Recently, Mrs. Melvin's 2nd grade class at Bainbridge Elementary finished their video for our musical pen pals at Donegal Primary School. Mrs. Melvin's group picked the song "Hunt the Cows," which they learned to highlight AB form, and the note "do". The song already had a great movement game to show the form of the song. The students had to create some instrumental parts to add to our performance to make it more interesting for our viewers and more challenging for the performers.
The students added a chordal accompaniment using C, D and G boomwhackers. Of course, what would "Hunt the Cows" be with out a little cow bell? The students decided to use the cow bell only during the B section, every time we sang the note "do", which highlighted the movement of the game. The students also designed the spoken introduction that you will see in the video.
I invited our Principal, Mr. Kiehl to help us out with the video. Mr. Kiehl knows the principal at DPS and we are hoping that their principal, Mr. Miller, will take part in the videos too! The students voted on which part Mr. Kiehl should play and taught him how to play his part.
Before taping the students watched a preliminary taping of their performance and discussed ways to make their performance even more successful. Take a look at what they created:
No comments:
Post a Comment