No Choir March 14

Due to Mr. Weller being ill there will NOT be choir rehearsal on Tuesday March 14th.  

Recorder songs now online

Students can now download the music for their recorder karate songs.  Only the first 4 songs are up right now, but soon all the songs will be available.  I hope this will help cut down on copying costs as the packets get larger and larger and more expensive to reproduce.  Let me know if you have any questions about downloading these songs.  They are in .pdf form so you will need an acrobat reader  Enjoy!

The Songs we sing

Ever wonder about a song that your student has been singing or he/she can't remember the words for? There is a VERY cool website that has a searchable index of most of the folksongs we do in class. It's The American Folksong Collection developed by Holy Name University...one of the most renound Music Education schools in the country. Check it out! By downloading a simple plug in called Sibelius Scortch, you can hear the songs right on the webpage. If you have questions, or problems, let me know. Enjoy!

This week in music...

1st Grade - is learning more about So-mi melodies.  We are singing, reading and soon will be playing them on xylophones and metallophones.  Also they just learned about the quarter rest.  

2nd Grade - continuing to read, play, and sing pentatonic songs and melodies.  Today we will be improvising our own melodies and writing them down using the words to our song "Mr. Rabbit"

3rd Grade - is adding low la and low sol to their penatonic scale.  Now we are able to sing songs in minor and have added new ideas to our bag of ostinato tricks.  We also leanred a dance from Isreal called Te Ve Orez (tea and rice).  It is a social dance that involves quick steps and partner switching.  

4th Grade - is doing great work with the recorders!  They can read GAC'D' off the staff with no problem and we have just added B this week! We also leanred a dance from Isreal called Te Ve Orez (tea and rice).  It is a social dance that involves quick steps and partner switching.  

5th Grade - began recorder testing this week.  I use the Karate method of testing where students can earn belts I hope to have more information on this site soon.  5th grade is also learning the Isreli Dance and having lots of fun.