Mrs. G's Music Room - General Music Newsletter

♪♫♪ General Music Newsletter ♪♫♪

Students are already singing and dancing to a variety of music!!

I'm so excited about the 2025-2026 School Year : )

Be sure to visit this website for more up to date, detailed information about this year's Deer Run School Concerts!

Here is a preview of what we accomplish each month!

August/September

Deer Run School students will sing a variety of the following songs:

1. Deer Run School Song

2. Students will Warm Up with Vocalizing Exercises.

3. We're Going on a Bear Hunt (with vocal/instrumental sound effects)

4. Students will learn to sing our first Character Trait Song:

The Respect Song (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)

5. Our Patriotic Song Of The Month is God Bless America

6. Our Composer of The Month is Ludwig Van Beethoven

7. There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Seashell

(based on the original song: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly)

by Lucille Colandro Illustrated by Jared Lee

Share what we did this Summer.

8. Jump Jim Joe (Partner Song/Game)

9. Old Grey Cat

10. Freeze Dance and Copy Cat Freeze Dance!

11. Dancing with scarves

12. Rhythm Stick and Boomwacker Song Activities

13. Learn about J. S. Bach and his famous Music Compositions

14. This year we will be rotating through The Music Room Music Centers!!!

Music Library Center

Create a Musical Character/Instrument

Music Listening Center

Music Puppet Theater Center

Instrument/Piano Center

Music Games Center

October

October is a musical month, filled with all kinds of sounds♫ of autumn.

We move like autumn leaves with our colorful dancing scarfs!

1. Patriotic Song Of The Month: This Land Is Your Land (View lyrics at the bottom of this page)

2. Character Trait Song Of The Month: Responsibility

3. Autumn Leaves (AB pattern and movement with a parachute*no parachute activities during Covid)

4. Autumn Walk Poem

Walk, walk through dry leaves,

Listen to the crackling sounds.

Rake, rake, rake the leaves.

Jump into the leaves.

Now whirl, whirl all around,

Softly, softly float to the ground.

5. Five Little Pumpkins

6. Learn about a Famous Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

The Four Seasons, Autumn

November

During the month of November, students will learn to sing and move to our new Character Trait Song: Caring.

Our Patriotic Song Of The Month is America The Beautiful, you can sing along here!

All Deer Run Students will begin to work on their Winter Holiday Sing Along songs.

Students this month will also be listening to and singing Native American Indian Songs:

HÁtira, Hi Yo Ip Si Ne Ya and Navaho Night Chant.

We also will add a steady beat with the drums and shaker instruments!

Students will learn how to Partner Dance to a traditional song: Turkey In The Straw.

Students will learn to sing and gallop to a traditional Thanksgiving Song: Over The River And Through The Woods.

December

The Deer Run School Winter Holiday Sing Along

This month, we are learning songs about Winter Holiday Celebrations that take place around the world.

Over the next few weeks we will learn to sing some Winter, Hanukkah and Christmas favorites!

We will also listen to music composed by Peter Tchaikovsky from The Nutcracker Ballet.

You can learn about this ballet and famous composer in my favorite links page.

Our Patriotic Song for the Month of December is Yankee Doodle.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

January

To all our School Family and Friends, I would like to wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year!!!

Our Character Trait Song for this month is Trustworthy.

Our Patriotic Song of the Month, is America (My Country 'tis Of Thee).

I have posted the lyrics for you to download below.

Students will learn to sing a song called I Think You're Wonderful by Red Grammer.

This month we will learn about the Instruments in the Orchestra viewing:

Peter and the Wolf written by Sergue Prokofiev.

Students will also sing songs about Winter, Snow, a Snowman Song and

we will learn how to play a variety of Percussion Instruments.

February

This month, we are working on our Character Trait Song; Fairness.

Our Patriotic Song Of The Month is God Bless The USA.

This month, we will have a chance to move with our snowflake scarfs

while listening to Vivaldi's Winter and dancing to our Snowflake Song.

We will also have an opportunity to act out and sing Groundhog Day Song, What Shall We Do When We All Go Out, Snowman Scale Song,

and our Valentine Song Skinamarink and a Valentine's Day Song/Swing Dance Game!

We will also learn a dance to the song Hands Up/Give Me Your Heart Happy Valentines Day!!!

During the week of Presidents Day, we will march and cheer to the song: Hurray For Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Washington.

We will also have an opportunity to learn a song scarf folding activity called Little Johnny Brown.

March

This month we are working on our Character Trait Song: Citizenship.

Our Patriotic Song of the Month is Your A Grand Old Flag

We will also have an opportunity to work on some St. Patrick's Day Songs such as:

Michael Finnegan, The Leprechaun Is Sleeping,

The Luck Of The Irish and we viewed Riverdance.

We most recently started songs about Spring!

April

Antonio Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, Spring

My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss

Patriotic Song: This Land Is Your Land

Students will work on their concert songs.

Here is a look ahead to the upcoming monthly music activities:

May and June

Grade 2 will have an Insect Presentation in the Courtyard on TBD.

We will learn how to sing our National Anthem: The Star Spangled Banner and

some other famous Patriotic Songs

Grade K will perform at our Annual Author's Tea Party on TBD

The students will learn how to sing our National Anthem:

The Star Spangled Banner and \some other famous Patriotic Songs

Have a musical summer!!

Be sure to visit my Favorite Links page for some great music websites that you and your children can visit and learn about the Wonderful World of Music!

Please check back soon for information on upcoming Concerts right here in our School Newsletter Page!

America (My Country 'tis Of Thee)

Deer Run School Song

Lyrics - America The Beautiful

Lyrics God Bless The USA by Lee Greenwood