We're just plugging away at our winter concert music. Not much to tell. If your child wants to practice, check out the 2016 Winter Concert page. All the songs are there.
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HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! Winter Concerts have changed from Tuesdays to Mondays in December! Make sure to mark it on your calendars now. Monday, December 7th for K-3 and Monday December 14th for 4-8th. Both concerts will be from 6-7:30pm. You don't want to miss these concerts. The kids have been working all quarter and are excited to show off their talents. I couldn't resist posting a couple pictures of some kindergarten snowmen from last week. I found the cutest light up nose from Michaels. It was a riot dressing them up and watching each student melt to the ground. This week we learned a spinning song about a dreidel. We even learned some musical tempo terms like adagio, moderato, allegro and presto!
In first grade this week, we revisited some rhythms like ti-ti and ta and learned tika-ti, ti-tika, and tika tika. We used these new rhythms in a song about all kinds of different pie. Now I'm hungry. mmmm Second grade, much to their dismay, is still working on an instrumental holiday song. It's coming along quite nicely. Third grade is surprising me by how well they're picking up the recorder. Winter Wind is a pretty difficult song and they're doing well. We're learning how to read music and relate all those notes on the staff to fingerings on our recorders. Fourth grade will finally be learning another song next week, but this week was all about signs and codas and navigating music. We're learning. Took a quiz. I think that some are learning they need to pay better attention in class. Fifth grade is awesome. Sleigh Ride with a hand jive. That's all I'll say about that. You'll just have to wait until the concert. Have a great week. Don't forget there is no school next Friday in honor of Veteran's Day. |
Mrs. Bell with Emily and photo bomber Robert.
AuthorHello! I'm Mrs. Bell. I teach K-5 music and Middle School Choir at Tucson Country Day School. I also help with after school clubs like Singers and Drama. Archives
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