Our Weekly Info: | The Buzzword for last week was VIBRATO, and it means, "a slightly tremulous effect imparted to vocal or instrumental tone for added warmth and expressiveness by slight and rapid variations in pitch." Thank you to all of the Second and Third Grade Students who participated in this week's challenge! I LOVE watching your music vocabularies grow!! This weeks' Buzzword is, MINUET. Do you know what that word's musical definition is? Can you look it up? I'Join the fun by completing this week's Buzzword Challenge!! We will be introduced to our May composer of the month, Richard Wagner, as we listen to his music and learn 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! |
Parents are encouraged to check their child's music class page to see all of the new things we will be learning in music class this month! All General Music classes will also be celebrating our student's participating in the NYSSMA State Solo Festival with some special NYSSMA Soloists concerts being performed in music class this week. Students from grades 3-6 who are participating in the festival will be coming in to the younger grades General Music Classes and performing their solos for the students! WOW!! What an amazing experience for everyone!! Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 students will be busy connecting music to their classroom letters and themes. We'll be connecting to our classroom study of the letter "D" and the theme of "Dinosaurs" as we sing some fun songs about dinosaurs. 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. 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!! Second Grade is busy adding new recorder karate songs to their repertoire! We've begun working on our new Black Belt song, "The Ode to Joy" and are excited for all of the new musical knowledge it will bring us!! Make sure to ask your child about it when they come home and check out the Recorder Resources tab on their page to help with your at home practice :) Third Graders will be back in action as their class Orffestra, mastering a new song and some special new skills this month!! third Graders are even going a bit further and are working on two different orffestrations that we hope to share with you at future "Wake-Up Amagansett" Performances. We're adding orffestra to go along with "De Colores," a song we're learning in Spanish class with Mrs. Tracy!!! Fourth Graders have begun a special project based on the song, "I Grew Up With" by Soda Speak. The children have been listening to the song and identifying all of the things listen in the song from the early 1980's and 1990's and why the artist might have chosen to include these things in a song about his childhood. For the next phase of the project, each child will brainstorm a list of significant things from their own childhood and create their own, "I Grew Up With" songs based on today's generation!!! | General Music Classes |
Performance Music Classes: | Festival season is beginning which has necessitated large changes to our music lesson schedule to accommodate lessons for NYSSMA. Parents are encouraged to check their child's lesson schedule and go over lesson days with their child so that everyone can be prepared for each and every lesson :) NYSSMA STUDENTS SHOULD ALSO BE CHECKING THE FESTIVALS TAB HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE UPCOMING NYSSMA SOLO FESTIVAL INCLUDING RECORDINGS OF SOLOS FOR PLAY ALONG PRACTICE AND RECORDINGS OF THE VOCAL ACCOMPANIMENT SO STUDENTS WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH IT BEFORE THE FESTIVAL :) JUST A REMINDER, OUR "SPRING CONCERT" IS THURSDAY, MAY 16th at 6:00PM!!! ALL STUDENTS IN GRADES 3-6 WILL NEED TO REPORT TO SCHOOL FOR THE CONCERT AT 5:40PM :) PLEASE REMEMBER: Concerts are an important commitment to keep for BOTH yourselves and your classmates and no concert can really be complete without EVERYONE'Sattendance (oh and it's a major part of your Fourth Quarter Grade...) 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!! Fifth and Sixth Grade Concert Band students are working through their repertoire for this year's Spring Concert. Check out the practice resources on their class web page and let's get back into practicing!! Also, a reminder that the Band Karate Belt Challenge stills stands... can anyone besides Natalie (6) achieve Black Belt this year?????? Chorus class will also be seeing the introduction of repertoire for our Spring Concert in May. We are looking forward to beginning to work with our accompanist, Mrs. Janet Fensterer in the coming weeks!!! |
Rehearsals have started and the cast of Cinderella Kids! is busy learning their lines, songs, blocking, and dance numbers for our June production!!! We're moving our rehearsals from the music room down to the stage and beginning to add scenery, props, and everyone's favorite, COSTUMES!!!! We can't wait to share all of our hard work with you!!!!!! | Recess Drama Club |