Kindergarten
Performing Arts

October 2025 - A few highlights

Hispanic / Latinx Heritage Month

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month in the Performing Arts classroom, students participated in many different activities. Kindergarten activities included:

The Best Mariachi in the World Book
Introduction to Mariachi Instruments
If I Had a Mariachi Song
Los Machetes Dance
Eduardo Antonio Treviño - America's Got Talent Mariachi Soloist
Mateo Lopez - World's Youngest Mariachi
Soy Una Serpiente
Mi Cuerpo

The Enormous Turnip

The Kindergarteners used their acting skills to compare and contrast five different versions of a traditional folk tale from Russia called The Enormous Turnip. They explored how the different characters in each story might move and improvised conversations with some of the characters. For example, the students talked to the farmer's wife and tried to convince her to stop doing her chores in order to help the farmer pull up the turnip.

Big Pumpkin

Our final version of the Enormous Turnip story, was a Halloween version called Big Pumpkin. The Kindergarten students enjoyed acting out the story as witches, ghosts, mummies, vampires and little bats. They also practiced their steady beat by playing on the barred instruments as they accompanied the song we added to the story.

Plink, Plank, Plunk

Kindergarten Plink Plank Plunk.mp4

The Kindergarten students followed a visual representation of the musical form of this piece of music using movement.

If You're a Monster and You Know It

After singing through this book, the Kindergarten students added sound effect instruments for the different sounds in the song.

Snort & Growl: Crow Sounder

Smack Your Claws: Rhythm Sticks

Stomp Your Paws: Tubano Drum

Twitch Your Tail: Maracas

Give a Roar: Thunder Tube

Sing Me a Monster

The Kindergarten students practiced using their singing voices to improvise songs about different monster pictures. Students sang their songs to a partner who listened carefully to the clues in the song to try and guess which monster picture the song represented.