Classroom Updates

Welcome to music class 2019/2020! Are you ready to Rock and Roll? I am sure am! This year we have lots of new equipment so here is the basic run down of what every grade level will be focusing on this year!

Kinder: Dances, Rhythm Sticks, Snow and Ice Songs

1st Grade: Boomwhackers, Rhythm Sticks, Circle Songs

2nd Grade: Boomwhackers, African Drum and Dance

3rd Grade: Recorders, Rudiments, Rounds

4th Grade: Bucket Drums, Recorders, Baroque Music

5th Grade: Bucket Drums, Orff Ensemble, Japanese Folk Songs

6th Grade: Bucket Drums, Orff Ensemble, Latin Language songs

7th Grade: Snare Drums, Orff Ensemble, Bell Songs

8th Grade: Cash Corps and Cash Chorus

Lots of exciting things happening in this year’s music classroom! I will post a schedule of concerts soon so please stay tuned!

Music plays such an important part of our lives! Music in school is very important and I strive to create a positive music environment in my classroom. Since it’s a new year, we have new music specials!

7th and 8th Grade- Cash Chorus: we will be learning how to sing correctly and read music.

6th Grade- GarageBand: creating your own music on the iPad app!

K-5 will be getting ready for their spring concert. The theme is “Colors” and each grade level will have a color that is their theme.

5th Grade: Blue

4th Grade: Yellow

3rd Grade: Green

2nd Grade: Red

1st Grade:Gold

Kinder: Purple

More information for the concerts as the semester goes along!

7th and 8th graders are gearing up for their first formal assessment in World Music. We have been working on the dance, song, and drum parts for Gota! Here are the the 4 things students will have to do that will combine to make their grade for the unit.

1. Written Test: on information about Gota.
2. Drumming: a formal assessment on how to play the drum part.
3. Singing: a formal assessment on how to sing the part for Gota.
4. Dancing: a formal assessment on the dance part of Gota.

These assessments will each be worth 25% of the scores. These assessments will take place all next week.

Monday: Written Test

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Drums and Singing Assessment

Thursday: Dance Assessment

Friday: Performance in the courtyard

Thank you all for helping at all the concerts this past week! They were all a huge success and I cannot wait until the next one!

Here are some pictures from our concert at the Betty Fairfax Middle School Night. It was a blast playing with the high schoolers!

Out of the 40 middle school students there, TSP represented 15 of them! So Go Trailside!

Music Engineering is here! Sudents will learn about the recording arts and how music has evolved online!

Google Classroom Link for students: https://classroom.google.com/c/NDA4NTg3MDgw

Middle School Night at Betty Fairfax High School

Spring Concert

Music Memory Trip

Band Incentive Trip

Welcome back! We are in a new semester and new year. Some students have changed instruments for the next semester but are renting other instruments. I will hand out forms for students who have switched instruments so parents know what instrument they have decided to switch to and can get those instruments switched from Milanos Music.

Percussion Ensemble just received 25 buckets from Home Depot for our bucket drum ensemble! The kids are really excited and are learning new beats for their performance at the winter show on December 16th

Winter Concert Dates for 2015!

Winter Wonderland (K-1) November 24, 2015 at 6:00 pm in Trailside Point Auditorium

Pacific Holiday (2-4) December 2, 2015 at 6:00 pm in Trailside Point Auditorium

Urban Holiday (5-8) December 16, 2015 at 6:00 pm in Trailside Point Auditorium