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QuaverMusic MOVE IN MAY choreography contest
3 groups from Royle entered and
ALL WERE WINNERS!
Students created all of their own choreography!
Here are their videos & the reaction videos from Mr. Quaver!
Bound for South Australia
RoyleSchoolConnecticutEntry1.MOVBound for South Australia - Entry 1.mp4RoyleSchoolConnecticutEntry2.movTake the Time to be kind - Entry 2.mp4Take the Time to Be Kind (above) ------ Planets Rap (below)
RoyleSchoolEntry3.MOVPlanets Rap - Entry 3.mp4Music K 8 Cover Art Contest 2025
150 students from Royle entered the contest, which received 5006 entries from all over the country!
25 students from Royle won national awards!
Here are the award winners:
Nutcracker with 1-M
ThankfulFor You 3T 2024.mp4Thanksgiving 2024
Fall 2024
Congratulations to our ROYLE Chorus on their outstanding performance at the SPRING CONCERT in June 2024 !
MusicK8 Cover Art Contest 2024
Congratulations to FOURTEEN Royle students
who won national awards this year!
Watch the video to see all of the winner's artwork and ALL of the Royle entries!
Every year, students from all over the country are invited to draw the COVER ART for MusicK8 magazine - a magazine that we subscribe to here at Royle School. The magazine contains original songs that we use throughout our curriculum - such as our old favorites "Viva Valentine" and "Summer Vacation." MusicK8 got nearly 5500 entries this year. Royle School students have won awards in the contest every year that we have entered!
CMEA Elementary All-State Honors Chorus and Band - 2024
Congratulations to our Royle 5th Graders who performed in the
CMEA all-state elementary honors ensembles in April 2024:
All-State Chorus:
Annabelle E., Dahlia M., Anay S., Ellis M. & alternates Ken C. & Charlotte T.
(pictured with Ms. Theisen, chorus director)
All-State Band:
Maya R., oboe (pictured with Dr. Colin Walters, band director)
MusicK8 Cover Art Contest 2023
Congratulations to ELEVEN Royle students who won national awards this year!
Every year, students from all over the country are invited to draw the COVER ART for MusicK8 magazine - a magazine that we subscribe to here at Royle School. The magazine contains original songs that we use throughout our curriculum - such as our old favorites "Viva Valentine" and "Summer Vacation." MusicK8 gets nearly 10,000 entries every year. Royle School students have won awards in the contest every year.
MusicK8 Cover Art Contest 2022
Congratulations to TWO Royle students who won national awards this year!
Augusta W. - 5th grade - "FINALIST"
Griffin L. - 3rd Grade - "Honorable Mention"
Every year, students from all over the country are invited to draw the COVER ART for MusicK8 magazine - a magazine that we subscribe to here at Royle School. The magazine contains original songs that we use throughout our curriculum - such as our old favorites "Viva Valentine" and "Summer Vacation." MusicK8 gets thousands of entries every year. Royle School students have won awards in the contest every year.
Second Grade Musical - June 2021
This is a 'virtual' multi-tracked recording of JOURNEY INTO OUTER SPACE by QuaverMusic, presented by the 2nd grade music classes from Royle School, Kathleen Theisen, music teacher. Recordings were made during music classes in May and early June 2021.
To create this video, each class was recorded while singing the songs. Each class was also video-recorded (on iPhone or iPad) while doing the choreography. They also played the xylophone parts for Zooming. We went outdoors for students to say their lines in front of Ms. Theisen's portable green screen. Art 'backdrops' and backing tracks used in the video were supplied within QuaverMusic curriculum. Since there is no choreography for The Planets Rap or Pluto Song, I included a screencast of the Quaver lyrics for the audience to watch while you listen to our 2nd graders sing those songs.
Video and audio editing was done by Ms Theisen in ScreenFlow software - often with 3-6 vocal tracks, 3-5 choreography tracks, Quaver backing track, and 3 xylophone tracks on "Zooming into Space."
We hope you enjoy our 2nd grade musical from May/June 2021 !!!! Congratulations to the students for putting on a great show!
June 2021 Chorus Concert
Royle School Spring 2021 4th & 5th Grade Band Concert
Mr Colin Walters, Band Director
MusicK8 MAGAZINE Cover Art Contest 2021
Every year, students from all over the country are invited to draw the COVER ART for MusicK8 magazine - a magazine that we subscribe to here at Royle School. The magazine contains original songs that we use throughout our curriculum - such as our old favorites "Viva Valentine" and "Summer Vacation." MusicK8 gets thousands of entries every year. This year SIX STUDENTS from Royle received awards in this national 'contest.' See the video to see all of our winners and ALL of our entries this year. Congratulations to everyone who entered!
