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

Agenda 12/3-12/7

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

For students in grades 3-5, please have costumes in labled bags in their classrooms by Friday Dec. 7th!  See costume suggestions below!  If anyone has island props to add to the stage, I need the area in front of the stage to look like a beach...ideas....please let me know!  Thank you!

Kindergarten:

Johnny Works with one Hammer, Stars and Stripes forever, Washing machine, Hickety Tickety Bumblebee, Old MacDonald, Hush Little Baby, If You're Happy and you know it, Symphony No. 9, Discussion over places music is heard in our world, Reasons we listen to music, and how we listen to music

 

1st grade : 

Hand Jive with Drums, 4 beat rhythm cards, students reading and playing music on barred instruments

2nd Grade:

Improvise questions and answer with body percussion, found items, and instruments.  Students will be paired to together to answer questions their partners create.

3rd Grade:  

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 permenant! 

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: 

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 permenant! 

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

Pirates Christmas!

Cool to be Cool

Blimey Carols

Christmas Joy

5^th grade:

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:

 

Any 8th graders wanting to do an 8th grade showcase at the concert needs to meet with me.  Please check in with them! 

 

Nursing Home and Arts Garden Field Trip Forms have gone out! Please check with the kids, deadline for permission slips is Dec. 10th

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"- Choreography

Sunday Masses are the fourth Sunday of the following months: November, 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. 

6th Grade General Music:

Working on Solfege reading, notation, and notes on the musical staff

7th Grade General Music:

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
Scat Singing
Chords- I, IV, and V

Agenda 11/19-11/20 and 11/26-11/30

Agenda 11/19-11/20

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

Sunday Mass on Novmeber 25th (the Sunday after Thanksgiving)  Please let me know if your child cannot attend!  Thank you!

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.

Middle School Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!  Permission slips due by the 28th!

This is a short week this week (2 Days), so below are the classes I will see this week!

KHacker and KCatton-"We Give Thanks", Spanish Music for Mass

1 Ahonen-"Five Fat Turkey's", "I'm Thankful", Spanish Music for Mass

2 Porter-"Over the River and Through the Woods", Spanish Music for Mass and "Que Canten"

Grades 3-5, all classes accept Ms. Glenn's- Christmas Program Practice.  Kids need to have their lines memorized, we will work on dancing and singing.

7 general Music- Spanish Music for Mass,

Jubilance- Sunday Mass Practice

 Agenda 11/26-11/30

Kindergarten:

Johnny Works with one Hammer, Stars and Stripes forever, Washing machine, Hickety Tickety Bumblebee, Old MacDonald, Hush Little Baby, If You're Happy and you know it, Symphony No. 9, singing Spanish Mass songs

1st grade : 

Hand Jive with Drums, 4 beat rhythm cards, singing Spanish Mass songs

2nd Grade:

Improvise questions for others to answer, Students will respond to teachers played phrases, Using boom whackers, improvise with given phrases. Students will use the piano to improvise phrases. singing Spanish Mass songs, "Hand Jive" with drums. 

3rd Grade:  

Please start thinking about costumes for the kids.  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! Speaking Lines are going out for all classes, ask if your child has their line memorized.

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: 

Please start thinking about costumes for the kids. These kids are elves and reindeer.  They have not been divided yet, but 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.  If there is any parent who has ideas on props for the stage to set the sandy beach theme, any help would be wonderful! Speaking Lines are going out for all classes, ask if your child has their line memorized.

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

Pirates Christmas!

Cool to be Cool

Blimey Carols

Christmas Joy

5^th grade:

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.  If there is any parent who can create a pirate ship for me, let me know if you are artistic and interested! Any help would be wonderful! Speaking Lines will be going out next week, so have students practiceSpeaking Lines are going out for all classes, ask if your child has their line memorized. Dec. 13^th, 7:00 in the gym

Pirates Christmas!

Pirates All Are We

Give and Take

White Beard

Jubilance Choir:

Nursing Home and Arts Garden Field Trip Forms have gone out!  I am still in need of 3 chaperones!

Dec. 12^th all day!

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.

Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!

Spanish Masses on November 30th and December 12th during the school day 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"- Choreography

Sunday Masses are the fourth Sunday of the following months: November, 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. 

6th Grade General Music:

Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!  Permission slips due by the 28th!

Spanish Music Focus!  We are learning some Spanish Pieces to sing at Mass for when some people from our Twining Parish in Honduras will be joining us. We will review some vocal terms related to music.  We will focus on how music is affected by the changes in our society.

7th Grade General Music:

 

Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!  Permission slips due by the 28th!

Spanish Music Focus!  We are learning some Spanish Pieces to sing at Mass for when some people from our Twining Parish in Honduras will be joining us.  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 Yonder Come Day, and they will create instrument stories.

8th Grade General Music

 

Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!  Permission slips due by the 28th!

