Pi Day & YouTube in Music Class

YouTube & Music Class:   Pi Day!

Last Monday, March 14, was Pi Day. Students were able to view "What Pi Sounds Like" via YouTube and our Epson projectors. The creator of this piece assigned a pitch to each number and then played the progression of notes on various instruments, staggering the entrances as in a fugue.

I was able to use this example to point out several composers who have used mathematical formulas like this for creating music, from Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) to Paul Hindemith (1895 – 1963).

IPAD in Pre-K - March 3

In celebration of the birthday of Dr. Seuss, I read the book A, B, C to Pre-K B.  Each page of the story focuses on a letter of the alphabet by using many words (both real and Seuss) and pictures that start with that specific letter.  Students then created an art project that was based on the first letter of their first name.  After writing their name on a white sheet of paper students had to fill the remainder of the page with pictures of things that also started with the first letter of their first name.  For this project I downloaded the app PictionaryHD, which is like a visual dictionary.  When kids ran out of things to draw or were not sure what something looked like, we were able to pull up a picture of it within a few seconds of scrolling.

Charlie needed help coming up with more "C" words so with the help of the ipad he was able to draw a cactus. 

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

  During our Discovery training we learned how to make digital versions of ourselves.  I don't really play the drums but I wish I did!