Meeting So and Mi

9/16/15 ***See information on this post on my new website at https://artsintersection.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/floor-staff-strategy-for-teaching-sol-and-mi/

These 1st graders have been working hard to listen for and perform high and low pitches, called so (high) and mi (low). Soon we'll be not just identifying and singing, but we'll be writing and composing with these pitches! We began by singing "Rain, Rain, Go Away" (which turned out to be quite appropriate for the weather we had the last couple weeks of October!). We tried to identify which pitches were high and which were low, and moved to show the difference by putting our hands on our heads during the high notes and on our shoulders during the low notes. Then we moved onto putting these pitches on a 2-line staff using umbrella die cuts, and finally we named them so and mi. We'll be working with these pitches quite a bit still, so there will be more to come!

Moving to show so and mi.

Putting so and mi on the staff.