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

Welcome to the Shelburne Community School's Music News Web Page.
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 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.

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!
During the middle of February, Charlotte will host our next interactive program on dance.
Shelburne will be the host, broadcasting live, on April 10th.
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.

The Adventurers Team enjoyed a trip to the Flynn Theater to see the Vermont Symphony Orchestra present, "Midsummer Night's Magic."
Our last Composer of Study was Felix Mendelssohn, and the music he composed for Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer's Night Dream." I have included various links which include the following:

1. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)-pretty detailed information.

2. Felix Mendelssohn-(From thinkquest.org)

3. Shakespeare Magnet Poetry-just like refrigerator magnet poetry!

Towards the end of January, we will begin study of Medieval composers and their music.
To share information about the composers studied, we will be maintaining a timeline in the Unified Arts hallway.

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dburritt@scsvt.org
Last updated: July 18, 2003