Spanish Music Focus!  We are learning some Spanish Pieces to sing at Mass for when some people from our Twining Parish in Honduras will be joining us. Warm ups- expanding vocal range
Note Review- names and values
Scat Singing
Chords- I, IV, and V

Agenda 11/12-11/16

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

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.

Middle School Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!  Permission slips due by the 28th!

  

Kindergarten:

Johnny Works with one Hammer, Stars and Stripes forever, Washing machine, Hickety Tickety Bumblebee, Old MacDonald 

1st grade : 

Improvise with given phrases with instruments, Create Rhythms to be echoed by classmates

2nd Grade:

Improvise questions for others to answer, Students will respond to teachers played phrases, Using boom whackers, improvise with given phrases.

3rd Grade:  

Please start thinking about costumes for the kids.  These kids are the island kids.  They are vacationing for Christmas....so 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! Speaking Lines will be going out next week, so have students practice nightly!

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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: 

Please start thinking about costumes for the kids. These kids are elves and reindeer.  They have not been divided yet, but 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.  If there is any parent who has ideas on props for the stage to set the sandy beach theme, any help would be wonderful! Speaking Lines will be going out next week, so have students practice nightly!  

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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

Pirates Christmas!

Cool to be Cool

Blimey Carols

Christmas Joy

5^th grade:

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.  If there is any parent who can create a pirate ship for me, let me know if you are artistic and interested! Any help would be wonderful! Speaking Lines will be going out next week, so have students practice nightly!  

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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

Pirates Christmas!

Pirates All Are We

Give and Take

White Beard

Jubilance Choir:

Nursing Home and Arts Garden Field Trip Forms have gone out!  I am still in need of 3 chaperones!

Dec. 12^th all day!

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.

Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!

Spanish Mass on November 30th and December 12th

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"- Choreography

Sunday Masses are the fourth Sunday of the following months: November, 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. 

6th Grade General Music:

Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!  Permission slips due by the 28th!

Spanish Music Focus!  We are learning some Spanish Pieces to sing at Mass for when some people from our Twining Parish in Honduras will be joining us. We will review some vocal terms related to music.  We will focus on how music is affected by the changes in our society.

7th Grade General Music:

 

Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!  Permission slips due by the 28th!

Spanish Music Focus!  We are learning some Spanish Pieces to sing at Mass for when some people from our Twining Parish in Honduras will be joining us.  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 Yonder Come Day, and they will create instrument stories.

8th Grade General Music

 

Purdue Christmas Show Field Trip Forms have gone out!

November 30th, all day!  Permission slips due by the 28th!

Spanish Music Focus!  We are learning some Spanish Pieces to sing at Mass for when some people from our Twining Parish in Honduras will be joining us. Warm ups- expanding vocal range
Note Review- names and values
Scat Singing
Chords- I, IV, and V

Agenda 11/5-11/9

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

Kindergarten: Proofing the video "Gettin' Down with Mama Goose" program videos.  If you ordered a video they will de distributed this week to your child's classroom.  In this class, kids will critique themselves and the group as a whole on what they did well and what could have been better. 

1st grade : Proofing the video "Gettin' Down with Mama Goose" program videos.  If you ordered a video they will de distributed this week to your child's classroom.  In this class, kids will critique themselves and the group as a whole on what they did well and what could have been better. 

2nd Grade: Proofing the video "Gettin' Down with Mama Goose" program videos.  If you ordered a video they will de distributed this week to your child's classroom.  In this class, kids will critique themselves and the group as a whole on what they did well and what could have been better. 

3rd Grade:  

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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: 

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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

Pirates Christmas!

Cool to be Cool

Blimey Carols

Christmas Joy

5^th grade:

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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

Pirates Christmas!

Pirates All Are We

Give and Take

White Beard

Jubilance Choir: more review over the voice, quiz will be next Friday!

Nursing Home and Arts Garden Field Trip

Dec. 12^th all day!

Permission Slips to follow

I need chaperones, 3 actually, please let me know if you are interested!

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"- Choreography
Sunday Masses are the fourth Sunday of the following months: September, October, November, 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 I do not hear that students of Middle School Choir Members are not attending the Sunday Masses, grades will be lowered.  Please communicate, I know things come up. 

6th Grade General Music:

Singing with -Abraham, Martin and John, Free At Last, America, I am But A Small Voice, The Star Spangled Banner, America The Beautiful- Looking at terms  analyzation of words.  Reviewing key terms and music symbols.  They will also get quizzed over the terms for each of the discussion points in class.

7th Grade General Music:

Improvising as a class in music, they will be doing call and response activites which requires them to improvise.  We will create instrumental accompaniments for Yonder Come Day, and they will create instrument stories.

8th Grade General Music
Warm ups- expanding vocal range
Note Review- names and values
Scat Singing
Chords- I, IV, and V

Agenda 10/29-11/2

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!  I will have a guest teacher in for me this week.  So any email communication will be responded to November 5th.  If there is an emergency, please contact Mrs. Parsons and she can communicate with me.  Have a great week!

