Happy New Year 2014, Welcome back!

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

Hello everyone!  Happy New Year!  I am looking forward to coming back from Maternity Leave to teach music at Holy Spirit School on January 6th!  I am excited to see all my wonderful students and get a jump start on the new learning and success in 2014!

I wanted to introduce myself, I know we have some new families to school and I wanted to let you know some information about me, looking forward to getting to know you and your children.  I am 2006 graduate from Marian University majored in Music Education.  I am a graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University in 2010 with my Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction.  I have a wonderful husband and two amazing kids, daughter 3, and Son 6 months, whom was born in June.

What I do in my classroom?  I provide students with opportunities to experience, participate and actively create music.  I want them to learn and grow, while having a fun.  I believe in music, that it enhances learning and as studies show allow students to be more successful academically.  Students will  grow as they learn about music, and become an active part of their own music. My focuses are  on the Music Education State Standards, Common Core Standards, ISTEP preparation, and other grade level standards.  It takes a village and at Holy Spirit we strive to progress your children as a team.

I am here to help anyway I can, if you have any concerns, questions or other needs, please do not hesitate to ask.  I am here for you! 

I will update my blog by Friday at the end of the day for following week.  It will list any Plans and activities, needs for students, homework, or other announcements.  Please take the time to read it weekly, it will be much shorter than this, I just want to make sure you know what is going on, so we can work together as a team! 

Here are a list of agendas so you now what is going on in your child's class time...

Kindergarten- Procedures, “Rum Tum Tum”, playing drums and singing, learning the “Hello Song”, “Goodbye Song”, Freeze dance, Space Adventure, rhythm Sticks with “Amos Ados”, “Holy Spirit School Song” 

1st Grade: Procedures, “Welcome Song”, “Down By the Banks”, “Piggy Bank”, Repeating rhythms with rhythm sticks, Dancin Machine, “Holy Spirit School Song” 

2nd Grade: Procedures, “How do you do and shake hands”, 2 Truth and Fib game, Building rhythms, Bean Bag Boogie 1 and 2, “Holy Spirit School Song”

3rd Grade: Procedures Jeopardy, “Hello Hello Hello”, “Holy Spirit School Song”

4th Grade:  Procedures and skits  “Rap Your Name”, “Holy Spirit School Song”

5th- Procedures “Check it out say What”, “We’re Gonna Rock”, “Holy Spirit School Song”

Annual Fund Dinner Class(AFD) This class was formally choir first semester.  The second semester the class changes a bit.  Students in choir last semester will still sing at Wednesday Masses.  Students who auditioned and were selected to be in High School Musical Jr will now be apart of the AFD class. Students who are not in the show, but in choir last last semester will become part of their grade level general music class.  This class is held Mon-Fri. excluding Wed due to Mass from 8:40-9:20am.  Students will be getting a schedule for the after school practices.  All After School practices for AFD will be from 2:45-4:30, this is change from last year.  Our first will be on Wednesday January 8th in the music room.  Students will get practice schedule at that time.  We will work on Mass, “High School Musicial Jr” and of course Procedures, “Holy Spirit School Song”

6th- Procedure charades, Mass Procedures and practice “Holy Spirit School Song”, identifying instruments from various cultures and traditional instruments by listening and seeing Standard 6.5

7th- Backwards charades, Mass Procedures and practice, “Holy Spirit School Song”, Focus on Vocal Technique, properly using the voice Standard 7

8th- In groups procedure race, Mass Procedures and practice “Holy Spirit School Song”

Jackson Pollock, identifying an creating music composition.