High and Low ("Faeries and Giants")

9/2/15***See information on this post on my new website at AT https://artsintersection.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/teaching-high-and-low-faeries-and-giants/***

Kindergartners have been learning to identify high and low musical sounds and instruments, and will soon be working on performing high and low musical sounds with both our voices and instruments. We started by reading "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" (see below) and I did my very best Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Little Wee Bear impressions to introduce the students to the idea of high, middle, and low voices. We learned a song called "I'm Stretching Very Tall," where we used our high and low voices, we identified high and low bars on the bass xylophone, and finally we listened to a piece of music called "Faeries and Giants" from Wand of Youth Suite No. 1 by Edward Elgar. Best of all, we got to dance around! We listened for high and low sections of music- during the high sections, the girls flitted around like fairies, and during the low sections, the boys stomped around like giants. Lots of fun!

"Faeries and Giants"

Fairies

Great giant faces!