by Amy CAMP | Dec 19, 2013 | Grade 3, Music, The Grades
Grade 3 students are working steadily to increase their recorder playing skills. This week, the experimented with being partners, one as the breathing expert and the other as the fingering expert. Encourage your student to practice over the winter break. Two helpful...
by Amy CAMP | Dec 19, 2013 | Grade 2, Music, The Grades
Grade 2 students are working hard on remembering the names of the lines and spaces in the treble clef. This week, they used music alphabet cards to represent the note names of the lines and spaces. Be sure to ask your second grader what another name for the treble...
by Amy CAMP | Dec 19, 2013 | Grade 4, Grade 5, Music, The Grades, Uncategorized
Congratulations to 4 students who have earned their Recorder Karate Level I Black Belts! Grade 4 students, Coco de Timmerman and SuHan Yun and Grade 5 students Sanna Pesterer and Claire Irwin successfully played Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” to earn the...
by | Dec 16, 2013 | Grade 6, Kindergarten 3 (ICS), Music
Morning Meeting This morning’s Exhibition Meeting was all about sharing potential musical plots as Grade Six considers writing a musical for the Presentation part of the Exhibition. Students looked at commonalities of their plots as well as finding with Ms. Camp...
by Amy CAMP | Dec 12, 2013 | Grade 3, Music, The Grades
Grade three students are working busily to learn to play the recorder. Part of that includes reading notes – both for pitch and rhythm – on the music staff and putting the correct fingering together. We’re spending a lot of time with our first three...
by Amy CAMP | Dec 12, 2013 | Grade 2, Music, The Grades
Grade 2 students are learning to read – read music, that is. We’ve learned the letters in the music alphabet, and now are learning where they fit on to the music staff. Ask your second grader to perform “The Music Staff” chant for you. Make...
