Welcome to Sanborn School's Music Web site!  This is a work in progress.  If you have any suggestions for the site please email dwaddell@aps1.net

"Use what talents you possess.  The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best"  Henry Van Dyke

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING CONCERTS

WINTER CONCERT:  Jan 17

All-Elementary Choral Festival:  March 27

SPRING CONCERT:  May 30

WE ARE ONE:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cbsFKnGIMc

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS WEB PAGE: 

https://sites.google.com/a/k12.andoverma.us/the-art-in-andover-public-schools/

CURRICULUM

The Andover Public Schools Music Curriculum is a singing based curriculum which embraces the Orff-Schulwerk approach to music and movement education and utilizes the music literacy methods of Dr. John Feierabend and the Kodály Music Concept.  The Orff approach builds 21^st century learning skills through imitation, exploration, improvisation, and composition.  Children use singing, expressive speech, instrument playing, and movement to become creative thinkers, collaborative problem solvers and life-long musicians.  Active music making is at the core of this philosophy, and the emphasis on creative movement appeals to kinesthetic learners. Just as we learn language aurally, our students experience and perform music without notation at first.  Students learn to read and write nontraditional and standard musical notation as they develop the desire to recreate and remember their own ideas, which reinforces the concepts they absorb through performance. The materials in the curriculum are selected from a rich repertoire of traditional folk songs and rhymes along with music from diverse styles and cultures.  Each of the following elements of music are explored throughout their elementary music education:  beat/rhythm, pitch/melody, timbre, tempo, dynamics, form, style, and texture.

Meet Your Music Teacher

Diane Waddell has been at Sanborn School since 1999.  Before coming to Sanborn,  she taught in public schools and private piano and violin studios in Nashville, Tennessee and Brooklyn, New York.  She started piano lessons in 1st grade and violin lessons in 3rd grade and added some other instruments along the way.  She attended Belmont University to receive her Bachelor of Music Education Degree and received her Master of Music Education from the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford.  She also has certifications in both the Kodaly method and Orff Schulwerk.