Wilson Elementary Music

WILSON SINGS CHOIR CLUB!

Tuesday Sessions: Oct. 28,  Nov. 4, 11, 18,  Dec. 2, 9

After school in the Music Room- 3-3:45PM

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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 

Wilson Winter Program: 

Monday, Dec 15: For SCHOOL Audience:

9:00AM- 3rd/4th/5th Grade classes,  5th Grade Band & Strings 

1:30PM- Kdgn/1st/2nd Grade classes

Tuesday, Dec 16: For Parents/Families/Public Audience

9:00AM- 3rd/4th/5th Grade classes,  5th Grade Band & Strings 

1:30PM- Kdgn/1st/2nd Grade classes

Wilson Sings Choir Club! (Open to all 3rd, 4th, 5th graders!)

Tuesdays after school, from 3:00-3:45, directed by Mrs. Berchem

Sessions: Oct. 28,  Nov. 4, 11, 18,  Dec. 2, 9, After school in the Music Room, 3-3:45PM

4th Grade Classes to Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra at the Weill Center!

March 10 - 4th gr. to Weill Center for Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra Children's Concert (BRING RECORDERS!)

SASD String Festival:

April - String Festival String Festival Performance 7PM 

5th Grade Orchestra Students only

Wilson Ukulele Club! (Open to all 5th graders!)

Information and sign-up forms coming soon!

5th Gr. Band/Orchestra Spring Concert:

May 4, 9AM: 5th grade Band/Orchestra concert in Wilson Gym for school audience. 

Instrument Demo for 4th grade classes immediately following the morning concert.

May 5, 7:00 PM: 5th grade Band/Orchestra concert in Wilson Gym for families and public audience.

Wilson 5th Grade Celebration/Banquet:

Thursday, May 28, 5:30PM: 5th Grade classes SING at 5th Grade Celebration, Wilson Gym!

DAY OF AWESOME!

June 3: Music returns for Day of Awesome! Musical Guests TBA!

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!