Brain Busters!

Hello Mrs. G's Musical Machine!

This week I'm going to be testing your musical brains! Try your best to figure out these musical clues, each one adds pictures together to create a musical vocabulary word, type of music, or song.

For example:

                                                              Cow + Bell = Cowbell!


When you think you have all the answers, send them to me in an email, please don't post in the comments, as I don't want to spoil the fun for everyone! My school email address is: agillette@sayresd.org

Happy Guessing!

Only 3 weeks left of school! Can you believe it???? This week is all about listening! Listening to the world around you, listening to parents, listening to the sounds of your home, and of course listening to music!!!

Hop on over to YouTube.com and listen to:

Spring by Vivaldi

What instruments do you hear?
Is there singing?
Do you hear any drums?
Do you like it?

After you have listened and analyzed color in the glyph below based on what you heard! If you want to leave a picture of your finished product in the comments below I would love to see them!!!

Star Spangled Banner

Hello, Snyder Friends!!!

In honor of Memorial Day coming I would love to share with all of you the history of the United States National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner.

Take a look at the slides in my google slide presentation.  After you've checked it out, along with an adult, or parent permission, go to youtube.com and find a recording of the Star Spangled Banner that you love and post it in the comments!

I can't wait to hear everybody's favorite renditions of our National Anthem!





Star Spangled Banner <------- click here for the entire slide show

Mr. Maraca goes down under!

Hello my music kiddos!

I would like to introduce you to Mr. Maraca! Mr. Maraca is a friend of mine that likes to visit around the world and bring back pictures, and information about the places he's visited.

This time, Mr. Maraca is in Australia! Please check out the powerpoint below, and see what things you can learn about Australia's music, culture, and food!

 Australia!!!!!!!

I find it impossible to learn about Australia and not talk about the Kangaroo!When researching about them I learned that there were over 50 different kids of Kangaroos and they range in size!

The Aboriginal (Aboriginies) people were the first inhabitants of Australia. Part of their culture was using music during their "dream time".  The music would signify different things such as animals, weather, events etc.

If you have a chance, listen to this didgeridoo music! It's amazing!


https://youtu.be/oXBGZoBYaLY