Featuring Mr. Viselli's 2nd Grade

Second grade is working on learning the instrument families! Did you know there are 4 families of instruments?

Each month between now and April second grade is learning about a different family. In the month of January they learned about the Percussion family! All instruments have to VIBRATE in order to make sound, but HOW they vibrate is the way we can tell what family those instruments are in.

In the percussion family the instrument has to be hit, or shaken in order to VIBRATE to make sound. This week students are working on playing instruments to a PowerPoint I made (Love Somebody, Yes I Do!)

The second graders first learn the song by rote, then keep a steady beat by use of rhythm sticks, and finally we break up the class into three groups. each group has a different percussion instrument, and each group plays on a different part of the song.

The Rhythm sticks are our "heartbeat" and keep the steady beat, the finger cymbals are the pretty flourish that plays whenever we sing "Yes I Do!" and the hand drums have the important part of accenting the beginning of each line. They play every time we sing "Love".


Featuring Mr. Viselli's second grade class you will hear the students perform "Love Somebody, Yes I Do!" in all three parts! The song is first sung AND played, then the students demonstrate how they can work together and keep the same steady beat by playing without singing! Finally, we end with the students singing the song without playing so they can concentrate on using their best singing voices possible!