Thank you to all of the 7th and 8th grade students and parents that came to help clean the stage on Saturday!!! It looks absolutely beautiful. I couldn't have done it without you. A special thank you to Mr. Dan for giving up some of his Saturday as well to help us with everything.
Update
Pre-K and Kindergarten
The students are learning their Christmas songs for the Christmas program on December 12th. They are doing such a wonderful job! The Pre-K will sing one song and the Kindergarten will sing one song and then they will sing one all together. Please ask your child to sing the songs for you. They are amazing!
Kindergarten is also beginning to learn about notation and the values of those notes. We have talked about quarter notes and half notes. We will continue with notation this week by adding whole notes.
Grades 1-5
I would like to thank all the students who have been practicing their songs for the Christmas program at home. Thank you parents for supporting these amazing singers and all the hard work they are putting into making a wonderful production.
Students should continue to practice the songs every day, especially the Spanish verse of "Silent Night". It is coming along, but still needs a little more practice. It has been such a blessing to hear these children sing so beautifully and powerfully.
Students have learned about notation and their values along with the lines, spaces and clefs of the grand staff. Students filled out a study guide worksheet in class this past week. They are to keep that sheet in their homework folder so they can study and memorize what the lines and spaces are for both the Treble (G clef) and Bass (F clef). Students will be participating in many activities throughout the next 3-4 weeks to reinforce the learning of the notes and the grand staff. At the end of the unit, students will receive an exact copy of the paper they have for studying. They will need to label the lines and the spaces of both clefs, the 2 names of both clefs and write the value of each note (quarter, half, eighth, dotted half, whole, dotted quarter and sixteenth).
Grade 6
The students have been working so very hard on their songs for the Christmas program. An accompaniment CD was sent home to practice with and they have done a wonderful job singing with it. They all have great intonation! This week we sang for Father Joe. He was so impressed that they gave him goose bumps! What a blessing to hear. The students will continue to practice their songs and work on stagger breathing in "Mary Did You Know" because the last note of the song is held out for a longer time.
Grade 7
The Christmas play is coming along nicely. Students are to have all their lines memorized by Wednesday, October 30th. We are going to do a complete run through without stopping and without scripts.
Students are responsible for their costumes for their character in the play. This applies to understudies as well. Please have all costumes ready for an in class dress rehearsal on November 13th. If you are unsure of what your character should wear, please come and talk to me about it. I will be going over the costumes with the students this week in class so they will know what they will need.
Grade 8
The melodrama is going to be fantastic! It is so incredible to watch the students develop their characters and really apply their stage directions. This is really developing into a very funny play. The students are to have Act One, Scene 2 memorized by Wednesday, Oct. 30th. We will do a non-stop run through of Act One, Scenes 1 and 2 this week and then continue from where we left off last week. It has really been a wonderful blessing working with these creative and hard working students on this play.
