Our Weekly Info: | The Buzzword last week was REEL and it means: "A reel is a traditional dance tune type, commonly found in traditional Irish music, as well as traditional Scottish music, as well as other genres that were subsequently influenced by Irish or Scottish music" A special thank you to all who participated in last week's Buzzword game!!! The new Buzzword is ADAGIO. 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 Antonio Vivaldi as we listen to his music and learn facts about his life each class. 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! |
Parents are encouraged to check their child's music class page to see all of the new things we will be learning in music class this month! Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 students will be busy connecting music to their classroom letters and themes. We'll be connecting to our classroom study of the letter "J" and the theme of "Jungle" as we learn some really fun animal themed songs!! 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. 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 Grade is busy adding new recorder karate songs to their repertoire! We've begun working on our new Red Belt song, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and are excited for all of the new musical knowledge it will bring us!! Make sure to ask your child about it when they come home and check out the Recorder Resources tab on their page to help with your at home practice :) Third Graders and Fourth Graders will be back in action as their class Orffestra, mastering a new song and some special new skills this month!! third Graders are even going a bit further and are working on two different orffestrations that we hope to share with you at future "Wake-Up Amagansett" Performances. We're adding orffestra to our Irish American Folk Song, "Paddy Works the Railway," and also learning some orffestra parts to go along with "De Colores," a song we're learning in Spanish class with Mrs. Tracy!!! | General Music Classes |
Performance Music Classes: | Festival season is beginning which has necessitated large changes to our music lesson schedule to accommodate lessons for NYSSMA. 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 :) NYSSMA STUDENTS SHOULD ALSO BE CHECKING THE FESTIVALS TAB HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE UPCOMING NYSSMA SOLO FESTIVAL INCLUDING RECORDINGS OF SOLOS FOR PLAY ALONG PRACTICE AND RECORDINGS OF THE VOCAL ACCOMPANIMENT SO STUDENTS WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH IT BEFORE THE FESTIVAL :) 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!! Fifth and Sixth Grade Concert Band students are working through their repertoire for this year's Spring Concert. Check out the practice resources on their class web page and let's get back into practicing!! Also, a reminder that the Band Karate Belt Challenge stills stands... can anyone besides Natalie (6) achieve Black Belt this year?????? Chorus class will also be seeing the introduction of repertoire for our Spring Concert in May. We are looking forward to beginning to work with our accompanist, Mrs. Janet Fensterer in the coming weeks!!! |
Rehearsals have started and the cast of Cinderella Kids! is busy learning their lines, songs, blocking, and dance numbers for our June production!!! We're moving our rehearsals from the music room down to the stage and beginning to add scenery, props, and everyone's favorite, COSTUMES!!!! We can't wait to share all of our hard work with you!!!!!! | Recess Drama Club |