Just a day and a half of school left before Christmas Break!
Whole School Winter Concert -- check
Kindergarten Caroling at the nursing home -- check
Fun with The Nutcracker -- check
K-2 and 3-5 sing-a-long -- coming up soon!
I am thrilled with the outcome of the 2010 winter concer "A Holiday of Music!"
It is always nice to get great comments from parents...
"Kimmy Scott, you are a gifted and talented teacher. I have never been to an elementary school performance quite like the one I watched tonight by Trent Park. You didn't just have them stand up there and sing songs, they put on a performance! Girl you rock!"
and from teachers
"Trent Park's BEST Christmas concert EVER!" "Trent Park Christmas Concert was fabulous tonight. We had it at Grover and packed the place! What an incredible job by our kids and our outstanding music teacher."
I haven't seen the 3-5 portion of the show, but I was please with the K-2 and Recorder Club! We had an AWESOME turn out and I had a BLAST doing the concert. I am looking forward to trying to top it next year. Below you will find a 5 minute mash up of the first half of the concert. Please enjoy!!
The week after the concert we focused on music from The Nutcracker.
We listened to music, analyzed the form, moved to the music, rode candy cane horses and played with the parachute. The parachute activity was LOVED by all grade levels K-5. One second grader was so excited to see the parachute stick to the ceiling that he literally "jumped for joy." In his excitement he jumped with hid knee right into my stomach -- caught that one on video. There was a lot of shouting in my room this week, so I feel a little bad for the class next door. But hey, what can you do? Parachutes are REALLY exciting!!!
