First grade playing singing games

Singing game to "Allee O."  "Oh the big ship's a sailin' through the Allee Allee O!"

Fourth grade students in Mrs. Lopez-Sinclair, and Tsengas' grouped up to play a 3-part example based off of "La Cucaracha."  

Our Hispanic music unit is going well!

Ciupak/Lyons Class Relaxing after their hardwork

Ciupak/Lyons class scored the highest on the 2nd grade visual rhythm detection competition. They scored a perfect score of 25! We celebrated with gummibears and a musical!

3rd Grade's Venn Diagram on The Nutcracker

Third grade made an impressive and  thorough comparison of two popular Nutcracker pieces!

There was a zoo in the cafeteria! An Instrument Zoo!

Fifth graders had an opportunity to have a hands on experience with common orchestra instruments.

 We had instruments from every family: percussion, woodwinds, brass, and strings.

 I am so proud of our fifth graders, answering questions confidently and correctly!

 There were a couple of snake charmers on the oboe.

 Some students were more capable of making a sound from the flute and piccolo than me!

 So many red faces and sore lips in the brass section (mine too)!

2nd Graders succeeding in self-directed learning. Students are counting by 2's and differentiating between sound and silent beats. All while practicing their directing!

Looking Back

Some memories from last year came to mind as we were working on new projects for this year. 

 Student Conductors

Beat maps, Beat maps, Beat maps!