Agenda 1/7-1/11

If you need anything, please give me a call or email me...I am here for your child and you!!
352-1243
Mrs. Angela Simms

asimms@holyspirit-indy.org

 

Wow, the first semester has flown by!  Two great programs, a fabulous choir concert and caroling trip.  Excellent singing at Mass on Wednesdays, Friday and some Sundays!  Get work with learning new pieces for Mass in Spanish.  It is amazing to see the kids create, play, sing and grow as they work their way towards become more proficient in music!  It is a Joy to have your kids!  I hope you have a wonderful Christmas!

Kindergarten:
Loud and Soft in music- Hush Little Baby, If your happy, 2 Little Sausages, Surprise Symphony

 

1st grade : 

Reading music with Boomwhackers

 

2nd Grade:

Note Names and how they sound, making flash cards to practice note sounds

 

3rd Grade: 
Program video view and critique 

 

4th Grade: 

Program video view and critique 

 

5^th grade:

Program video view and critique 

Jubilance Choir:
The voice, Sight Reading, New Mass Music, Theory

Sunday Masses are the fourth Sunday of the following months: January, February, and March- students should wear uniforms at these Masses.  Meet in the West Vestibule with Mrs. Newhart at 11:30, for the 12:00 Masses.  If Middle School Choir Members are not attending the Sunday Masses, grades will be lowered, if I am not contacted.  Please communicate, I know things come up.  If you do not attend the Mass, please remind students of proper etiquette at Mass, no talking and acting reverent in the church.

6th Grade General Music:

Cultural Music

 

7th Grade General Music:

Solfege and Warm ups, Dynamics and other terms review, Form in music

 

8th Grade General Music

Aural rhythm identification, Circle of 5ths and key signatures, Dynamics, Articulation and other terms review, Repetition and contrast in music

 

Agenda 12/17-12/21

If you need anything, please give me a call or email me...I am here for your child and you!!
352-1243
Mrs. Angela Simms

asimms@holyspirit-indy.org

The Band and Choir Concert was fabulous!  The kids worked so hard!  It really showed.  The Middle School Jubilance Choir will perform their songs on the last day of school before and after the Mass on Dec. 21st.

Breakfast with Santa, this Saturday, 9:00-10:00, please have kids here by 8:30 in the music room.  Choir shirts and black pants, please.  I told them if they were going to eat, they needed to buy a ticket.  If they are singing and leaving it is fine to not buy a ticket. Thank you!

Kindergarten:

Reviewing "Must Be Santa", "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", "Jingle Bells", "Mary Had a Baby" and "We wish you a Merry Christmas". We will be doing a gingerbread activity with the SMARTboard that involves counting and stories!

 

1st grade : 

Reviewing "Away in a Manger", "Up on the Housetop", and "Here Come Santa Clause" , We will be doing a SMARTboard activity entitled, "WWJD Singing Christmas Carols"

 

2nd Grade:

Reviewing Jingle Bells, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, Silent Night and playing Christmas Connect 4 with singing (SMARTboard Activity)

 

3rd Grade:  

Christmas Around the World

 

4th Grade: 

Christmas Trivia with singing, and WWJD Christmas Songs

5^th grade:

Christmas Song Guess and Singing

Jubilance Choir:

Breakfast with Santa- the Middle School Jubilance Choir has been asked to perform their Christmas show at the Breakfast with Santa this year.  Students are asked to be present from 9:00am to 10:00 to sing. If they wish to volunteer and help, please plan on doing so after the singing is over.  Students should wear choir shirt and black pants and be in the music room at 8:30.

Activites for next week:

Wednesday Mass Practice

Singing Christmas Carols from packets

Christmas Trivia game

Choir observation

Tuesday, Dec. 18th: Pitch in breakfast for the kids!  We will do a sign up they will be asked to bring something to share.

Sunday Masses are the fourth Sunday of the following months: January, February, and March- students should wear uniforms at these Masses.  Meet in the West Vestibule with Mrs. Newhart at 11:30, for the 12:00 Masses.  If Middle School Choir Members are not attending the Sunday Masses, grades will be lowered, if I am not contacted.  Please communicate, I know things come up.  If you do not attend the Mass, please remind students of proper etiquette at Mass, no talking and acting reverent in the church.

6th Grade General Music:

Christmas Songs!

7th Grade General Music:

Christmas Songs!

8th Grade General Music

Christmas Songs!

