Our Weekly Info: | We began celebrating our first Composer of the Month of the 2021-2022 school year, Antonin Dvorak as we listen to his music and learn facts about his life each class. You can see the facts that they learned about Mr. Dvorak on display on the home page of this website :) WHO WILL BE THE FIRST STUDENTS OF THE YEAR to participate in this program and become "Music History Detectives!!!" 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 Will not have music class this week due to NWEA testing in the older grades. But don't worry!! We will be back to singing, dancing, and playing their way through their first few music classes! We've started using our "Hello Routine" songs and many of us can already sing along! We're working on rhythmic and melodic passages and echoing them when Mrs. Kamp goes first. We're experimenting with different classroom instruments including: Rhythm Sticks, Shaker Eggs, Jingle Bells, Tambourines, and Drums and using them to echo short rhythmic patterns as well as to accompany ourselves while singing a variety of songs. We're also using our bodies to show different things we notice in songs...like the speed, volume level, or way the music is moving. We will begin our work with Pre-School Prodigies, rhythm band, fall themed songs, and sooo much more!!! It's going to be a wonderful year to explore!!!
**Kindergarten Will not have music class this week due to NWEA testing in the older grades. But don't worry!! We will be back to singing, dancing, and playing their way through their first few music classes! We've started using our "Hello Routine" songs and many of us can already sing along! We're working on rhythmic and melodic passages and echoing them when Mrs. Kamp goes first. We're experimenting with different classroom instruments including: Rhythm Sticks, Shaker Eggs, Jingle Bells, Tambourines, and Drums and using them to echo short rhythmic patterns as well as to accompany ourselves while singing a variety of songs. We're also using our bodies to show different things we notice in songs...like the speed, volume level, or way the music is moving. We will begin our work with Pre-School Prodigies, rhythm band, fall themed songs, and sooo much more!!! It's going to be a wonderful year to explore!!!
**First Graders Will not have music class this week due to NWEA testing in the older grades. But don't worry!! We will be back to singing, dancing, and playing their way through their first few music classes! We've started using our "Hello Routine" songs and many of us can already sing along! We're working on rhythmic and melodic passages and echoing them when Mrs. Kamp goes first. Right now, First Graders are exploring the very many ways that music can be....loud / soft...fast / slow, etc. and learning all sorts of magical music vocabulary words. Last week we learned the music words for dynamic levels (volumes) including: piano (soft), mezzo (medium), and forte (loud.) We explored these dynamic changes with our bodies and through singing songs. We also experimented with crescendos and decrescendos (making the music get louder and softer). We're 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.
**Second Graders Will not have music class this week due to NWEA testing in the older grades. But don't worry!! we will be back to our recorder study next week! Last week, Second Graders took home their first EVER RECORDERS!!!!! Now, we're going to being learning the first song of the Recorder Karate Program..... "Hot Cross Buns" and will be taking their white belt tests in a few weeks! We're mastering fingering and playing B, A, and G so that we will be ready to play the song! 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 incorporate everything we've learned over the past few years into larger ensemble playing through Pre-School Prodigies!! We're beginning to masker reading the treble staff and sooo much more!!! This week, we'll be exploring how music can move including step, leap or skip, and stay the same motion. We'll also be working with reading notes on the treble staff and beginning to try reading the staff without the color coding system we have used in the past.
Performance Music
Band Classes:
** Fourth Graders will have Band Class each week on Tuesday and will have their instrumental lessons on Thursdays or Fridays each week on a rotating schedule. This week, we will be learning how to put their instruments together this week as well as learning the first note on their instrument! We will be working towards mastering pages 1 and 2 of our Band Brilliance Method Book. Special challenge...can you put your instrument together in under 2 minutes????
** Fifth and Sixth Graders will have Band Class each week on Tuesday and will have their instrumental lessons on Tuesdays or Wednesdays each week on a rotating schedule.although Fifth and Sixth graders are meeting separately as individual pods this year, we will continue to work on the same repertoire and will be performing either virtually or live as one large ensemble. This week, we're reviewing our skills from last year as well as introducing some new Holiday Concert repertoire: "Creatures in the Attic" and "When Santa's Away, the Elves will Play."
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 can't wait!!
String Classes:
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.
** First Grade Violin has begun!!! We reviewed how to hold our bows, balance our violins, and control our bodies so nothing falls down! We're also making "box violins" so we can use them int he classroom and have them at home to practice with. Be sure to ask your child about some of the song activities we've learned including: Up Like a Rocket, The Grand Old Duke o f York, and The Wheels on the Bus. We're also learning all of the parts of our violin......you can quiz us at home if you check the class violin page HERE
** Second Grade Violin has begun!!! We reviewed how to hold our bows, balance our violins, and control our bodies so nothing falls down! We also reviewed all of our songs from last year including: Up Like a Rocket, The Grand Old Duke o f York, The Monkey Song, The Ant Song, GDG Stomp! and The Wheels on the Bus. We're also learning all of the parts of our violin and the names of the open strings......you can quiz us at home if you check the class violin page HERE
** Second Grade Violin has begun!!! We reviewed how to hold our bows, balance our violins, and control our bodies so nothing falls down! We're also reviewing all of the parts of our violin and the names of the open strings. We refreshed all of our songs from last year including: Up Like a Rocket, The Grand Old Duke o f York, The Monkey Song, The Ant Song, GDG Stomp! and The Wheels on the Bus. You can help us with some at home practice HERE
** Third Grade Violin has begun!!! We reviewed how to hold our bows, balance our violins, and control our bodies so nothing falls down! We're also reviewing all of the parts of our violin and the names of the open strings. We refreshed all of our songs from last year including: Up Like a Rocket, The Grand Old Duke o f York, The Monkey Song, The Ant Song, GDG Stomp! and The Wheels on the Bus. And then got our fingers moving by playing Elephants and Frogs and The Kangaroo Song. This week we're also taking our first peek inside our brand new Strictly Strings Method Book. You can help us with some at home practice HERE
** Fourth Grade Violin has begun!!! We reviewed how to hold our bows, balance our violins, and control our bodies so nothing falls down! We're also reviewing all of the parts of our violin and the names of the open strings. We refreshed all of our songs from last year including: Up Like a Rocket, The Grand Old Duke o f York, The Monkey Song, The Ant Song, GDG Stomp! and The Wheels on the Bus. And then got our fingers moving by playing Elephants and Frogs and The Kangaroo Song. This week we're also taking our first peek inside our brand new Strictly Strings Method Book. You can help us with some at home practice HERE
Stay tuned for more information right here each week :)
Mrs. Kamp :)