Hi.
The week of Feb. 21 thru the 25th. Monday NO SCHOOL.
Tuesday will be Girls' Choir. They will run through their warm-up drills which include sight singing activities, simple solo/response songs, and partner songs. Then the girls will have sectionals on their choir pieces. They will be finishing up their worksheets on Rhythmic Note Value identification while they are not having a sectional.
Thursday will be Band. The students should be practicing Chanson on their own at home and be playing Chanson from beginning to end. They should begin marking note names, slide positions or valve combinations on their music for Bourree. We will begin working on Bourree the week of Feb. 28th thru March 4th. The Band students will be working on worksheets that reinforce rhythmic value and rhythmic equavalencies.
Friday will be Boys' Choir. They will run through their warm-up drills which includes sight-singing activites, simple solo/response melodies and partner songs. Then the boys will have sectionals on their choir pieces. They will be beginning worksheets on Rhythmic Note Value Identification.
Kindergarten will begin playing simple melodies on the bells. They will sing the song first a couple of times to learn the song and then play them on the bells. First Grade is still focusing on recorders and doing an excellent job at getting the songs to sound like what they've just sung. Second, third and fourth grades are still working at learning piano and the basic theory behind the keyboard, staff notation, key signatures accidentals and how all of those affect their hand positions.
PreSchool through Fourth Grade will be continuing their unit on dance. Thus far the Preschoolers have done the Chicken Dance, Bunny Hop and begun learning the Mexican Hat Dance.

Hello for the Week of February 7 thru the 11th.
Band will be working on measure 41 thru 48 in sectionals of the song Chanson. All students should have: note names, and or fingerings, and or slide positions, and or valve combinations already written in on their music. We will be working as a whole group on fitting together Chanson from the beginning to measure 25.
Boy's Choir will meet this week on Tuesday and on Friday to make-up for the days they missed and will be missing in the next couple of weeks due to early releases. They will spend their time working on warm-up drills, sight singing drills and then sectionals on their spring concert pieces "Ain't Gonna Grieve My Lord No More", "Blow the Man Down", "Chopsticks", and "Yellow Submarine".
First Grade will continue to work on more recorder songs. They will be learning two new songs this week first in the generative form with pitch names only and then transferring those songs to the staff and playing them. They will be reinforcing the concepts of which notes are line notes and which notes are space notes.
Second thru Fourth Grade will be at the keyboards this week. Fourth Grade will have their first timed note identification test. They will be tested on the Treble Clef Staff notes only for this test. Second thru Fourth Grade will all be getting worksheets to complete while they are waiting to play test at the piano for the teacher. The worksheets will help them to identify notes on the Treble Cleff Staff.
Kindergarten through Fourth Grade will all begin their unit on Dance in P.E. They will be learning simple dances such as: The Chicken Dance, The Mexican Hat Dance, The Conga, The Bunny Hop, The Alley Cat and The Macarena.