Our Weekly Info: | Due to the the NWEA Testing and HMEA Festival last week, this week's Buzzword will remain PICK UP NOTE and it has a special connection to what our students in Second, third, and Fourth Grade will be learning about in music class this week. do you know what a pick up note 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. 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! Second, Third,and Fourth Graders will be back in action as their class Orffestra, mastering a new song and some special new skills this month!! 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! Chorus class will also be seeing the introduction of repertoire for our Spring Concert in May. | General and Performance Music: |