

Hello Students,

I miss seeing you so much! I hope you are all able to enjoy some time with your family at home and find lots of time to play. I would love to hear from you all! Please feel free to send me an email (shanson@mhs.org) or send a message in the comment section of this post or the contact form on this blog.

I'm going to give you a few more activities you may do from home. In addition, you may continue exploring Quaver (your class code is 59K8P) and MusicPlay (info on my last post).

1. As a follow-up to last week, take this short quiz to check and see how well you know your treble staff lines and spaces and note names.
You can take the quiz here.

2. This Musication video will be a ton of fun for families to do together! Each person can grab an item to make some found sound music. The activity is created for 4 people, but if you have more or less, just add on an extra similar sound to one of the parts. If you have less, take away a sound. Or, for a challenge, have a very talented family member play 2 instruments at once! The way this works...each player selects an item (that is safe) to play as listed in the picture. For cutlery, I would suggest a metal spoon. Any lid will work fine, but a large coffee can works great. Be sure to check with your parents before using their household items. Have fun and be creative! This is very similar to Guitar Hero. When you start the video, play your "instrument" as your shape goes across the screen. Enjoy! Here is the video link (click the words): Alla Turka Musication

Player/Instrument Instructions

3. This last activity has a ton of short activities you can do by spelling your first name. For a bigger challenge, spell your last name or do the ENTIRE alphabet! Let me know how it goes.

I can't wait to hear from you all! I hope you're doing well!

Mrs. Hanson

E-Learning Week 1 (March 16-20): Staff Lesson

3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades
Special thanks to Denise Gagne for providing access to these materials for our students.

Go to:www.musicplayonline.com
Login with the following student login: 

• Username: snow 
• Password: 2020 
• *This login will be good the remainder of the school year.*

1. Go to: UNITS (bottom left corner) 
2. Select the Theory Unit (top center)
3. When you get to the staff lesson page, scroll down and click on "1. Staff Lesson."
4. Flip through each slide, reading the instructions and completing each activity.
5. Have fun reinforcing your music staff, treble clef, lines and spaces, and note-naming skills! There are additional fun resources following the staff lesson. Just keep scrolling down. You can follow along and sing along with exciting songs about the music staff and naming notes in music. 

If you have any questions or problems, please use the contact form on this blog to get ahold of me. Once you have finished the lesson, send me a message to let me know you completed it! You can also print out worksheets and return them to me for extra practice.

In addition to this music staff lesson, students may always:

• Login to www.quavermusic.com and explore activities there. The student login is the same as their school one, except for the period. There was a change in recent years, so students who had me at GJAL have no period AND no initials in their login. 
• Explore some of the fun resources I have provided on my blog (along the sidebar).

Mrs. Hanson

P.S. I miss you all!