Happy Mother's Day!!!!!
Our Weekly Info: | This week's Buzzword is CONCERT. Do you know what that word's musical definition is? Can you look it up? Join the fun by completing this week's Buzzword Challenge!! We will be beginning our unit of study about our composer of the month, Richard Wagner. We will be listening to his music and learning facts about his life each class. Check your child's go home folder for this month's composer fact sheet as well as the directions for how to become a "music detective" and have their work featured on the bulletin board outside the music classroom and on the Music Website! |
Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 students will be busy connecting music to their classroom letters and themes. We will also be continuing our work with our monthly nursery rhyme and our study of beat, rhythm, singing, and playing instruments through various activities. Kindergartners and First Graders will continue learning the building blocks of music and working with a mix of melody and rhythm days where we will use the Rhythm Band Curriculum and the Pre-School Prodigies Curriculum to build our musical vocabularies and skills! O In a special cross-curricular project, we will be beginning to work on composing our own songs about the community helper we have chosen to research in the Kindergarten classroom!! These songs, along with projects from the other special area classes will be shared at a special "Community Helpers Celebration" in the Kindergarten classroom later this spring!! We LOVE combining what we are learning in our Kindergarten Classroom with what we are learning in the Music Room!!!! Second and Third Graders will be beginning a special unit about the instruments of the orchestra as we prepare to choose what instrument we will be playing in next year's Beginning Band program!!! Through the magic of the internet, the children will be heading out with Carnegie Hall's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and exploring the wonderful world of instrumental music!!!! | General Music Classes |
Performance Music Classes: | IMPORTANT DATES: MONDAY, MAY 14th --- NYSSMA SOLO FESTIVAL THURSDAY, MAY 17th --- SPRING CONCERT 6:00PM Fourth graders will be continuing their work as the Amagansett School Beginning Band and moving forward with their work in Band Brilliance. We are excited to announce that we have chosen our complete program for our upcoming performance at the Spring Concert and we absolutely cannot wait to share it with you!!!!! In case you're wondering....you should be hearing a lot of practicing of: - Ode to Joy - Theme From First Symphony - London Bridge - Frere Jacques and one special secret other song :) as we prepare for our biggest performance yet :) :) Concert Band students will now be meeting twice a week for band class (Tuesdays and Fridays) and will be beginning to work on an exciting selection of repertoire for our Spring Concert in May! At this point, you can help your children to practice along with the play alongs posted on the Concert Band webpage. Students should be feeling increasingly comfortable playing their part in: Furioso, Comet Ride, The Silver Scepter, Aliens Landing in YOUR Backyard, and T-Rex Rocks. Chorus class will also be seeing the introduction of repertoire for our Spring Concert in May. Last week, we began working on: Thunder, Remember Me, Seize the Day, and A Million Dreams. Parents, it might be a good idea to save your child's band web page so you can reference it for important information including practice sheets, band repertoire play alongs, the instrumental program google calendar, and, my favorite, our Remind App :) |
t's finally time!!! Costumes, set pieces, and scenery are arriving each day!!! Now it's time for everyone to be off book please :) This week, we're planning to head down to the stage to work on choreography and blocking with our AMAZING parent volunteer, Mrs. Skrenta!!! The children are SOOOOOexcited to work with Mrs. Skrenta and I cannot thank her enough for volunteering her time to help make "Willy Wonka" the BEST production we've ever done!!!! | Recess Drama Club |
Mrs. Kamp :)