1. Kaia Learning Journey Music and computing 2015

2. Music Targets “I Can” StatementsEvidence: How I achieved this? Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts I can sing in the Gospel Choir confidently I can sing solos confidently Use voices and instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control, expression I can do actions in time with the songs that we sing I can sing sensitively, paying attention to volume, and the style of music I can tell whether my voice is a “Soprano” or “Alto Improvise and compose music for a arrange of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music teI can compose music using live instruments and chnology I can improvise a drum kit accompaniment to a piece of hip hop music I can create sound effects to create a particular mood for a song

3. Targets “I Can” StatementsEvidence: How have I achieved this? Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory I can sing and remember harmony parts confidently in a choir Because at home I was practicing all of the lyrics I can remember all of the words to the songs Use and understand staff and other musical notations I understand and can compose using visual notation Appreciate and understand a wide range of live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians I can describe the sounds in a composition I can describe the form and structure of a composition

4. Targets “I Can Statements” Evidence: How have I achieved this? Other things that I can do I can sing the song contfidently.I play the guitar. I can move in rhythm to different beats. I do dance club and love to dance at home. I can play the drums.I have played the drums in my church band. Other things that I would like to do I like to play keyboard. I am interested in playing keyboard because I like to play songs.

5. 7 th January 2015 LO: To practice logging to LGFLand sending An email; To log into soundation and make a compositon. Assessment: Today I remembered how to log into LGFL and sent an email to Mr Salazar. After I went to soundation to sign in my user name and my password.

6. Mr Salazar’s Comments Great work Kaia. I didn’t receive an email. Did you type my email address correctly? Yes I remembered your email address correctly. Did you remember you LGFL username and password by memory? I sometimes remembered my LGFL username and my password. Were you able to log in to soundation? I was not able to log in to soundation because I wasted a bit of my time.

7. Gospel chior Everyone was singing gospel songs like Happy, jump, rather be, colours, hold on to your faith, and let the sunshine. My favourite song is colours and jump. The song that I don’t like is hold on to your faith.

8. Mr Salazar’s Comments 15 January Kaia, thank you for writing about the choir. Can you tell me why you liked Jump? Because I liked the rhythm and the high pich. Why did you dislike Hold on to your faith? I disliked Hold on to your faith It wasn’t all that for me. Next time, can you write the date and LO in the new slide?

9. Mr Salazar’s Comments 22 January Kaia, thank you for highlighting the I can statements Please go back and add details to the “Evidence” columns

10. 28 January 2015 Learning Objective –To describe musical form Definition of “Form” –How the parts of a song are put together –The structure of music

11. Musical Form What are the different parts of music? (Add your own definitions) –Verse: –Chorus: –Bridge: On the next slide, you will listen to the song “Happy” and add notes regarding the verse and chorus. The first two sections are completed for you.

12. Singing insperation On Tuesday year 5 went to a trip to the royal festival hall. We had to practise singing before the perents came to watch up perfom.

13. Today I learnt how to make a movie maker. The song I had to make was Happy and I completed it.

14. Happy: Musical Form LyricsInstrumentsVocals Verse 1“It might seem crazy….” Drum Kit, Synthesizer Female Soloist Chorus“Because I’m Happy…” Drum Kit, Synthesizer Female Soloist; Background vocals Verse 2It comes bad news talking this and that, Give me all you got and don’t hold it back, I should probably warn you I’ll be just fine, no offence to you don’t waste your time here’s Drum kit and synthesizer; Female soloist: ChorusClap along if you feel with a room without a roof, clap along if you feel if happiness is to you, clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do Drum kit and synthesizer. Female/backing vocals. BridgeBring me down, came nothing, bring me down because I’m x2 Drum and clapping.Female/backing vocals. Chorus (Twice)Clap along if you feel with a room without a roof, clap along if you feel if happiness is to you, clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do Drum kit, synthesizer and clapping. Female/backing Vocals. Bridge.Bring me down, came nothing, bring me down because I’m x2 Chorus (Twice)

15. Mr Salazar’s Comments The work on slide 12 looks excellent. Please add definitions on slide 11

16. Learning objective To define musical texture To describe texture in music definition: Layers of sound

18. charanga Today I’ve been creating my new charanga account,and to log in to my username. My username is _____. And my password is ________. Kaia, thank you for creating these two slides. Will you remember your username and password? Maybe you should add the first and last letter so that you don’t forget it. Also, could you login to Charanga, do the texture activity, and add a picture of that to a new slide.

19. 1 st July During this lesson we discussed music that gets gradually louder and quieter. I created a song in soundation that uses crescendo and diminuendo.