Shelburne Community School
Unified Arts K-2 Music News
Teacher: Diana Burritt
Welcome to the Shelburne Community School's Music Web Page. Several times each month, this page will be updated to include news and events in the K-2 Music Program, as well as useful links. Please check back often.
All
200 first and second grade students are beginning their songwriting unit. Each
student, working alone or with a partner, will create a 4-8 measure song, using the
pentatonic (five-tone) scale. The first step is to create rhythm patterns. Students
are using quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes, as well as quarter rests. We
will post some of these patterns, and our progress as through the song writing
process.
Technology
All K-2 students are reinforcing their music skills through the
use of our technology. Kindergarten students are using the Music Ace software
program to practice the lines and spaces of the staff. They enjoy using the "Doodle
Pad" to create songs, as well as the "Jukebox" to listen to the music of
Bach, Beethoven, and other composers. (Please see software resource link at bottom for
more details)
First and second graders
are studying Georg
Friderich Handel. (1685-1759) They are learning how to locate information about his life and music
through the guided use of the Internet, as well as through software, library
resources, CDs and cassettes.
Internet Preferences are set to direct the students to our school Homepage. By using
the links on this page, ("The Audition Room") each child can locate and play a
sound file, and find at least one new fact about this amazing composer.
There's also a Timeline, which helps students connect with other composers
during the same Period.
Information found is added to our bulletin board.
To listen to some of Handel's music, including the Messiah, please check the Classical Archives.
Our favorite link: "The
Audition Room." We refer to this link often, as it contains a vast amount
of sound files of the Great Masters of Music. The list is constantly growing, so
please check it often.
Our Composer of Study last winter was Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart. After listening to "Mozart's Magic Fantasy," one of our first grade students wrote a summary of the opera. You may read it by going to Sasha's Story.
A sample of our young
composers may be heard by
going to our MIDI
Music Composition page.
For a list of reference materials
used to support our Composer
of Study units, click here.
To see a list and brief description of the software currently used in the music room, click here.
Other interesting sites for parents, too!
Click on Mona Lisa to go to terrific site, maintained by the John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx. You'll find a wealth of information about Mona Lisa, as well as the music of Leonardo DaVinci. (Did you know he wrote music?) Take a minute and sign their guest book, as they appreciate the feedback.
Here's another great art resource. Natalie Williams has put a tremendous amount of time and effort into this project. I feel as though I'm taking a tour through a virtual museum! Enjoy!
Enter HERE.
To access past K-2 News pages, please click HERE.
Back to SCS K-2 Music Web Page
Home Page maintained by Diana Burritt
dburritt@scsvt.org
Last updated: July 18, 2003