This week (3/26-3/30)

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Kindergarten- we took a quiz about hearing the difference between marches and lullabies. We began learning a new song for our spring concert called "Purple Cow", which is a silly song to the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy." We continued to work on "Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go" and learned about vocal warmups.

1st/2nd grade- we worked on one of our concert songs with sign language, "You Are My Sunshine." Earlier this year, we learned the song "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly." Later, we read the story There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell. This week, we read the story There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea and we later paired percussion instruments with it. We began learning another concert song, "Everybody Has Music Inside."Lastly, we spent some time learning about the percussion family of instruments, including honing our ability to identify the different types of percussion by sound only!

3rd/4th grade- we did some more work with our recorders and assessed our progress on the song "Old MacDonald." We learned a new note, F#, and learned to play "Twinkle, Twinkle." We began learning a new song for our spring concert called "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O."

5th grade- Again, this week was difficult because of TCAP testing, but we still managed to get some things accomplished. We have started working on the song "Blackbird" in preparation for our spring concert. We started learning another concert song, "Nifty Fifty", which names all 50 states. We also learned to play two new notes on recorders that we used to play the song "When the Saints Go Marching In."

There will be a sing along coming up on April 13! Happy weekend.

This week (3/19-3/23)

Welcome back after spring break!

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Kindergarten- we began discussing our upcoming spring concert (Wednesday May 9th!) and are getting excited about it! We started to learn one of our new concert songs, "The Whole World." We listened and moved to a story called "The Magical, Musical Bridge." We also learned to hear the difference between lullabies and marches through a variety of examples.

1st/2nd grade- we have started to prepare for our spring concert (Wednesday May 9th!) by learning one of our concert songs, "With My Own Two Hands." We reviewed our foot motions that go with music, including walking, jogging, skipping, and galloping. We used these foot motions with several pieces of music, and gained practice identifying sectional form. We learned a fun song called "The Opposite Rap" and moved in many ways to show the steady beat.

3rd/4th grade- we took some time to review what we know on recorders, including the songs "It's Raining" and "Old MacDonald." Each student was assessed on the first measure of "Old MacDonald", and each student also assessed themselves on the entire song in our four categories of recorder playing. We also began to learn one of our spring concert songs, (Thursday May 10th!) "Lean on Me."

5th grade- Sadly I missed seeing half of 5th grade classes quite a bit this week because of the TCAP testing. For the classes that I did see, we reviewed some songs on recorders, did some note-reading with Mad Minutes, and listened to one of the songs we will be performing in our spring concert, (Thursday May 10th!) "Blackbird."

Spring break!

It's spring break? Are YOU practicing your recorder?!?!

Greeley Tribune article

We made the front page of the paper! On Friday, a reporter came to cover the sing along events I began last school year. Click here to read the article! It's great to get some positive exposure for our school.

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20120304/NEWS/703049987