*******Want to give your child a shout out for their work on the little Mermaid? Contact me for more details. Please send in money for AFD shirts, it is $8! Schedule for practices next week: Mon, Wed, Thurs!!!!!!!
*********WE WANT INSTRUMENTS, dead or alive. If it is in your closet collecting dust and it needs a home where it can be played, please send it in. We can send you a tax exempt reciept for your records!
**********We are in need of substitute teachers at Holy Spirit on an as need basis. If you have a gift for working with kids, want a flexible schedule and a bit of pay for it! Contact the school office, we need music substitutes on the list! Thank you!
Kindergarten- Students will again, create a short melodic pattern to sing and play on a classroom instrument using bells. Students will continue to work on steady beat, and we will work on expanding vocal range with Becker, the musical hand puppet again.
First Grade- We will continue to discover musical terms and concepts such as pattern and line that are also used in other disciplines and express them through moving, drawing, or other appropriate means. We will also Describe the importance of activities such as listening, reading, and moving that occur in music class and other curricular areas.
Second Grade
Students will be playing Boomwhackers!!! They will echo melodic and rhythmic patterns, Maintain a steady beat and play with appropriate dynamic levels, Play classroom instruments with the proper technique, holding them correctly. Play simple ostinatos while others sing. Follow the cues of a conductor with regard to tempo and dynamics.
Third Grade: Students continue working with the barred instruments. They have been copying rhythms and patterns to become proficient in playing the instrument. We will continue playing song, and begin to start creating measures of music.
Fourth Grade- Recorders need to be in music class weekly, we are forgetting our recorders, please remind the kids to bring them! Weekly grades are effected because students cannot test if they don't have the instrument.
Fifth Grade- We will work on music from recorder karate 2. Students will need their recorders everyday music class!
Annual Fund Dinner(AFD) Little Mermaid Jr.: PARENTS!!! PLEASE help by supporting your child's commitment to Annual Fund. This is Holy Spirit's most important event for fundraising for the school, when the kids miss practice aside from illness, it really effects our practice time. Please remind them of the importance of being at practice on Mon and Wednesdays. Practices will go until 4:30, please make sure kids are staying until practice is over.
The Advanced and Beginning Band groups: There will be no band Mon-Wed, Thurs. we will return to our normal schedule. We are continuing work on various songs "Hey Song", "Go Big Green", "Happy Birthday", and "Jaws", "Happy", "The Holy Spirit School Song", Seaway March, Guitars- They are really did a great job at Mass, we were missing our 8th grade leaders and they were awesome, all that hard work is coming through! They continue to work on their music for the concert on May 18th!
I am hear to serve you!
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to assist your child musically!
Mrs. Simms
317-352-1243
asimms@holyspirit-indy.org
I am hear to serve you!
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to assist your child musically!
Mrs. Simms
317-352-1243
asimms@holyspirit-indy.org
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