Videos

00:38 Somebody's Knockin' At My Door: Song Game

This is the song "Somebody's Knockin' At My Door," a folk song that we play as a guessing game as to who is playing the clave in music class. I hope you enjoy singing along and playing this game with someone in your family!

2:12 "Arirang" Korean Folk Song: Fan Dance

This is a fan dance based on choreography by Hal Leonard to the Korean folk song "Arirang," sung by Frances Yip. If you would like to listen to the original audio, please copy and paste this url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YeOGtLy08c
In music class, we learned about South Korea and read "The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story," by Tina Cho. This story describes the amazing free divers who dive in Jeju, an island off the coast of South Korea, and follows the story of a grandmother who is a haenyeo diver teaching her granddaughter how to free dive.
Feel free to make your own paper fans at home to dance this piece. Enjoy!

3:39 Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights by Sergei Prokofiev

This is a "Move It" movement to music choreographed by Peggy Lyman of Sergei Prokofiev's piece "Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights." In music class we learned about Shakespeare's story of Romeo and Juliet, and then danced the parts of the Montagues and the Capulets at the masquerade ball that the Capulets host, where Romeo meets Juliet. If you would like to hear just the music of this piece, copy and paste this url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_hOR50u7ek
I hope you enjoy dancing along!

2:43 Old Woman All Skin and Bones

Please watch the video of Ms. Koplinka-Loehr singing the song "Old Woman All Skin and Bones," and sing along with her when she sings the "Ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh" part of the song. Once you have practiced the song, you can teach the song to someone else in your family or household if you would like! Finally, you can make up your own verse to the song--where else could the Old Woman go? What else could she hear? What else could she see? What else could she feel? Have fun singing and practicing our spooky October song, "Old Woman All Skin and Bones!"

Old Woman All Skin and Bones:
There was an old woman all skin and bones (Oo-oo-oo)
She lived on a hillside all alone (Oo-oo-oo)
One night she thought she’d take a walk (Oo-oo-oo)
She went to the graveyard around the block (Oo-oo-oo)
She looked down upon the ground (Oo-oo-oo)
She saw some bones a-lyin’ around (Oo-oo-oo)
She thought she’d go home to get a broom (Oo-oo-oo)
She pointed her feet towards her front room (Oo-oo-oo)
She crept onto her own front porch (Oo-oo-oo)
She saw the flickering of a torch (Oo-oo-oo)
She stepped across her living room floor (Oo-oo-oo)
She heard a sound she'd never heard before (Oo-oo-oo)
She felt something touch her hair (Oo-oo-oo)
She turned, but saw nothing there (Oo-oo-oo)
She put her hand on the closet door (Oo-oo-oo)
Again, that sound she’d never heard before (Oo-oo-oo)
She opened the door and then she saw (Oo-oo-oo)
A shadow of something...BOO!

2:25 Firebird Infernal Dance by Stravinsky

We have been learning about the Firebird ballet, based on a Russian folk tale, with music composed by Igor Stravinsky. Listen closely to for the theme of the evil lord Katschei, with this long fingernails, as well as the theme of the firebird dancing and flying in the sky. Also listen for the theme of the demons, and Prince Ivan, who refuses to look in the eyes of Katschei, as he does not want Katschei to turn him into stone.

To learn more about the story of the Firebird, feel free to watch a 3 minute synopsis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwJyZ0tgEI

To watch the Infernal Dance of the Firebird Ballet, copy and paste this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOWJuZqQMmk

Enjoy!

00:40 Hickety Pickety Bumblebee

Sing along with Ms. Koplinka-Loehr and Ms. G in one of our favorite songs, "Hickety Pickety Bumblebee!"
Be sure to sing your own name in the song, and you can sing the song with everyone in your family and sing their names, too!

00:37 My Name is Michael

This is the song "My Name Is Michael." The lyrics are:

My name is Michael
I've got a nickel
I've got a nickel
Shiny and new
It's gonna buy me
All kinds of _____ (you choose!)
And then I'll share it
Share it with you!

3:11 The Button and The Key

Please watch the video of Ms. Koplinka-Loehr singing the song "The Button and the Key." You can re-watch the video as many times as you like. Make sure to practice the "Who has the button?" or "Who has the key?" part, and make a guess as to who has which item Zoey has and which item Elliot has! You can sing along when you hear "I have the button!" or "I have the key!"

Next, you can teach this song to anyone in your family or household. You can trade off who sings the question "Who has the button?" and "Who has the key?" and then who responds with the answer "I have the button!" or "I have the key!". Be sure to insert your name into the beginning when you sing the song for "Around comes ___, around comes (s)he!"

Finally, you can also draw a picture of you hiding the button or the key with someone in your household or your family. If you have a lot of stuffed animals, you can even line them all up and then have someone else in your family guess which stuffed animal has the button or the key. Finally, you can hide a button or a key in your household and try to have someone guess where it is, as in, "The couch has the button and the desk has the key." Have fun!

4:56 Danse Macabre

This song is "Danse Macabre," by Camille Saint-Seans. Make sure you copy Ms. Koplinka-Loehr's dance as you listen and move to the song! Don't forget to count to twelve with the harp as the clock chimes midnight, then tiptoe to the graveyard, and play your violin at the beginning of the song. You can show your spookiest version of your skeletons and ghosts if you would like! Next, you can upload a video recording of yourself showing the motions of "Danse Macabre" on your own, or while copying Ms. Koplinka-Loehr. You can show yourself dancing to the whole song, or you can choose just your favorite part to share in a video. Finally, if you want to practice with just the track itself, you can copy and paste the link here to listen and practice "Danse Macabre":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71fZhMXlGT4
Have fun!

3:29 Secret Song: S.B.

This is a secret song! Ms. Koplinka-Loehr will show the solfege motions of the song in her hands...can you guess what song it is? You can pause the video after her hands stop the motions, and re-watch the motions as many times as you like. Once you have figured out the song, you can sing along with Ms. Koplinka-Loehr--or, try singing just after her! You can also make up new motions for the words of the song. Then, you can upload a video or audio recording of yourself singing the song, either by yourself or with someone in your family or in your household, with your new motions. Have fun!

2:15 Secret Song: H.S.H.

This is a secret song! Ms. Koplinka-Loehr will tap out a rhythm...can you guess what song it is? You can pause the video after the taps, and re-listen as many times as you like. Once you have figured out the song, you can sing and dance along with Ms. Koplinka-Loehr. Then, on SeeSaw, you can upload a video or audio recording of you singing and moving to the song, and you can even draw a picture of the animal in the song, and sing along to the picture that you drew! Finally, you can make up your own new words of the song, with a new animal doing a new action, and post a video or audio response, with you singing your new version of the song. Have fun!

00:52 Se Se Se

This is "Se Se Se," or rock, paper, scissors in Japanese. Feel free to practice the game, and then teach it to everyone in your house to play rock, paper, scissors together in Japanese!