String instruments and a violin

We love learning about the string instruments in an orchestra.

Listen to the music each of the string instruments make.

We are really lucky...Ms. Kelly plays the violin in an orchestra.

She brought it to school today and showed us how to play it.

We looked at the bow made from horse hair and we listened to the sound of the violin being plucked and being bowed.

We noticed that the strings vibrate when they are plucked.

Ms. Kelly showed us what music looks like to read.  It is very different from reading ordinary books.

We especially loved hearing Ms. Kelly play.

Music from the string family

We were talking about the different sounds a bear family might make and about the different instruments in the string family.

We learned about the violin, viola, cello and double base.

We know which has the highest note and which has the lowest note.

 We enjoyed listening to music made by each of the instruments.

Christmas art

Here we are painting toilet rolls. We also coloured and cut out lovely angels and we stuck the angels to the toilet rolls when they were dry. They turned out beautifully!!!

Advent Wreaths

More photos on http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsflaherty.blogspot.ie/2014/12/christmas-art.html

Winter woodland

Have a look at these winter trees we made recently.  If you look carefully you will see that there are 5 different pieces (somewhat akin to jigsaw pieces!). We cut these out carefully and then we stuck them to a blank A-4 sheet of white paper, making sure that as we did so, we put the pieces in the correct place and left a little gap in between each piece, which formed our tree. When we put all our winter trees together, we formed a lovely winter woodland scene.

Using instruments to accompany our song

We learned a new song called 'What shall we do in our work today?' and afterwards we chose various instruments to go with the different occupations mentioned in the song. We used maracas, triangles, woodblocks and guiros. We had to remember when to come in and we also had to be mindful of the beat of the music.

Rainbow fish art

After hearing the story of the Rainbow Fish we make our own rainbow fish with lovely glittery scales..

 

 Some of our fish are even swimming in a fish tank.

We will add some other sea creatures tomorrow. 

Rain collages

 

 We are making the letters Rr this week and we are also learning all about rain and the water cycle.

Today we made gorgeous collages with the letter R.  We coloured the Rs, stuck on fluffy cotton wool clouds, then stapled on raindrops and wet weather clothes.  Our collages look gorgeous.

Music: loud and soft

We had fun today listening to loud and soft sounds.

When we heard a loud sound we put up our red cards and when the sound was soft we held up our green cards.  We were right every time!