It's time for a special celebration......
What it is: Also called Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday, refers to the event s of the Carnival celebrations held in many countries before the beginning of the Lenten season. A HUGE event in New Orleans, LA as well as many South American and European countries. Local Celebrations: Long Island Mardi Gras with Children Celebration Ideas and Resources: * Celebrate Mardi Gras with Children * More ways to Celebrate *and if you need a King Cake delivered straight from New Orleans...... * New Orleans Jazz Music * More New Orleans Jazz * New Orleans Jazz National Park |
Our Weekly Info: | The new Buzzword is SCAT. Do you know what that word's musical definition is? Do you remember from our Black History Introduction in music class? 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! All levels of music class will be tying our music class instruction in with this month's celebration St. Patrick's Day as well! In music class, we'll be learning all about irish culture, music, dance, instruments and soooooo much more!! Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 students will be busy connecting music to their classroom letters and themes. 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!! We'll also be beginning a special focus unit on Irish Music and Culture as we salute St. Patrick's Day in the music classroom. We'll be listening to Irish folk music, learning about Irish instruments, watching famous Irish Dancers, and learning how to dance ourselves! Second Grade is busy adding new recorder karate songs to their repertoire! We'll be introduced to our new Red Belt Song!!! What will it be, I wonder...make sure to ask your child when they come home on Wednesday 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!! | 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 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!! 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. |
Rehearsals have started and the cast of Cinderella Kids! is busy learning their lines, songs, blocking, and dance numbers for our June production!!! We can't wait to share all of our hard work with you!!!!!! | Recess Drama Club |