The Best Way To Spread Christmas Cheer Is Singing Loud For All To Hear!

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!!

 

Nutcracker Fun

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!!!  

 

It's Beginning To Sound Alot Like Christmas!

Here is a preview of our Winter Holiday Concert.  The concert is on December 14 at {gasp} the Middle School on the BIG STAGE!!!  ACK!!  We're moving up in the world.  I think... no... I KNOW we will be ready in time!  Sit, back, relax and enjoy our hard work!
Sometime after December 14, we'll let you know how everything turned out!
Videos are compliments of my students.

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I Like Thanksgiving

In honor of Thanksgiving my kindergarten students learned the song I Like Thanksgiving from Music K-8.  It's hard to video them and sing with them...but here ya go!  The girls in the back row are adorable.  I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

**Sorry it's sideways... not sure how to rotate it!  It played right before I put it in the blog.  Suggestions??**

Technology Can Be Fun

Get a Voki now!


I am just trying out this Voki.  I am thinking about doing a short research project with my fifth grade classes after the Christmas concert.  They will each get a composer to research and questions to answer.  They will then be able to create a Voki and type the answers to their questions.  Just a different way of doing a report... thought it was interesting. :)

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Recorder Club!

Although Halloween has passed, the Recoder Club (we're still looking for a cool snazzy name) has been hard at work learning to play Hall of the Mountain King.  Enjoy!

The Recorder Club was started this year thanks to donors choose and Recorder Karate.  Through donorschoose all of the fourth graders were given a recorder and were able to participate in Recorder Karate. The response was so amazing that some of the students wanted to continue playing in 5th graders.  A great group of 14 fifth graders signed up to stay afterschool for an hour on Tuesdays to continue their recorder studies and make music with their friends.

Students earn belts for passing each level. 
Usually the belts are on the bottom of
the recoder.  This student is showing
hers off... as well as her lucky charm.



Funny faces!  Ready, set, go!



most of the 5th grade recorder club

Looking good!

Practicing with our friends!

working together

hard at work on Hall of the Mountian King