It's Concert Time!!!
Hope to see you there!!!
Our Weekly Info: | Due to New York State ELA Testing last week, many classes missed their music class. We will be holding over last week's Buzzword for one more week so that everyone has a chance to enter the game....happy hunting word detectives :) The Buzzword is DECRESCENDO. 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!! Another new month brings another new Composer of the Month! This month the children will be learning about Sergie Prokofiev as we listen to his music and learn facts about his life each class. We'll also be doing some special activities with one of his most famous compositions, Peter and The Wolf. Be sure to ask your children all about this exciting musical story over the next few weeks. 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! |
General and Performance Music
The Performance Music classes have a lot going on, too. Both Beginning and Concert Band are hard at work preparing for the Spring Concert which will be held THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 6th at 6:00 PM (LEASE NOTE THE DATE AND TIME CHANGE) We are very excited to share all of our hard work with you!
NYSSMA students continue to work diligently on mastering their Solos and Scales in preparation for this year's NYSSMA solo festival. Last week, TEAM NYSSMA 2017 treated the students in our Pre-K, Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades to special performances during their music classes. Each NYSSMA Team member performed their solo for at least one of the classes as they prepare to perform in front of a live audience :) We LOVE sharing our work with the younger children and hope that we can inspire them to participate in the NYSSMA Solo Festival when they reach Third Grade!!
Stay tuned for updates about your child's performance date and time slot as they come in :) Check out the new schedule here and be sure to mark your child's new lesson date and time on your family calendar. You can also visit the Festivals Page for more information about NYSSMA as well as play along and sing along tracks to help your child practice for this prestigious event :)
Recess Drama Club Update: | The performance date for Aladdin Kids! has officially been set! We look forward to our friends, families, and schoolmates joining us for the performance of the show on FRIDAY, JUNE 2nd at 2:00 PM. The students of the Recess Drama Club have been hard at work preparing for Aladdin Kids! With the arrival of the warm, sunny weather, we anticipate moving rehearsals to the stage this week to being actual blocking, dance choreography, and staging of the show. Costumes are also on their way...this is getting really exciting!! Parents of cast members, now is the time to begin memorizing all of our lines and song lyrics. Please help your young performer with this important task by practicing lines at home. All cast members will need to be "Off Book" (or able to rehearse without their scripts) when we return from April vacation. It might also be a great time to check out Aladdin the movie or search up Aladdin Kids on Youtube so that you can get a glimpse of what we will be doing. Check out more information about this exciting program HERE. |
Mrs. Kamp :)