OWS students who take music lessons are invited to play for their classmates next week during their regular music classes. The date for Grades One and Three is Wednesday, May 25th; for Kinder and Second, it's Thursday, May 26th. (Fifth Grade had theirs earlier.)
Students who wish to perform should bring their lesson books (or books out of which they will play) and their instruments, with the exception of piano. The music room is equipped with a touch-sensitive electric piano and music stands.
At the end of Thursday's classes, the winner of the "Best Audience" trophy will be declared!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Recorders Play for Second Grade
Friday, April 15th, 68 students who have been attending recorder class will be playing a concert onstage in the gym. The audience will be Second Grade, who will have the opportunity next fall to learn recorder themselves! Familiar tunes in the concert will include Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", an adaptation of Pachelbel's "Kanon", and "Old MacDonald".
Monday, March 28, 2011
Free Children's Concert in Seattle
Saturday, April 2 at 2 p.m., the Seattle Men's Chorus and Seattle Women's Chorus will present their twelfth annual FREE Children's Concert at McCaw Hall. This year the concert will also feature kids from Village Theater's KIDSTAGE program! The program promises to be lots of fun, and kids who enjoy or have enjoyed singing in choir will have an extra dimension to their appreciation for the music.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Updates!
Today kindergartners played on the Orff instruments using mallets. We used the rhyme "Ninety-nine O'Clock". They continue to practice songs from Japan, India and the U.S. to perform after their Parade of Cultures.
March 21st was Bach's birthday! First-graders celebrated by listening to some of his most famous music and figuring out that, if he were alive today, he would be 326 years old.
Second-graders have been learning songs for their Earth Day show. One of the songs uses a few phrases in Swahili.
Third-graders are preparing to read syncopation and to listen to the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor.
Fifth-graders have been learning vocal and instrumental parts for the song "We Are One" and hope to make recordings of it next week.
Recorder players are still earning belts and are preparing to play their first concert: Friday, April 15th, they will play onstage in the gym for an audience of Second-graders. This always creates a lot of excitement among the recorder players, as well as among the audience, who will have a chance to begin playing recorder next fall.
March 21st was Bach's birthday! First-graders celebrated by listening to some of his most famous music and figuring out that, if he were alive today, he would be 326 years old.
Second-graders have been learning songs for their Earth Day show. One of the songs uses a few phrases in Swahili.
Third-graders are preparing to read syncopation and to listen to the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor.
Fifth-graders have been learning vocal and instrumental parts for the song "We Are One" and hope to make recordings of it next week.
Recorder players are still earning belts and are preparing to play their first concert: Friday, April 15th, they will play onstage in the gym for an audience of Second-graders. This always creates a lot of excitement among the recorder players, as well as among the audience, who will have a chance to begin playing recorder next fall.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Class Updates
Kindergartners are getting pretty good at the play-party "Alabama Gal" and now are learning to "wring the dishrag" and play "I Let Her Go-Go" and "Jump, Josie".
First-graders continue to practice singing, hearing, reading, and writing the pitches "G" and "E", and are preparing to learn "A". They enjoy using their rhythmic reading skills and hearing about J. S. Bach.
Second-graders are identifying the sound of "mi-re-do" and writing it in different places on the treble staff (B-A-G, A-G-F and E-D-C). Recently they learned proper hand drum technique.
Third-graders have been performing speech canons, movement canons and of course singing canons. They are adding sixteenth notes to their classroom rhythm repertoire.
Fifth-graders have studied the harmonic progression of 12-bar blues and played it on the Orff instruments. They've discussed the history of blues and gone on to jazz and George Gershwin, hearing "Summertime" from his opera Porgy and Bess and singing his "I Got Rhythm". After Midwinter Break they'll begin a drumming/composition unit.
The winners of the trophy for Best Audience were Mr. Goodman's Fourth Grade and Mrs. Spadoni's Second Grade. Earlier I listed Ms. Rawson's First Grade; I regret the error.
First-graders continue to practice singing, hearing, reading, and writing the pitches "G" and "E", and are preparing to learn "A". They enjoy using their rhythmic reading skills and hearing about J. S. Bach.
Second-graders are identifying the sound of "mi-re-do" and writing it in different places on the treble staff (B-A-G, A-G-F and E-D-C). Recently they learned proper hand drum technique.
Third-graders have been performing speech canons, movement canons and of course singing canons. They are adding sixteenth notes to their classroom rhythm repertoire.
Fifth-graders have studied the harmonic progression of 12-bar blues and played it on the Orff instruments. They've discussed the history of blues and gone on to jazz and George Gershwin, hearing "Summertime" from his opera Porgy and Bess and singing his "I Got Rhythm". After Midwinter Break they'll begin a drumming/composition unit.
The winners of the trophy for Best Audience were Mr. Goodman's Fourth Grade and Mrs. Spadoni's Second Grade. Earlier I listed Ms. Rawson's First Grade; I regret the error.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Lessons Days, cont'd.
Third Grade's Lessons Day (see below) will be Wednesday, February 29th. So far, Mr. Goodman's Fourth Grade and Ms. Rawson's First Grade are tied for first place and the Best Audience trophy!
In other news, Fourth Grade music classes are finished for this school year, and on Tuesday, February 1st, Fifth Grade will begin having music once a week.
In other news, Fourth Grade music classes are finished for this school year, and on Tuesday, February 1st, Fifth Grade will begin having music once a week.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
LESSONS DAY January 26th & 27th
On January 26th and 27th, Kindergarten, First, Second, and Fourth grades will have Lessons Day during their regularly scheduled music class. That's when those children who take lessons on an instrument (or dance) have an opportunity to show their classmates the result of their hard work. During Lessons Day, each student's most important job--no matter whether s/he performs or not--is to be an excellent audience member. This performance is just for classmates, not parents.
If your child would like to perform, she or he needs to rehearse announcing the piece, playing it, and bowing afterwards. You could help by being an audience during rehearsal(s) at home. The student should also bring the music for the piece to be performed, as well as the instrument to be played (except, of course, for piano). If you'd like to store the instrument in the music studio that morning, that will be just fine.
First Grade and Mr. Saltz's and Ms. Scott's will have their opportunities during regular music class on Wednesday, January 26th.
Second Grade, Kindergarten and Mr. Goodman's class will have theirs on Thursday the 27th. Third Grade will have Lessons Day after their Folk Tales performance is over.
If your child would like to perform, she or he needs to rehearse announcing the piece, playing it, and bowing afterwards. You could help by being an audience during rehearsal(s) at home. The student should also bring the music for the piece to be performed, as well as the instrument to be played (except, of course, for piano). If you'd like to store the instrument in the music studio that morning, that will be just fine.
First Grade and Mr. Saltz's and Ms. Scott's will have their opportunities during regular music class on Wednesday, January 26th.
Second Grade, Kindergarten and Mr. Goodman's class will have theirs on Thursday the 27th. Third Grade will have Lessons Day after their Folk Tales performance is over.
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