Wilson Elementary Music
Welcome to Mrs. B's Music Room Website!
This is where you will find important dates, events, grade-level practice links,
and links for home music learning and enrichment!
Welcome to Mrs. B's Music Room Website!
This is where you will find important dates, events, grade-level practice links,
and links for home music learning and enrichment!
4th Grade: RECORDER And VOCAL PRACTICE
FOR SSO FIELD TRIP-The Orchestra Moves- March 10, 2026:
Click here:4th Grade
WILSON SINGS CHOIR CLUB!
2025-26 SIGN-UP FORMS COMING SOON!
Cick below for our home practice page-
WILSON MUSIC ROOM:
Music is a vital part of our daily lives, community, world, and human experience.
Music stimulates and activates the mind, body, heart, and soul.
In the Wilson Music room, we actively participate in our learning through:
Creative movement, poems, games, songs, dances, singing,
body percussion, interactive technology, composer exploration,
various genres of music, experiencing music and cultures around the world,
playing recorder, xylophones, world drums, ukuleles, angklungs,
cooperative group activities, guest performers, and music learning centers.
Our engaged learning environment encourages students to
create, perform, connect and respond
through improvising, creating, analyzing, listening, audiating, composing, and performing.
If you would like additional information about the music learning in our classroom,
please feel free to reach out via email: aberchem@sasd.net
-Mrs. Ann Berchem, Wilson Elementary Music Teacher- Sheboygan, WI
WILSON MUSIC 2025-26 DATES/EVENTS
Tuesdays after school, from 3:00-3:45, directed by Mrs. Berchem
Watch for sign-up information coming soon!
5th Grade Orchestra Students only
Information and sign-up forms coming soon!
Why Study Music?
• I. Music is a Science
It is exact, specific, and demands exact acoustics.
A Conductor's score is a chart or graph, which indicates frequencies, intensities,
volume changes, melody, and harmony, all at once and with the most exact control of time.
• II. Music is Mathematical
Rhythmically, it is based on divisions of time into precise
fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
• III. Music is a Foreign Language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French.
Notation is certainly not English but a highly developed group of
symbols used to represent ideas.
Music itself is the most complete and universal language.
• IV. Music is History
Music reflects the environment and time of its creation,
including its national and cultural sources.
• V. Music is Physical Education
Music requires coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks, facial muscles,
and extraordinary control of the back, abdominal, core, breathing, and chest muscles,
which engage instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
• VI. Music Develops Insight and Demands Research
Organized, independent thought is required.
• VII. Music is all of these things, but most of all, Music Is Art
Music allows a human being to take technical terms, facts, and techniques,
and use them to create emotion.
That is one thing science cannot duplicate:
humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
You should study Music…
• Not so you can major in music,
• Not so you can play or sing all your life,
• Not so you can just relax,
• Not so you can just have fun,
but . . .
• So you will be human,
• So you will recognize beauty,
• So you will be sensitive,
• So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world,
• So you will have something to cling to,
• So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good
- in short, more life.
For of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
This is why you should study Music!