Our Weekly Info: | The Buzzword for last week was DOLCE and it means: "to play a piece of music sweetly" Thank you to Izzy (1) for playing last week's Buzzword Game!! Our new Buzzword is OCTAVE. Do you know what that means? Can you find the answer? If you would like to pay the Buzzword game this week, remember...you can check the Buzzword board and get a card or print one off the website HERE...looking forward to playing this game and watching your musical vocabularies grow every week!!! This month we have a special Composer of the Month Feature!! Our composer comes from the Romantic Period and was highly influential in the genre of american patriotic music....Mr. John Phillip Sousa!! You can see the facts that the children have brought in about Mr. Sousa on display outside the music room or on the home page of this website :) Be sure to check your child's red folder tomorrow to learn all about Mr. November and become a music detective once more :) |
General and Performance Music
The arrival of November also brought our Pre-K classes into the famous "Turkey Wobble!" Our Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third Grade classes will also begin preparations for a special mini play and songs about Thanksgiving to be shared at this year's Thanksgiving Feast! Be sure to check out the new ways that Pre-K classes will be connecting music with literacy and their classroom weekly themes.
Students in all grades are also hard at work beginning to learn their "Star Moment" songs for this year's Bi-Annual All School Holiday Musical, "The Best Gift EVER!" The cast has been set...rehearsals have begun...and the excitement is building to share all of our hard work with you when the show premiers in the school gym on Thursday, December 13th at 6:00 PM. Stay tuned at your child's individual music class website and right here at the music blog for updates and information about this special event :)
In the Performance Music world everyone is busy preparing selections to perform at our annual Holiday concert on Thursday, December 20th at 6:00PM! We can't wait to show you how much we've grown as musicians since September!!! All of our instrumental lessons and band classes are doing GREAT!! Students are off to an excellent start remembering their instruments, music and practice sheets and have been earning tons of points for their individual classes in Battle of the Bands. Right now, Fourth Grade is in the lead, but watch out....the end of the marking period is coming up soon....who will hold the First Quarter Trophy??????
Mrs. Kamp :)