Welcome back and Happy New Year!!!
Kindergarten - This week we sang through a wonderful Raffi book called "Baby Beluga". We also started learning a song about "The Golden Rule".
1st Grade - Penguins and Presidents! We are dancing and singing to a silly song called "The Penguin Polka". We started learning a song that names all 44 presidents in order! We are up to John Quincy Adams. Additionally, we practiced playing quarter notes or "tah" on xylophones.
2nd Grade - We are working on our show called "Squirm!"
3rd Grade - Your child is now learning how to read notes on a staff. We use our hand as a hand staff and practice naming the line notes and space notes by touching as well as reading them. I introduced a fun game that is free on the internet called "Staff Wars". Lastly, we've started learning a song called "Fifty Nifty United States". It is a song by Ray Charles and names all 50 states in alphabetical order.
4th Grade - We are playing lots of fun patterns on the glockenspiels and xylophones and applying the notes and rhythms that we've practiced in earlier years.
5th Grade - 5th Grade Show rehearsals are underway!!!
