Our Weekly Info: | The Buzzword for this week is CESURA. Do you now what it means?? Can you find out?? Check the Buzzword board each week to find out the new word...grab a card and write the word down. Head home and look up the definition of the word. Bring it back to Mrs. Kamp and receive a prize on Friday :) looking forward to playing this game and watching your musical vocabularies grow every week!!! We began learning about our new Composer of the Month, George Frideric Handel as we listen to his music and learn facts about his life each class. You can see the facts that they learned about Mr. Handel on display outside the music room or on the home page of this website :) 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 Music:
**Pre-K 3 and 4 can look forward to continuing to bridge the music room to the regular classroom as we follow the letter of the week with a special instrumental connections and tie our music games and activities to the classroom weekly theme. We will also be beginning to learn some fun winter themed songs, games, and dances! We'll be celebrating Black History month by incorporating connections to music and musical genres developed by African Americans including Jazz, the Blues, African American Spirituals, and more! We'll also be celebrating Valentines Day in the music room with some special songs and dances :) We will also be working our way through the Pre-School Prodigies curriculum in Pre-K 4 and possibly introducing the "Rhythm Band Program" to Pre-K 4 as well!
**Kindergarten continues to explore the world of music, learning our hello routines and songs, experimenting with the different classroom instruments. We have begun incorporating our Pre-School Prodigies lessons with Mr. Rob and our Rhythm Band Curriculum into each class visit...making music a VERY Exciting place to be! We'll be celebrating Black History month by incorporating connections to music and musical genres developed by African Americans including Jazz, the Blues, African American Spirituals, and more! We'll also be celebrating Valentines Day in the music room with some special songs and dances :)
**First Graders are having fun with songs, games, instruments, dancing, and some pretty cool surprises as we build our music vocabularies and learn to speak the language of music. We're back into the Pre-School Prodigies curriculum as we continue to learn some ne (and some familiar) songs for bells and boomwhackers! We're also visiting with Freddie the Frog again as we start to learn about the Treble Staff and all of it's lines and spaces through the Book Freddie the Frog on Treble Clef Island! We'll be celebrating Black History month by incorporating connections to music and musical genres developed by African Americans including Jazz, the Blues, African American Spirituals, and more! We'll also be celebrating Valentines Day in the music room with some special songs and dances :)
**Second Graders have tested for their Green Belts and are now beginning to work their way through their most challenging task yet....the Purple Belt song, "Acca Bacca" Parents, you can find more information about the recorder program HERE along with some helpful links for at home practice :)
**Third Graders are "putting it all together" as we take all of the material we learned since Kindergarten and incorporate it into performing in our classroom "Orffestra!" We'll be celebrating Black History month by incorporating connections to music and musical genres developed by African Americans including Jazz, the Blues, African American Spirituals, and more! We'll also be celebrating Valentines Day in the music room with some special songs and dances :)
With the colder weather comes more time indoors and means more chances to participate in our special Recess Music Offerings!!! Our Recess Music Program is also up and in full swing! I encourage you to share the recess offerings with your children and remind them that they can come in to any of the activities whenever they want :) What a wonderful way to add more diversity to our schools music offerings! |
Performance Music Classes
Band Classes: | We are busy preparing for our spring concert coming in May!! I am sooo proud of all of our students and their hard work and dedication to their instruments this far! If you're interested in learning more about our school's Instrumental Music Program, follow these links to the band's individual websites: |
Chorus Classes: | We're getting into some very exciting music as we prepare for our spring concert coming in May!! I am sooo proud of all of our students and their hard work and dedication to their singing this far! If you're interested in learning more about our school's Choral Music Program, follow this links to the chorus' individual website: |
String Classes: | String students have been making AMAZING progress so far this year! The Kindergartners have learned how to hold their bow and use it properly and are excitedly awaiting the addition of real violins to their class periods! First and Second Graders are hard at work mastering holding the violin and the bow at the same time as we begin our very first songs! Third Graders have been joining me on Thursdays at Recess to form a violin club and are learning how to hold the violin, bow, and play some introductory songs! Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Graders have come together to form our Tuesday Afternoon orchestra! We meet each week on Tuesday after school and have begun learning some tunes which we hope to perform later this year! A special "Thank You" to: Malachai (5 - cello), Willow (4 - Cello), Lola (4 - viola), Clemens (4 - viola), Chloe (4 - violin), and Nathan (6 - violin) for embracing this new program and working as hard as possible to learn to play not only their band instruments but also their brand new string instruments!!! I am VERY excited to begin this journey with you and your children!! Parents and parent involvement is an essential part of a students success in music, particularly in the Suzuki style of teaching. Although we can't have parents attend each and every one of our class meetings, it will be very important for your child's success that they begin practicing at home and that they see you excited and enthusiastic about all of their violin playing. Be sure to check your child's string class page often. I will be posting videos, handouts, songs, and other helpful materials there for each of our classes to help build this bridge from violin at school to violin at home! You can see exactly what we learned in Violin Class HERE. |
Mrs. Kamp :)