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	Shelburne Community School Shelburne, Vermont Unified Arts K-2 Music News Homepage
	Teacher: Diana Burritt

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Several times each month this page will be updated to include news and events in the K-2 Music Program. Please check back often.

"Building Bridges With Technology"
Video Selected For National Award!

Diana Burritt and David Cranmer (RETN) to present at the
Florida Educational Technology Conference

Diana Burritt, K-2 Music Educator at the Shelburne Community School, and David Cranmer, Production Coordinator at Regional Education Technology Network (RETN) have been selected to present at the Florida Educational Technology Conference, to be held in Orlando, from March 6-8, 2002.
Their presentation, entitled, "You Did THAT in Music Class?" will highlight, "The Beethoven Project," developed by Diana. A Music Enrichment Group of K-6 students made an interactive television program on, "The Life and Music of Beethoven," for their winter project, which was shown throughout the District.
Students selected their roles as researchers, reporters, or production crew. Using the Internet as a research tool, they each developed their own presentations. Working with RETN (Regional Educational Television Network), they were able to create and produce their own show. The program was shown live on the cable system with classrooms from two other schools participating by phone.

Kindergarten students are preparing for their French/Music Concert, to be held on February 21, 2002. We will sing in French and English, and will include songs about the wintry weather, snowmen, and winter fun.

The kindergarten students are busy working in their Music Detective Notebooks. They are writing the rhythms to rhythms as they are clapped. Parents will try to "decode" the secret rhythm patterns when completed! Students will also have the opportunity to create their own 4-beat patterns, which will include the treble clef, time signature, bar lines, and double-bar lines.

First and second graders have participated in two interactive programs with students from Hinesburg and Charlotte, in preparation for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra concert. Hinesburg 6-8th graders presented, on live television, the Brass, Woodwind and Percussion Families. (Kindergarten students participated in the first) Shelburne and Charlotte were connected by phone. It was fascinating to have the Adventurers ask questions, and hear their voices on television!
On February 22, 2002, Charlotte will host our interactive program, with students retelling the folk tale, "Bouki Dances the Kokioko." (From "The Singing Sack," 28 song-stories from around the world, by Helen East) Students from Shelburne and Hinesburg will assist with singing during this broadcast.
Shelburne will host our final interactive broadcast of the school year on April 10th. Topic TBA.
First and second graders are learning to play the keyboards. We have completed nearly 7 songs, which use both left and right hands. We are reading music using both the treble and bass clef. As each song is completed, it is made available for students to take home.
If your child is taking piano lessons, please send in the name of the book they are presently working on, as well as their instructor's name, and I will individualize their instruction to meet their needs.
Here is a page from our notebooks:

Throughout the year, all students have the opportunity to study a variety of composers. Through guided Internet use, students will research their lives, as well as listen to sound files of their music.

Towards the end of January, we will begin study of Medieval composers and their music. We will listen to, "Song of the Unicorn," by Susan Hammond
To share information about the composers studied, we will be maintaining a timeline in the Unified Arts hallway.

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Last updated: July 18, 2003