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In December the 4^th grade students performed  their Winter Concert where they demonstrated all the different types of harmony they  learned: rounds, partner songs, and ostinatos. The whole school also participated in our annual Christmas play. Each student who wanted a speaking part was given a speaking part. It was a fun time.

We are currently finishing up our second unit where second and third grade students are learning compound meter where the divisions of the beat are in groups of three rather than groups of two. The students have successfully learned to read, sing, play, dictate, decode, and compose using three paired eighth notes and dotted quarters notes. In kindergarten and first grade we continue our work with developing a proper singing voice which is characterized by maintaining a head voice. This voice is a high voice and not a low spoken voice. This is practiced and assessed through echo song, simple songs, and vocal glissandos. The fourth grade students have begun their unit of Recorder study. We use the Recorder Karate method to teach students how to play and read music. For each note and song they learn they earn a different color Karate belt to tie to their recorder. The students have completed the white and yellow belts. We will be hosting a Recorder Concert in May.



Shortly, we will begin our third unit of study where second and third grade students will continue their study of compound meter, however the paired eighth notes will be broken apart to include a quarter and eighth notes and a dotted quarter note in compound meter