What a great start to our first day of our inquiry into musical games from different cultures and places!
We discovered that in 4 DB, we have people from Scotland, Canada, Australia, China, Hong Kong SAR, and Japan! So we are sure to discover some wonderful new games from around the world!
Today we read over our Central Idea and discussed what it meant to us as a class. We also looked at our lines of inquiry, key concepts, and some transdiciplinary skills and learner profile words that we will be focusing on developing through playing, exploring, and learning about musical games over the next few weeks.
We had two home learning activities assigned for us to do over the holidays; one was to ask someone from our family if they know a musical game that is played in our culture, and ask them to teach it to us so that we can come back and share it with the rest of the class. The other home learning activity is a reflection on the game we learned today.
The game we learned today, called 'O Moshi O Tsuki Masho' is a game from Japan that Ms. Venance learned from another teacher in Laos! She did not learn it by reading the music for it, rather she learned it by ear only - so some of the words might be spelled wrong, or even pronounced in a different way than they would be pronounced in Japan - we talked about how these changes can happen when games are passed on through people and word of mouth rather than through written music. Ms. Venance was told that this game is about making rice cakes and putting them into the oven.
Here are the words - (maybe if you know some Japanese, you can help us with the spelling!):
O Mochi o suki Macho, o mochi o suki macho, petan koh, petan koh, petan petan petan koh.
Tsut konote, tsut konote, tsut konote konote konote
do do do mi so so so mi do mi so mi do mi so!
The actions are the really fun part in this game!! I'm sure if you asked someone from 4DB to show you how to play, they would be more than happy to share!
See you on the 3rd of January and Happy Holidays!
We discovered that in 4 DB, we have people from Scotland, Canada, Australia, China, Hong Kong SAR, and Japan! So we are sure to discover some wonderful new games from around the world!
Today we read over our Central Idea and discussed what it meant to us as a class. We also looked at our lines of inquiry, key concepts, and some transdiciplinary skills and learner profile words that we will be focusing on developing through playing, exploring, and learning about musical games over the next few weeks.
We had two home learning activities assigned for us to do over the holidays; one was to ask someone from our family if they know a musical game that is played in our culture, and ask them to teach it to us so that we can come back and share it with the rest of the class. The other home learning activity is a reflection on the game we learned today.
The game we learned today, called 'O Moshi O Tsuki Masho' is a game from Japan that Ms. Venance learned from another teacher in Laos! She did not learn it by reading the music for it, rather she learned it by ear only - so some of the words might be spelled wrong, or even pronounced in a different way than they would be pronounced in Japan - we talked about how these changes can happen when games are passed on through people and word of mouth rather than through written music. Ms. Venance was told that this game is about making rice cakes and putting them into the oven.
Here are the words - (maybe if you know some Japanese, you can help us with the spelling!):
O Mochi o suki Macho, o mochi o suki macho, petan koh, petan koh, petan petan petan koh.
Tsut konote, tsut konote, tsut konote konote konote
do do do mi so so so mi do mi so mi do mi so!
The actions are the really fun part in this game!! I'm sure if you asked someone from 4DB to show you how to play, they would be more than happy to share!
See you on the 3rd of January and Happy Holidays!
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