I was out sick on Monday, so today was the day we began putting together our holiday show. I worked with 3 of the 4 second grade classes learning the back beat pattern that is essential to gospel music and with in 3rd grade we focused on learning "C" on our recorders. "Good King Wenceslas" is a good song to use for this as it features the distinctive G-C-G pattern at the end of each verse (as in fu-UU-el).
I also distributed a french dance for recorder by Claude Gervais called "Bransle" (sometimes called "Champagne Bransle.") The music is posted above as are a couple of practice track recordings. This something new we're trying. Since so many Wonderland teachers have smart boards, I am asking them to use the blog in their classroom to help the kids practice. If it works we can post practice tracks for vocal music as well.
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