Agenda 3/4-3/8

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Mrs. Angela Simms

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ISTEP WEEK!!!!  For Middle School, Unified Arts teachers will be providing movement during one 40 minute period to get those brains working!  They will then be sent on their way to begin ISTEP testing.  They need to wear school uniforms.  Schedule for Middle School will change on Thursday and Friday.  Thursday will be a "C' day and Friday will be an "A" day.  The kids will know what that means for them.  Just check in with them for the P.E. uniform for whatever day they have class.

 

AFD- It is off book week, meaning all students should have all their lines and songs memorized for the 3/4 practice.  This week we will have Monday, Thursday and Friday after school practices from 3:00-4:00.

Kindergarten: 
Copy Rhythms, Create new music with instruments, and create with non instruments.

1st grade :
 Tempo Changes in music continued

2nd Grade:

Writing Music, using instruments and notation

3rd Grade:
Movement day, helping our brains for ISTEP testing- Draw Me a Bucket of Water, Holy Spirit School Song, they pick a movement activity

4th Grade: 

Movement day, helping our brains for ISTEP testing -Austrian Went Yodeling, Holy Spirit School Song, Instrument Improvisation stations, they pick
 

5^th grade:

Movement day, helping our brains for ISTEP testing - Rock, Check it out, Textbook music, Holy Spirit School Song

Annual Fund Dinner Class 
Please see note above 

Jubilance Choir
Particpates weekly in the Wednesday Masses and some students canter on Friday Masses, throughout the year.  Since Annual Fund practice has begun, please look for updates under that section. 

Middle School General Music

Movement day, helping our brains for ISTEP testing- Walking, Stretches, Dancing, Exercising, and other movement activities.

Music Agenda 2/25-3/1

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THIS SUNDAY FEB. 24th at 12:00.  Is the Holy Spirit Mass!  Please have choir members in the West Vestibule with Mrs. Newhart in uniform!

Kindergarten: 

Cultural Music and Dancing with rhythm sticks- Espana, Waltzing Matilda, Daysie

1st grade :
Instrument Stories, whole class and small groups

2nd Grade:

Whole group and Small Group spng creations

3rd Grade:
Last week for Solfege Work

4th Grade: 

Cultures in music

5^th grade:

Cultures in music

Annual Fund Dinner Class  

Working on music, script memorization is March 4th.  Please check in to make sure kids are practicing lines and music at home!

Jubilance Choir
This week will be the last school Mass, we will do any in March, April, or May. 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:
Discussion, Analyzation and writing reflection over the Asian Culture

7th Grade General Music: 

Listening and analyzing music with specific terms.  Students will have BAF due the following week after ISTEP

8th Grade General Music

Corrected BAF question due! Aural Rhythm Practice and exit ticket assessment. Working on Solfege and homework will be assigned for the week following ISTEP

Music Agenda 2/18-2/22

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Next AFD rehearsals are Thursday and Friday after school 3:00-4:00. 

 

Next Sunday, Feburary 24th is the next Sunday, 12:00 Mass.  Please have students in school uniform in the West Vestibule with Ms. Newhart.  Please let me know if they will not be able to attend!  

 

Kindergarten: 

Cultural Music and Dancing with rhythm sticks

1st grade : 

Learning about Tempo changes in music

2nd Grade:

Creating music with the book, "The Three Billy Goats Fluff"

3rd Grade: 

Note review and Solfege learning continues

 

4th Grade: 

Cultures in music

5^th grade:

Cultures in music

 

Annual Fund Dinner Class  

Working on music, script memorization is March 4th.  Please check in to make sure kids are practicing lines and music at home!

Jubilance Choir
Classes are the fourth Sunday of the following months: 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 Unit on Asia continued.  Students will work on learning music, dances and facts.  They will assessed on participation, effort, reflections.  One students gave a presentation over her Native Land, very interesting!

 

7th Grade General Music: 

Dynamics and other terms review. Forms Homework due, students must bring a song and identify it form.   Students need to have notebooks for every class.  We will be applying new music terms as we listen to music.  

8th Grade General Music

We will review terms with a partner, students will be assessed over the rhythms through an exit ticket at the end of class. Students need to have notebooks for every class.  Students will also begin to work with solfege and have homework for the following class.

Music Agenda 2/11-2/15

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

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 Annual Fund Practice will continue after school from 3:00-4:00.  Please check the schedule for specific dates.  The students in Annual Fund will have practice during the school day Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 7:45-8:24.  Please have kids here on time in the morning and avoid making appointments during the practice times. Remember if kids miss more than 5 practices not sure to illness they will be replaced in the show.  Any questions, please let me know!

  

Kindergarten: 

High and low in music is our concept for the week.  "Chinese Dance" "Three Bears", “The Hummingbird”, "Little Crab”

1st grade : 

Student will take an assessment over note writing and understanding.  Students will perform for class their note values.  We will begin talking about Sofege and the “Sound of Music”

2nd Grade:

Carnival of the Animals, instrumental introduction and analyzing music

3rd Grade: 

Note review and Solfege learning begins

4th Grade: 

We will begin looking at other cultures in music

5^th grade:

Music in history, how music was apart of our history long ago. Railroad, Revoluntionary War, Jamestown, and Patriotic Songs.  Why is this meaningful to us in music class.  Students will write an essay on their favorite history song we studied.  We will begin to talk about culture in music also.

Annual Fund Dinner Class  

Working on music, script memorization is March 4th

Jubilance Choir
Classes are the fourth Sunday of the following months: 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 Unit on Asia continued.  Students will work on learning music, dances and facts.  They will assessed on participation, effort, reflection questions and potential quizzes.  

7th Grade General Music:

Solfege and Warm ups, Dynamics and other terms review, Form in music continued. Students need to have notebooks for every class.  Analyzing music will be a skill we will work on this class. We will review music terms and art terms again.

8th Grade General Music

Aural rhythm identification- will be performing their rhythm on the piano. They will be assessed over the following music terms: Dynamics, Articulation and other terms review, Repetition.  Students need to have notebooks for every class.