November is here and a lot is happening!
4th and 5th graders are continuing to prepare for their upcoming concert in less than a month! Each class is doing an amazing job practicing their recorders, xylophones, and singing our pieces! I am very excited to have them share their hard work with our Plains Family! A fun new development is that our amazing 4th and 5th grade teachers will be joining them for one of the songs! How awesome that our teachers would work as hard as they work! 5th graders are also preparing to attend the BHS Area Vertical Concert on Nov. 19th. They will have a rehearsal during their specials times on Friday, Nov. 15th to really dig into the music that they will be singing. The concert is at 5:30p at BHS. For those attending, a schedule will be given to students so that they will know what to expect the day of. Students should plan on wearing jeans and their plains t-shirts on Tuesday, Nov. 19th in preparation for the concert. Parents who agreed to donate snacks for the event, thank you so much! Please send in your donations (pre-packaged snacks) with your child prior to Tuesday if possible! 3rd graders are learning some new songs, like Miss Miss, in preparation for our next concept we will be learning, while they practice reading and saying ta/ta-ti rhythms. They even are working on translating rhythms that I say into ta/ta-ti! They are working very hard and have shown a lot of progress in the few months of school so far. 2nd grade is working on matching pitch by singing high/low songs, such as Snail Snail, Billy Sad, and Apple Tree. They are also finding the rhythm to these songs by labeling sounds as long or short-short. 1st grade and Kindergarten are working on identifying the difference between high and low pitches as well as matching pitch with simple songs, such as snail snail. We just finished performing our Big Pig rhyme for our classes, where we practice using our voice in a high and low way. 1st grade is moving on to working on capturing the word pieces of simple rhymes we are learning while kindergarten are starting to use our tubaloo phones to talk to Arioso Land, a land where they only understand you if you sing to them! There isn't a whole lot of school left in November, but I'm looking forward to the coming weeks and the progress our students will make as we enter our winter break! Important dates: Vertical Concert - Nov. 19th, 5:30p Thanksgiving Break - Nov. 27th - Nov. 29th 4th/5th grade concert - Dec. 12th, 2p & 6p If you have any questions, please let me know at [email protected] Stay Musical, Mr. Conway |
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