Agenda 12/10-12/14

If you need anything, please give me a call or email me...I am here for your child and you!!
352-1243
Mrs. Angela Simms

asimms@holyspirit-indy.org

This is concert and program week for Middle School Band and Choir students and grades 3-5!  The Band and Choir Concert will be Tuesday December 11th at 7:00.  The 3-5 program will be on Thursday December 13th at 1:30 and 7:00 P.M.   Choir needs to be downstairs in the music room or cafe by 6:30p.m, The evening of the concert. In grades 3-5, students need to be present in the intermediate hallway (in front of the office) in their labeled classroom by 6:30.  Please encourage the kids in grades 3-5 to practice their lines once or twice a night...they are forgetting them when they do not practice.

Kindergarten:

We are switching to Christmas gear....we will be doing "Must Be Santa", "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", "Jingle Bells", "Mary Had a Baby" and "We wish you a Merry Christmas" 

 

1st grade : 

We are switching to Christmas gear....we will be doing "Away in a Manger", "Up on the Housetop", "Here Come Santa Clause"

 

2nd Grade:

We are switching to Christmas gear....we will be doing Jingle Bells, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, Silent Night

 

3rd Grade:  

Continued work on program...it is Thursday!!!! These kids are the island kids.  They are vacationing for Christmas... shorts, tank tops, flip flops, sandals, swim shirts, visors, sun hats, ect.  Please no swim suits on girls.  If there is any parent who has ideas on props for the stage to set the sandy beach theme, any help would be wonderful! Practice lines please.....practice makes permanent! 

Dec. 13^th, 1:30 and 7:00 in the gym

Pirates Christmas!

Island Christmas

Jesus is the Reason

Jesus Means Christmas to Me

 

4th Grade: 

Continued work on program...it is Thursday!!!! These kids are elves and reindeer.  Most of them know what they are, Mrs. Glenn's class will decide on Wednesday. I have the ears and hats for the two characters.  Elves should wear some combination of green and red pants and shirts.  Shoes are up to you.  Tights are acceptable, but must be worn with shorts or skirts over them.  Reindeer wear brown shirts and pants, with black shoes for hooves.  Practice lines please.....practice makes permanent! 

Dec. 13^th, 7:00 in the gym

Pirates Christmas!

Cool to be Cool

Blimey Carols

Christmas Joy

5^th grade:

Continued work on program...it is Thursday!!!! Start thinking about Costumes, they are pirates.  So anything pirate is fine.  You do not have to purchase an expensive costume.  Any help with ideas please let me know.  I will talk with the kids about details for example- beards, hooks, eye patches, peg legs.  I do not want to all look the same so variety is critical.  Practice lines please.....practice makes permenant! 

Dec. 13^th, 7:00 in the gym

Pirates Christmas!

Pirates All Are We

Give and Take

White Beard

Jubilance Choir:

Concert on TUESDAY THIS WEEK! 7:00, please be at the concert by 6:30.  Showcases need to be here at 5:30.  Thanks!

Nursing Home and Arts Garden Field Trip Forms have gone out! Please check with the kids, deadline for permission slips is Dec. 10th, I do not have all the forms!!!! 

Breakfast with Santa- the Middle School Jubilance Choir has been asked to perform their Christmas show at the Breakfast with Santa this year.  Students are asked to be present from 9:00am to 10:00 to sing. If they wish to volunteer and help, please plan on doing so after the singing is over.  Students should wear choir shirt and black pants and be in the music room at 8:30.

Program Dec. 11th, 7:00 P.M.

Mass Work

"Holiday

of Music"

"Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child"- Parts!

"Just One Candle"

"Christmas Jubilation"-

Sunday Masses are the fourth Sunday of the following months: January, February, and March- students should wear uniforms at these Masses.  Meet in the West Vestibule with Mrs. Newhart at 11:30, for the 12:00 Masses.  If Middle School Choir Members are not attending the Sunday Masses, grades will be lowered, if I am not contacted.  Please communicate, I know things come up.  If you do not attend the Mass, please remind students of proper etiquette at Mass, no talking and acting reverent in the church.

6th Grade General Music:

Review of Solfege reading, notation, and notes on the musical staff

7th Grade General Music:

Students will be helping get ready for the upcoming concerts and program this week.  When we are finished setting up.  We will be Improvising as a class in music, they will be doing call and response activities which requires them to improvise.  We will create instrumental accompaniments for songs, and they will create instrument stories.

8th Grade General Music

Warm ups- expanding vocal range
Note Review- names and values
Performing scat songs
Practicing Chords on barred instruments- I, IV, and V