4th-5th Music

Covina-Valley Unified Elementary Music

Mar-27-2012

Composing Melodies

Fifth grade students at Workman, Rowland, and Ben Lomond Elementary composed music in general music class. They composed two melodies (this is impressive), added instrumentation, and decided on song form.

Workman, room 18: Paranormal
Workman, room 19: Joining of the Electric Wolves
Workman, room 20

Rowland, room 15
Rowland, room 16

Ben Lomond, room 22
Ben Lomond, room 23
Ben Lomond, room 24

Posted under General Music
Mar-16-2012

Chorus: America, the Dream Goes On

Chorus has a new song: America, the Dream Goes On

Posted under Chorus
Mar-9-2012

Featured Composition: The Bear’s Beat

Fifth grade students from room 23 at Ben Lomond Elementary School composed this piece in GarageBand. Using two different sixteenth note rhythms, they wrote an intricate rhythm, a melody, added instrumentation, and worked on song form. The form of this piece is ABABCA.

This piece was submitted for consideration to the Digital Voice Awards.

Posted under General Music
Feb-25-2012

Learn the 50 states and their capitols!

Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Indianapolis, Indiana
And Columbus is the capital of Ohio
There’s Montgomery, Alabama, south of Helena, Montana
Then there’s Denver, Colorado, under Boise, Idaho.

Texas has Austin, then we go north
To Massachusetts’ Boston, and Albany, New York
Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee.

Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know.

Trenton’s in New Jersey, north of Jefferson, Missouri
You’ve got Richmond in Virginia; South Dakota has Pierre
Harrisburg’s in Pennsylvania and Augusta’s up in Maine
And here is Providence, Rhode Island, next to Dover, Delaware.

Concord, New Hampshire, just a quick jaunt
To Montpelier, which is up in Vermont
Hartford’s in Connecticut, so pretty in the fall
And Kansas has Topeka; Minnesota has St Paul.

Juneau’s in Alaska and there’s Lincoln in Nebraska
And it’s Raleigh out in North Carolina and then
There’s Madison, Wisconsin, and Olympia in Washington
Phoenix, Arizona, and Lansing, Michigan.

Here’s Honolulu; Hawaii’s a joy
Jackson, Mississippi, and Springfield, Illinois
South Carolina with Columbia down the way
And Annapolis in Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.

They have wonderful clam chowder.

Cheyenne is in Wyomin’ and perhaps you make your home in
Salt Lake City out in Utah, where the Buffalo roam
Atlanta’s down in Georgia, and there’s Bismarck, North Dakota
And you can live in Frankfort in your old Kentucky home.

Salem in Oregon; from there we join
Little Rock in Arkansas; Iowa’s got Des Moines
Sacramento, California; Oklahoma and its city
Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City.

That’s all the capitals there are!

Posted under General Music
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