Our Weekly Info: | Last week's Buzzword was PICK UP NOTE and it had a special connection to what our students in Second, third, and Fourth Grade are learning about through this month's Orffestration, "It's Raining, It's Pouring." A PICK UP NOTE is: "an anacrusis (also known as a pick-up note), is a note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar in a musical measure." This week's Buzzword also has a connection to the Second, Third, and Fourth Grade Orffestration as well as a concept we are currently working on in the percussion section of the Fourth Grade Beginning Band and the Fifth and Sixth Grade Concert Band. This week, I'm wondering if you know what a ROLL is??? Do you know what a roll is? Can you find out? Take a card and let the games begin :) We also welcome this month's "Maestro of the Month" is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartas we listen to his music and learn facts about his life before our play practices. 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. Our letter of the week happens to be "C" and we've just introduced the Cymbal in our work with the Rhythm Band Curriculum and the song The Scary Night.....how crazy is that connection???? Kindergartners and First Graders will be 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, Third,and Fourth Graders will continue to work on their class Orffestration, "It's Raining, It's Pouring." In both classes, each section is moving along quite well learning their individual parts and this week we will be focusing on playing the song together, balance, and working with the page turn!! It's going to be quite the exciting week!! In the instrumental music world, we've got some super exciting things going on!! Festival season is beginning which has necessitated large changes to our music lesson schedule to accommodate lessons for NYSSMA and SCMEA. 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 :) 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, 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, and A million Dreams. This week, we're going to start reading through Seize the Day and possibly be introduced to our challenge piece, The Rhythm of Life. | General and Performance Music |
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.
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Mrs. Kamp :)