Music Agenda 4/8-4/12

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352-1243
Mrs. Angela Simms
asimms@holyspirit-indy.org
AFD Parents: We are doing  a Saturday Tech practice to work on scenery and props.  Kids will be painting, drawing, cutting and gluing... so old clothes, please. Also we will need to open up doors, so have them bring warm clothes too. April 6th from 9:00 AM-2:00P.M. Pizza is provided for lunch, please send them with drinks or pop machine money.  If any parent wants to donate snacks, please let me know!  All are welcome to help, we have plenty to do! Please let me know if you child cannot attend!   If you child is on props crew, it is essential they are here! I need more parents to come and help watch kids.  If you are able and willing, I need your help!

Kindergarten: 
"Soup for Me", "Open Shut Them", "This is the Way", "If your name begins", "Bingo", "Put your finger in the Air", "Clap your hands", "2 Little Blackbirds"

  1st grade :
Review of  identifying instrumental, environmental and vocal sounds we hear.   We will also discuss the importance that these sounds play in our lives daily. "Piggy Bank"
 2nd Grade:
"Peter and the Wolf" story, we will be learning about instruments and their families

  3rd Grade:
Barred instruments- echoing rhythmic patterns, reading notes, learning instrument names

4th Grade:
Recorders!!! As we learn how to play recorders, students will be working at their own pace.  Check in with the grade book, the goal for each student is that they would be finishing about two songs a week, if they get behind the grade will reflect.  Please contact me with any questions.  They are working very hard and practicing is going well!

 
5^th grade:
Notes and Solfege work continued, Quiz this week for 5th grade!  Mrs. McMahon's class will be doing some sight reading and working on some partner songs in class.

Annual Fund Dinner Class
Encourage kids to work on lines, dances, and singing.  We will be a having a day a work for props and scenery, on SATURDAY, April 6th.  We will get here at 9:00 and work until 2:00.  Pizza will be provided, please send kids with money for pop from the machine or with drinks and other snacks.  If any parent wants to donate for the kids other snacks, please let me know!  It will be fun, any and all help is welcomed!

Jubilance Choir
Participates 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.

6th Grade:
Students will discuss the music careers they researched. Students will continue to learn about how society affects music

7th Grade:
Students will be playing instruments in stations.  The instrument stations will include; Piano, Barred Instruments, and rhythm instruments.  Students will have a task to complete at each station which will require them to play the instruments and the music pieces in front of them.

8th Grade:
Students will be improvising music in stations.  In groups, they will pick poems and create an instrumental accompaniment to go with the poems.