Kindergarten:
Kids in Action, Body Rock, Animal Action 1 and 2, The Freeze, Clapping Rhythms, The count Bounce, Body Talk, Shawdow Dancing, Shoe me How you feel, Scat Like that, Adventures in Space 

1st grade :Kids in Action, Body Rock, Animal Action 1 and 2, The Freeze, Clapping Rhythms, The count Bounce, Body Talk, Shawdow Dancing, Shoe me How you feel, Scat Like that, Adventures in Space 

2nd Grade:

We will start creating in 2^nd grade with instruments, our bodies and found items in the room.  We will use some of our program songs to help us learn about to create based on something prior.  They will be using their program song, Jack B. Nimble to create a instrmental and body percussion parts.  

3rd Grade:  

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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: 

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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

Pirates Christmas!

Cool to be Cool

Blimey Carols

Christmas Joy

5^th grade:

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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

Pirates Christmas!

Pirates All Are We

Give and Take

White Beard

Jubilance Choir: Nursing Home and Arts Garden Field Trip

Dec. 12^th all day!

Permission Slips to follow

I need chaperones, 3 actually, please let me know if you are interested!

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"- Choreography
Sunday Masses are the fourth Sunday of the following months: September, October, November, 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 I do not hear that students of Middle School Choir Members are not attending the Sunday Masses, grades will be lowered.  Please communicate, I know things come up. 

6th Grade General Music:

Composer Article Reading and questions on Bach

7th Grade General Music:

Composer Article Reading and questions on Vivaldi and Handel

8th Grade General Music:

Composer Article Reading and questions on Bach

Agenda 10/22-10/26

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

A huge thank you to everyone who attended the program!  It was a great success the kids were wonderful, they did a great job, all the hard work paid off!  Thank you to Mrs. Mulinaro for her work with the trees and waterfall, thank you to Mrs. Brokaw for lending use the castle.  Thank you to Mrs. Carmona for the clouds!  Thank you to Ryan Moran for his work with sound system!  Thank you to Nate Smith for his help with sound system during the program!  Huge thank you to the teachers that were helpful and made this show possible!!  Thank you to Mr. Love and Mr. Smith for their help with cords and getting our sound system ready for the show!  Thanks to the Reece Rebholz Company for their donation and time!  Thank you to Tim Oskay for all his work! Thank you to all the kids who helped get the gym ready! 

Kindergarten: We will be working through some Kindergarten based Curriculum called “Music Effects”  it is developmentally appropriate and standards based for Kindergarten.  The first two sections are Johnny works with One Hammer, and Stars and Stripes Forever by John Phillips Sousa.  We will be focusing on music loud and soft, high low, and soft and loud.  We will look at steady beat, and learn about a composer from another time. 

1st grade :

1,2, Buckle my shoe( steady beat), Piggy Bank (learning the money terms and values),  we will be learning a song about the Days of the Week.

2nd Grade:

We will start creating in 2^nd grade with instruments, our bodies and found items in the room.  We will use some of our program songs to help us learn about to create based on something prior. 

3rd Grade:  

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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: 

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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

Pirates Christmas!

Cool to be Cool

Blimey Carols

Christmas Joy

5^th grade:

Students will start practicing for their Christmas Program

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

Pirates Christmas!

Pirates All Are We

Give and Take

White Beard

Jubilance Choir: more review over the voice, quiz will be next Friday!

Nursing Home and Arts Garden Field Trip

Dec. 12^th all day!

Permission Slips to follow

I need chaperones, 3 actually, please let me know if you are interested!

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"- Choreography
Sunday Masses are the fourth Sunday of the following months: September, October, November, 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 I do not hear that students of Middle School Choir Members are not attending the Sunday Masses, grades will be lowered.  Please communicate, I know things come up. 

6th Grade General Music:

I wanted to communicate with all of you about why the agenda has not been changing.  The Fall Program was on Oct 16^th.  It seemed to always come around that I needed help with getting the gym ready and the 6^th grade general music students were the class I could use. The plans for next week are the same.  I am sorry it has been a slow process getting there.  Please be assured, they will be working on the below information!  Thank you for reading!  

Alexander's Ragtime Band- vocal reflection on voice

Singing with -Abraham, Martin and John, Free At Last, America, I am But A Small Voice - using rubric

The Star Spangled Banner- analyzation of words

America The Beautiful- Looking at terms

7th Grade General Music:

The 7^th grade just took a quiz retake last week.  I realized majority of the class was struggling with being able to remember and identify their note names and values.  After looking at the quiz retakes, they did much better.  We will work on the agenda below!   Thanks for reading!

Art Terms review

Identifying Bass and Treble Clefs

8th Grade General Music

Students will take a test over the note values again, the first quiz did not go well, so we will retake on Friday Oct. 26^th.  We will work on Notes on the staves also