East Street Music
General Music- Preschool through First Grade
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.
Experts taken from John M. Feierabend's First Steps in Music for Preschool and Beyond- the Curriculum
About your music teacher, Mrs. Provost
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
Want to support our Music Classroom?
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
Instrument Drive
The Ludlow Public Schools music department is in great need of working condition instruments. We are finding that more and more students are unable to afford instrument rentals as well as those who may want to explore trying another instrument but don’t have the means to obtaining one. This can also support our general music classes with the more instrument possibilities for all students to try!
*Please no keyboards or pianos. Thank you for your consideration and support!
Wow! We got a Grant!
Over Janaury, Mrs. Provost was informed that she received a grant that she applied for! The grant is graciously given by the Ludlow Cultural Council (LCC) to enhance and enrich the arts in the Ludlow Community. We were awarded $1,500 to purchase new Ukuleles and a storage stand. These instruments will be introduced in first grade and is an amazing bridge to their note reading, rhythm & instrument performance, as well as readiness for more Ukulele playing when they go to Harris Brook in the fall!
THANK YOU SO MUCH LCC and Mass Cultural Council!
