It has been a busy two weeks in our music classes! The Holy Family choral festival was last week. Our fifth graders participated very well and represented our school very nicely. It was a very full day which culminated with a wonderful concert that evening!
When we had our monthly reading celebration, there was enough time left, that while all the students were gathered together, we watched the segment of The King and I that featured our song of the month, I Whistle a Happy Tune. It was good for the students to get to see what I had tried to explain to them about the movie. Most classes are finishing learning the final sections of the song.
During our culminating Hispanic Heritage Month activity last week, I was Rita Moreno when the teachers dressed up and were in their character for the day. Rita Moreno is an award winning Hispanic American actress who is the only woman to have won these four awards: the Tony, Oscar, Grammy and Emmy. Ms. Moreno also was in The King and I! I showed a clip from her award winning performance in West Side Story where she is singing and dancing to the song America which extols the great things about living in America compared to Puerto Rico where both her character and Rita Moreno herself are from.
This week we are beginning to sing Halloween songs. The third graders go to the symphony orchestra performance on Friday at 10:40. We are so excited to finally go. We will be getting ready for conferences by filling out music conference sheets too. Please stop by to see me at conferences next week if I am not in another conference!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
OLG Music - 10/5/09
Greetings!
The music room at OLG is being transformed! Our goals are now pumpkins and there are many fall and Halloween decorations up. My students are always so observant about how the room has changed. It is fun to see what they notice. We are learning fall songs and will learn Halloween songs in a week or two.
Our new song of the month is "I Whistle a Happy Tune" from the King and I. This is a longer song, so it will take a couple weeks for the classes to learn all of it. We will be talking about the lyrics and how we can pretend we're brave and then in doing so how we can actually lose our fears. We hope to watch a clip of the movie during the month too. Last month's song of the month "Open the Eyes of My Heart", was so popular with all of the OLG students that it is hard to find a new song to follow it!
Grade 3 students will be going to the symphony on Oct. 23rd at 10:40. We continue to learn about the instruments in preparation for our field trip.
Next Tuesday (10/13) our fifth graders will go to Loras College for the afternoon for the Holy Family Choral Festival. We have some awesome singers in 5th grade! They have been able to sing one of the songs in harmony already several times.
The music room at OLG is being transformed! Our goals are now pumpkins and there are many fall and Halloween decorations up. My students are always so observant about how the room has changed. It is fun to see what they notice. We are learning fall songs and will learn Halloween songs in a week or two.
Our new song of the month is "I Whistle a Happy Tune" from the King and I. This is a longer song, so it will take a couple weeks for the classes to learn all of it. We will be talking about the lyrics and how we can pretend we're brave and then in doing so how we can actually lose our fears. We hope to watch a clip of the movie during the month too. Last month's song of the month "Open the Eyes of My Heart", was so popular with all of the OLG students that it is hard to find a new song to follow it!
Grade 3 students will be going to the symphony on Oct. 23rd at 10:40. We continue to learn about the instruments in preparation for our field trip.
Next Tuesday (10/13) our fifth graders will go to Loras College for the afternoon for the Holy Family Choral Festival. We have some awesome singers in 5th grade! They have been able to sing one of the songs in harmony already several times.
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