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12/15/2025: Happy Holidays!
"Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse, French Visual Artist
Kelvin Grove is home to D91's 4th-8th grade students. 4th and 5th grade students have music once a week for 35 minutes for the duration of the school year. 6th-8th grade students have music class everyday for 40 minutes - for one trimester. Students rotate through Technology and Art for the remaining Trimesters.
D91's Music Statement: Use music (by actively listening, composing, or performing) to make connections to the world around us.
Kelvin Grove's Musicians will:
Organize and develop musical ideas and work
Revise, refine, and complete personal musical work
Develop and refine musical techniques and work for presentation
Perceive and analyze artistic work
Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make music
Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen own understanding
Kelvin Grove's Musicians will:
Practice using standard notation to write their own rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic compositions
Utilize self, teacher, and peer feedback to improve and evaluate own work, composition or performance
Explain rationale behind revisions to own work in the form of self reflections
Demonstrate and describe how responses to music are informed by the elements of music and social, historical, and cultural context
Compare and contrast music across genres, cultures, and historical periods
Connect personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding to music
Demonstrate understanding of music's relationship to other arts, disciplines, contexts, and daily life
Grading:
Intermediate Level (4th and 5th): Forth and Fifth grade students are graded mainly on participation. Students are assessed based on performance in class and retention over multiple weeks in a unit. There are some written assignments/worksheets for these students that will be completed during class time.
Junior High Level (6th - 8th): A major portion of junior high's music grade is based on participation. Every day students can earn 5 points for their daily participation, resulting in 25 points a week. Absent students have the opportunity to complete Absent Work on Google Classroom in order to still earn their 5 points for the day. Any projects and assignments are to be completed during class, and should not require homework time unless determined by the class and the teacher. Assessments are given at the end of each unit in the form of projects, or solo/group performances. Infinite Campus will be updated bi-monthly.
If you ever have questions or would like further information on how your student is graded, feel free to send me a message on Parent Square!