Congratulations to these students for their NATIONAL AWARDS:
Ella C. (Grade 5) - 4th Place
Noa D. (Grade 5) - Top Finalist
Carter S. (grade 1) - Promising Young Artist
Quinlan M. (Grade 4) - Most Humorous: Honorable Mention
Emma N. (Grade 4) - Honorable Mention
Eliza P. (Grade 4) - Honorable Mention
Our 2nd Grade Music Classes were scheduled to put on a jazz show on March 12, 2020, but school closed on March 11. We had rehearsals earlier that week, however, and Ms. Theisen has edited the rehearsal videos together, along with the videos of students saying their lines in front of a green screen - to create a 'show' for this year. Please enjoy JAZZ: A SWINGIN' CELEBRATION --- Script by Teresa Jennings (from MusicK8 magazine). Music is all from MusicK8 magazine, MusicPlayOnline.com, and Essential Elements Music Class - all part of our curriculum here at Royle School.
WINNERS of the 2020 JAZZ POSTER CONTEST!
Nora, Celine, Baxter, Teagan, Hannah.
Not pictured: Griffin
AT THE VERY TOP: Check out what Kindergarten Music Classes have been working on in 2019-2020!
JUST ABOVE: Check out what our Kindergarten Music Classes worked on in 2017-2018 school year!
Welcome to Music Class
Welcome to Music Class
at Royle Elementary School!
at Royle Elementary School!
ROYLE SCHOOL MUSIC PROGRAM
Ms. Kathleen Theisen - General Music Teacher and Choral Director
https://sites.google.com/a/darienps.org/roylemusic/
In Royle School music classes, children…
DISCOVER musical concepts by imitation, exploration and experimentation.
PLAY with music through movement, improvisation, and composition.
FOCUS while listening to, interpreting, and performing elemental music.
USE TEAMWORK as they create collaboratively and perform in ensemble.
Welcome, Parents!
My name is Kathleen Theisen and I am the general music teacher and chorus director at Royle School. We have two more general music teachers: Mrs. Kristen Turkosz teaches Mrs. Markham’s 1st Grade Music Class and 2 of the 4 ELP music classes and Mrs Ruth Lettera teaches 2 ELP music classes. I teach the other 18 general music classes and the Minstrels Chorus at Royle. I also co-direct the district-wide Elementary Honors Chorus. You may also know Ms. Minnis, our orchestra director, and perhaps you've met our band director, Mr. Matthew Curley.
This year’s calendar will include many wonderful events in general music, including: a Winter Concert featuring the Minstrels, Band and Orchestra; a Spring Concert featuring all of those groups plus the 3rd grade strings; Kindergarten performances at Halloween, Valentine’s Day, and in June; 1st Grade musical; 2nd Grade Musical; 3rd Grade recorder 'shares' during class; Minstrels performance at a school Veteran’s Day assembly, at a Sound Tigers hockey game on January 11, and at a school assembly for Flag Day; ukulele playdates between 4th and 5th grade music classes and kindergarten/ELP classes; 3 or 4 chorus members will sing with the all-state elementary chorus in April; up to 20 students from chorus can participate in the Elementary Honors Chorus at Music in the Parks in June; and MUCH MORE! All performance and 'share' dates will posted on my BLOG.
One thing I love about teaching music is the way that work & fun combine to create wonderful learning experiences for all. Students in Kindergarten and 1st grade learn songs from many different cultures as they develop their singing voices and their sense of steady beat. They’ll come home telling you all about the ways that they danced, played instruments, and sang songs all class long. They may even show you one of our many animal-drawing songs. As children progress from 2nd Grade through 5th Grade, they come to discover what makes music a unique and exciting art form. They study harmonic structure, phrase structure, musical texture (how melodies combine with each other), timbre (the unique sound each instrument makes), dynamics, style, and music history. Students also learn to read and write music notation, and they even try their hand at composing melodies with basic chord progressions. We have many instruments in our classroom – from metallophones & xylophones to shekeres, rain sticks, triangles, maracas, drums and more! All students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade will play the recorder - a flute-like instrument to perform solos and small ensembles. Students in grades 1-5 will also play ukulele throughout the year. Fourth and 5th grade classes work on rap projects and writing blues tunes. We also have access to Dash ‘robots’ to compose songs on iPads that the robots will perform on an attached xylophone.
