Week 6 Treble Island Tales Finale

Toc complete our programme today 2nd class joined 6th class and Senior and 1st joined 3rd and 4th for two special afternoon mega sessions. Bravo tutti!

Click on the links below for our special Treble Island Tales told through songs and tunes drawing together many of the elements of our class over the last six weeks.


Treble Island Tales Version 2 (2nd and 6th Class)


Treble Island Tales Version 1

Tales from Treble Island

Senior /1^st     Steady Beat Rap

         Teddy Bear Rock and Roll

           Jack and Bean Stalk  Song Story

         Penguin Song

 

3^rd 4^th French Folk Song

   / Shoe the Donkey  Mazurka

      Ceol ars an t-asal

Drunken Sailor

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*Once upon a time there lived a happy group of folk on Treble Island.   The Islanders liked to move to a beat and they began each day with a rap to help them get in the groove  Cue (Steady Beat Rap)  2^nd class

On the south coast of the Island lived a colony of Penguins who occasionally came to tea Cue Penguin Song                               

* Even the animals were musical on Treble Island. In a field lived a very vain donkey  Ceol ars an t-asal   Tutti .

Every morning the men of the island put out to sea in fishing boats. They liked to sing seas shanties while they worked on the decks . So what do you do with a drunken sailor – listen and you’ll find out! Drunken Sailor

On days when the waves grew higher and the wind blew hard the their families waited anxiously on the shore looking out to sea   Cue Tá na  Baid .

In one corner of the island lived a giant This is the story of Jack ………….Jack and Beanstalk Song Story

 To celebrate Jack slaying the giant, there was a big party  with a céili and the pop group Beat Bears came to do a special concert. Everybody danced and sang to the Teddy Bear Rock and Roll

Finish with   party set Shoe the donkey  Mazurka /French Folk Song  /Polka

 Teddy Bear Rock and Roll.

Week 5 Uke Can Do

Exciting day at the Rathgormack MMS music programme as every student in 5th and 6th class got acquainted with the ukulele. We learned to play 3 chords C G and F . Click on the link below to view our special beginners ukulele lesson.

 Beginners Uke Lesson







Thanks Anna who volunteered to keep the class ukuleles in tune this week.

3/4th class learned a new tune to play on tin whistle and accordion with 3 beats to add to Shoe the Donkey.

Chord sequence  D_ _  A __ _ G_ _  D _ _     French Folk Song
                            G      D          A       D
                            D      D          D       G
                            A     A           A       D
                            D     D           A       D
 

Shoe the Donkey  G G G D
                              D D D G x 2          Nice easy pattern to this chord sequence
                              G D D G
                               G D D G x2
                           

Ceol ars an t-asal  Best combination for canon was 1 Tin Whistle followed by accordions

Warm Up  Tooty ta Song 

Senior /1st jack and the Bean stalk songs from Singing Sherlock 

This Old Man  with Katie on tin whistle 

2nd class: 

Thanks Josie for playing your piano rag  adding Ta Ta on A 

Drunken Sailor with added tin whistle riff

Ceol ars and t-asal 

Junior Infants.

Tapping Song / Train Songs / Three Little Pigs