I have had fun teaching all of your children this year. Enjoy your summer and take time to dance and feel the music around you!

Find some items around your home to play along with this home percussion activity. Can you keep up?

Music can be found anywhere! Where can you find music around you?

We have been singing about flowers and things we find in Spring this week. Sing along with this fun song!

Yesterday the children brought their flowering plants for Mary and sang this song. Ask them to sing it for you as they sing with the video.

Ask your child to use their imagination and follow the music as a bumblebee.

This is a song all of the children learned this week to prepare them for celebrating Jesus this Holy Week.  Encourage them to sing and move with this video.  Enjoy your break and may you have a meaningful time with your family and loved ones.

Can you identify the long and short sound patterns in this song? Move your body in different ways to show which sounds are long and which are short as you listen to this music.  Have fun creating different movements!

Move to this Irish Jig at home with your family. Skip, kick, hop, twirl, and have fun moving your body to the music.

This week we played pitched tube instruments in class (called Boomwhackers) . Enjoy watching these experts make music with boomwhackers. 

Follow the movements in this video as you listen to the music and imagine you are a chef.  Have fun!

Any two sticks that you find at home can become rhythm sticks for this song. Find two pencils, two sticks, or two wooden spoons and follow along with this fun song.

Valentine's Day is a good time to sing songs to people we love. Here is a simple song to practice and sing to one another. Enjoy!

This symphonic fairy tale by Sergei Prokofiev is an entertaining way for children to match musical themes played by different instruments of the orchestra with characters in a story. Ask your children if they can identify some of the instruments they hear.

Play this game at home to see if you can guess the instruments. Have fun!

We have been learning about instruments in the orchestra in many of our classes this week. Can your child identify the 4 different families of the orchestra?

Have fun following the construction worker. Don't forget to keep the beat!

"Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" Play this game at home. Try playing the game with different tempos (sometimes slow, sometimes fast). 

Practice this fun Thanksgiving-themed song and game at home!

This is a song we have been singing for Fall. Ask your children to sing it with you. You can also see how many different Fall songs they can remember from class. Enjoy!

 We are singing different Fall-themed songs this week. As you and your children explore nature this Fall, encourage your children to sing the songs and play the games that they are learning in music class.

We are learning how important the beat is in music. Without a beat, there is no music. Can you find the beat in everyday sounds around you? 

We often have a visitor in class called Mr. High-Low. The children love him! He likes to follow our voices when they go high and low. Every student can have their own High-Low friend with them too so that they can practice at home. Watch the video to see how you can help your child reinforce the concept of high and low pitches at home. 

This week we played games, moved, and sang with a steady beat. Feeling the beat in the world around us is important for helping us feel the beat in music.  At home this week you can take time to feel your heartbeat and see how it changes when you are resting or when you are running. Now play this video and move in different ways to the beat. Have fun!