Our district-wide theme this year is “JAZZ,” so all classes will be learning many aspects of jazz music! Students may submit original posters to a Music for Youth Poster Contest. Students may also submit ‘cover art’ for MusicK8 magazine - a national magazine that we use here in our music classes. Out of thousands of national entries, SEVEN students from Royle won national awards last year!
QUAVER: All students in K-5 will receive logins for QuaverMusic.com. In grades K-2, those logins will be linked to the students’ ‘Clever’ accounts for a single sign-on. Students in Grades 3-5 can use the Google single sign-on to save their Quaver login information, as well. On the Quaver website, students can compose songs, create skits, make movie soundtracks, read e-books about all aspects of music, sing favorite songs from class, and so much more. QuaverMusic is a comprehensive music education curriculum and we are THRILLED to be a QUAVER SCHOOL !
MUSICPLAYONLINE: All students in K-5 can also access MusicPlayOnline.com at home! Please ask Ms. Theisen for the login info!
Please take a moment to visit my BLOG at https://sites.google.com/a/darienps.org/roylemusic/ for updated information, photos and videos from class!
CONGRATULATIONS
CONGRATULATIONS
to our school winners in the
to our school winners in the
2020 MUSIC FOR YOUTH
2020 MUSIC FOR YOUTH
JAZZ POSTER CONTEST!
JAZZ POSTER CONTEST!
Grades K-2:
1st Place: Nora L., grade 2
2nd Place: Griffin L., grade 1
3rd Place: Baxter S., grade 2
Grades 3-5:
1st Place: Hannah H., grade 5
2nd Place: Celine S., grade 4
3rd Place: Teagan J., grade 5
EXTRA OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS:
(1) Students may submit artwork for the MUSIC K8 MAGAZINE cover art contest. DEADLINE: January 15th!!! Turn in your artwork to MS THEISEN! See Ms. Theisen for the contest rules and forms.
(2) Students may submit artwork for the MUSIC FOR YOUTH "JAZZ" poster contest. DEADLINE: January 15th!!!! Turn in your artwork to MS THEISEN!!!! Contest rules and forms available soon!
(3) Students may submit original music compositions for the DARIEN YOUNG COMPOSERS CONCERT. DEADLINE: March 16th!!!
SCROLL DOWN FOR INFO ABOUT EACH OF THESE EVENTS.
QUESTIONS? Contact MS THEISEN.
Congratulations to 7 Royle music students who were NATIONAL winners
Congratulations to 7 Royle music students who were NATIONAL winners
in the 2019 MusicK8 Magazine cover art contest!
in the 2019 MusicK8 Magazine cover art contest!
(click link and then enter 'darien' in the search box to find our students!)
(click link and then enter 'darien' in the search box to find our students!)
National Finalist: Hannah Huang, Grade 4
National Finalist: Maria Gardner, Grade 4
National Honorable Mention: Ella Clarke, Grade 3
National Honorable Mention: Andrea Coppe, Grade 3
Promising Young Artist - Honorable Mention: Elisa Madariaga, Grade 1
Promising Young Artist - Honorable Mention: Eliza June Harper, Grade 1
Most Humorous - Honorable Mention: Max Dinneen, Grade 2
ROYLE SCHOOL congratulates the following Royle School students
ROYLE SCHOOL congratulates the following Royle School students
who were chosen for awards in this national contest in Spring 2018:
who were chosen for awards in this national contest in Spring 2018:
Peter K. - Grade 5 - Top Finalist
Lily K - Grade 5 - Honorable Mention
Salma E. - Grade 4 - Honorable Mention
Eliza P. - Grade 1 - Promising Young Artist Honorable Mention
CLICK HERE to see all of the 2018 National Winners:
https://www.musick8.com/contest/WinnersList18.php
(enter 'darien' in the search box to find our students!)
Click here to see all of the 2017 National Winners:
https://www.musick8.com/contest/winnerslist17.php
ROYLE SCHOOL congratulates the following Royle School students
ROYLE SCHOOL congratulates the following Royle School students
who were chosen for awards in this national contest in Spring 2017:
who were chosen for awards in this national contest in Spring 2017:
Joyce H - Grade 5 - Top Finalist
Maddy D. - Grade 5 - Honorable Mention
Grace L. - Grade 5 - Honorable Mention
Click here to see all of the National Winners:
Want to use your Quaver account at home ?
Your Quaver login and password remain the same and your account will be active throughout the year (even in the summer!!) You do not need a 'QuaverCode' to get into your account. You just need the USERNAME and PASSWORD. Have fun! If you have any issues logging into your Quaver account, email Ms. Theisen: ktheisen@darienps.org.
Hello ROYLE!
from Austin Otto of QUAVER!
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