Our Weekly Info: | Last week's Buzzword was FOLK MUSIC" It means: "The music and songs of common people are called folk music, or traditional music. Folk music exists around the world, often in rural areas. Most folk music includes singing and instrument playing. ... Folk musicians use many kinds of instruments. Some are simple, such as rattles and whistles." The new Buzzword is CHORD. 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!! We've continued to learn about our composer of the month George Frederic Handel as we listen to his music and learn facts about his life each class. Special thanks to everyone who has been a music detective so far!! 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! We had a special visit from the East Hampton High School Music Department on Friday, March 16th! Last year, the East Hampton High School Music Department started the FABULOUS tradition of visiting each of the East Hampton feeder districts for a concert performance to salute Music in our Schools Month and give younger students a chance to see son of the musical activities they can look forward to in the high school!! This year, the tradition continued and, on Friday, March 16th, the High School Chamber Orchestra, Jazz Band, and Cameratta came to visit the Amagansett school!! Students and staff LOVED the concert and also spent time visiting with Amagansett Alumni Tucker Kabbaz (Jazz Band Saxophone)a and Khemlah Model (Cameratta). |
Last week, all of the General Music classes saluted St. Patrick's Day by learning about traditional Irish Folk Music and Dance!! We learned traditional Irish songs, saw, touched, and listened to Irish Folk Instruments, and watched video clips of traditional Irish Step Dancing!! This Week: Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 students will be busy connecting music to their classroom letters and themes. The Pre-K will be making a special musical connection to their weekly theme of "Transportation" by learning the song, "The Wheels on the Bus." Then, we will be going into our Pre-School Prodigies program for a special activity with that song incorporating singing and playing our C and G bells and boomwhackers!! 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 muscial 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!! Second, Third,and Fourth Graders will be jumping back into their Orffestras as we move on to the next song from Recorder Karate that Mrs. Kamp has orchestrated....the Purple Belt...Old MacDonald!! You can look forward to playing, singing, and even some sectional solis and improvising!!!! | General Music Classes |
Performance 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. 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 |
Don't forget to stay connected by joining our Music Department Google Calendar and our Remind App reminders for Beginning and Concert Band Students. Mrs. Kamp :) |