{"id":431,"date":"2016-12-18T22:49:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connect.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/?p=431"},"modified":"2016-12-18T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:49:52","slug":"thank-you-for-a-successful-first-half-of-the-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/2016\/12\/18\/thank-you-for-a-successful-first-half-of-the-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for a successful first half of the school year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Wildcat families!\u00a0\u00a0 Our Primary students have been having a lot of fun singing songs and SQUILT-ing.\u00a0 That is <strong>S<\/strong>it <strong>Q<\/strong>uietly <strong>U<\/strong>n <strong>I<\/strong>nterrupted <strong>L<\/strong>istening <strong>T<\/strong>ime.\u00a0 During this time, they closed their eyes and zoned in to the music looking for specific sounds and they were amazing with what they could hear and describe.\u00a0 Look for John Williams&#8217; theme to the movie Superman and play it.\u00a0 Can you hear cymbals crashing? A triangle roll?<\/p>\n<p>Second grade has been learning about Folk Tales\/Music and even trying their &#8220;hand&#8221; and clapping games and playing instruments to accompany the songs.<\/p>\n<p>Third through fifth grade have had their minds and their hands on the RECORDER!\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you have all heard the wonderful, and not so wonderful, sounds this instrument can make.\u00a0 Please encourage your child to practice at home using their purple lesson book and to use gentle and calm air support.\u00a0 Working slowly to obtain a nice sound is their goal.\u00a0 This takes a balance of warm, slow air and correct hand position with their finger pads completely covering the open holes needed to play their pitches.\u00a0 Have them log into MyPascoConnect and click on the Quaver icon to access many lessons for the recorder as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Wildcat families!\u00a0\u00a0 Our Primary students have been having a lot of fun singing songs and SQUILT-ing.\u00a0 That is Sit Quietly Un Interrupted Listening Time.\u00a0 During this time, they closed their eyes and zoned in to the music looking for specific sounds and they were amazing with what they could hear and describe.\u00a0 Look for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/2016\/12\/18\/thank-you-for-a-successful-first-half-of-the-school-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank you for a successful first half of the school year!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectplus.pasco.k12.fl.us\/mduquett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}