Our Weekly Info: | Before vacation, the Buzzword was CHORD. Thank you to everyone who participated in the Buzzword challenge and looked up the meaning of the word!! We were able to learn that a CHORD is: "A combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together. a straight line connecting two points on a curve. bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing" This week's Buzzword is CANNON. Do you know what that word's musical definition is? Can you look it up? I'll give you a hint....it has something to do with the way we've been warming up in Chorus class and some of the songs we've been learning to play in Fourth Grade Beginning Band Class.....Join the fun by completing this week's Buzzword Challenge!! It's a new month and we will be beginning to learn about our new composer of the month Sergie Prokofiev as we listen to his music and learn facts about his life each class. We will also be completing some special video and art activities about one of his most famous pieces of work, Peter and the Wolf!! 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. The Pre-K will be making a special musical connection to their weekly theme of "Insects and Butterfly Habitats" by learning some songs about caterpillars, butterflies, and the life cycle of a butterfly. Look for a special butterfly friend to be coming home with your child at the end of the week. We will be making them in music class and using them to sing and dance with some of our special thematic songs! We will also be getting some special visits from some of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade students who are preparing to perform in the NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association) State Solo Festival at the beginning of May. The students will be sharing their pieces with our class as they work to get those performance jitters out :) We can't wait to show our hard work, dedication, and musical growth to the younger classes!!! 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! On our Rhythm Day, we will be taking a game that we've been playing through Pre-School Prodigies and composing our own variation of it. We will also be exploring "body percussion" and doing some classroom composing / improvising activities incorporating this special musical skill!! On Melody Day, we'll be expanding our work with the pitches of the major scale and bringing more notes into our chord study. How exciting!! We will also be getting some special visits from some of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade students who are preparing to perform in the NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association) State Solo Festival at the beginning of May. The students will be sharing their pieces with our class as they work to get those performance jitters out :) We can't wait to show our hard work, dedication, and musical growth to the younger classes!!! Second, Third,and Fourth Graders will be continuing to develop their Orffestra skills as we move forward with our Purple Belt sing of "Old MacDonald!!" We will be working on finding the melody as it hops from section to section of the Orffestra and playing whenever our section has the melody. Then, we'll be adding the other instruments to fill in the accompaniment, and, hopefully, getting a chance to play through the entire piece at least one time before April vacation :) You can look forward to playing, singing, and even some sectional solis and improvising!!!! We will also be getting some special visits from some of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade students who are preparing to perform in the NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association) State Solo Festival at the beginning of May. The students will be sharing their pieces with our class as they work to get those performance jitters out :) We can't wait to show our hard work, dedication, and musical growth to the younger classes!!! | General Music Classes |
Performance Music Classes | DUE TO STATE ELA TESTING, THERE WILL BE NO MUSIC LESSONS THIS WEEK!! STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PRACTICE A LITTLE EXTRA AT HOME OR TO COME IN AND SEE MRS. KAMP FOR SOME EXTRA PRACTICE ON TUESDAY, THURSDAY, OR FRIDAY DURING RECESS TIME. NYSSMA STUDENTS WILL BE PERFORMING THEIR SOLOS FOR THE YOUNGER GRADES DURING SOME OF THEIR AFTERNOON MUSIC CLASSES :) Fourth graders will be continuing their work as the Amagansett School Beginning Band and moving forward with their work in Band Brilliance. They will also be beginning their first ever complete band piece!! 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 :) |
Rehearsals for the show have begun and will be held DURING RECESS in the Music Room every MONDAY and WEDNESDAY until the show. This week, we're planning an "all music rehearsal" for our Monday time and then a special Drama Club Recess and Lunch Rehearsal on Wednesday where we will be going down to the stage to begin our blocking, choreography, and getting a feel for what the show will really be like!!! Parents, please help your young actor or actress rehearse their lines at home so that we can memorize our material quickly and get downstairs on the stage to add blocking, music, and choreography as soon as possible :) | Recess Drama Club |
Mrs. Kamp :)