Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Week of January 27th, 2020

Spanish Heritage Month 
Community Time Celebration

As part of our month-long Spanish Heritage Celebration,
at Community Time the students enjoyed trivia, making their own maracas and
a dance party in the gym as they were introduced to Latin pop vocal artists.
A good time was had by students and faculty alike!

















Music Staff Note-Reading
Grade 3 is learning to read notes on a music staff.
Here they learn the notes playing a game similar to Twister.
They have to differentiate the lines and spaces.
Then they identify the pitch by placing the note on the correct lines and spaces. 











Move with the ABC Song and Usher!
Kindergarten loves to sing and move!
Here they are learning a new ABC song sung and performed by Usher with motions.










Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Week of January 20th, 2020


Rumble in the Jungle! Telling A Story with Rhythm Sticks
Kindergarten is learning to keep a steady beat. 
Each animal has a different pattern which they have to tap and act out
as they move, march and recite the lyrics to a chant.
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Each group represented a different animal in the jungle
and tapped a different rhythm pattern.









Grade 2 is working on their ability to read and perform rhythms using rhythm sticks.
Here they play along with patterns following a video with percussion background.


This is followed by In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.




Grade 6 and 7 are preparing to perform for Sunshine Academy as part of their service project.
Here they are learning Baby Shark on Boomwhackers.







Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Week of January 13th, 2020


5th Grade Boomwhackers

5th grade enjoys playing boomwhackers. Here they are depicted learning the Skeleton Dance.
They strike the pitched, color-coded boomwhackers on various parts of their body.
They read the notes on the video screen as they add creative choreography. 



3rd Grade Music Theory Laptop Books
3rd Grade spent the last two class periods creating their own Music Theory Resource Books.
They cut and assembled charts, graphs, and pictures which summarize terms
 that they need to be able to recognize and identify. 
This book will assist them in defining terms as part of music reading and playing instruments.
 They can now use this resource to refer to when researching pertinent terms
 to increase their musical vocabulary. 

















6th & 7th Grade Hand Bells

6th and 7th grade continue to make great strides in learning new hand bell repertoire.
Here they are learning a new piece entitled Soliloquy by Michael Helman. 



Friday, January 10, 2020

Week of January 6th, 2020

At this year's opening faculty meeting, Mike D'Angelo, father of Gabe D'Angelo (Grade 2 student) shared a Mindfulness presentation with the faculty and staff. After a brief introduction and tutorial, Grade 4 began embracing mindfulness meditation as a warm-up in class to assist them in clearing them minds and centering their focus. Observe in the following students, their first attempts to find their inner peace and a place of Zen.









Grade 1, as part of their study of classical composers, began studying Mozart's overture to The Marriage of Figaro. They learned the structure of the piece, added lyrics which included making a soup by "Chef Figaro". Here is a brief video of them performing the piece as their develop their culinary skills. They topped it off by adding percussion instruments to emphasize the different melodic, rhythmic and tempo changes in the varying parts of the piece. 



Grade 2 also  began studying classical composers this week. Their first lesson began getting to know the French composer, Claude Debussy. After acquiring some biographical knowledge, they listened to a piece entitled The Snow is Dancing, a piano instrumental from his work entitled The Children's Corner. Here they enact various adaptations of how they might envision snow falling.

Gliding


Floating


Twirling

Drifting



Kindergarten is still working on their grasp of instruments. They learn their names, characteristics and are working to discern being able to place them in their respective families.
 Here they label and color the string family.














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