Mr. Oliver's Music Class

Hello everyone, Grade 5 and 6 continued to practice as the band this week. They should continue practicing their instrument over March Break, focusing on excercises 16, 17, and the notes from excercises 19 and 21. If there is time it would be great if students had a chance to watch 'Mary Poppins' in preparation for our work for the Arts Night Performance. Grade 4s continued to practice the ukuele. We can now play the chords C,F,G, Aminor and E minor and were able to play the first verse and chorus of 'Somewhere over the Rainbow'. After March break we will begin our preparations for Arts Night. Have a great March Break everyone! Mr. Oliver

This week in the PYP grade 5 and grade 6 continued to practice together as the band. Here is a link to the sheet music for grade 5 and 6 students to practice this week: https://photos.app.goo.gl/tmmk6yR6LYnVbJJN8 Grade 4 did some music fundementals and rhythm work and we learned a new chord on the ukulele, E minor. This week also, students found out about the main roles for Mary Poppins. Directly after March break, students will begin learning the songs and choreography in preparation for the show! Have a great weekend! Mr. Oliver

This week in the PYP we did the following: Grade 4 This week Ms. Samuel's class performed their compositions. I will have them up on my blog next week: Grade 5s started performing their parodies that they have been creating over the past couple of weeks. We will hear the remainder of them in class next week. Grade 6s have been practicing in the band and have done some work on understanding rhythms. Have a great weekend! Mr. Oliver 

Hello everyone, This week Ms. Dimascio's class presented their compositions in class. The students did an excellent job! Here are some of the student's performances in class. Ms. Samuel's class will present their compositions in class next week. https://photos.app.goo.gl/cTbE9Fu2SSBAeg2B8 Grade 5s continue to work on their parodies and will present them in class next week. Grade 6s practiced together as the band for the first time in quite a while. They should practice Hot Cross Buns as individual students will be asked to perform for the class next week. Happy Family Day! Mr. Oliver

This week in the PYP grade 4s continued to work on their compositions. I am looking forward to hearing them present to the class which will be during Tuesday's lesson. Grade 5s are continuing to work on wriitng their own parodies in groups . They will have next week to work on them and then will present them to the class after family day. Grade 6s have done some review of musical fundementals and we had a fun music theory Kahoot in class. Next week we will be continuing our work together as the band. Have a good weekend everyone! Mr. Oliver

This week we have been in a differnt classroom because of upper school examinations but have worked on some very interesting things. Grade 4s continue working on writing their own song. They are using technology for this and have also learned about intro, coda and a bridge and are incorporating these things into their compositions. Grade 5s have been continuing to learn about parodies and are in the process of analysing an existing parody. Next week, they will get to work on learning their own parodies! Grade 6s have been emersed in the music of the maritimes and have been learning about the meaning of 'Northwest Passage' and 'I'se the B'y. Have a great weekend! Mr. Oliver 

Hello everyone, Grade 4 this week worked on producing a set of lyrics for a song that they are writing. They learned about rhyming, opposites and association as well as the strcuture of a song, and in groups worked on producing a chorus and two verses. Next week we will learn about melody and harmony. Grade 4s should bring their devices in next week for this. Grade 5 practiced together as the band. We have been working on excercise 16 'Hot Cross Buns' and learned about rests and playing with different rhythms. Grade 6 also practiced togehter as the band but also learned how to perform a traditional aboriginal stick game song, as well as beginning the 'Song for the Swimmers'. Next week we will learn about the music of other explorers and learn an aboriginal dance for Song of the Swimmers. I have attached the two songs we have been learning here: Song for the Swimmers Travelling Stick Game Song

Hello everyone, After a very successful set of Christmas concerts I am very excited to be back and getting back into the swing of things. I have reattached the music for grade 5 and 6 band for them to work on as we have restarted the band from today. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1V5WwX6QMcO9z6XxPrnqINTxW4tQLUtY3 Have a great week! Mr. Oliver