by Eric GRIEBENOW | Apr 28, 2016 | Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Music, Secondary Music, The Grades, Uncategorized
Next week is a very important meeting about purchasing instruments for G5-8 students and families. This is important because the students need better instruments to properly assist in their continued development. The meetings are staggered to allow for more...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Apr 20, 2016 | Kindergarten 3 (ICS), Music
Musicians in K3 were exploring steady beat, and creative ways to keep it, with sticks this week! The most fun and challenging part was keeping the beat with someone else and figuring out how to hit your sticks together. This activity was done while singing a...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Apr 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Musicians in K3 were exploring steady beat, and creative ways to keep it, with sticks this week! The most fun and challenging part was keeping the beat with someone else and figuring out how to hit your sticks together. This activity was done while singing a...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Mar 24, 2016 | Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Music, The Grades
The first ever Orff-estra Performance was today at the assembly. Featuring students from G2, 3, and 4, the ensemble focuses on classroom percussion instruments, pitched and inpitched, inspired by the work of Carl Orff. We will be having one more performance later in...
by Eric GRIEBENOW | Mar 3, 2016 | ECC, Music, The Grades
Our youngest students have been experimenting with moving around the classroom, learning how to bear walk, crab walk, hop, jump, march, even run! All while being bathed in music with different meters and tonalities. ...