My days and schools have changed slightly from last year. I am an Odessa Wildcat on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, but I end my week at Trinity Elementary on Fridays. It is good to call both schools home!<\/p>\n
We started the school year with lots of review as I introduced the newbies (kindergarteners) to the beat of the music. Everyone should be able to tap their toes to the music or pick up a frying pan and wooden spoon as they play to the beat!<\/p>\n
We jumped right in with Patriotic<\/em> music and had all the students playing hands on with our wonderful Orff instruments and recorders. Quite a few students earned RWB belts for their recorders for playing America<\/strong>. Please click this link to learn more about Carl Orff…. http:\/\/www.orff.de\/en.html<\/p>\n The fourth and fifth graders are in full swing playing their recorders and will be earning their Recorder Karate<\/em> belts as they perform songs of graduating difficulty. My avatar is a picture of some hot cross buns. This is the first song students must play to earn their white belt!!<\/p>\n The third graders are finishing up their performances of Don Gato<\/strong>! Ask your child what a BALLAD<\/em> is and which character they got be. It was a great time for all. We have some really promising actors and actresses!!<\/p>\n Second grade is learning about the different parts of the music staff and how notes can be placed on lines and spaces. We are playing simple rhythms on un-pitched percussion<\/em> instruments and keeping a steady beat on pitched instruments<\/em>. Can they tell you the difference between the two types? Ask them!<\/p>\n Kindergarten and first grade continue to explore through a lot of dance, movement, and playing on instruments too! They had a wonderful time singing about autumn leaves falling and letting ‘real’ leaves fall from their fingers. Next they played in a train style where the first person in a short line of 4 or 5 students move to the end of the train to let the next person play. They had a ball of fun with Halloween’s Coming<\/strong> using a steady beat accompaniment and each child got to perform a ‘solo’!!! This week we started 5 Fat Turkeys<\/strong> and added a hide and seek game that goes along with the song.\u00a0 Soon K, 1, 2, and 3 will be singing Over the River and through the Woods<\/strong> while they gallop like fast horses!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My days and schools have changed slightly from last year. I am an Odessa Wildcat on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, but I end my week at Trinity Elementary on Fridays. It is good to call both schools home! We started the school year with lots of review as I introduced the newbies (kindergarteners) to … Continue reading Becoming Connect Savvy….<\/span>