4th and 5th Grade shows

4th Grade - 6:00pm

5th Grade - 7:00pm

2nd and 3rd Grade Shows

2nd Grade - 6:00pm

3rd Grade - 7:00pm

Kinder and 1st Grade Shows

Kinder - 6:00pm

1st Grade - 7:00pm

Kindergarteners have been working on 3 essential music skills - keeping a steady beat, using their singing voices, and moving their bodies purposefully to music. I use materials from the First Steps in Music series by Johh Fierabend.

Echo Songs: No More Pie, Wise Old Owl

Fingerplays/Action Songs: Chop, Chop, Chippity Chop, 5 Little Ladies

Instrument Songs: Listen, Listen, Engine, Engine

Movement Songs: 

• Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1

• Brahams - Waltz in Ab Major

• Satie - Trois Gymnopedies

First Graders have been working on building upon the 3 essential music skills - keeping a steady beat, using singing voices, and moving their bodies purposefully to music. I use materials from the First Steps in Music series by Johh Fierabend.

Echo Songs: In the Woods, I Met a Bear

Fingerplays/Action Songs: Wake Up Lazy Bones!, Johnny Works with One Hammer, I Had a Little Turtle, William Had Seven Sons

Movement Songs:

• Prokofiev - Wedding of Kije

• Saint-Saens - Aquarium

• Dvorak - Humoresque

Second Graders have been working on building upon thei 3 essential music skills - keeping a steady beat, using singing voices, and moving their bodies purposefully to music. I use materials from the First Steps in Music series by Johh Fierabend.

Echo Songs: Kye Kye Kule (Ghana), Lucy Rabbit

Fingerplays/Action Songs: My Hat Has 3 Corners, Cousin Peter, Kahuli Aku (Hawaii), Mother Goonie Bird,  San Sereni (Puerto Rico)

Movement Songs:

• Beethoven - Fur Elise

• Schumann - Traumerei

• Kabalevsky - Pantomime

Third Graders have been working on Quarter Note and Eighth Note Patterns. They are working to be come "conversational" in these rhtyhms through the following steps: 

• Readiness - being prepped with familiar melodies that utilize the target rhythms. 

• Conversational  (Rote) - students repeat, decode, and create patterns with the target rhythms through vocal or instrument-based activities

• Reading - students read and decode patterns with the target rhythms written in standard notation.

• Writing - students copy and create patterns with the target rhythms by writing them down in standard notation.

Songs: Yankee Doodle, Closet Key

Games: Poison Pattern, Jungle Drums, Secret Password

Fourth Graders have been preparing for their upcoming concert, "The Granny Awards". This concert is a mini-musical, with plenty of speaking, singing, and dancing parts for all students. 

"The Granny Awards" is an awards show hosted by Granny, where different awards are given to various famous fairytale creatures. 

The students are SO excited about this concert and cannot wait to present it to you on Thursday, November 19th at 6pm.

Fifth Graders have been preparing for their upcoming concert, "Disney: The Movies, The Music". Because it's their final grade level concert, the 5th Grade students got to vote on the theme for the show - and Disney was the winner! 

The 5th Graders also voted on a class song to sing, a tradition that I have had for 8 years. The greatest thing about teaching these students for so many years is to be able to celebrate them and their growth with a final concert that they get input with! 

The students are excited to share this concert with you on Thursday, November 19th at 7pm.