At East Street Elementary School, students will learn the beginning foundations of music. Following John Feierabend's First Steps in music, students will explore the eight facets of an early childhood music education. They include:
Pitch Exploration (Vocal Warm-ups)
Song Fragments: Echo Songs & Call-and-Response Songs
Simple Songs
Arioso (Child-created Tunes)
Songtales
Movement Exploration
Movement for Form and Expression
Movement with the Beat
Each of those steps get us closer to our musical goals of becoming "Tuneful, Beatful and Artful". Those three ways help children to become more musical.
Tuneful- to have tunes in their heads and learn to coordinate their voices to sing those tunes.
Beatful- to feel the pulse of music and how that pulse is grouped in either twos or threes.
Artful- to be moved by music in the many ways music can elicit an emotional response.
About Mrs. Provost
This is Mrs. Provost's 14th year of teaching elementary Music and Chorus in Ludlow. She has enjoyed her time teaching and sharing her love of music to the PreK through third grade students in Ludlow. This is Mrs. Provost's third year teaching at East Street School.
Mrs. Provost received her Bachelor's degree in Music Education- Voice from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a minor in Psychology. In 2014, she earned her Masters degree in Music Education- Pedagogy at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford. Mrs. Provost holds certifications in the First Steps in Music, Conversational Solfege (All Levels) as well as Kodaly Level 1 training. She also is trained in Responsive Classroom Levels 1 and 2. Mrs. Provost is the recipient of the 2014 Grinspoon Pioneer Valley in Excellence Teaching Award.
In her spare time, she enjoys singing, cooking, reading a good book, spending time with her husband, Nathan, and singing and playing with her sons, Nolan and Logan. Their favorite lullabies are "Twinkle, twinkle" and "Loch Lamond".
If you would like to contact Mrs. Provost, please email her at: m_provost@ludlowps.org
We have a constant "Wish List" on Amazon that would help us with our curriculum needs. As the lessons are always evolving, I find myself needing replacement instruments and new literature to share with the students. Here is the link and QR code to check out if you are interested!
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1WHEM47HA4UAX?ref_=wl_share