Welcome to the Music Room with Ms. Auger. This will be my 26th year as the music teacher at Bell Manor. We will sing, dance, conduct, and learn to read music notation and notes on a music staff. We will play a variety of Orff instruments, including xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels along with various non-pitched percussion instruments. 4th-6th grade students will play the recorder, and 5th and 6th will play the ukulele. We will listen to music from around the world and focus on a different composer each 6 weeks. Here you will find important information about performance dates, each unit of study, including padlets that you may visit to listen to music and watch videos from home. These padlets will also contain pictures and videos of class performance that you may view at home to see what your child is learning in music each 6 weeks.
Music Mission
We will become better singers, actors, conductors, composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, and play instruments including the piano, recorders, drums, xylophones, and other percussion instruments. We will become better thinkers, teammates, leaders and artists by listening, following directions the first time, and by having good self-control.
Strategic Goal
All students will perform and read rhythms per grade level at a level 3 or higher by the end of the year, as measured by the music rubric
IMPORTANT DATES
Thursday, Nov. 19th @ 6:00 pm 6th grade musical "Madagascar Kids"
Friday, Dec. 4th @ 5:00 pm 4th and 5th grade Bedford Tree Lighting Ceremony
Thursday, February 25th @ 6:00 pm 2nd and 3rd grade PTA performance
Thursday, April 8th @ 6:00 pm prek, kindergarten and 1st grade PTA performance
Mid April- HEB Honor Choir auditions for all 4th and 5th grade students (more info to come)
Thursday, May 20th @ 6:00 pm Bell Manor Talent Show
6TH GRADE FALL MUSICAL "MADAGASCAR"
All 6th grade students interested in being a part of the musical and production of Madagascar need to fill out the permission slip here. Rehearsals will be held every Thursday from 3:05-3:45 pm beginning September 3rd. Click the picture on the left for the character list and songs each character will sing for auditions. Auditions for main characters will be the week of October 1st.
Recorders for 4th, 5th and 6th grade students
All 4th, 5th and 6th grade students will need a recorder for music class. Recorders can be purchased on school cash online once I have sent the email that sales are open.
Please purchase a recorder for your child in 4th-6th grade before the beginning of the 2nd 6 weeks. I will put your child’s name on their recorder and keep it in the music room in their teacher’s cubby. They may take them home after we begin the recorder unit. That will give me time to go over how to use it, clean it and use it before they bring it home.
If your child already has a recorder, begin bringing them to music the first day of the 2nd six weeks.
Past Shows