Journal Reflection # 3

This week we learned many new things but one thing that we really focused on was melody. The definition that we learned is that melody is a variation of high, low and the same pitch. We also learned about the scale that was associated with us learning about melody, this scale is the CDEFGABC. The treble clef sometimes called the G- clef comes at the begging of the 5 line scale. After we learned about these our assignment was to go draw pictures that went to the beat of the song rain, but the catch was we had to place the pictures we drew on the same place on the scale that the note would show up. I think that this assignment helped up to better understand where the notes come on the scale because you actually had to do it for yourself. We also had to learn about whole notes, the half notes and the quarter notes and all if these things were incorporated in our homework in some way. We also talked about the tone you should use when singing song with children. The younger they are the higher your voice should be so they can sing along.
On Friday we got some more practice on our recorders. Last week we learned to play three notes on the recorder, A, B, G. We were directed in class to use these three notes to play the song “Think of a Fly” and we could put the notes wherever we wanted to in the song. I didn’t think that this activity was difficult it was actually a lot of fun because we got to use or own creativity.